From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 07/28] x86: Provide general kernel support for
 memory encryption
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 17:12:38 -0600
Message-ID: <73a2c1f7-bc71-3ca8-c312-9a930250cb18@amd.com>
References: <20170216154158.19244.66630.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net>
 <20170216154332.19244.55451.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net>
 <a3f56612-396e-b230-d909-93a7128ea2fc@intel.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-path: <owner-linux-mm@kvack.org>
In-Reply-To: <a3f56612-396e-b230-d909-93a7128ea2fc@intel.com>
Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, =?UTF-8?B?UmFkaW0gS3LEjW3DocWZ?= <rkrcmar@redhat.com>, Toshimitsu Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org

On 2/22/2017 12:13 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 02/16/2017 07:43 AM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>>  static inline unsigned long pte_pfn(pte_t pte)
>>  {
>> -	return (pte_val(pte) & PTE_PFN_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>> +	return (pte_val(pte) & ~sme_me_mask & PTE_PFN_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>  }
>>
>>  static inline unsigned long pmd_pfn(pmd_t pmd)
>>  {
>> -	return (pmd_val(pmd) & pmd_pfn_mask(pmd)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>> +	return (pmd_val(pmd) & ~sme_me_mask & pmd_pfn_mask(pmd)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>  }
>
> Could you talk a bit about why you chose to do the "~sme_me_mask" bit in
> here instead of making it a part of PTE_PFN_MASK / pmd_pfn_mask(pmd)?

I think that's a good catch.  Let me look at it, but I believe that it
should be possible to do and avoid what you're worried about below.

Thanks,
Tom

>
> It might not matter, but I'd be worried that this ends up breaking
> direct users of PTE_PFN_MASK / pmd_pfn_mask(pmd) since they now no
> longer mask the PFN out of a PTE.
>

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>