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| author | Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> | 2024-02-02 17:29:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> | 2024-02-03 11:38:17 +0100 |
| commit | 29956748339aa8757a7e2f927a8679dd08f24bb6 (patch) | |
| tree | cbddb1a2843f71f39b8e651e81303e2c2edea19b /Documentation/arch | |
| parent | Documentation: virt: Fix up pre-formatted text block for SEV ioctls (diff) | |
| download | linux-29956748339aa8757a7e2f927a8679dd08f24bb6.tar.xz linux-29956748339aa8757a7e2f927a8679dd08f24bb6.zip | |
x86/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT
It was meant well at the time but nothing's using it so get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202163510.GDZb0Zvj8qOndvFOiZ@fat_crate.local
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arch/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst index 07caa8fff852..414bc7402ae7 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst @@ -87,14 +87,14 @@ The state of SME in the Linux kernel can be documented as follows: kernel is non-zero). SME can also be enabled and activated in the BIOS. If SME is enabled and -activated in the BIOS, then all memory accesses will be encrypted and it will -not be necessary to activate the Linux memory encryption support. If the BIOS -merely enables SME (sets bit 23 of the MSR_AMD64_SYSCFG), then Linux can activate -memory encryption by default (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) or -by supplying mem_encrypt=on on the kernel command line. However, if BIOS does -not enable SME, then Linux will not be able to activate memory encryption, even -if configured to do so by default or the mem_encrypt=on command line parameter -is specified. +activated in the BIOS, then all memory accesses will be encrypted and it +will not be necessary to activate the Linux memory encryption support. + +If the BIOS merely enables SME (sets bit 23 of the MSR_AMD64_SYSCFG), +then memory encryption can be enabled by supplying mem_encrypt=on on the +kernel command line. However, if BIOS does not enable SME, then Linux +will not be able to activate memory encryption, even if configured to do +so by default or the mem_encrypt=on command line parameter is specified. Secure Nested Paging (SNP) ========================== |