Re: [RFC PATCH v2 01/26] x86/cpufeatures: Add SGX1 and SGX2 sub-features

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:23:08PM +1300, Kai Huang wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:50:12 +0200 Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 04:26:49PM +1300, Kai Huang wrote:
> > > From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Add SGX1 and SGX2 feature flags, via CPUID.0x12.0x0.EAX, as scattered
> > > features.  As part of virtualizing SGX, KVM will expose the SGX CPUID
> > > leafs to its guest, and to do so correctly needs to query hardware and
> > > kernel support for SGX1 and SGX2.
> > 
> > This commit message is missing reasoning behind scattered vs. own word.
> > 
> > Please just document the reasoning, that's all.
> 
> OK. Will do. How about:
> 
> "Add SGX1 and SGX2 feature flags, via CPUID.0x12.0x0.EAX, as scattered
> features, since adding a new leaf for only two bits would be wasteful."

For *me*, that would be sufficient.

/Jarkko



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