On 04.12.20 06:44, David Gibson wrote: > A number of hardware platforms are implementing mechanisms whereby the > hypervisor does not have unfettered access to guest memory, in order > to mitigate the security impact of a compromised hypervisor. > > AMD's SEV implements this with in-cpu memory encryption, and Intel has > its own memory encryption mechanism. POWER has an upcoming mechanism > to accomplish this in a different way, using a new memory protection > level plus a small trusted ultravisor. s390 also has a protected > execution environment. > > The current code (committed or draft) for these features has each > platform's version configured entirely differently. That doesn't seem > ideal for users, or particularly for management layers. > > AMD SEV introduces a notionally generic machine option > "machine-encryption", but it doesn't actually cover any cases other > than SEV. > > This series is a proposal to at least partially unify configuration > for these mechanisms, by renaming and generalizing AMD's > "memory-encryption" property. It is replaced by a > "securable-guest-memory" property pointing to a platform specific Can we do "securable-guest" ? s390x also protects registers and integrity. memory is only one piece of the puzzle and what we protect might differ from platform to platform.
