[PATCH v3 09/25] KVM: TDX: Fold tdx_sept_drop_private_spte() into tdx_sept_remove_private_spte()
Huang, Kai
kai.huang at intel.com
Fri Oct 24 09:20:45 AEDT 2025
On Thu, 2025-10-23 at 07:59 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2025, Kai Huang wrote:
> > On Thu, 2025-10-16 at 17:32 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > Fold tdx_sept_drop_private_spte() into tdx_sept_remove_private_spte() to
> > > avoid having to differnatiate between "zap", "drop", and "remove", and to
> > ^
> > differentiate
> >
> > Nit: it's a wee bit confusing that you mentioned "zap", because after this
> > patch tdx_sept_zap_private_spte() is still there. But it may be only me
> > feeling that way.
>
> Hmm, yeah, I agree that's a confusing/misleading. How about this?
>
> KVM: TDX: Fold tdx_sept_drop_private_spte() into tdx_sept_remove_private_spte()
>
> Fold tdx_sept_drop_private_spte() into tdx_sept_remove_private_spte() as a
> step towards having "remove" be the only and only function that deals with
> removing/zapping/dropping a SPTE, e.g. to avoid having to differentiate
> between "zap", "drop", and "remove". Eliminating the "drop" helper also
> gets rid of what is effectively dead code due to redundant checks, e.g. on
> an HKID being assigned.
>
> No functional change intended.
Yeah LGTM. Thanks.
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