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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2021-06-21 11:26:04 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2021-06-21 11:26:04 +0100
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/ehabkost-gl/tags/x86-next-pull-request' into staging
x86 queue, 2021-06-18 Features: * Add ratelimit for bus locks acquired in guest (Chenyi Qiang) Documentation: * SEV documentation updates (Tom Lendacky) * Add a table showing x86-64 ABI compatibility levels (Daniel P. Berrangé) Automated changes: * Update Linux headers to 5.13-rc4 (Eduardo Habkost) # gpg: Signature made Fri 18 Jun 2021 20:51:26 BST # gpg: using RSA key 5A322FD5ABC4D3DBACCFD1AA2807936F984DC5A6 # gpg: issuer "ehabkost@redhat.com" # gpg: Good signature from "Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>" [full] # Primary key fingerprint: 5A32 2FD5 ABC4 D3DB ACCF D1AA 2807 936F 984D C5A6 * remotes/ehabkost-gl/tags/x86-next-pull-request: scripts: helper to generate x86_64 CPU ABI compat info docs: add a table showing x86-64 ABI compatibility levels docs/interop/firmware.json: Add SEV-ES support docs: Add SEV-ES documentation to amd-memory-encryption.txt doc: Fix some mistakes in the SEV documentation i386: Add ratelimit for bus locks acquired in guest Update Linux headers to 5.13-rc4 Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt89
-rw-r--r--docs/interop/firmware.json47
-rw-r--r--docs/system/cpu-models-x86-abi.csv67
-rw-r--r--docs/system/cpu-models-x86.rst.inc22
4 files changed, 199 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt b/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt
index 145896aec7..ffca382b5f 100644
--- a/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt
+++ b/docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt
@@ -1,38 +1,48 @@
Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) is a feature found on AMD processors.
SEV is an extension to the AMD-V architecture which supports running encrypted
-virtual machine (VMs) under the control of KVM. Encrypted VMs have their pages
+virtual machines (VMs) under the control of KVM. Encrypted VMs have their pages
(code and data) secured such that only the guest itself has access to the
unencrypted version. Each encrypted VM is associated with a unique encryption
-key; if its data is accessed to a different entity using a different key the
+key; if its data is accessed by a different entity using a different key the
encrypted guests data will be incorrectly decrypted, leading to unintelligible
data.
-The key management of this feature is handled by separate processor known as
-AMD secure processor (AMD-SP) which is present in AMD SOCs. Firmware running
-inside the AMD-SP provide commands to support common VM lifecycle. This
+Key management for this feature is handled by a separate processor known as the
+AMD secure processor (AMD-SP), which is present in AMD SOCs. Firmware running
+inside the AMD-SP provides commands to support a common VM lifecycle. This
includes commands for launching, snapshotting, migrating and debugging the
-encrypted guest. Those SEV command can be issued via KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP
+encrypted guest. These SEV commands can be issued via KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP
ioctls.
+Secure Encrypted Virtualization - Encrypted State (SEV-ES) builds on the SEV
+support to additionally protect the guest register state. In order to allow a
+hypervisor to perform functions on behalf of a guest, there is architectural
+support for notifying a guest's operating system when certain types of VMEXITs
+are about to occur. This allows the guest to selectively share information with
+the hypervisor to satisfy the requested function.
+
Launching
---------
-Boot images (such as bios) must be encrypted before guest can be booted.
-MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP ioctl provides commands to encrypt the images :LAUNCH_START,
+Boot images (such as bios) must be encrypted before a guest can be booted. The
+MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP ioctl provides commands to encrypt the images: LAUNCH_START,
LAUNCH_UPDATE_DATA, LAUNCH_MEASURE and LAUNCH_FINISH. These four commands
together generate a fresh memory encryption key for the VM, encrypt the boot
-images and provide a measurement than can be used as an attestation of the
+images and provide a measurement than can be used as an attestation of a
successful launch.
+For a SEV-ES guest, the LAUNCH_UPDATE_VMSA command is also used to encrypt the
+guest register state, or VM save area (VMSA), for all of the guest vCPUs.
