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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/6] Intel Secure Guard Extensions
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:53:52AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 08:34:07PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > Intel(R) SGX is a set of CPU instructions that can be used by
> > applications to set aside private regions of code and data. The code
> > outside the enclave is disallowed to access the memory inside the
> > enclave by the CPU access control.
> >
> > The firmware uses PRMRR registers to reserve an area of physical memory
> > called Enclave Page Cache (EPC). There is a hardware unit in the
> > processor called Memory Encryption Engine. The MEE encrypts and decrypts
> > the EPC pages as they enter and leave the processor package.
> >
> > Jarkko Sakkinen (5):
> > x86, sgx: common macros and definitions
> > intel_sgx: driver for Intel Secure Guard eXtensions
> > intel_sgx: ptrace() support for the driver
> > intel_sgx: driver documentation
> > intel_sgx: TODO file for the staging area
> >
> > Kai Huang (1):
> > x86: add SGX definition to cpufeature
> >
> > Documentation/x86/intel_sgx.txt | 86 +++
> > arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 1 +
> > arch/x86/include/asm/sgx.h | 253 +++++++
>
> Why are you asking for this to go into staging?
>
> What is keeping it out of the "real" part of the kernel tree?

Now that I think of it nothing as long as the API is fixed the way you
suggested and my TODO list is cleared.

I think I prepare a new version of the patches and point it directly
to arch/x86.

> And staging code is self-contained, putting files in arch/* isn't ok for
> it, which kind of implies that you should get this merged correctly.
>
> I need a lot more information here before I can take this code...
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

/Jarkko

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