Re: [PATCH Part2 v6 02/49] iommu/amd: Introduce function to check SEV-SNP support

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jul 05 2022 - 10:34:01 EST


On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 01:56:00PM +0000, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
> This function is required to ensure that IOMMU supports the SEV-SNP
> feature before enabling the SNP feature and calling SNP_INIT.
> This IOMMU support check is done in the AMD IOMMU driver with the
> iommu_sev_snp_supported() function so it is exported by the IOMMU
> driver and called by sev module

What sev module?

The call to iommu_sev_snp_supported() is done by snp_rmptable_init()
which is in arch/x86/kernel/sev.c. AFAICT.

And that is not a module. But function exports are done for modules.

So that export looks superfluous.

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