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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:33:24AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> During the initial SEV/SME patch review cycle we had some discussion about
> using decrypted vs unencrypted. At that time the consensus was
> that a memory range mapped with C=0 should be referred as 'decrypted'.
Yes, the idea was to avoid having "unencrypted" *and* "decrypted" to
mean pretty much the same thing for ease of understanding just by
looking at the name.
Also whether the data was initially unencrypted or was decrypted is
immaterial - you only need to know how to access it.
> Having said so, I do see your point and I am not oppose to calling it
> 'unencrypted' if others agrees to it.
No, please don't. Let's stick with "decrypted" for everything.
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