On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:48:17PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > One more thing: just like we're adding an =on switch, we'd need an =off
> > switch in case something's wrong with the SME code. IOW, if a user
> > supplies "mem_encrypt=off", we do not encrypt.
>
> Well, we can document "off", but if the exact string "mem_encrypt=on"
> isn't specified on the command line then the encryption won't occur.
So you have this:
+ /*
+ * Fixups have not been to applied phys_base yet, so we must obtain
+ * the address to the SME command line option in the following way.
+ */
+ asm ("lea sme_cmdline_arg(%%rip), %0"
+ : "=r" (cmdline_arg)
+ : "p" (sme_cmdline_arg));
+ cmdline_ptr = bp->hdr.cmd_line_ptr | ((u64)bp->ext_cmd_line_ptr << 32);
+ if (cmdline_find_option_bool((char *)cmdline_ptr, cmdline_arg))
+ sme_me_mask = 1UL << (ebx & 0x3f);
If I parse this right, we will enable SME *only* if mem_encrypt=on is
explicitly supplied on the command line.
Which means, users will have to *know* about that cmdline switch first.
Which then means, we have to go and tell them. Do you see where I'm
going with this?
I know we talked about this already but I still think we should enable
it by default and people who don't want it will use the =off switch. We
can also do something like CONFIG_AMD_SME_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT which we
can be selected during build for the different setups.
Hmmm.
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Boris.
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