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AMD's new Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) feature allows the memory contents of virtual machines to be transparently encrypted with a key unique to the VM. The programming and management of the encryption keys are handled by the AMD Secure Processor (AMD-SP) which exposes the commands for these tasks. The complete spec is available at: http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/55766_SEV-KM%20API_Specification.pdf Extend the AMD-SP driver to provide the following support: - an in-kernel API to communicate with the SEV firmware. The API can be used by the hypervisor to create encryption context for a SEV guest. - a userspace IOCTL to manage the platform certificates. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Gary Hook <gary.hook@amd.com> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Improvements-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.