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| author | David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> | 2020-07-23 14:36:45 +1000 |
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| committer | David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> | 2021-02-08 16:57:38 +1100 |
| commit | 651615d92d244a6dfd7c81ab97bd3369fbe41d06 (patch) | |
| tree | 411fe2e3ff602f0ee3c20be0dbfaf46c1a28e866 /docs/confidential-guest-support.txt | |
| parent | 9f88a7a3df11a5aaa6212ea535d40d5f92561683 (diff) | |
s390: Recognize confidential-guest-support option
At least some s390 cpu models support "Protected Virtualization" (PV),
a mechanism to protect guests from eavesdropping by a compromised
hypervisor.
This is similar in function to other mechanisms like AMD's SEV and
POWER's PEF, which are controlled by the "confidential-guest-support"
machine option. s390 is a slightly special case, because we already
supported PV, simply by using a CPU model with the required feature
(S390_FEAT_UNPACK).
To integrate this with the option used by other platforms, we
implement the following compromise:
- When the confidential-guest-support option is set, s390 will
recognize it, verify that the CPU can support PV (failing if not)
and set virtio default options necessary for encrypted or protected
guests, as on other platforms. i.e. if confidential-guest-support
is set, we will either create a guest capable of entering PV mode,
or fail outright.
- If confidential-guest-support is not set, guests might still be
able to enter PV mode, if the CPU has the right model. This may be
a little surprising, but shouldn't actually be harmful.
To start a guest supporting Protected Virtualization using the new
option use the command line arguments:
-object s390-pv-guest,id=pv0 -machine confidential-guest-support=pv0
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/confidential-guest-support.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/confidential-guest-support.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/confidential-guest-support.txt b/docs/confidential-guest-support.txt index 4da4c91bd3..71d07ba57a 100644 --- a/docs/confidential-guest-support.txt +++ b/docs/confidential-guest-support.txt @@ -43,4 +43,7 @@ AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) POWER Protected Execution Facility (PEF) docs/papr-pef.txt +s390x Protected Virtualization (PV) + docs/system/s390x/protvirt.rst + Other mechanisms may be supported in future. |