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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 03/12] x86/mtrr: support setting MTRR state for software defined MTRRs
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On 21.03.23 11:30, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 07:00:58AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> I guess you are asking because the next test seems to catch the same case?
>>
>> I think it doesn't, e.g. for the case of unknown hypervisors (which shows that
>> X86_HYPER_NATIVE in theory should be named X86_HYPER_NATIVE_OR_UNKNOWN, or it
>> should be split into X86_HYPER_NATIVE and X86_HYPER_UNKNOWN).
>
> Yeah, we don't care about unknown hypervisors. They'll crash'n'burn
> anyway.

Okay, I'll drop that test.

> My intent is to have every case properly documented with a comment above it
> instead of one huge compound conditional.
>
>> It basically doesn't matter.
>
> It doesn't matter now. Until someone decides to "redefine" how MTRRs
> should be done again because the next representative from the virt zoo
> decided to do magic pink ponies.
>
> I'm not taking any chances anymore judging by the amount of crap that
> gets sent into arch/x86/ to support some weird guest contraption.
>
>> The only possibility of mtrr_state.enabled to be set at this point is a
>> previous call of mtrr_overwrite_state().
>
> Sure, pls make it explicit and defensive so that it is perfectly clear
> what's going on.

Okay, will do the modification you were suggesting.


Juergen
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