Re: [PATCH Part1 RFC v3 06/22] x86/sev: check SEV-SNP features support

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Jun 18 2021 - 01:47:02 EST


On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 01:46:08PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> Based on your feedback on AP creation patch to not use the accessors, I am inclined to
> remove this helper and have the caller directly check the feature bit, is that okay ?
>
> something like:
>
> if (sev_snp_enabled() && !(hv_features & GHCB_HV_FT_SNP))
> sev_es_terminate(GHCB_SNP_UNSUPPORTED);
>
> Let me know if you think I should still keep the accessors.

Yeah, looks about right. Let's keep hv_features in a sev-specific
header so that there are no name clashes. Or maybe we should call it
sev_hv_features since it is going to be read-only anyway.

Thx.

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