From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 04/20] x86: Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:04:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <20160822223529.29880.50884.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net> <20160822223610.29880.21739.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160822223610.29880.21739.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Tom Lendacky Cc: 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, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Radim_Kr=E8m=E1=F8?= , Arnd Bergmann , Jonathan Corbet , Matt Fleming , Joerg Roedel , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Andrey Ryabinin , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Andy Lutomirski , "H. Peter Anvin" , Paolo Bonzini , Alexander Potapenko , Dmitry Vyukov List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Tom Lendacky wrote: > Provide support for Secure Memory Encryption (SME). This initial support > defines the memory encryption mask as a variable for quick access and an > accessor for retrieving the number of physical addressing bits lost if > SME is enabled. What is the reason that this needs to live in assembly code? Thanks, tglx -- 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: email@kvack.org