Re: [Part1 PATCH v5 13/17] x86/io: Unroll string I/O when SEV is active

From	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [Part1 PATCH v5 13/17] x86/io: Unroll string I/O when SEV is active
Date	2017-09-28 20:00 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:13:25AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
> 
> Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) does not support string I/O, so
> unroll the string I/O operation into a loop operating on one element at
> a time.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/io.h | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c |  8 ++++++++
>  2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

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