[svsm-devel] [PATCH v4 08/15] x86/sev: Provide SVSM discovery support

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 03:57:10PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> The alternative method is really meant for things like UEFI runtime services
> (which uses the kernels #VC handler), not the kernel directly.
> 
> Some of those checks have to be made very early, I'll see if it is feasible
> to rely on the CPUID check / cpu_feature_enabled() support.

Put that in the commit message.

> We can separate out SVSM vs VMPL, but if the kernel isn't running at VMPL0
> then it requires that an SVSM be present.

Ok, I guess the two things are identical.

> I'll incorporate this, but probably won't change the way exit_info_1 is
> assigned.

Oh, but we love our '!!' construct:

git grep -E '\s!![^!]' *.[ch] | wc -l
7776

At least so many, my pattern is not precise.

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    Boris.

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