On 09/07/2016 10:55 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 09:30:54AM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote: >> _PAGE_ENC is #defined as sme_me_mask and sme_me_mask has already been >> set (or not set) at this point - so it will be the mask if SME is >> active or 0 if SME is not active. > > Yeah, I remember :-) > >> sme_early_init() is merely propagating the mask to other structures. >> Since early_pmd_flags is mainly used in this file (one line in >> head_64.S is the other place) I felt it best to modify it here. But it >> can always be moved if you feel that is best. > > Hmm, so would it work then if you stick it in early_pmd_flags' > definition like you do with the other masks? I.e., > > pmdval_t early_pmd_flags = __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE | _PAGE_ENC & ~(_PAGE_GLOBAL | _PAGE_NX); When does this value get initialized? Since _PAGE_ENC is #defined to sme_me_mask, which is not set until the boot process begins, I'm afraid we'd end up using the initial value of sme_me_mask, which is zero. Do I have that right? Thanks, Tom > -- 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>