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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/sev: Add AMD_SEV_ES_GUEST Kconfig for including SEV-ES support
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On 16/01/21 06:40, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>
>> Introduce a new Kconfig, AMD_SEV_ES_GUEST, to control the inclusion of
>> support for running as an SEV-ES guest.  Pivoting on AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT for
>> guest SEV-ES support is undesirable for host-only kernel builds as
>> AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT is also required to enable KVM/host support for SEV and
>> SEV-ES.
>
> I believe only KVM_AMD_SEV is required to enable the KVM support to run
> SEV and SEV-ES guests. The AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT setting is
> only used to determine whether to enable the KVM SEV/SEV-ES support by
> default on module load.

Right:

if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV) && sev) {
sev_hardware_setup();
} else {
sev = false;
sev_es = false;
}

I removed the addition to "config AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ from Sean's patch,
but (despite merging it not once but twice) I don't really like the
hidden dependency on AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT and thus
AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT. Is there any reason to not always enable sev/sev_es by
default?

Paolo

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