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author | Paolo Bonzini | 2021-11-11 10:52:26 -0500 |
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committer | Paolo Bonzini | 2021-11-11 11:02:58 -0500 |
commit | 1f05833193d816279b03ec9d0170cf9bda9283c2 (patch) | |
tree | f63985f733f3f64e264335ec39501b5e04c9ee71 /Documentation/virt | |
parent | b9ecb9a997333f90236cb6f3d52d83987a17addc (diff) | |
parent | 6a58150859fdec7639564c8bae4406d4c66bf017 (diff) |
Merge branch 'kvm-sev-move-context' into kvm-master
Add support for AMD SEV and SEV-ES intra-host migration support. Intra
host migration provides a low-cost mechanism for userspace VMM upgrades.
In the common case for intra host migration, we can rely on the normal
ioctls for passing data from one VMM to the next. SEV, SEV-ES, and other
confidential compute environments make most of this information opaque, and
render KVM ioctls such as "KVM_GET_REGS" irrelevant. As a result, we need
the ability to pass this opaque metadata from one VMM to the next. The
easiest way to do this is to leave this data in the kernel, and transfer
ownership of the metadata from one KVM VM (or vCPU) to the next. In-kernel
hand off makes it possible to move any data that would be
unsafe/impossible for the kernel to hand directly to userspace, and
cannot be reproduced using data that can be handed to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 14 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 3b093d6dbe22..aeeb071c7688 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -6911,6 +6911,20 @@ MAP_SHARED mmap will result in an -EINVAL return. When enabled the VMM may make use of the ``KVM_ARM_MTE_COPY_TAGS`` ioctl to perform a bulk copy of tags to/from the guest. +7.29 KVM_CAP_VM_MOVE_ENC_CONTEXT_FROM +------------------------------------- + +Architectures: x86 SEV enabled +Type: vm +Parameters: args[0] is the fd of the source vm +Returns: 0 on success + +This capability enables userspace to migrate the encryption context from the VM +indicated by the fd to the VM this is called on. + +This is intended to support intra-host migration of VMs between userspace VMMs, +upgrading the VMM process without interrupting the guest. + 8. Other capabilities. ====================== |