linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFC 00/62] Intel MKTME enabling

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Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 11:20:04 -0700
From:   Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@...el.com>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Kai Huang <kai.huang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 00/62] Intel MKTME enabling

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:30:07AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 05:43:20PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > = Intro =
> > 
> > The patchset brings enabling of Intel Multi-Key Total Memory Encryption.
> > It consists of changes into multiple subsystems:
> > 
> >  * Core MM: infrastructure for allocation pages, dealing with encrypted VMAs
> >    and providing API setup encrypted mappings.
> >  * arch/x86: feature enumeration, program keys into hardware, setup
> >    page table entries for encrypted pages and more.
> >  * Key management service: setup and management of encryption keys.
> >  * DMA/IOMMU: dealing with encrypted memory on IO side.
> >  * KVM: interaction with virtualization side.
> >  * Documentation: description of APIs and usage examples.
> > 
> > The patchset is huge. This submission aims to give view to the full picture and
> > get feedback on the overall design. The patchset will be split into more
> > digestible pieces later.
> > 
> > Please review. Any feedback is welcome.
> 
> It would be nice to have a brief usage description in cover letter rather
> than in the last patches in the series ;-)
>  

Thanks for making it all the way to the last patches in the set ;)

Yes, we will certainly include that usage model in the cover letters
of future patchsets. 

Alison