Re: [for-6.0 v5 00/13] Generalize memory encryption models

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 09:50:05AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 04:44:02PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > A number of hardware platforms are implementing mechanisms whereby the
> > hypervisor does not have unfettered access to guest memory, in order
> > to mitigate the security impact of a compromised hypervisor.
> > 
> > AMD's SEV implements this with in-cpu memory encryption, and Intel has
> > its own memory encryption mechanism.  POWER has an upcoming mechanism
> > to accomplish this in a different way, using a new memory protection
> > level plus a small trusted ultravisor.  s390 also has a protected
> > execution environment.
> > 
> > The current code (committed or draft) for these features has each
> > platform's version configured entirely differently.  That doesn't seem
> > ideal for users, or particularly for management layers.
> > 
> > AMD SEV introduces a notionally generic machine option
> > "machine-encryption", but it doesn't actually cover any cases other
> > than SEV.
> > 
> > This series is a proposal to at least partially unify configuration
> > for these mechanisms, by renaming and generalizing AMD's
> > "memory-encryption" property.  It is replaced by a
> > "securable-guest-memory" property pointing to a platform specific
> > object which configures and manages the specific details.
> 
> There's no docs updated or added in this series.
> 
> docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt needs an update at least, and
> there ought to be a doc added describing how this series is
> to be used for s390/ppc

Fair point, I've made a bunch of doc updates for the next spin.

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