From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Lendacky Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 04/20] x86: Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:19:00 -0500 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="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Thomas Gleixner 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, =?UTF-8?B?UmFkaW0gS3LEjW3DocWZ?= , 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 08/25/2016 08:04 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > 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? In later patches this code is expanded and deals with a lot of page table manipulation, cpuid/rdmsr instructions, etc. and so I thought it was best to do it this way. Thanks, Tom > > 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