[PATCH v6 1/7] kvmppc: Driver to manage pages of secure guest

Thiago Jung Bauermann bauerman at linux.ibm.com
Tue Aug 20 13:04:33 AEST 2019


Hello Bharata,

I have just a couple of small comments.

Bharata B Rao <bharata at linux.ibm.com> writes:

> +/*
> + * Get a free device PFN from the pool
> + *
> + * Called when a normal page is moved to secure memory (UV_PAGE_IN). Device
> + * PFN will be used to keep track of the secure page on HV side.
> + *
> + * @rmap here is the slot in the rmap array that corresponds to @gpa.
> + * Thus a non-zero rmap entry indicates that the corresonding guest

Typo: corresponding

> +static u64 kvmppc_get_secmem_size(void)
> +{
> +	struct device_node *np;
> +	int i, len;
> +	const __be32 *prop;
> +	u64 size = 0;
> +
> +	np = of_find_node_by_path("/ibm,ultravisor/ibm,uv-firmware");
> +	if (!np)
> +		goto out;

I believe that in general we try to avoid hard-coding the path when a
node is accessed and searched instead via its compatible property.

-- 
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center


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