Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] Secure Virtual Machine Enablement

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Date: Tue Sep 03 2019 - 22:50:27 EST


Thiago Jung Bauermann [bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> [ Some people didn't receive all the patches in this series, even though
> the linuxppc-dev list did so trying to send again. This is exactly the
> same series I posted yesterday. Sorry for the clutter. ]
>
> This series contains preliminary work to enable Secure Virtual Machines
> (SVM) on powerpc. SVMs request to be migrated to secure memory very early in
> the boot process (in prom_init()), so by default all of their memory is
> inaccessible to the hypervisor. There is an ultravisor call that the VM can
> use to request certain pages to be made accessible (aka shared).

I would like to piggy-back on this series (since it provides the
context) to add another patch we need for SVMs :-)

Appreciate any comments.

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