[RFC Part1 PATCH v3 12/17] x86/mm: DMA support for SEV memory encryption

[Tom Lendacky]

On 8/6/2017 10:48 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 02:07:52PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
>> From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky at amd.com>
>>
>> DMA access to memory mapped as encrypted while SEV is active can not be
>> encrypted during device write or decrypted during device read.
> 
> Yeah, definitely rewrite that sentence.

Heh, yup.

> 
>> In order
>> for DMA to properly work when SEV is active, the SWIOTLB bounce buffers
>> must be used.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky at amd.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh at amd.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   lib/swiotlb.c             |  5 +--
>>   2 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 2 deletions
> 
> ...
> 
>> @@ -202,6 +280,14 @@ void __init mem_encrypt_init(void)
>>   	/* Call into SWIOTLB to update the SWIOTLB DMA buffers */
>>   	swiotlb_update_mem_attributes();
>>   
>> +	/*
>> +	 * With SEV, DMA operations cannot use encryption. New DMA ops
>> +	 * are required in order to mark the DMA areas as decrypted or
>> +	 * to use bounce buffers.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (sev_active())
>> +		dma_ops = &sme_dma_ops;
> 
> Well, we do differentiate between SME and SEV and the check is
> sev_active but the ops are called sme_dma_ops. Call them sev_dma_ops
> instead for less confusion.

Yup, will do.

Thanks,
Tom

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