+
LAUNCH_START is called first to create a cryptographic launch context within
-the firmware. To create this context, guest owner must provides guest policy,
+the firmware. To create this context, guest owner must provide a guest policy,
its public Diffie-Hellman key (PDH) and session parameters. These inputs
-should be treated as binary blob and must be passed as-is to the SEV firmware.
+should be treated as a binary blob and must be passed as-is to the SEV firmware.
-The guest policy is passed as plaintext and hypervisor may able to read it
+The guest policy is passed as plaintext. A hypervisor may choose to read it,
but should not modify it (any modification of the policy bits will result
in bad measurement). The guest policy is a 4-byte data structure containing
-several flags that restricts what can be done on running SEV guest.
+several flags that restricts what can be done on a running SEV guest.
See KM Spec section 3 and 6.2 for more details.
The guest policy can be provided via the 'policy' property (see below)
@@ -40,31 +50,42 @@ The guest policy can be provided via the 'policy' property (see below)
# ${QEMU} \
sev-guest,id=sev0,policy=0x1...\
-Guest owners provided DH certificate and session parameters will be used to
+Setting the "SEV-ES required" policy bit (bit 2) will launch the guest as a
+SEV-ES guest (see below)
+
+# ${QEMU} \
+ sev-guest,id=sev0,policy=0x5...\
+
+The guest owner provided DH certificate and session parameters will be used to
establish a cryptographic session with the guest owner to negotiate keys used
for the attestation.
-The DH certificate and session blob can be provided via 'dh-cert-file' and
-'session-file' property (see below
+The DH certificate and session blob can be provided via the 'dh-cert-file' and
+'session-file' properties (see below)
# ${QEMU} \
sev-guest,id=sev0,dh-cert-file=<file1>,session-file=<file2>
LAUNCH_UPDATE_DATA encrypts the memory region using the cryptographic context
-created via LAUNCH_START command. If required, this command can be called
+created via the LAUNCH_START command. If required, this command can be called
multiple times to encrypt different memory regions. The command also calculates
the measurement of the memory contents as it encrypts.
-LAUNCH_MEASURE command can be used to retrieve the measurement of encrypted
-memory. This measurement is a signature of the memory contents that can be
-sent to the guest owner as an attestation that the memory was encrypted
+LAUNCH_UPDATE_VMSA encrypts all the vCPU VMSAs for a SEV-ES guest using the
+cryptographic context created via the LAUNCH_START command. The command also
+calculates the measurement of the VMSAs as it encrypts them.
+
+LAUNCH_MEASURE can be used to retrieve the measurement of encrypted memory and,
+for a SEV-ES guest, encrypted VMSAs. This measurement is a signature of the
+memory contents and, for a SEV-ES guest, the VMSA contents, that can be sent
+to the guest owner as an attestation that the memory and VMSAs were encrypted
correctly by the firmware. The guest owner may wait to provide the guest
confidential information until it can verify the attestation measurement.
Since the guest owner knows the initial contents of the guest at boot, the
attestation measurement can be verified by comparing it to what the guest owner
expects.
-LAUNCH_FINISH command finalizes the guest launch and destroy's the cryptographic
+LAUNCH_FINISH finalizes the guest launch and destroys the cryptographic
context.
See SEV KM API Spec [1] 'Launching a guest' usage flow (Appendix A) for the
@@ -76,12 +97,28 @@ To launch a SEV guest
-machine ...,confidential-guest-support=sev0 \
-object sev-guest,id=sev0,cbitpos=47,reduced-phys-bits=1
+To launch a SEV-ES guest
+
+# ${QEMU} \
+ -machine ...,confidential-guest-support=sev0 \
+ -object sev-guest,id=sev0,cbitpos=47,reduced-phys-bits=1,policy=0x5
+
+An SEV-ES guest has some restrictions as compared to a SEV guest. Because the
+guest register state is encrypted and cannot be updated by the VMM/hypervisor,
+a SEV-ES guest:
+ - Does not support SMM - SMM support requires updating the guest register
+ state.
+ - Does not support reboot - a system reset requires updating the guest register
+ state.
