On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 at 21:42, Dionna Amalie Glaze <dionnagl...@google.com> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > This change is made given a request from Ard. The CC capability is not
> > > applied to other system memory ranges that probably should also have
> > > that capability, given that it's encrypted and accepted. I haven't
> > > considered carefully where EFI_MEMORY_CPU_CRYPTO should be added to
> > > conventional memory, given the acceptance happens before DXE
> > > initializes. Perhaps
> > > CoreConvertResourceDescriptorHobAttributesToCapabilities? This is more
> > > of a question to Ard and Thomas.
> > >
> >
> > It's not clear to me whether the CC attribute applies to the host or
> > the guest. From the guest PoV, there is really no distinction, whereas
> > on the host, I could imagine that only CC capable memory can be used
> > for handing out to VMs.
> >
>
> That's a good point. The UEFI spec language is hard to interpret here.
> Min or Jiewen, do you have more context on the EFI_MEMORY_CPU_CRYPTO
> attribute?
>

To keep things moving, I've queued this up (as #4040) with the
EFI_MEMORY_CPU_CRYPTO flag dropped.

I don't think we need to add it here, given that EDK2 nor Linux ever
set or test this flag anywhere else, but if this changes, we can add
it back.


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