[PATCH v3 13/25] KVM: TDX: Fold tdx_mem_page_record_premap_cnt() into its sole caller

Sean Christopherson seanjc at google.com
Sat Oct 25 03:33:39 AEDT 2025


On Fri, Oct 24, 2025, Binbin Wu wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/17/2025 8:32 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Fold tdx_mem_page_record_premap_cnt() into tdx_sept_set_private_spte() as
> > providing a one-off helper for effectively three lines of code is at best a
> > wash, and splitting the code makes the comment for smp_rmb()  _extremely_
> > confusing as the comment talks about reading kvm->arch.pre_fault_allowed
> > before kvm_tdx->state, but the immediately visible code does the exact
> > opposite.
> > 
> > Opportunistically rewrite the comments to more explicitly explain who is
> > checking what, as well as _why_ the ordering matters.
> > 
> > No functional change intended.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe at intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu at linux.intel.com>
> 
> One nit below.
> 
> [...]
> > +	/*
> > +	 * If the TD isn't finalized/runnable, then userspace is initializing
> > +	 * the VM image via KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION.  Increment the number of
> > +	 * pages that need to be mapped and initialized via TDH.MEM.PAGE.ADD.
> > +	 * KVM_TDX_FINALIZE_VM checks the counter to ensure all mapped pages
>                                                                    ^
>                                                 Nit: Is pre-mapped better?

Yeah, updated (and then it gets deleted a few commits later :-) ).


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