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<title>linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c, branch v4.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/cpufeatures: Add FEATURE_ZEN</title>
<updated>2018-05-17T15:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-10T14:26:00+00:00</published>
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Add a ZEN feature bit so family-dependent static_cpu_has() optimizations
can be built for ZEN.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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Add a ZEN feature bit so family-dependent static_cpu_has() optimizations
can be built for ZEN.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpufeatures: Disentangle SSBD enumeration</title>
<updated>2018-05-17T15:09:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-10T18:21:36+00:00</published>
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The SSBD enumeration is similarly to the other bits magically shared
between Intel and AMD though the mechanisms are different.

Make X86_FEATURE_SSBD synthetic and set it depending on the vendor specific
features or family dependent setup.

Change the Intel bit to X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL_SSBD to denote that SSBD is
controlled via MSR_SPEC_CTRL and fix up the usage sites.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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The SSBD enumeration is similarly to the other bits magically shared
between Intel and AMD though the mechanisms are different.

Make X86_FEATURE_SSBD synthetic and set it depending on the vendor specific
features or family dependent setup.

Change the Intel bit to X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL_SSBD to denote that SSBD is
controlled via MSR_SPEC_CTRL and fix up the usage sites.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/bugs: Rename _RDS to _SSBD</title>
<updated>2018-05-09T19:41:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-09T19:41:38+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Intel collateral will reference the SSB mitigation bit in IA32_SPEC_CTL[2]
as SSBD (Speculative Store Bypass Disable).

Hence changing it.

It is unclear yet what the MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES (0x10a) Bit(4) name
is going to be. Following the rename it would be SSBD_NO but that rolls out
to Speculative Store Bypass Disable No.

Also fixed the missing space in X86_FEATURE_AMD_SSBD.

[ tglx: Fixup x86_amd_rds_enable() and rds_tif_to_amd_ls_cfg() as well ]

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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Intel collateral will reference the SSB mitigation bit in IA32_SPEC_CTL[2]
as SSBD (Speculative Store Bypass Disable).

Hence changing it.

It is unclear yet what the MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES (0x10a) Bit(4) name
is going to be. Following the rename it would be SSBD_NO but that rolls out
to Speculative Store Bypass Disable No.

Also fixed the missing space in X86_FEATURE_AMD_SSBD.

[ tglx: Fixup x86_amd_rds_enable() and rds_tif_to_amd_ls_cfg() as well ]

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/speculation: Create spec-ctrl.h to avoid include hell</title>
<updated>2018-05-03T11:55:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-29T13:01:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=28a2775217b17208811fa43a9e96bd1fdf417b86'/>
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<content type='text'>
Having everything in nospec-branch.h creates a hell of dependencies when
adding the prctl based switching mechanism. Move everything which is not
required in nospec-branch.h to spec-ctrl.h and fix up the includes in the
relevant files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Having everything in nospec-branch.h creates a hell of dependencies when
adding the prctl based switching mechanism. Move everything which is not
required in nospec-branch.h to spec-ctrl.h and fix up the includes in the
relevant files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/bugs/AMD: Add support to disable RDS on Fam[15,16,17]h if requested</title>
<updated>2018-05-03T11:55:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-26T02:04:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=764f3c21588a059cd783c6ba0734d4db2d72822d'/>
<id>764f3c21588a059cd783c6ba0734d4db2d72822d</id>
<content type='text'>
AMD does not need the Speculative Store Bypass mitigation to be enabled.

The parameters for this are already available and can be done via MSR
C001_1020. Each family uses a different bit in that MSR for this.

[ tglx: Expose the bit mask via a variable and move the actual MSR fiddling
  	into the bugs code as that's the right thing to do and also required
	to prepare for dynamic enable/disable ]

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;

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AMD does not need the Speculative Store Bypass mitigation to be enabled.

The parameters for this are already available and can be done via MSR
C001_1020. Each family uses a different bit in that MSR for this.

[ tglx: Expose the bit mask via a variable and move the actual MSR fiddling
  	into the bugs code as that's the right thing to do and also required
	to prepare for dynamic enable/disable ]

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/jailhouse: Allow to use PCI_MMCONFIG without ACPI</title>
<updated>2018-03-08T11:30:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kiszka</name>
<email>jan.kiszka@siemens.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-07T07:39:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8364e1f8379c7f9d3e63f127a585f889906b3e10'/>
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<content type='text'>
Jailhouse does not use ACPI, but it does support MMCONFIG. Make sure the
latter can be built without having to enable ACPI as well. Primarily, its
required to make the AMD mmconf-fam10h_64 depend upon MMCONFIG and
ACPI, instead of just the former.

Saves some bytes in the Jailhouse non-root kernel.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: jailhouse-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/788bbd5325d1922235e9562c213057425fbc548c.1520408357.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com

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Jailhouse does not use ACPI, but it does support MMCONFIG. Make sure the
latter can be built without having to enable ACPI as well. Primarily, its
required to make the AMD mmconf-fam10h_64 depend upon MMCONFIG and
ACPI, instead of just the former.