+ - Requires in-kernel irqchip - the burden is placed on the hypervisor to
+ manage booting APs.
+
Debugging
-----------
-Since memory contents of SEV guest is encrypted hence hypervisor access to the
-guest memory will get a cipher text. If guest policy allows debugging, then
-hypervisor can use DEBUG_DECRYPT and DEBUG_ENCRYPT commands access the guest
-memory region for debug purposes. This is not supported in QEMU yet.
+Since the memory contents of a SEV guest are encrypted, hypervisor access to
+the guest memory will return cipher text. If the guest policy allows debugging,
+then a hypervisor can use the DEBUG_DECRYPT and DEBUG_ENCRYPT commands to access
+the guest memory region for debug purposes. This is not supported in QEMU yet.
Snapshot/Restore
-----------------
@@ -102,8 +139,10 @@ Secure Encrypted Virtualization Key Management:
KVM Forum slides:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/7/74/02x08A-Thomas_Lendacky-AMDs_Virtualizatoin_Memory_Encryption_Technology.pdf
+https://www.linux-kvm.org/images/9/94/Extending-Secure-Encrypted-Virtualization-with-SEV-ES-Thomas-Lendacky-AMD.pdf
AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual:
http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/24593.pdf
SME is section 7.10
SEV is section 15.34
+ SEV-ES is section 15.35
diff --git a/docs/interop/firmware.json b/docs/interop/firmware.json
index 9d94ccafa9..8d8b0be030 100644
--- a/docs/interop/firmware.json
+++ b/docs/interop/firmware.json
@@ -115,6 +115,12 @@
# this feature are documented in
# "docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt".
#
+# @amd-sev-es: The firmware supports running under AMD Secure Encrypted
+# Virtualization - Encrypted State, as specified in the AMD64
+# Architecture Programmer's Manual. QEMU command line options
+# related to this feature are documented in
+# "docs/amd-memory-encryption.txt".
+#
# @enrolled-keys: The variable store (NVRAM) template associated with
# the firmware binary has the UEFI Secure Boot
# operational mode turned on, with certificates
@@ -179,7 +185,7 @@
# Since: 3.0
##
{ 'enum' : 'FirmwareFeature',
- 'data' : [ 'acpi-s3', 'acpi-s4', 'amd-sev', 'enrolled-keys',
+ 'data' : [ 'acpi-s3', 'acpi-s4', 'amd-sev', 'amd-sev-es', 'enrolled-keys',
'requires-smm', 'secure-boot', 'verbose-dynamic',
'verbose-static' ] }
@@ -504,6 +510,45 @@
# }
#
# {
+# "description": "OVMF with SEV-ES support",
+# "interface-types": [
+# "uefi"
+# ],
+# "mapping": {
+# "device": "flash",
+# "executable": {
+# "filename": "/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd",
+# "format": "raw"
+# },
+# "nvram-template": {
+# "filename": "/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.fd",
+# "format": "raw"
+# }
+# },
+# "targets": [
+# {
+# "architecture": "x86_64",
+# "machines": [
+# "pc-q35-*"
+# ]
+# }
+# ],
+# "features": [
+# "acpi-s3",
+# "amd-sev",
+# "amd-sev-es",
+# "verbose-dynamic"
+# ],
+# "tags": [
+# "-a X64",
+# "-p OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc",
+# "-t GCC48",
+# "-b DEBUG",
+# "-D FD_SIZE_4MB"
+# ]
+# }
+#
+# {
