[PATCHv11 09/19] x86/tdx: Account shared memory

Dave Hansen dave.hansen at intel.com
Tue Jun 4 09:08:25 PDT 2024


On 5/28/24 02:55, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Keep track of the number of shared pages. This will allow for 
> cross-checking against the shared information in the direct mapping
> and reporting if the shared bit is lost.

It's probably also worth mentioning that conversions are slow and
relatively rare and even though a global atomic isn't really scalable,
it also isn't worth doing anything fancier.
> diff --git a/arch/x86/coco/tdx/tdx.c b/arch/x86/coco/tdx/tdx.c
> index 26fa47db5782..979891e97d83 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/coco/tdx/tdx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/coco/tdx/tdx.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
>  
>  #define TDREPORT_SUBTYPE_0	0
>  
> +static atomic_long_t nr_shared;

Doesn't this technically need to be:

	static atomic_long_t nr_shared = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);

?  I thought we had some architectures where the 0 logical value wasn't
actually all 0's.



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