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The DebugSwap feature of SEV-ES provides a way for confidential guests to use data breakpoints. Its status is record in VMSA, and therefore attestation signatures depend on whether it is enabled or not. In order to avoid invalidating the signatures depending on the host machine, it was disabled by default (see commit 5abf6dceb066, "SEV: disable SEV-ES DebugSwap by default", 2024-03-09). However, we now have a new API to create SEV VMs that allows enabling DebugSwap based on what the user tells KVM to do, and we also changed the legacy KVM_SEV_ES_INIT API to never enable DebugSwap. It is therefore possible to re-enable the feature without breaking compatibility with kernels that pre-date the introduction of DebugSwap, so go ahead. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240404121327.3107131-14-pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
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.