Re: [PATCH v30 01/20] x86/cpufeatures: x86/msr: Add Intel SGX hardware bits

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Wed May 20 2020 - 10:01:00 EST


On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 02:16:21PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 03:43:51AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add X86_FEATURE_SGX from CPUID.(EAX=7, ECX=1), which informs whether the
> > CPU has SGX.
> >
> > Add X86_FEATURE_SGX1 and X86_FEATURE_SGX2 from CPUID.(EAX=12H, ECX=0),
> > which describe the level of SGX support available [1].
> >
> > Remap CPUID.(EAX=12H, ECX=0) bits to the Linux fake CPUID 8 in order to
> > conserve some space. Keep the bit positions intact because KVM requires
> > this. Reserve bits 0-7 for SGX in order to maintain this invariant also
> > when new SGX specific feature bits get added.
>
> That paragraph needs dropping now.

I dropped it (in my tree).

> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
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/Jarkko