On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:10:22PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote: > On 2/8/2018 6:55 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > AMD SME claims one bit from physical address to indicate whether the > > page is encrypted or not. To achieve that we clear out the bit from > > __PHYSICAL_MASK. > > I was actually working on a suggestion by Linus to use one of the software > page table bits to indicate encryption and translate that to the hardware > bit when writing the actual page table entry. With that, __PHYSICAL_MASK > would go back to its original definition.
But you would need to mask it on reading of pfn from page table entry, right? I expect it to have more overhead than this one. And software bits are valuable. Do we still have a spare one for this? -- Kirill A. Shutemov
