From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: brijesh.singh@amd.com, pair@us.ibm.com, dgilbert@redhat.com,
pasic@linux.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
borntraeger@de.ibm.com,
Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
mst@redhat.com, jun.nakajima@intel.com, thuth@redhat.com,
pragyansri.pathi@intel.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org,
frankja@linux.ibm.com, Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>,
mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, berrange@redhat.com,
andi.kleen@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 09/13] confidential guest support: Update documentation
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:36:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210115163646.2ecdc329.cohuck@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210113235811.1909610-10-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:58:07 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> Now that we've implemented a generic machine option for configuring various
> confidential guest support mechanisms:
> 1. Update docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt to reference this rather than
> the earlier SEV specific option
> 2. Add a docs/confidential-guest-support.txt to cover the generalities of
> the confidential guest support scheme
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
> docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt | 2 +-
> docs/confidential-guest-support.txt | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 docs/confidential-guest-support.txt
>
> diff --git a/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt b/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt
> index 80b8eb00e9..145896aec7 100644
> --- a/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt
> +++ b/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt
> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ complete flow chart.
> To launch a SEV guest
>
> # ${QEMU} \
> - -machine ...,memory-encryption=sev0 \
> + -machine ...,confidential-guest-support=sev0 \
> -object sev-guest,id=sev0,cbitpos=47,reduced-phys-bits=1
>
> Debugging
> diff --git a/docs/confidential-guest-support.txt b/docs/confidential-guest-support.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..2790425b38
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/docs/confidential-guest-support.txt
Maybe make this a proper .rst from the start and hook this up into the
system guide? It is already almost there.
> @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
> +Confidential Guest Support
> +==========================
> +
> +Traditionally, hypervisors such as qemu have complete access to a
s/qemu/QEMU/ ?
> +guest's memory and other state, meaning that a compromised hypervisor
> +can compromise any of its guests. A number of platforms have added
> +mechanisms in hardware and/or firmware which give guests at least some
> +protection from a compromised hypervisor. This is obviously
> +especially desirable for public cloud environments.
> +
> +These mechanisms have different names and different modes of
> +operation, but are often referred to as Secure Guests or Confidential
> +Guests. We use the term "Confidential Guest Support" to distinguish
> +this from other aspects of guest security (such as security against
> +attacks from other guests, or from network sources).
> +
> +Running a Confidential Guest
> +----------------------------
> +
> +To run a confidential guest you need to add two command line parameters:
> +
> +1. Use "-object" to create a "confidential guest support" object. The
> + type and parameters will vary with the specific mechanism to be
> + used
> +2. Set the "confidential-guest-support" machine parameter to the ID of
> + the object from (1).
> +
> +Example (for AMD SEV)::
> +
> + qemu-system-x86_64 \
> + <other parameters> \
> + -machine ...,confidential-guest-support=sev0 \
> + -object sev-guest,id=sev0,cbitpos=47,reduced-phys-bits=1
> +
> +Supported mechanisms
> +--------------------
> +
> +Currently supported confidential guest mechanisms are:
> +
> +AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV)
> + docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt
> +
> +Other mechanisms may be supported in future.
LGTM.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-15 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-13 23:57 [PATCH v7 00/13] Generalize memory encryption models David Gibson
2021-01-13 23:57 ` [PATCH v7 01/13] qom: Allow optional sugar props David Gibson
2021-01-13 23:58 ` [PATCH v7 02/13] confidential guest support: Introduce new confidential guest support class David Gibson
2021-01-14 9:34 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-01-14 10:42 ` David Gibson
2021-01-18 18:51 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-01-21 1:06 ` David Gibson
2021-01-21 9:08 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-01-29 2:32 ` David Gibson
2021-01-13 23:58 ` [PATCH v7 03/13] sev: Remove false abstraction of flash encryption David Gibson
2021-01-15 12:54 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-01-18 2:59 ` David Gibson
2021-01-13 23:58 ` [PATCH v7 04/13] confidential guest support: Move side effect out of machine_set_memory_encryption() David Gibson
2021-01-15 12:56 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-01-13 23:58 ` [PATCH v7 05/13] confidential guest support: Rework the "memory-encryption" property David Gibson
2021-01-15 13:06 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-01-13 23:58 ` [PATCH v7 06/13] sev: Add Error ** to sev_kvm_init() David Gibson
2021-01-13 23:58 ` [PATCH v7 07/13] confidential guest support: Introduce cgs "ready" flag David Gibson
2021-01-14 8:55 ` Greg Kurz
2021-01-15 13:12 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-01-18 19:47 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-01-19 8:16 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-02-02 1:41 ` David Gibson
2021-01-13 23:58 ` [PATCH v7 08/13] confidential guest support: Move SEV initialization into arch specific code David Gibson
2021-01-15 13:24 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-01-18 3:03 ` David Gibson
2021-01-18 8:03 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-01-29 3:12 ` David Gibson
2021-01-13 23:58 ` [PATCH v7 09/13] confidential guest support: Update documentation David Gibson
2021-01-14 10:07 ` Greg Kurz
2021-01-15 15:36 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2021-01-29 2:36 ` David Gibson
2021-01-13 23:58 ` [PATCH v7 10/13] spapr: Add PEF based confidential guest support David Gibson
2021-01-15 15:41 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-01-29 2:43 ` David Gibson
2021-01-13 23:58 ` [PATCH v7 11/13] spapr: PEF: prevent migration David Gibson
2021-01-13 23:58 ` [PATCH v7 12/13] confidential guest support: Alter virtio default properties for protected guests David Gibson
2021-01-13 23:58 ` [PATCH v7 13/13] s390: Recognize confidential-guest-support option David Gibson
2021-01-14 9:10 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-01-14 9:19 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-01-14 9:24 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-01-15 0:13 ` David Gibson
2021-01-14 11:45 ` David Gibson
2021-01-15 16:36 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-01-18 17:06 ` Christian Borntraeger
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