On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 08:23:20AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> It was the AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT dependency that tripped me up.
> To
> get KVM to enable SEV/SEV-ES by default,
By default? What would be the use case for that?
> Agreed, I'll send a KVM patch to remove the
> AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT dependency.
Yah, AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT came out of the initial memory
enc. SME patchset where the use case was something along the lines of
booting a kernel and SME being enabled by default. But Tom doesn't
remember exactly either. I guess that thing doesn't belong in kvm code
anyway...
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