[PATCH v2 2/6] powerpc/pseries: move the PLPKS config inside its own sysfs directory

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Sat Jan 3 04:28:39 AEDT 2026


On Wed, 2025-12-17 at 22:55 +0530, Srish Srinivasan wrote:
> The /sys/firmware/secvar/config directory represents Power LPAR Platform
> KeyStore (PLPKS) configuration properties such as max_object_size, signed_
> update_algorithms, supported_policies, total_size, used_space, and version.
> These attributes describe the PLPKS, and not the secure boot variables
> (secvars).
> 
> Create /sys/firmware/plpks directory and move the PLPKS config inside this
> directory. For backwards compatibility, create a soft link from the secvar
> sysfs directory to this config and emit a warning stating that the older
> sysfs path has been deprecated. Separate out the plpks specific
> documentation from secvar.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Srish Srinivasan <ssrish at linux.ibm.com>

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com>


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