Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v17 18/23] platform/x86: Intel SGX driver | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:18:54 -0700 |
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> On Nov 19, 2018, at 10:19 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 04:22:54PM +0000, Jethro Beekman wrote: >>> On 2018-11-19 20:36, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: >>> Question: should be dissolve the driver completely and move this code to >>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/ (and rename intel_sgx.c as main.c)? Swapping >>> patch removes the possibility to compile this as a module anyway. >> >> No. We should keep the capability to build this as a module for other users >> of SGX. What is the swapping patch and why doesn't allow building as a >> module? > > In some earlier version of the patch set the request was to remove the > callback interface to the driver so now core does direct calls to the > swapping operations. > >
Once static_call lands, this will be a great use for it.
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