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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Extend TPM support with a QEMU-external TPM


From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Extend TPM support with a QEMU-external TPM
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:55:04 +0200

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 03:35:06PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:38:43 -0400
> Stefan Berger <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > The following series of patches extends TPM support with an
> > external TPM that offers a Linux CUSE (character device in userspace)
> > interface. This TPM lets each VM access its own private vTPM.
> > The CUSE TPM supports suspend/resume and migration. Much
> > out-of-band functionality necessary to control the CUSE TPM is
> > implemented using ioctl's.
> > 
> > The series extends the TPM support so far that most functionality of
> > TPM support on a physical platform is now available to each x86 VM,
> > this includes the Physical Presence Interface support that has
> > its counter-part in the SeaBIOS and is implemented using ACPI.
> > 
> > http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2015-March/008978.html
> is it already merged?
> 
> Is it possible to use MMIO region instead of allocating tpm_ppi_anchor
> and tpm_ppi in BIOS memory?
> That would simplify BIOS part a bit and significantly simplify ACPI code
> as most of it is dealing with figuring out address of tpm_ppi.

Which (if it works) I guess brings us back to the idea of using
a pci device with a bar where we can stick tpm+vm id+whatever?


> > 
> > 
> > Stefan Berger (5):
> >   Provide support for the CUSE TPM
> >   Support Physical Presence Interface Spec
> >   Introduce condition to notifiy waiters of completed command
> >   Introduce condition in TPM backend for notification
> >   Add support for VM suspend/resume for TPM TIS
> > 
> >  hmp.c                        |   6 +
> >  hw/i386/acpi-tpm-core.dsl    | 277 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  hw/i386/acpi-tpm2.dsl        |  27 +++
> >  hw/i386/q35-acpi-dsdt.dsl    |   1 +
> >  hw/i386/ssdt-tpm.dsl         |  12 +-
> >  hw/tpm/tpm_int.h             |   4 +
> >  hw/tpm/tpm_ioctl.h           | 178 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  hw/tpm/tpm_passthrough.c     | 410 
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  hw/tpm/tpm_tis.c             | 152 +++++++++++++++-
> >  hw/tpm/tpm_tis.h             |   2 +
> >  hw/tpm/tpm_util.c            | 206 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  hw/tpm/tpm_util.h            |   7 +
> >  include/sysemu/tpm_backend.h |  12 ++
> >  qapi-schema.json             |  17 +-
> >  qemu-options.hx              |  21 ++-
> >  qmp-commands.hx              |   2 +-
> >  tpm.c                        |  11 +-
> >  17 files changed, 1316 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 hw/i386/acpi-tpm-core.dsl
> >  create mode 100644 hw/i386/acpi-tpm2.dsl
> >  create mode 100644 hw/tpm/tpm_ioctl.h
> > 



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