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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index f670e4b9e7f3..c8755be35543 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -3394,6 +3394,22 @@ invalid, if invalid pages are written to (e.g. after the end of memory) or if no page table is present for the addresses (e.g. when using hugepages). +4.109 KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP + +Capability: basic +Architectures: x86 +Type: system +Parameters: an opaque platform specific structure (in/out) +Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error + +If the platform supports creating encrypted VMs then this ioctl can be used +for issuing platform-specific memory encryption commands to manage those +encrypted VMs. + +Currently, this ioctl is used for issuing Secure Encrypted Virtualization +(SEV) commands on AMD Processors. The SEV commands are defined in +Documentation/virtual/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.txt. + 5. The kvm_run structure ------------------------ |