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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] driver: provide sysfs interfaces to access TXT log
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On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 08:05 +0000, Ren, Qiaowei wrote:
> On 2013-05-08, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > How different are these logs to the TPM measurements exported via
> > securityfs?
>
> These logs come from tboot (Trusted Boot, an open source, pre-kernel/VMM module that uses Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) to perform a measured and verified launch of an OS kernel/VMM.), and should be different from those TPM measurements (from BIOS?) exported via security.

Different in what way? What are they actually logging?

> > So I write a value here and then I see different chunks of log? This
> > doesn't seem like an optimal interface. What do these logs actually
> > contain? How do I know which block I should be reading?
>
> Yes. Since total log size is bigger than one page 4K, the log have to be displayed in 4K-block indexed by block_index.
> These logs will be very helpful for txt related debugging.

If they're only intended for debugging then sysfs probably isn't the
best place for them. debugfs might make more sense.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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