From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
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Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 01/20] x86: Documentation for AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME)
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:35:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160822223539.29880.96739.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160822223529.29880.50884.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net>
This patch adds a Documenation entry to decribe the AMD Secure Memory
Encryption (SME) feature.
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
---
Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt b/Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f19c555
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+Secure Memory Encryption (SME) is a feature found on AMD processors.
+
+SME provides the ability to mark individual pages of memory as encrypted using
+the standard x86 page tables. A page that is marked encrpyted will be
+automatically decrypted when read from DRAM and encrypted when written to
+DRAM. SME can therefore be used to protect the contents of DRAM from physical
+attacks on the system.
+
+Support for SME can be determined through the CPUID instruction. The CPUID
+function 0x8000001f reports information related to SME:
+
+ 0x8000001f[eax]:
+ Bit[0] indicates support for SME
+ 0x8000001f[ebx]:
+ Bit[5:0] pagetable bit number used to enable memory encryption
+ Bit[11:6] reduction in physical address space, in bits, when
+ memory encryption is enabled (this only affects system
+ physical addresses, not guest physical addresses)
+
+If support for SME is present, MSR 0xc00100010 (SYS_CFG) can be used to
+determine if SME is enabled and/or to enable memory encryption:
+
+ 0xc0010010:
+ Bit[23] 0 = memory encryption features are disabled
+ 1 = memory encryption features are enabled
+
+Linux relies on BIOS to set this bit if BIOS has determined that the reduction
+in the physical address space as a result of enabling memory encryption (see
+CPUID information above) will not conflict with the address space resource
+requirements for the system. If this bit is not set upon Linux startup then
+Linux itself will not set it and memory encryption will not be possible.
+
+SME support is configurable in the kernel through the AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT config
+option. Additionally, the mem_encrypt=on command line parameter is required
+to activate memory encryption.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-22 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-22 22:35 [RFC PATCH v2 00/20] x86: Secure Memory Encryption (AMD) Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:35 ` Tom Lendacky [this message]
2016-09-02 8:50 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/20] x86: Documentation for AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) Borislav Petkov
2016-09-07 14:02 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-07 15:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-22 22:35 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/20] x86: Set the write-protect cache mode for full PAT support Tom Lendacky
2016-08-25 3:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-22 22:35 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/20] x86: Secure Memory Encryption (SME) build enablement Tom Lendacky
2016-09-02 11:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-07 14:03 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:36 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/20] x86: Secure Memory Encryption (SME) support Tom Lendacky
2016-08-25 13:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-08-30 13:19 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-08-30 14:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-08-31 13:26 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:36 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/20] x86: Add the Secure Memory Encryption cpu feature Tom Lendacky
2016-09-02 14:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-07 14:07 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:36 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/20] x86: Handle reduction in physical address size with SME Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:36 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/20] x86: Provide general kernel support for memory encryption Tom Lendacky
2016-09-02 18:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-07 14:11 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-05 8:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-07 14:16 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-05 15:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-07 14:19 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-06 9:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-07 14:30 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-07 15:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-08 13:26 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-08 13:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-12 13:43 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:37 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/20] x86: Extend the early_memmap support with additional attrs Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:37 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/20] x86: Add support for early encryption/decryption of memory Tom Lendacky
2016-09-06 16:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-22 22:37 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/20] x86: Insure that memory areas are encrypted when possible Tom Lendacky
2016-09-09 15:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-12 15:05 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-12 16:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-14 14:11 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:37 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/20] mm: Access BOOT related data in the clear Tom Lendacky
2016-09-09 16:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-12 15:14 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-12 16:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-12 16:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-09-14 14:20 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-15 9:57 ` Matt Fleming
2016-09-15 16:52 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:37 ` [RFC PATCH v2 12/20] x86: Add support for changing memory encryption attribute Tom Lendacky
2016-09-09 17:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-12 15:41 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-12 16:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-22 22:37 ` [RFC PATCH v2 13/20] x86: Decrypt trampoline area if memory encryption is active Tom Lendacky
2016-09-09 17:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-12 15:43 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:38 ` [RFC PATCH v2 14/20] x86: DMA support for memory encryption Tom Lendacky
2016-09-12 10:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-14 13:36 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:38 ` [RFC PATCH v2 15/20] iommu/amd: AMD IOMMU " Tom Lendacky
2016-09-12 11:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-14 13:45 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-14 14:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-15 16:57 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-16 7:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-22 22:38 ` [RFC PATCH v2 16/20] x86: Check for memory encryption on the APs Tom Lendacky
2016-09-12 12:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-14 13:50 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-12 16:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-14 14:12 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:38 ` [RFC PATCH v2 17/20] x86: Do not specify encrypted memory for VGA mapping Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:38 ` [RFC PATCH v2 18/20] x86/kvm: Enable Secure Memory Encryption of nested page tables Tom Lendacky
2016-09-12 14:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-14 14:02 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-08-22 22:38 ` [RFC PATCH v2 19/20] x86: Access the setup data through debugfs un-encrypted Tom Lendacky
2016-09-12 16:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-14 14:29 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-14 14:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-15 17:08 ` Tom Lendacky
2016-09-16 7:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-22 22:39 ` [RFC PATCH v2 20/20] x86: Add support to make use of Secure Memory Encryption Tom Lendacky
2016-09-12 17:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-14 14:31 ` Tom Lendacky
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