Saves some bytes in the Jailhouse non-root kernel.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: jailhouse-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/788bbd5325d1922235e9562c213057425fbc548c.1520408357.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-02-15T01:02:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T01:02:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d4667ca142610961c89ae7c41a823b3358fcdd0e'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull x86 PTI and Spectre related fixes and updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Here's the latest set of Spectre and PTI related fixes and updates:

  Spectre:
   - Add entry code register clearing to reduce the Spectre attack
     surface
   - Update the Spectre microcode blacklist
   - Inline the KVM Spectre helpers to get close to v4.14 performance
     again.
   - Fix indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()
   - Fix/improve Spectre related kernel messages
   - Fix array_index_nospec_mask() asm constraint
   - KVM: fix two MSR handling bugs

  PTI:
   - Fix a paranoid entry PTI CR3 handling bug
   - Fix comments

  objtool:
   - Fix paranoid_entry() frame pointer warning
   - Annotate WARN()-related UD2 as reachable
   - Various fixes
   - Add Add Peter Zijlstra as objtool co-maintainer

  Misc:
   - Various x86 entry code self-test fixes
   - Improve/simplify entry code stack frame generation and handling
     after recent heavy-handed PTI and Spectre changes. (There's two
     more WIP improvements expected here.)
   - Type fix for cache entries

  There's also some low risk non-fix changes I've included in this
  branch to reduce backporting conflicts:

   - rename a confusing x86_cpu field name
   - de-obfuscate the naming of single-TLB flushing primitives"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
  x86/entry/64: Fix CR3 restore in paranoid_exit()
  x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int
  x86/spectre: Fix an error message
  x86/cpu: Rename cpu_data.x86_mask to cpu_data.x86_stepping
  selftests/x86/mpx: Fix incorrect bounds with old _sigfault
  x86/mm: Rename flush_tlb_single() and flush_tlb_one() to __flush_tlb_one_[user|kernel]()
  x86/speculation: Add &lt;asm/msr-index.h&gt; dependency
  nospec: Move array_index_nospec() parameter checking into separate macro
  x86/speculation: Fix up array_index_nospec_mask() asm constraint
  x86/debug: Use UD2 for WARN()
  x86/debug, objtool: Annotate WARN()-related UD2 as reachable
  objtool: Fix segfault in ignore_unreachable_insn()
  selftests/x86: Disable tests requiring 32-bit support on pure 64-bit systems
  selftests/x86: Do not rely on "int $0x80" in single_step_syscall.c
  selftests/x86: Do not rely on "int $0x80" in test_mremap_vdso.c
  selftests/x86: Fix build bug caused by the 5lvl test which has been moved to the VM directory
  selftests/x86/pkeys: Remove unused functions
  selftests/x86: Clean up and document sscanf() usage
  selftests/x86: Fix vDSO selftest segfault for vsyscall=none
  x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 PTI and Spectre related fixes and updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Here's the latest set of Spectre and PTI related fixes and updates:

  Spectre:
   - Add entry code register clearing to reduce the Spectre attack
     surface
   - Update the Spectre microcode blacklist
   - Inline the KVM Spectre helpers to get close to v4.14 performance
     again.
   - Fix indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()
   - Fix/improve Spectre related kernel messages
   - Fix array_index_nospec_mask() asm constraint
   - KVM: fix two MSR handling bugs

  PTI:
   - Fix a paranoid entry PTI CR3 handling bug
   - Fix comments

  objtool:
   - Fix paranoid_entry() frame pointer warning
   - Annotate WARN()-related UD2 as reachable
   - Various fixes
   - Add Add Peter Zijlstra as objtool co-maintainer

  Misc:
   - Various x86 entry code self-test fixes
   - Improve/simplify entry code stack frame generation and handling
     after recent heavy-handed PTI and Spectre changes. (There's two
     more WIP improvements expected here.)
   - Type fix for cache entries

  There's also some low risk non-fix changes I've included in this
  branch to reduce backporting conflicts:

   - rename a confusing x86_cpu field name
   - de-obfuscate the naming of single-TLB flushing primitives"

* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
  x86/entry/64: Fix CR3 restore in paranoid_exit()
  x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int
  x86/spectre: Fix an error message
  x86/cpu: Rename cpu_data.x86_mask to cpu_data.x86_stepping
  selftests/x86/mpx: Fix incorrect bounds with old _sigfault
  x86/mm: Rename flush_tlb_single() and flush_tlb_one() to __flush_tlb_one_[user|kernel]()
  x86/speculation: Add &lt;asm/msr-index.h&gt; dependency
  nospec: Move array_index_nospec() parameter checking into separate macro
  x86/speculation: Fix up array_index_nospec_mask() asm constraint
  x86/debug: Use UD2 for WARN()
  x86/debug, objtool: Annotate WARN()-related UD2 as reachable
  objtool: Fix segfault in ignore_unreachable_insn()
  selftests/x86: Disable tests requiring 32-bit support on pure 64-bit systems
  selftests/x86: Do not rely on "int $0x80" in single_step_syscall.c
  selftests/x86: Do not rely on "int $0x80" in test_mremap_vdso.c
  selftests/x86: Fix build bug caused by the 5lvl test which has been moved to the VM directory
  selftests/x86/pkeys: Remove unused functions
  selftests/x86: Clean up and document sscanf() usage
  selftests/x86: Fix vDSO selftest segfault for vsyscall=none
  x86/entry/64: Remove the unused 'icebp' macro
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Rename cpu_data.x86_mask to cpu_data.x86_stepping</title>
<updated>2018-02-15T00:15:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jia Zhang</name>
<email>qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-01T01:52:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b399151cb48db30ad1e0e93dd40d68c6d007b637'/>
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<content type='text'>
x86_mask is a confusing name which is hard to associate with the
processor's stepping.

