From: "Singh, Brijesh" <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: "Singh, Brijesh" <brijesh.singh@amd.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] Add AMD SEV guest live migration support
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 16:31:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <04ef6d22-84de-f5d3-9fc4-ffc555860c51@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190712155215.GA12840@char.us.oracle.com>
On 7/12/19 10:52 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 08:12:59PM +0000, Singh, Brijesh wrote:
>> The series add support for AMD SEV guest live migration commands. To protect the
>> confidentiality of an SEV protected guest memory while in transit we need to
>> use the SEV commands defined in SEV API spec [1].
>>
>> SEV guest VMs have the concept of private and shared memory. Private memory
>> is encrypted with the guest-specific key, while shared memory may be encrypted
>> with hypervisor key. The commands provided by the SEV FW are meant to be used
>> for the private memory only. The patch series introduces a new hypercall.
>> The guest OS can use this hypercall to notify the page encryption status.
>> If the page is encrypted with guest specific-key then we use SEV command during
>> the migration. If page is not encrypted then fallback to default.
>>
>
> I am bit lost. Why can't the hypervisor keep track of hypervisor key pages
> and treat all other pages as owned by the guest and hence using the guest-specific
> key?
>
The guest OS marks the pages 'private' or 'shared'. It is done by
setting page encryption flag (aka C-bit) in guest page table. The shared
pages may not necessary be just hypervisor key pages. In case of SEV,
DMA needs to be done on the shared pages, so guest OS marks the DMA
buffers as shared.
-Brijesh
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-12 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-10 20:12 [PATCH v3 00/11] Add AMD SEV guest live migration support Singh, Brijesh
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SEV SEND_START command Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-22 10:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-22 13:23 ` Singh, Brijesh
2019-11-12 18:35 ` Peter Gonda
2019-11-12 22:27 ` Brijesh Singh
2019-11-14 19:27 ` Peter Gonda
2019-11-19 14:06 ` Brijesh Singh
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SEND_UPDATE_DATA command Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-22 12:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-22 13:27 ` Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-22 13:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-11-12 22:23 ` Peter Gonda
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SEV_SEND_FINISH command Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-26 13:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] KVM: SVM: Add support for KVM_SEV_RECEIVE_START command Singh, Brijesh
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SEV_RECEIVE_UPDATE_DATA command Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-27 12:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-11-14 21:02 ` Peter Gonda
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SEV_RECEIVE_FINISH command Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-27 12:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] KVM: x86: Add AMD SEV specific Hypercall3 Singh, Brijesh
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] KVM: X86: Introduce KVM_HC_PAGE_ENC_STATUS hypercall Singh, Brijesh
2019-07-21 20:57 ` David Rientjes
2019-07-22 17:12 ` Cfir Cohen
2019-07-23 15:31 ` Singh, Brijesh
2019-07-23 15:16 ` Singh, Brijesh
2019-11-25 19:07 ` Peter Gonda
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_GET_PAGE_ENC_BITMAP ioctl Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-29 16:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-29 16:41 ` Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-29 16:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] mm: x86: Invoke hypercall when page encryption status is changed Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-29 16:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-29 18:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-29 18:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-29 18:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_SET_PAGE_ENC_BITMAP ioctl Singh, Brijesh
2019-11-15 1:22 ` Steve Rutherford
2019-11-15 1:39 ` Steve Rutherford
2019-07-12 15:52 ` [PATCH v3 00/11] Add AMD SEV guest live migration support Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2019-07-12 16:31 ` Singh, Brijesh [this message]
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