# "description": "UEFI firmware for ARM64 virtual machines",
# "interface-types": [
# "uefi"
diff --git a/docs/system/cpu-models-x86-abi.csv b/docs/system/cpu-models-x86-abi.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f3f3b60be1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/system/cpu-models-x86-abi.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+Model,baseline,v2,v3,v4
+486-v1,,,,
+Broadwell-v1,✅,✅,✅,
+Broadwell-v2,✅,✅,✅,
+Broadwell-v3,✅,✅,✅,
+Broadwell-v4,✅,✅,✅,
+Cascadelake-Server-v1,✅,✅,✅,✅
+Cascadelake-Server-v2,✅,✅,✅,✅
+Cascadelake-Server-v3,✅,✅,✅,✅
+Cascadelake-Server-v4,✅,✅,✅,✅
+Conroe-v1,✅,,,
+Cooperlake-v1,✅,✅,✅,✅
+Denverton-v1,✅,✅,,
+Denverton-v2,✅,✅,,
+Dhyana-v1,✅,✅,✅,
+EPYC-Milan-v1,✅,✅,✅,
+EPYC-Rome-v1,✅,✅,✅,
+EPYC-Rome-v2,✅,✅,✅,
+EPYC-v1,✅,✅,✅,
+EPYC-v2,✅,✅,✅,
+EPYC-v3,✅,✅,✅,
+Haswell-v1,✅,✅,✅,
+Haswell-v2,✅,✅,✅,
+Haswell-v3,✅,✅,✅,
+Haswell-v4,✅,✅,✅,
+Icelake-Client-v1,✅,✅,✅,
+Icelake-Client-v2,✅,✅,✅,
+Icelake-Server-v1,✅,✅,✅,✅
+Icelake-Server-v2,✅,✅,✅,✅
+Icelake-Server-v3,✅,✅,✅,✅
+Icelake-Server-v4,✅,✅,✅,✅
+IvyBridge-v1,✅,✅,,
+IvyBridge-v2,✅,✅,,
+KnightsMill-v1,✅,✅,✅,
+Nehalem-v1,✅,✅,,
+Nehalem-v2,✅,✅,,
+Opteron_G1-v1,✅,,,
+Opteron_G2-v1,✅,,,
+Opteron_G3-v1,✅,,,
+Opteron_G4-v1,✅,✅,,
+Opteron_G5-v1,✅,✅,,
+Penryn-v1,✅,,,
+SandyBridge-v1,✅,✅,,
+SandyBridge-v2,✅,✅,,
+Skylake-Client-v1,✅,✅,✅,
+Skylake-Client-v2,✅,✅,✅,
+Skylake-Client-v3,✅,✅,✅,
+Skylake-Server-v1,✅,✅,✅,✅
+Skylake-Server-v2,✅,✅,✅,✅
+Skylake-Server-v3,✅,✅,✅,✅
+Skylake-Server-v4,✅,✅,✅,✅
+Snowridge-v1,✅,✅,,
+Snowridge-v2,✅,✅,,
+Westmere-v1,✅,✅,,
+Westmere-v2,✅,✅,,
+athlon-v1,,,,
+core2duo-v1,✅,,,
+coreduo-v1,,,,
+kvm32-v1,,,,
+kvm64-v1,✅,,,
+n270-v1,,,,
+pentium-v1,,,,
+pentium2-v1,,,,
+pentium3-v1,,,,
+phenom-v1,✅,,,
+qemu32-v1,,,,
+qemu64-v1,✅,,,
diff --git a/docs/system/cpu-models-x86.rst.inc b/docs/system/cpu-models-x86.rst.inc
index 867c8216b5..f40ee03ecc 100644
--- a/docs/system/cpu-models-x86.rst.inc
+++ b/docs/system/cpu-models-x86.rst.inc
@@ -39,6 +39,28 @@ CPU, as they would with "Host passthrough", but gives much of the
benefit of passthrough, while making live migration safe.
+ABI compatibility levels for CPU models
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The x86_64 architecture has a number of `ABI compatibility levels`_
+defined. Traditionally most operating systems and toolchains would
+only target the original baseline ABI. It is expected that in
+future OS and toolchains are likely to target newer ABIs. The
+table that follows illustrates which ABI compatibility levels
+can be satisfied by the QEMU CPU models. Note that the table only
+lists the long term stable CPU model versions (eg Haswell-v4).
+In addition to whats listed, there are also many CPU model
+aliases which resolve to a different CPU model version,
+depending on the machine type is in use.
+
+.. _ABI compatibility levels: https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI/
+
+.. csv-table:: x86-64 ABI compatibility levels
+ :file: cpu-models-x86-abi.csv
+ :widths: 40,15,15,15,15
+ :header-rows: 2
+
+
Preferred CPU models for Intel x86 hosts
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^