Re: [PATCH v22 06/24] x86/sgx: Add SGX microarchitectural data structures
From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Tue Oct 01 2019 - 15:10:31 EST
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 06:27:35PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 05:26:37PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > Define the SGX microarchitectural data structures used by various SGX
> > opcodes. This is not an exhaustive representation of all SGX data
> > structures but only those needed by the kernel.
> >
> > [1] Intel SDM: 37.6 INTEL® SGX DATA STRUCTURES OVERVIEW
>
> That footnote is not being referred to. Just make it a sentence.
Sure!
> Btw, you could tell your SDM folks to fix formulations like:
>
> "The use of EAX is implied implicitly by the ENCLS, ENCLU, and ENCLV
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> instructions.... The use of additional registers does not use ModR/M
> encoding and is implied implicitly by the respective leaf function
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> index."
>
> "implied" alone wasn't enough I guess. :)
I'd guess have make it a double :-)
/Jarkko