On 10/28/21, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why cannot this be a userspace program, script, tool, whatever? Because it's not convenient to parse dmesg. And about /proc/cpuinfo, it tells you about TME, as a feature of the cpu but it doesn't tell you if it is activated, and even if it is activated you will need to be sure that you are storing your data in a region flagged with this new attribute. Here we discussed about it some time ago: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2006.2/06753.html . That comment is what triggered this patch.