linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] sparc64: Add support for Application Data Integrity (ADI)

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Date:	Mon, 7 Mar 2016 10:12:12 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sparc64: Add support for Application Data Integrity
 (ADI)

On 03/07/2016 09:53 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Also, what am I missing?  Tying these tags to the physical page seems
> like a poor design to me.  This seems really awkward to use.

Yeah, can you describe the structures that store these things?  Surely
the hardware has some kind of lookup tables for them and stores them in
memory _somewhere_.