Re: [PATCH v11 08/20] x86/virt/tdx: Get information about TDX module and TDX-capable memory

[Isaku Yamahata]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 02:41:28PM +0300,
"kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 02:40:27AM +0000, Huang, Kai wrote:
> > On Thu, 2023-06-08 at 03:27 +0300, kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 02:27:21AM +1200, Kai Huang wrote:
> > > > For now both 'tdsysinfo_struct' and CMRs are only used during the module
> > > > initialization.  But because they are both relatively big, declare them
> > > > inside the module initialization function but as static variables.
> > > 
> > > This justification does not make sense to me. static variables will not be
> > > freed after function returned. They will still consume memory.
> > > 
> > > I think you need to allocate/free memory dynamically, if they are too big
> > > for stack.
> > 
> > 
> > I do need to keep tdsysinfo_struct as it will be used by KVM too.
> 
> Will you pass it down to KVM from this function? Will KVM use the struct
> after the function returns?

KVM needs tdsysinfo_struct to create guest TD.  It doesn't require
1024-alignment.
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Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>