Additionally, correct an indent issue in lib/cpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang &lt;qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
[ Updated it to more recent kernels. ]
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1514771530-70829-1-git-send-email-qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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x86_mask is a confusing name which is hard to associate with the
processor's stepping.

Additionally, correct an indent issue in lib/cpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang &lt;qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
[ Updated it to more recent kernels. ]
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1514771530-70829-1-git-send-email-qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/hyperv' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T14:04:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Radim Krčmář</name>
<email>rkrcmar@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T14:04:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7bf14c28ee776be567855bd39ed8ff795ea19f55'/>
<id>7bf14c28ee776be567855bd39ed8ff795ea19f55</id>
<content type='text'>
Topic branch for stable KVM clockource under Hyper-V.

Thanks to Christoffer Dall for resolving the ARM conflict.
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Topic branch for stable KVM clockource under Hyper-V.

Thanks to Christoffer Dall for resolving the ARM conflict.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sev-v9-p2' of https://github.com/codomania/kvm</title>
<updated>2018-01-16T15:35:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-16T15:34:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=65e38583c3bbbba78a081c808e2d58a8454a821e'/>
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<content type='text'>
This part of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) patch series focuses on KVM
changes required to create and manage SEV guests.

SEV is an extension to the AMD-V architecture which supports running encrypted
virtual machine (VMs) under the control of a hypervisor. Encrypted VMs have their
pages (code and data) secured such that only the guest itself has access to
unencrypted version. Each encrypted VM is associated with a unique encryption key;
if its data is accessed to a different entity using a different key the encrypted
guest's data will be incorrectly decrypted, leading to unintelligible data.
This security model ensures that hypervisor will no longer able to inspect or
alter any guest code or data.

The key management of this feature is handled by a separate processor known as
the AMD Secure Processor (AMD-SP) which is present on AMD SOCs. The SEV Key
Management Specification (see below) provides a set of commands which can be
used by hypervisor to load virtual machine keys through the AMD-SP driver.

The patch series adds a new ioctl in KVM driver (KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP). The
ioctl will be used by qemu to issue SEV guest-specific commands defined in Key
Management Specification.

The following links provide additional details:

AMD Memory Encryption white paper:
http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2013/12/AMD_Memory_Encryption_Whitepaper_v7-Public.pdf

AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual:
    http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/24593.pdf
    SME is section 7.10
    SEV is section 15.34

SEV Key Management:
http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/55766_SEV-KM API_Specification.pdf

KVM Forum Presentation:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/7/74/02x08A-Thomas_Lendacky-AMDs_Virtualizatoin_Memory_Encryption_Technology.pdf

SEV Guest BIOS support:
  SEV support has been add to EDKII/OVMF BIOS
  https://github.com/tianocore/edk2

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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This part of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) patch series focuses on KVM
changes required to create and manage SEV guests.

SEV is an extension to the AMD-V architecture which supports running encrypted
virtual machine (VMs) under the control of a hypervisor. Encrypted VMs have their
pages (code and data) secured such that only the guest itself has access to
unencrypted version. Each encrypted VM is associated with a unique encryption key;
if its data is accessed to a different entity using a different key the encrypted
guest's data will be incorrectly decrypted, leading to unintelligible data.
This security model ensures that hypervisor will no longer able to inspect or
alter any guest code or data.

The key management of this feature is handled by a separate processor known as
the AMD Secure Processor (AMD-SP) which is present on AMD SOCs. The SEV Key
Management Specification (see below) provides a set of commands which can be
used by hypervisor to load virtual machine keys through the AMD-SP driver.

The patch series adds a new ioctl in KVM driver (KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP). The
ioctl will be used by qemu to issue SEV guest-specific commands defined in Key
Management Specification.

The following links provide additional details:

AMD Memory Encryption white paper:
http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2013/12/AMD_Memory_Encryption_Whitepaper_v7-Public.pdf

AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual:
    http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/24593.pdf
    SME is section 7.10
    SEV is section 15.34

SEV Key Management:
http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/55766_SEV-KM API_Specification.pdf

KVM Forum Presentation:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/7/74/02x08A-Thomas_Lendacky-AMDs_Virtualizatoin_Memory_Encryption_Technology.pdf

SEV Guest BIOS support:
  SEV support has been add to EDKII/OVMF BIOS
  https://github.com/tianocore/edk2

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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