Re: [RFC PATCH v2 04/32] KVM: SVM: Add SEV feature definitions to KVM

From	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH v2 04/32] KVM: SVM: Add SEV feature definitions to KVM
Date	2017-03-07 02:00 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 10:12:48AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
> 
> Define a new KVM CPU feature for Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV).
> The kernel will check for the presence of this feature to determine if
> it is running with SEV active.
> 
> Define the SEV enable bit for the VMCB control structure. The hypervisor
> will use this bit to enable SEV in the guest.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h           |    1 +
>  arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h
> index 2aca535..fba2a7b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h
> @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ struct __attribute__ ((__packed__)) vmcb_control_area {
>  #define SVM_VM_CR_SVM_DIS_MASK  0x0010ULL
>  
>  #define SVM_NESTED_CTL_NP_ENABLE	BIT(0)
> +#define SVM_NESTED_CTL_SEV_ENABLE	BIT(1)
>  
>  struct __attribute__ ((__packed__)) vmcb_seg {
>  	u16 selector;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> index 1421a65..bc2802f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>  #define KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME		5
>  #define KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI		6
>  #define KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT		7
> +#define KVM_FEATURE_SEV			8

This looks like it needs documenting in Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt

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    Boris.

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