On Mon, Jul 19, 2021, Brijesh Singh wrote:

On 7/19/21 2:03 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:

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On Mon, Jul 19, 2021, Brijesh Singh wrote:
Ah, not firmwrare, gotcha.  But we can still use a helper, e.g. an inner
double-underscore helper, __rmp_make_private().

In that case we are basically passing the all the fields defined in the
'struct rmpupdate' as individual arguments.

Yes, but (a) not _all_ fields, (b) it would allow hiding "struct rmpupdate", and
(c) this is much friendlier to readers:

	__rmp_make_private(pfn, gpa, PG_LEVEL_4K, svm->asid, true);

than:

	rmpupdate(&rmpupdate);

For the former, I can see in a single line of code that KVM is creating a 4k
private, immutable guest page.  With the latter, I need to go hunt down all code
that modifies rmpupdate to understand what the code is doing.

How about something like this:

* core kernel exports the rmpupdate()
* the include/linux/sev.h header file defines the helper functions

  int rmp_make_private(u64 pfn, u64 gpa, int psize, int asid)

I think we'll want s/psize/level, i.e. make it more obvious clear that the input
is PG_LEVEL_*.