From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: seanjc@google.com
Subject: [PATCH 7/7] Documentation: kvm/sev: clarify usage of KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:10:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240318221002.2712738-8-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240318221002.2712738-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Explain that it operates on the VM file descriptor, and also clarify how
detection of SEV operates on old kernels predating commit 2da1ed62d55c
("KVM: SVM: document KVM_MEM_ENCRYPT_OP, let userspace detect if SEV
is available").
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
.../virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
index 4f2eb441c718..84335d119ff1 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
@@ -49,12 +49,13 @@ defined in the CPUID 0x8000001f[ecx] field.
The KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP ioctl
===============================
-The main ioctl to access SEV is KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP. If the argument
-to KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP is NULL, the ioctl returns 0 if SEV is enabled
-and ``ENOTTY`` if it is disabled (on some older versions of Linux,
-the ioctl runs normally even with a NULL argument, and therefore will
-likely return ``EFAULT``). If non-NULL, the argument to KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP
-must be a struct kvm_sev_cmd::
+The main ioctl to access SEV is KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP, which operates on
+the VM file descriptor. If the argument to KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP is NULL,
+the ioctl returns 0 if SEV is enabled and ``ENOTTY`` if it is disabled
+(on some older versions of Linux, the ioctl tries to run normally even
+with a NULL argument, and therefore will likely return ``EFAULT`` instead
+of zero if SEV is enabled). If non-NULL, the argument to
+KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP must be a struct kvm_sev_cmd::
struct kvm_sev_cmd {
__u32 id;
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-18 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-18 22:09 [PATCH 0/7] KVM: SEV fixes for 6.9 Paolo Bonzini
2024-03-18 22:09 ` [PATCH 1/7] KVM: SVM: Set sev->asid in sev_asid_new() instead of overloading the return Paolo Bonzini
2024-03-18 22:09 ` [PATCH 2/7] KVM: SVM: Use unsigned integers when dealing with ASIDs Paolo Bonzini
2024-03-18 22:09 ` [PATCH 3/7] KVM: SVM: Add support for allowing zero SEV ASIDs Paolo Bonzini
2024-03-18 22:09 ` [PATCH 4/7] KVM: SVM: Return -EINVAL instead of -EBUSY on attempt to re-init SEV/SEV-ES Paolo Bonzini
2024-03-18 22:10 ` [PATCH 5/7] KVM: SEV: fix compat ABI for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP Paolo Bonzini
2024-03-18 22:10 ` [PATCH 6/7] Documentation: kvm/sev: separate description of firmware Paolo Bonzini
2024-03-18 22:10 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2024-03-18 22:58 ` [PATCH 0/7] KVM: SEV fixes for 6.9 Sean Christopherson
2024-03-18 23:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
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