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[6/7] Documentation: kvm/sev: separate description of firmware

Message ID 20240318221002.2712738-7-pbonzini@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series KVM: SEV fixes for 6.9 | expand

Commit Message

Paolo Bonzini March 18, 2024, 10:10 p.m. UTC 
The description of firmware is included part under the "SEV Key Management"
header, part under the KVM_SEV_INIT ioctl.  Put these two bits together and
and rename "SEV Key Management" to what it actually is, namely a description
of the KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP API.

Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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 .../virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst    | 29 +++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
index 995780088eb2..4f2eb441c718 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
@@ -46,14 +46,8 @@  SEV hardware uses ASIDs to associate a memory encryption key with a VM.
 Hence, the ASID for the SEV-enabled guests must be from 1 to a maximum value
 defined in the CPUID 0x8000001f[ecx] field.
 
-SEV Key Management
-==================
-
-The SEV guest key management is handled by a separate processor called the AMD
-Secure Processor (AMD-SP). Firmware running inside the AMD-SP provides a secure
-key management interface to perform common hypervisor activities such as
-encrypting bootstrap code, snapshot, migrating and debugging the guest. For more
-information, see the SEV Key Management spec [api-spec]_
+The KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP ioctl
+===============================
 
 The main ioctl to access SEV is KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP.  If the argument
 to KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP is NULL, the ioctl returns 0 if SEV is enabled
@@ -87,10 +81,6 @@  guests, such as launching, running, snapshotting, migrating and decommissioning.
 The KVM_SEV_INIT command is used by the hypervisor to initialize the SEV platform
 context. In a typical workflow, this command should be the first command issued.
 
-The firmware can be initialized either by using its own non-volatile storage or
-the OS can manage the NV storage for the firmware using the module parameter
-``init_ex_path``. If the file specified by ``init_ex_path`` does not exist or
-is invalid, the OS will create or override the file with output from PSP.
 
 Returns: 0 on success, -negative on error
 
@@ -434,6 +424,21 @@  issued by the hypervisor to make the guest ready for execution.
 
 Returns: 0 on success, -negative on error
 
+Firmware Management
+===================
+
+The SEV guest key management is handled by a separate processor called the AMD
+Secure Processor (AMD-SP). Firmware running inside the AMD-SP provides a secure
+key management interface to perform common hypervisor activities such as
+encrypting bootstrap code, snapshot, migrating and debugging the guest. For more
+information, see the SEV Key Management spec [api-spec]_
+
+The AMD-SP firmware can be initialized either by using its own non-volatile
+storage or the OS can manage the NV storage for the firmware using
+parameter ``init_ex_path`` of the ``ccp`` module. If the file specified
+by ``init_ex_path`` does not exist or is invalid, the OS will create or
+override the file with PSP non-volatile storage.
+
 References
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