Re: [PATCH v5 31/32] x86: Add sysfs support for Secure Memory Encryption

2017-05-26 Thread Tom Lendacky
On 5/26/2017 12:04 AM, Xunlei Pang wrote: On 05/26/2017 at 10:49 AM, Dave Young wrote: Ccing Xunlei he is reading the patches see what need to be done for kdump. There should still be several places to handle to make kdump work. On 05/18/17 at 07:01pm, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Tue, Apr 18, 20

Re: [PATCH v5 31/32] x86: Add sysfs support for Secure Memory Encryption

2017-05-25 Thread Xunlei Pang
On 05/26/2017 at 10:49 AM, Dave Young wrote: > Ccing Xunlei he is reading the patches see what need to be done for > kdump. There should still be several places to handle to make kdump work. > > On 05/18/17 at 07:01pm, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 04:22:12PM -0500, Tom Lendacky

Re: [PATCH v5 31/32] x86: Add sysfs support for Secure Memory Encryption

2017-05-25 Thread Dave Young
Ccing Xunlei he is reading the patches see what need to be done for kdump. There should still be several places to handle to make kdump work. On 05/18/17 at 07:01pm, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 04:22:12PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote: > > Add sysfs support for SME so that user-sp

Re: [PATCH v5 31/32] x86: Add sysfs support for Secure Memory Encryption

2017-05-18 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 04:22:12PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote: > Add sysfs support for SME so that user-space utilities (kdump, etc.) can > determine if SME is active. But why do user-space tools need to know that? I mean, when we load the kdump kernel, we do it with the first kernel, with the kex

Re: [PATCH v5 31/32] x86: Add sysfs support for Secure Memory Encryption

2017-05-04 Thread Tom Lendacky
On 4/27/2017 10:52 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: On 04/27/2017 12:25 AM, Dave Young wrote: On 04/21/17 at 02:55pm, Dave Hansen wrote: On 04/18/2017 02:22 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote: Add sysfs support for SME so that user-space utilities (kdump, etc.) can determine if SME is active. A new directory will

Re: [PATCH v5 31/32] x86: Add sysfs support for Secure Memory Encryption

2017-05-04 Thread Tom Lendacky
On 4/27/2017 2:25 AM, Dave Young wrote: On 04/21/17 at 02:55pm, Dave Hansen wrote: On 04/18/2017 02:22 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote: Add sysfs support for SME so that user-space utilities (kdump, etc.) can determine if SME is active. A new directory will be created: /sys/kernel/mm/sme/ And two en

Re: [PATCH v5 31/32] x86: Add sysfs support for Secure Memory Encryption

2017-04-27 Thread Dave Young
On 04/27/17 at 08:52am, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 04/27/2017 12:25 AM, Dave Young wrote: > > On 04/21/17 at 02:55pm, Dave Hansen wrote: > >> On 04/18/2017 02:22 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote: > >>> Add sysfs support for SME so that user-space utilities (kdump, etc.) can > >>> determine if SME is active. > >

Re: [PATCH v5 31/32] x86: Add sysfs support for Secure Memory Encryption

2017-04-27 Thread Dave Hansen
On 04/27/2017 12:25 AM, Dave Young wrote: > On 04/21/17 at 02:55pm, Dave Hansen wrote: >> On 04/18/2017 02:22 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote: >>> Add sysfs support for SME so that user-space utilities (kdump, etc.) can >>> determine if SME is active. >>> >>> A new directory will be created: >>> /sys/kern

Re: [PATCH v5 31/32] x86: Add sysfs support for Secure Memory Encryption

2017-04-27 Thread Dave Young
On 04/21/17 at 02:55pm, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 04/18/2017 02:22 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote: > > Add sysfs support for SME so that user-space utilities (kdump, etc.) can > > determine if SME is active. > > > > A new directory will be created: > > /sys/kernel/mm/sme/ > > > > And two entries within t

Re: [PATCH v5 31/32] x86: Add sysfs support for Secure Memory Encryption

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Hansen
On 04/18/2017 02:22 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote: > Add sysfs support for SME so that user-space utilities (kdump, etc.) can > determine if SME is active. > > A new directory will be created: > /sys/kernel/mm/sme/ > > And two entries within the new directory: > /sys/kernel/mm/sme/active > /sys/ke

[PATCH v5 31/32] x86: Add sysfs support for Secure Memory Encryption

2017-04-18 Thread Tom Lendacky
Add sysfs support for SME so that user-space utilities (kdump, etc.) can determine if SME is active. A new directory will be created: /sys/kernel/mm/sme/ And two entries within the new directory: /sys/kernel/mm/sme/active /sys/kernel/mm/sme/encryption_mask Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky ---