On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:53:52AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 08:34:07PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > Intel(R) SGX is a set of CPU instructions that can be used by > > applications to set aside private regions of code and data. The code > > outside the enclave is disallowed to access the memory inside the > > enclave by the CPU access control. > > > > The firmware uses PRMRR registers to reserve an area of physical memory > > called Enclave Page Cache (EPC). There is a hardware unit in the > > processor called Memory Encryption Engine. The MEE encrypts and decrypts > > the EPC pages as they enter and leave the processor package. > > > > Jarkko Sakkinen (5): > > x86, sgx: common macros and definitions > > intel_sgx: driver for Intel Secure Guard eXtensions > > intel_sgx: ptrace() support for the driver > > intel_sgx: driver documentation > > intel_sgx: TODO file for the staging area > > > > Kai Huang (1): > > x86: add SGX definition to cpufeature > > > > Documentation/x86/intel_sgx.txt | 86 +++ > > arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 1 + > > arch/x86/include/asm/sgx.h | 253 +++++++ > > Why are you asking for this to go into staging? > > What is keeping it out of the "real" part of the kernel tree? Now that I think of it nothing as long as the API is fixed the way you suggested and my TODO list is cleared. I think I prepare a new version of the patches and point it directly to arch/x86. > And staging code is self-contained, putting files in arch/* isn't ok for > it, which kind of implies that you should get this merged correctly. > > I need a lot more information here before I can take this code... > > thanks, > > greg k-h /Jarkko _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
