From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 16/27] x86/sgx: Add the Linux SGX Enclave Driver
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 13:01:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190401100142.GB8483@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190329162001.GC19448@linux.intel.com>
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 09:20:05AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:05:39PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 6:19 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
> > <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > As I see it, there is really only one significant benefit of modules:
> > reducing the size of the kernel in the case that the module isn't
> > loaded.
>
> This is a much more succinct explanation of what I was attempting to say.
>
> > (And organizing module parameters, I suppose, but you don't,
> > strictly speaking, need to be able to build as a module to do that.)
> > SGX can be blacklisted by booting with nosgx (or, if if can't, then
> > that should be added).
>
> The split lock detection series also proposed extending clearcpuid to
> take flags by name, a dedicated 'nosgx' may not even be necessary in the
> long run.
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549084491-57808-6-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549084491-57808-7-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549084491-57808-8-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
OK, that's great. Then I just rework the LKM out...
/Jarkko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-01 10:01 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
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 [this message]
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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