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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology support

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xense-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology support
From: "Cihula, Joseph" <joseph.cihula@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:41:12 -0700
Cc: "Xu, James" <james.xu@xxxxxxxxx>, "Wang, Shane" <shane.wang@xxxxxxxxx>, "Wei, Gang" <gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Monday, October 29, 2007 10:17 AM, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 29/10/07 15:38, "Cihula, Joseph" <joseph.cihula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>>> Attached is a patch that adds Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology
>>>> (Intel(R) TXT) support to Xen.  Intel(R) TXT was formerly known by
the
>>>> codename LaGrande Technology (LT).
>>> 
>>> Seems to be missing asm-x86/tboot.h.
>> 
>> The build for tboot/tboot copies this file from tboot/include to
>> xen/include/asm-x86.  Do you prefer that it get checked in to Xen's
repo
>> instead?
> 
> Okay, another issue. You can't probe for tboot by mapping and reading
every
> E820_RESERVED region (which is what the code you add to x86/setup.c
does).
> You don't know what mmio regions you could be conflicting with by
making a
> cacheable mapping and issuing memory reads (which can have side
effects when
> issued to I/O devices).
> 
> Why is the memory region not marked as E820_UNUSABLE by tboot? And/or
extend
> the multiboot info structure and transmit the address of the shared
page
> that way.

I didn't mark it as UNUSABLE because dom0 doesn't like low memory that
it can't probe and I didn't realize that there would be a problem with
marking it RESERVED.  However, I can mark it as UNUSABLE and then when I
find it, change it to RESERVED.  I'll send a patch for this as well.

> 
>  -- Keir

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