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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Jethro Beekman <jethro@fortanix.com>,
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	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 16/27] x86/sgx: Add the Linux SGX Enclave Driver
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:19:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190328131939.GI7094@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190327200610.GF9310@linux.intel.com>

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 01:06:11PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> I agree with all of the above, but unfortunately blacklisting is really
> the only benefit that would be realized by modularizing the driver.  The
> "driver" at this point is just the device and its ioctls, the meat of
> the functionality has been moved into the subsystem proper.  And the few
> remaining tidbits of functionality, e.g. sgx_encl_page_alloc() and
> sgx_encl_alloc(), probably should be moved out of ioctl.c as well.

That is kind of core reason of having an LKM here, to wrap the uapi. It
is not about reducing size of the kernel. It is about ability to tailor
the uapi on stock kernels.

/Jarkko

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-28 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-17 21:14 [PATCH v19 00/27] Intel SGX1 support Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 01/27] x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel-defined SGX feature bit Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 02/27] x86/cpufeatures: Add SGX sub-features (as Linux-defined bits) Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 03/27] x86/msr: Add IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL.SGX_ENABLE definition Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 04/27] x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel-defined SGX_LC feature bit Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 05/27] x86/msr: Add SGX Launch Control MSR definitions Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 06/27] x86/mm: x86/sgx: Add new 'PF_SGX' page fault error code bit Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 07/27] x86/mm: x86/sgx: Signal SIGSEGV for userspace #PFs w/ PF_SGX Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-18 17:15   ` Dave Hansen
2019-03-18 19:53     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 08/27] x86/cpu/intel: Detect SGX support and update caps appropriately Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 09/27] x86/sgx: Add ENCLS architectural error codes Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 10/27] x86/sgx: Add SGX1 and SGX2 architectural data structures Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 11/27] x86/sgx: Add definitions for SGX's CPUID leaf and variable sub-leafs Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 12/27] x86/sgx: Enumerate and track EPC sections Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-18 19:50   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-21 14:40     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-21 15:28       ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-22 10:19         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-22 10:50           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 13/27] x86/sgx: Add wrappers for ENCLS leaf functions Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-19 19:59   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-21 14:51     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-21 15:40       ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-22 11:00         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-22 16:43           ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 16/27] x86/sgx: Add the Linux SGX Enclave Driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-19 21:19   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-21 15:51     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-21 16:47       ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-22 11:10         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-26 13:26       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-26 23:58         ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-27  5:28           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-27 17:57             ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-27 18:38             ` Jethro Beekman
2019-03-27 20:06               ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-28  1:21                 ` Jethro Beekman
2019-03-28 13:19                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2019-03-28 19:05                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-29  9:43                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-29 16:20                     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-04-01 10:01                       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-04-01 17:25                         ` Jethro Beekman
2019-04-01 22:57                           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-28 13:15               ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-19 23:00   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-21 16:18     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-21 17:38       ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-22 11:17         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 17/27] x86/sgx: Add provisioning Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-19 20:09   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-21  2:08     ` Huang, Kai
2019-03-21 14:32       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-21 21:41         ` Huang, Kai
2019-03-22 11:31           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-21 14:30     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-21 14:38   ` Nathaniel McCallum
2019-03-22 11:22     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-21 16:50   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-22 11:29     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-22 11:43       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-22 18:20         ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-03-25 14:55           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-27  0:14             ` Sean Christopherson
2019-04-05 10:18             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-04-05 13:53               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-05 14:20                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-04-05 14:34                   ` Greg KH
2019-04-09 13:37                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-04-05 14:21                 ` Greg KH
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 19/27] x86/sgx: ptrace() support for the SGX driver Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-19 22:22   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-21 15:02     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 20/27] x86/vdso: Add support for exception fixup in vDSO functions Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 21/27] x86/fault: Add helper function to sanitize error code Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 22/27] x86/fault: Attempt to fixup unhandled #PF in vDSO before signaling Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 23/27] x86/traps: Attempt to fixup exceptions " Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 25/27] x86/sgx: SGX documentation Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-20 17:14   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-21 16:24     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 26/27] selftests/x86: Add a selftest for SGX Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-17 21:14 ` [PATCH v19 27/27] x86/sgx: Update MAINTAINERS Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-19 17:12   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-21 14:42     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
     [not found] ` <20190317211456.13927-19-jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
2019-03-19 22:09   ` [PATCH v19 18/27] x86/sgx: Add swapping code to the core and SGX driver Sean Christopherson
2019-03-21 14:59     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-19 23:41 ` [PATCH v19 00/27] Intel SGX1 support Sean Christopherson
2019-03-19 23:52   ` Jethro Beekman
2019-03-20  0:22     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-03-21 16:20     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-03-21 16:00   ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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