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| author | Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com> | 2017-12-04 10:57:26 -0600 |
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| committer | Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com> | 2017-12-04 10:57:26 -0600 |
| commit | 5acc5c063196b4a531a761a954023c1848ec832b (patch) | |
| tree | f0aeadedafe44f1d651fc6811826d62b89ddb8e8 /Documentation/virtual | |
| parent | 8765d75329a386dd7742f94a1ea5fdcdea8d93d0 (diff) | |
KVM: Introduce KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP ioctl
If the hardware supports memory encryption then the
KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP ioctl can be used by qemu to issue a platform
specific memory encryption commands.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index f670e4b9e7f3..c8755be35543 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -3394,6 +3394,22 @@ invalid, if invalid pages are written to (e.g. after the end of memory) or if no page table is present for the addresses (e.g. when using hugepages). +4.109 KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP + +Capability: basic +Architectures: x86 +Type: system +Parameters: an opaque platform specific structure (in/out) +Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error + +If the platform supports creating encrypted VMs then this ioctl can be used +for issuing platform-specific memory encryption commands to manage those +encrypted VMs. + +Currently, this ioctl is used for issuing Secure Encrypted Virtualization +(SEV) commands on AMD Processors. The SEV commands are defined in +Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.txt. + 5. The kvm_run structure ------------------------ |