On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 03:22:19PM -0700, Jethro Beekman wrote: > On 29-04-16 13:04, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > >>> Why would you want to do that? > >> > >> ... > > > > Do you see this as a performance issue or why do you think that this > > would hurt that much? > > I don't think it's a performance issue at all. I'm just giving an example of why > you'd want to do this. I'm sure people who want to use this instruction set can > come up with other uses, so I think the driver should support it. Other drivers > on different platform might support this, in which case we should be compatible > (to achieve the same enclave measurement). Other Linux drivers support it [1]. I > would ask: why would you not want to do this? It seems trivial to expand the > current flag into 16 separate flags; one for each 256-byte chunk in the page. I'm fine with adding a 16-bit bitmask. /Jarkko _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
