On 3/4/22 05:17, Brijesh Singh wrote: >> BTW, this look like a generic allocator thingy. But it's only ever used >> to allocate a 'struct snp_guest_msg'. Why all the trouble to allocate >> and free one fixed-size structure? The changelog and comments don't >> shed any light. > The GHCB specification says that a guest must use shared memory for > request, response, and certificate blob. In this patch, you are seeing > that {alloc,free}_shared_pages() used only to alloc/free the request and > response page. In the last patch, we used the same generic function to > allocate the certificate blob with a different size (~16K) than 'struct > snp_guest_msg.' It sounds like it's worth a sentence or two in the changelog to explain this new "allocator" and its future uses.