On 08/25/2016 08:04 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, Tom Lendacky wrote: > >> Provide support for Secure Memory Encryption (SME). This initial support >> defines the memory encryption mask as a variable for quick access and an >> accessor for retrieving the number of physical addressing bits lost if >> SME is enabled. > > What is the reason that this needs to live in assembly code? In later patches this code is expanded and deals with a lot of page table manipulation, cpuid/rdmsr instructions, etc. and so I thought it was best to do it this way. Thanks, Tom > > Thanks, > > tglx > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>