Re: [RFC 02/14] x86/apic: Initialize Secure AVIC APIC backing page

[Dave Hansen]

On 9/13/24 04:36, Neeraj Upadhyay wrote:
> +	sz = ALIGN(num_possible_cpus() * SZ_4K, SZ_2M);
> +	backing_pages = kzalloc(sz, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	if (!backing_pages)
> +		snp_abort();

Is this in an atomic context?  If not, why the GFP_ATOMIC?

Second, this looks to be allocating a potentially large physically
contiguous chunk of memory, then handing it out 4k at a time.  The loop is:

	buf = alloc(NR_CPUS * PAGE_SIZE);
	for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++)
		foo[i] = buf + i * PAGE_SIZE;

but could be:

	for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++)
		foo[i] = alloc(PAGE_SIZE);

right?