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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 57d3ee9e4bde..792fa8717d13 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -1841,6 +1841,7 @@ registers, find a list below: PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_DBSR | 32 PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TIDR | 64 PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_PSSCR | 64 + PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_DEC_EXPIRY | 64 PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_GPR0 | 64 ... PPC | KVM_REG_PPC_TM_GPR31 | 64 @@ -3403,6 +3404,103 @@ 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_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR + +Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR +Architectures: powerpc +Type: vm ioctl +Parameters: struct kvm_ppc_cpu_char (out) +Returns: 0 on successful completion + -EFAULT if struct kvm_ppc_cpu_char cannot be written + +This ioctl gives userspace information about certain characteristics +of the CPU relating to speculative execution of instructions and +possible information leakage resulting from speculative execution (see +CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754). The information is +returned in struct kvm_ppc_cpu_char, which looks like this: + +struct kvm_ppc_cpu_char { + __u64 character; /* characteristics of the CPU */ + __u64 behaviour; /* recommended software behaviour */ + __u64 character_mask; /* valid bits in character */ + __u64 behaviour_mask; /* valid bits in behaviour */ +}; + +For extensibility, the character_mask and behaviour_mask fields +indicate which bits of character and behaviour have been filled in by +the kernel. If the set of defined bits is extended in future then +userspace will be able to tell whether it is running on a kernel that +knows about the new bits. + +The character field describes attributes of the CPU which can help +with preventing inadvertent information disclosure - specifically, +whether there is an instruction to flash-invalidate the L1 data cache +(ori 30,30,0 or mtspr SPRN_TRIG2,rN), whether the L1 data cache is set +to a mode where entries can only be used by the thread that created +them, whether the bcctr[l] instruction prevents speculation, and +whether a speculation barrier instruction (ori 31,31,0) is provided. + +The behaviour field describes actions that software should take to +prevent inadvertent information disclosure, and thus describes which +vulnerabilities the hardware is subject to; specifically whether the +L1 data cache should be flushed when returning to user mode from the +kernel, and whether a speculation barrier should be placed between an +array bounds check and the array access. + +These fields use the same bit definitions as the new +H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS hypercall. + +4.110 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. + +4.111 KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION + +Capability: basic +Architectures: x86 +Type: system +Parameters: struct kvm_enc_region (in) +Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error + +This ioctl can be used to register a guest memory region which may +contain encrypted data (e.g. guest RAM, SMRAM etc). + +It is used in the SEV-enabled guest. When encryption is enabled, a guest +memory region may contain encrypted data. The SEV memory encryption +engine uses a tweak such that two identical plaintext pages, each at +different locations will have differing ciphertexts. So swapping or +moving ciphertext of those pages will not result in plaintext being +swapped. So relocating (or migrating) physical backing pages for the SEV +guest will require some additional steps. + +Note: The current SEV key management spec does not provide commands to +swap or migrate (move) ciphertext pages. Hence, for now we pin the guest +memory region registered with the ioctl. + +4.112 KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_UNREG_REGION + +Capability: basic +Architectures: x86 +Type: system +Parameters: struct kvm_enc_region (in) +Returns: 0 on success; -1 on error + +This ioctl can be used to unregister the guest memory region registered +with KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION ioctl above. + + 5. The kvm_run structure ------------------------ |