linux-kernel - Re: [intel-sgx-kernel-dev] [PATCH v11 09/13] x86, sgx: basic routines for enclave page cache

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Message-ID: <208b7c272ca4a5f01299ec6c89f57b2b00b7866d.camel@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:36:47 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Jethro Beekman <jethro@...tanix.com>
Cc:     X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        npmccallum@...hat.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        intel-sgx-kernel-dev@...ts.01.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [intel-sgx-kernel-dev] [PATCH v11 09/13] x86, sgx: basic
 routines for enclave page cache

On Mon, 2018-06-18 at 14:33 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> When KVM host support goes in, even this won't be good enough if we
> want to allow passthrough access to the MSRs because we will no longer
> be able to guarantee that all zeros is invalid.  Instead we'd need an
> actual flag saying that the cache is invalid.

I'm not sure if I understood this part. If it was pass-through, and
there was a flag, how that flag in the host would get updated?

/Jarkko