Re: [PATCH v11 18/20] x86: Handle TDX erratum to reset TDX private memory during kexec() and reboot

From: Huang, Kai
Date: Tue Jun 13 2023 - 19:18:12 EST


On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 07:25 -0700, Hansen, Dave wrote:
> On 6/12/23 17:51, Huang, Kai wrote:
> > If we introduce a helper to mark a page as TDX private page,
>
> Let me get this right: you have working, functional code for a
> highly-unlikely scenario (kernel bugs or even more rare hardware
> errors). But, you want to optimize this super-rare case? It's not fast
> enough?
>
> Is there any other motivation here that I'm missing?
>

No it's not about speed. The motivation is to have a common code to yield less
line of code, though I don't have clear number of how many LoC can be reduced.