From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 11/16] x86/virt/tdx: Designate reserved areas for all TDMRs
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 17:22:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <778a6c80-a955-620d-a82a-c2ca82f26363@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b971cd8b4e6ce9e96c6b4c6192adb74cc6722d54.camel@intel.com>
On 1/9/23 17:19, Huang, Kai wrote:
>> It's probably also worth noting *somewhere* that there's a balance to be
>> had between TDMRs and reserved areas. A system that is running out of
>> reserved areas in a TDMR could split a TDMR to get more reserved areas.
>> A system that has run out of TDMRs could relatively easily coalesce two
>> adjacent TDMRs (before the PAMTs are allocated) and use a reserved area
>> if there was a gap between them.
> We can add above to the changelog of this patch, or the patch 09 ("x86/virt/tdx:
> Fill out TDMRs to cover all TDX memory regions"). The latter perhaps is better
> since that patch is the first place where the balance of TDMRs and reserved
> areas is related.
>
> What is your suggestion?
Just put it close to the code that actually hits the problem so the
potential solution is close at hand to whoever hits the problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-10 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-09 6:52 [PATCH v8 00/16] TDX host kernel support Kai Huang
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 01/16] x86/tdx: Define TDX supported page sizes as macros Kai Huang
2023-01-06 19:04 ` Dave Hansen
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 02/16] x86/virt/tdx: Detect TDX during kernel boot Kai Huang
2023-01-06 17:09 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-08 22:25 ` Huang, Kai
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 03/16] x86/virt/tdx: Make INTEL_TDX_HOST depend on X86_X2APIC Kai Huang
2023-01-06 19:04 ` Dave Hansen
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 04/16] x86/virt/tdx: Add skeleton to initialize TDX on demand Kai Huang
2023-01-06 17:14 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-08 22:26 ` Huang, Kai
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 05/16] x86/virt/tdx: Implement functions to make SEAMCALL Kai Huang
2023-01-06 17:29 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-09 10:30 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-09 19:54 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-09 22:10 ` Huang, Kai
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 06/16] x86/virt/tdx: Get information about TDX module and TDX-capable memory Kai Huang
2023-01-06 17:46 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-09 10:25 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-09 19:52 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-09 22:07 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-09 22:11 ` Dave Hansen
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 07/16] x86/virt/tdx: Use all system memory when initializing TDX module as TDX memory Kai Huang
2023-01-06 18:18 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-09 11:48 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-09 16:51 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-10 12:09 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-10 16:18 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-11 10:00 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-12 0:56 ` Huang, Ying
2023-01-12 1:18 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-12 1:59 ` Huang, Ying
2023-01-12 2:22 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-12 11:33 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-18 11:08 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-18 13:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-01-18 19:38 ` Huang, Kai
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 08/16] x86/virt/tdx: Add placeholder to construct TDMRs to cover all TDX memory regions Kai Huang
2023-01-06 19:24 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-10 0:40 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-10 0:47 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-10 2:23 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-10 19:12 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-11 9:23 ` Huang, Kai
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 09/16] x86/virt/tdx: Fill out " Kai Huang
2023-01-06 19:36 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-10 0:45 ` Huang, Kai
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 10/16] x86/virt/tdx: Allocate and set up PAMTs for TDMRs Kai Huang
2023-01-06 21:53 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-10 0:49 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-07 0:47 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-10 0:47 ` Huang, Kai
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 11/16] x86/virt/tdx: Designate reserved areas for all TDMRs Kai Huang
2023-01-06 22:07 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-10 1:19 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-10 1:22 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2023-01-10 11:01 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-10 15:19 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-11 10:57 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-11 16:16 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-11 22:10 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-10 11:01 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-10 15:17 ` Dave Hansen
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 12/16] x86/virt/tdx: Designate the global KeyID and configure the TDX module Kai Huang
2023-01-06 22:21 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-10 10:48 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-10 16:25 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-10 23:33 ` Huang, Kai
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 13/16] x86/virt/tdx: Configure global KeyID on all packages Kai Huang
2023-01-06 22:49 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-10 10:15 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-10 16:53 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-11 0:06 ` Huang, Kai
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 14/16] x86/virt/tdx: Initialize all TDMRs Kai Huang
2023-01-07 0:17 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-10 10:23 ` Huang, Kai
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 15/16] x86/virt/tdx: Flush cache in kexec() when TDX is enabled Kai Huang
2023-01-07 0:35 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-10 11:29 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-10 15:27 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-11 0:13 ` Huang, Kai
2023-01-11 0:30 ` Dave Hansen
2023-01-11 1:58 ` Huang, Kai
2022-12-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v8 16/16] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for TDX host support Kai Huang
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