On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks. Please cc me as well. --Andy > >> 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 -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
