From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>,
Daniel Gutson <daniel@eclypsium.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Rahul Tanwar <rahul.tanwar@linux.intel.com>,
Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>,
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ability to read the MKTME status from userspace
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:17:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200619161752.GG32683@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0DD7FAE4-3976-4835-8090-80B84B737F3E@amacapital.net>
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 08:48:47AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Boris, it wouldn’t be totally crazy for cpuinfo to learn to
> distinguish between “your platform has this feature but Linux
> isn’t using it” and “your platform doesn’t have this feature
> in the first place”. And I suppose there’s this extra silly state
> “your platform has this feature, but your firmware didn’t enable
> it”. This would be a big job.
Well, I believe all the kernel can do is supply bits of information -
just like MSRs - and depending on the settings of those bits, userspace
can decide what the situation is. For example:
bit 0 - CPUID support
bit 1 - BIOS enabled
bit 2 - quirk applied
bit 3 - microcode fixes present
...
and so on.
It needs a proper definition though and userspace to say, yes, we want
that and that is useful for us.
Where it ends up is then beside the point - /proc/cpuinfo,
/sys/devices/system/cpu, whatever...
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-19 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-18 21:02 [PATCH] Ability to read the MKTME status from userspace Daniel Gutson
2020-06-18 21:08 ` Dave Hansen
[not found] ` <CAFmMkTHNxSN_uWtm63TdkGxj44NXQQKEOmATXhjA=4DSCS92kQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-06-18 22:01 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <CAFmMkTGMAu-huTnP1aeMb_W4NddbTD_b2jhbDVKBDrkwgB97wg@mail.gmail.com>
2020-06-19 7:40 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <CAFmMkTGV0ZR6C=EBGQAiz1vw1vrUXSLTnH5ZbBUvfhPLg_tF6g@mail.gmail.com>
2020-06-19 13:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-19 13:31 ` Richard Hughes
2020-06-19 13:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-19 13:50 ` Richard Hughes
2020-06-19 15:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-19 16:17 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-06-19 16:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-19 16:31 ` Richard Hughes
2020-06-19 16:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-19 16:33 ` Richard Hughes
2020-06-19 16:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-19 16:47 ` Richard Hughes
2020-06-19 19:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-19 19:58 ` Richard Hughes
2020-06-19 20:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-06-19 20:24 ` Dave Hansen
2020-06-22 9:34 ` Boris Petkov
2020-06-18 23:52 ` Dave Hansen
2020-06-19 7:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-06-19 13:25 ` Richard Hughes
2020-06-19 13:33 ` Dave Hansen
2020-06-19 13:37 ` Richard Hughes
2020-06-19 13:58 ` Dave Hansen
2020-06-19 14:09 ` Richard Hughes
2020-06-19 14:23 ` Dave Hansen
2020-06-19 14:36 ` Richard Hughes
2020-06-19 14:48 ` Dave Hansen
2020-06-19 15:02 ` Richard Hughes
2020-06-19 15:36 ` Dave Hansen
2020-06-19 7:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <CAFmMkTF7QBJQdKxhsPiUPifsxykyCVv=NYandpB0z8EccAxMXw@mail.gmail.com>
2020-06-19 14:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2020-06-25 0:33 kernel test robot
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