From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Joerg Roedel" <joro@8bytes.org>,
"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"\\\"Radim Krčmář\\\"" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
"Tom Lendacky" <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 16/26] KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV LAUNCH_UPDATE_DATA command
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 23:07:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170913210734.grfwb26rwudgbm2s@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f38ed16-376e-6716-981e-20bdf31c58b3@amd.com>
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 02:45:37PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> Actually I don't know what should be sane upper bound in this case --
> typically we encrypt the guest BIOS using LAUNCH_UPDATE_DATA command.
> I have heard that some user may want to create a pre-encrypted image
> (which may contains guest BIOS + kernel + initrd) -- this can be huge.
>
> For SEV guest, we have been needing to pin the memory hence how about if
> we limit the number of pages to pin with rlimit ? The rlimit check can
> also include the guest RAM pinning.
rlimit sounds like a sensible thing to do. It would be interesting to
hear what the general policy is wrt guest sizes that KVM folk do ...
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
--
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Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-24 20:02 [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 00/26] x86: Secure Encrypted Virtualization (AMD) Brijesh Singh
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 01/26] Documentation/virtual/kvm: Add AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) Brijesh Singh
2017-09-05 17:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-05 21:39 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-05 22:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-06 16:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-06 20:54 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 02/26] crypto: ccp: Add Platform Security Processor (PSP) device support Brijesh Singh
2017-07-25 8:29 ` Kamil Konieczny
2017-07-25 15:00 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-06 17:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-06 20:38 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-06 20:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-06 21:26 ` Gary R Hook
2017-09-07 10:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-07 14:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-07 22:19 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-07 23:15 ` Gary R Hook
2017-09-08 8:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-08 8:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-08 13:54 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-08 16:06 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 03/26] crypto: ccp: Add Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) " Brijesh Singh
2017-09-12 14:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-12 15:32 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-12 16:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-13 14:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-13 15:18 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 04/26] KVM: SVM: Prepare to reserve asid for SEV guest Brijesh Singh
2017-09-12 19:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 05/26] KVM: SVM: Reserve ASID range " Brijesh Singh
2017-09-12 20:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-12 20:24 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-12 20:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 06/26] KVM: SVM: Prepare for new bit definition in nested_ctl Brijesh Singh
2017-09-12 20:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 07/26] KVM: SVM: Add SEV feature definitions to KVM Brijesh Singh
2017-09-12 20:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 08/26] KVM: X86: Extend CPUID range to include new leaf Brijesh Singh
2017-09-12 20:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 09/26] KVM: Introduce KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP ioctl Brijesh Singh
2017-09-12 20:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 10/26] KVM: Introduce KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REGISTER/UNREGISTER_RAM ioctl Brijesh Singh
2017-09-12 20:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-12 20:50 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-12 21:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 11/26] KVM: X86: Extend struct kvm_arch to include SEV information Brijesh Singh
2017-09-13 13:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-13 15:14 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-13 15:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 12/26] KVM: Define SEV key management command id Brijesh Singh
2017-09-13 13:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 13/26] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SEV_INIT command Brijesh Singh
2017-09-13 15:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-13 16:23 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-13 16:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 14/26] KVM: SVM: VMRUN should use assosiated ASID when SEV is enabled Brijesh Singh
2017-09-13 15:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 15/26] KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV LAUNCH_START command Brijesh Singh
2017-09-13 17:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-13 18:23 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-13 18:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-13 18:58 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-13 21:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 16/26] KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV LAUNCH_UPDATE_DATA command Brijesh Singh
2017-09-13 17:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-13 19:45 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-09-13 21:07 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 17/26] KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV LAUNCH_MEASURE command Brijesh Singh
2017-09-14 10:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 18/26] KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV LAUNCH_FINISH command Brijesh Singh
2017-09-14 10:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 19/26] KVM: svm: Add support for SEV GUEST_STATUS command Brijesh Singh
2017-09-14 10:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-09-14 11:25 ` Brijesh Singh
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 20/26] KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV DEBUG_DECRYPT command Brijesh Singh
2017-09-14 11:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 21/26] KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV DEBUG_ENCRYPT command Brijesh Singh
2017-09-14 13:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:02 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 22/26] KVM: SVM: Pin guest memory when SEV is active Brijesh Singh
2017-09-14 14:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:03 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 23/26] KVM: X86: Add memory encryption enabled ops Brijesh Singh
2017-09-14 14:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:03 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 24/26] KVM: SVM: Clear C-bit from the page fault address Brijesh Singh
2017-09-14 14:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:03 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 25/26] KVM: SVM: Do not install #UD intercept when SEV is enabled Brijesh Singh
2017-09-14 14:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-24 20:03 ` [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 26/26] KVM: X86: Restart the guest when insn_len is zero and " Brijesh Singh
2017-09-14 15:40 ` Borislav Petkov
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