Re: [intel-sgx-kernel-dev] [PATCH v11 13/13] intel_sgx: in-kernel launch enclave

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 08:45 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I'm personally rather strongly in favor of the vastly simpler model in
> which we first merge SGX without LE support at all.  Instead we use
> the approach where we just twiddle the MSRs to launch normal enclaves
> without an init token at all, which is probably considerably faster
> and will remove several thousand lines of code.  If and when a bona
> fide use case for LE support shows up, we can work out the details and
> merge it.

Andy, I was going to propose exactly the same :-)

We can upstream SGX that supports only unlocked MSRs and that does
not preventing to upstream support for locked MSRs later. Even if
we had a consensus for locked MSRs, making two milestones for the
mainline would make perfect sense.

I came into this conclusion last night because all the other review
comments not concerning the launch control are easily sorted out.

/Jarkko