Re: [PATCH, RFC 00/62] Intel MKTME enabling
From: Alison Schofield
Date: Wed May 29 2019 - 14:19:44 EST
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:30:07AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 05:43:20PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > = Intro =
> >
> > The patchset brings enabling of Intel Multi-Key Total Memory Encryption.
> > It consists of changes into multiple subsystems:
> >
> > * Core MM: infrastructure for allocation pages, dealing with encrypted VMAs
> > and providing API setup encrypted mappings.
> > * arch/x86: feature enumeration, program keys into hardware, setup
> > page table entries for encrypted pages and more.
> > * Key management service: setup and management of encryption keys.
> > * DMA/IOMMU: dealing with encrypted memory on IO side.
> > * KVM: interaction with virtualization side.
> > * Documentation: description of APIs and usage examples.
> >
> > The patchset is huge. This submission aims to give view to the full picture and
> > get feedback on the overall design. The patchset will be split into more
> > digestible pieces later.
> >
> > Please review. Any feedback is welcome.
>
> It would be nice to have a brief usage description in cover letter rather
> than in the last patches in the series ;-)
>
Thanks for making it all the way to the last patches in the set ;)
Yes, we will certainly include that usage model in the cover letters
of future patchsets.
Alison