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

Binbin Wu binbin.wu at linux.intel.com
Mon Oct 27 20:01:49 AEDT 2025



On 10/25/2025 12:33 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> 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 :-) ).
Oh, right, nr_premapped will be dropped later.

Since the whole nr_premapped will be dropped, do we still need a cleanup patch
like patch 12 which will be dropped finally?


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