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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-13 23:13:48 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-13 23:13:48 +0100
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parentMerge branch 'linus' into x86/asm, to resolve conflict (diff)
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Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar: "Note that in this cycle most of the x86 topics interacted at a level that caused them to be merged into tip:x86/asm - but this should be a temporary phenomenon, hopefully we'll back to the usual patterns in the next merge window. The main changes in this cycle were: Hardware enablement: - Add support for the Intel UMIP (User Mode Instruction Prevention) CPU feature. This is a security feature that disables certain instructions such as SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW and STR. (Ricardo Neri) [ Note that this is disabled by default for now, there are some smaller enhancements in the pipeline that I'll follow up with in the next 1-2 days, which allows this to be enabled by default.] - Add support for the AMD SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) CPU feature, on top of SME (Secure Memory Encryption) support that was added in v4.14. (Tom Lendacky, Brijesh Singh) - Enable new SSE/AVX/AVX512 CPU features: AVX512_VBMI2, GFNI, VAES, VPCLMULQDQ, AVX512_VNNI, AVX512_BITALG. (Gayatri Kammela) Other changes: - A big series of entry code simplifications and enhancements (Andy Lutomirski) - Make the ORC unwinder default on x86 and various objtool enhancements. (Josh Poimboeuf) - 5-level paging enhancements (Kirill A. Shutemov) - Micro-optimize the entry code a bit (Borislav Petkov) - Improve the handling of interdependent CPU features in the early FPU init code (Andi Kleen) - Build system enhancements (Changbin Du, Masahiro Yamada) - ... plus misc enhancements, fixes and cleanups" * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (118 commits) x86/build: Make the boot image generation less verbose selftests/x86: Add tests for the STR and SLDT instructions selftests/x86: Add tests for User-Mode Instruction Prevention x86/traps: Fix up general protection faults caused by UMIP x86/umip: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention at runtime x86/umip: Force a page fault when unable to copy emulated result to user x86/umip: Add emulation code for UMIP instructions x86/cpufeature: Add User-Mode Instruction Prevention definitions x86/insn-eval: Add support to resolve 16-bit address encodings x86/insn-eval: Handle 32-bit address encodings in virtual-8086 mode x86/insn-eval: Add wrapper function for 32 and 64-bit addresses x86/insn-eval: Add support to resolve 32-bit address encodings x86/insn-eval: Compute linear address in several utility functions resource: Fix resource_size.cocci warnings X86/KVM: Clear encryption attribute when SEV is active X86/KVM: Decrypt shared per-cpu variables when SEV is active percpu: Introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED x86: Add support for changing memory encryption attribute in early boot x86/io: Unroll string I/O when SEV is active x86/boot: Add early boot support when running with SEV active ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt2
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt b/Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
index f512ab718541..afc41f544dab 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-Secure Memory Encryption (SME) is a feature found on AMD processors.
+Secure Memory Encryption (SME) and Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) are
+features found on AMD processors.
SME provides the ability to mark individual pages of memory as encrypted using
the standard x86 page tables. A page that is marked encrypted will be
@@ -6,24 +7,38 @@ automatically decrypted when read from DRAM and encrypted when written to
DRAM. SME can therefore be used to protect the contents of DRAM from physical
attacks on the system.
+SEV enables running encrypted virtual machines (VMs) in which the code and data
+of the guest VM are secured so that a decrypted version is available only
+within the VM itself. SEV guest VMs have the concept of private and shared
+memory. Private memory is encrypted with the guest-specific key, while shared
+memory may be encrypted with hypervisor key. When SME is enabled, the hypervisor
+key is the same key which is used in SME.
+
A page is encrypted when a page table entry has the encryption bit set (see
below on how to determine its position). The encryption bit can also be
specified in the cr3 register, allowing the PGD table to be encrypted. Each
successive level of page tables can also be encrypted by setting the encryption
bit in the page table entry that points to the next table. This allows the full
page table hierarchy to be encrypted. Note, this means that just because the
-encryption bit is set in cr3, doesn't imply the full hierarchy is encyrpted.
+encryption bit is set in cr3, doesn't imply the full hierarchy is encrypted.
Each page table entry in the hierarchy needs to have the encryption bit set to
achieve that. So, theoretically, you could have the encryption bit set in cr3
so that the PGD is encrypted, but not set the encryption bit in the PGD entry
for a PUD which results in the PUD pointed to by that entry to not be
encrypted.
-Support for SME can be determined through the CPUID instruction. The CPUID
-function 0x8000001f reports information related to SME:
+When SEV is enabled, instruction pages and guest page tables are always treated
+as private. All the DMA operations inside the guest must be performed on shared
+memory. Since the memory encryption bit is controlled by the guest OS when it
+is operating in 64-bit or 32-bit PAE mode, in all other modes the SEV hardware
+forces the memory encryption bit to 1.
+
+Support for SME and SEV can be determined through the CPUID instruction. The
+CPUID function 0x8000001f reports information related to SME:
0x8000001f[eax]:
Bit[0] indicates support for SME
+ Bit[1] indicates support for SEV
0x8000001f[ebx]:
Bits[5:0] pagetable bit number used to activate memory
encryption
@@ -39,6 +54,13 @@ determine if SME is enabled and/or to enable memory encryption:
Bit[23] 0 = memory encryption features are disabled
1 = memory encryption features are enabled
+If SEV is supported, MSR 0xc0010131 (MSR_AMD64_SEV) can be used to determine if
+SEV is active:
+
+ 0xc0010131:
+ Bit[0] 0 = memory encryption is not active
+ 1 = memory encryption is active
+
Linux relies on BIOS to set this bit if BIOS has determined that the reduction
in the physical address space as a result of enabling memory encryption (see
CPUID information above) will not conflict with the address space resource
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt b/Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt
index af0c9a4c65a6..cd4b29be29af 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ORC unwinder
Overview
--------
-The kernel CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER option enables the ORC unwinder, which is
+The kernel CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC option enables the ORC unwinder, which is
similar in concept to a DWARF unwinder. The difference is that the
format of the ORC data is much simpler than DWARF, which in turn allows
the ORC unwinder to be much simpler and faster.
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
index b0798e281aa6..3448e675b462 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ff92000000000000 - ffd1ffffffffffff (=54 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space
ffd2000000000000 - ffd3ffffffffffff (=49 bits) hole
ffd4000000000000 - ffd5ffffffffffff (=49 bits) virtual memory map (512TB)
... unused hole ...
-ffd8000000000000 - fff7ffffffffffff (=53 bits) kasan shadow memory (8PB)
+ffdf000000000000 - fffffc0000000000 (=53 bits) kasan shadow memory (8PB)
... unused hole ...
ffffff0000000000 - ffffff7fffffffff (=39 bits) %esp fixup stacks
... unused hole ...