[PATCH v4 0/8] Implement generic cc_platform_has() helper function

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Wed Sep 29 06:58:06 AEST 2021


On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 01:48:46PM -0700, Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan wrote:
> Just read it. If you want to use cpuid_has_tdx_guest() directly in
> cc_platform_has(), then you want to rename intel_cc_platform_has() to
> tdx_cc_platform_has()?

Why?

You simply do:

	if (cpuid_has_tdx_guest())
		intel_cc_platform_has(...);

and lemme paste from that mail: " ...you should use
cpuid_has_tdx_guest() instead but cache its result so that you don't
call CPUID each time the kernel executes cc_platform_has()."

Makes sense?

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