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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 5/5] x86/kvm: Avoid dynamic allocation of pvclock data when SEV is active
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 08:54:52AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> My thought was that we could simply define a second array for the SEV
> case to statically allocate for NR_CPUS since __decrypted has a big
> chunk of memory that would be ununsed anyways[1]. And since the second
> array is only used for SEV it can be freed if !SEV.

Lemme see if I get it straight:

__decrypted:

4K

__decrypted_XXX:

((num_possible_cpus() * 32) / 4K) pages

__decrypted_end:

Am I close?

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