Re: [PATCH v7 04/13] confidential guest support: Move side effect out of machine_set_memory_encryption()

[Cornelia Huck]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:58:02 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> When the "memory-encryption" property is set, we also disable KSM
> merging for the guest, since it won't accomplish anything.
> 
> We want that, but doing it in the property set function itself is
> thereoretically incorrect, in the unlikely event of some configuration
> environment that set the property then cleared it again before
> constructing the guest.
> 
> More importantly, it makes some other cleanups we want more difficult.
> So, instead move this logic to machine_run_board_init() conditional on
> the final value of the property.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> ---
>  hw/core/machine.c | 17 +++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>