On 2/2/18 7:08 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 08:04:43PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: >> * Brijesh Singh (brijesh.si...@amd.com) wrote: >>> >>> On 2/1/18 11:58 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: >>>> * Brijesh Singh (brijesh.si...@amd.com) wrote: >>>>> update 'info kvm' to display the memory encryption support. >>>>> >>>>> (qemu) info kvm >>>>> kvm support: enabled >>>>> memory encryption: disabled >>>> As Markus said, this should be split qmp/hmp; but something else to >>>> think about is whether this is a boolean or needs to be an enum; do >>>> you have one version of encryption or are we going to need to flag up >>>> versions or the features of the encryption? >>> In future I could see us providing encrypted state status when we >>> implement SEV-ES support, something like >>> >>> (qemu) info kvm >>> kvm support: enabled >>> memory encryption: enabled >>> cpu register state: encrypted >>> >>> but so far I do not see need to provide the version string. If user >>> wants to know the SEV version then it can open /dev/sev device to get >>> platform status and more. >> Yes, I was worried a bit more about how general that was going to be >> or whether we're collecting a lot of architecture specific fields here. >> So I wondered, if it was an enum, whether that would be come: >> >> memory encryption: none >> >> memory encryption: SEV >> >> memory encryption: SEV-ES >> >> (I'm not too sure whether that's better or not, just a suggestion) > I wonder if it is is even appropriate to have under 'info kvm', since > 'info kvm' is architecture independant and SEV is specific to AMD x86_64 > only. It might suggest an 'info sev' command is better ?
The reason I kept under 'info kvm' is because now KVM has a ioctl for memory encryption operation, I like your suggestion for introducing 'info sev' -- the command can be used to provide additional SEV specific details (e.g SEV FW state, SEV FW version, SEV active policy etc). > > Regards, > Daniel