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Message-ID: <20181105173038.GD4502@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 19:30:38 +0200
From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc: "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
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Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 15/23] x86/sgx: Add wrappers for ENCLS leaf functions
On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 03:17:35PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 1:18 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
> <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > ENCLS is an umbrella instruction for a variety of cpl0 SGX functions.
> > The ENCLS function that is executed is specified in EAX, with each
> > function potentially having more leaf-specific operands beyond EAX.
> > ENCLS introduces its own (positive value) error codes that (some)
> > leafs use to return failure information in EAX. Leafs that return
> > an error code also modify RFLAGS. And finally, ENCLS generates
> > ENCLS-specific non-fatal #GPs and #PFs, i.e. a bug-free kernel may
> > encounter faults on ENCLS that must be handled gracefully.
> >
> > Because of the complexity involved in encoding ENCLS and handling its
> > assortment of failure paths, executing any given leaf is not a simple
> > matter of emitting ENCLS.
> >
> > To enable adding support for ENCLS leafs with minimal fuss, add a
> > two-layer macro system along with an encoding scheme to allow wrappers
> > to return trap numbers along ENCLS-specific error codes. The bottom
> > layer of the macro system splits between the leafs that return an
> > error code and those that do not. The second layer generates the
> > correct input/output annotations based on the number of operands for
> > each leaf function.
>
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause) */
>
> > +/**
>
> I dunno if kernel-doc script still complains about this.
Is there a way to ask for make htmldocs to do only a subset of docs?
Still kind of trying to figure out what would be a good flow for
working with Sphinx.
/Jarkko
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