Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] EFI: Introduce the new AMD Memory Encryption GUID.

From: Ashish Kalra
Date: Thu May 13 2021 - 00:36:29 EST


On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 04:53:21PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2021 at 15:19, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 03:59:01PM +0000, Ashish Kalra wrote:
> > > From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Introduce a new AMD Memory Encryption GUID which is currently
> > > used for defining a new UEFI environment variable which indicates
> > > UEFI/OVMF support for the SEV live migration feature. This variable
> > > is setup when UEFI/OVMF detects host/hypervisor support for SEV
> > > live migration and later this variable is read by the kernel using
> > > EFI runtime services to verify if OVMF supports the live migration
> > > feature.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > include/linux/efi.h | 1 +
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
> > > index 8710f5710c1d..e95c144d1d02 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/efi.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/efi.h
> > > @@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ void efi_native_runtime_setup(void);
> > >
> > > /* OEM GUIDs */
> > > #define DELLEMC_EFI_RCI2_TABLE_GUID EFI_GUID(0x2d9f28a2, 0xa886, 0x456a, 0x97, 0xa8, 0xf1, 0x1e, 0xf2, 0x4f, 0xf4, 0x55)
> > > +#define MEM_ENCRYPT_GUID EFI_GUID(0x0cf29b71, 0x9e51, 0x433a, 0xa3, 0xb7, 0x81, 0xf3, 0xab, 0x16, 0xb8, 0x75)
> > >
> > > typedef struct {
> > > efi_guid_t guid;
> > > --
> >
> > When you apply this patch locally, you do:
> >
> > $ git log -p -1 | ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> > Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:EXTENSIBLE FIRMWARE INTERFACE (EFI))
> > linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list:EXTENSIBLE FIRMWARE INTERFACE (EFI))
> > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)
> >
> > and this tells you that you need to CC EFI folks too.
> >
> > I've CCed linux-efi now - please make sure you use that script to CC the
> > relevant parties on patches, in the future.
> >
>
> Thanks Boris.
>
> You are adding this GUID to the 'OEM GUIDs' section, in which case I'd
> prefer the identifier to include which OEM.
>
> Or alternatively, put it somewhere else, but in this case, putting
> something like AMD_SEV in the identifier would still help to make it
> more self-documenting.

I will add AMD_SEV in the identifier above.

Thanks,
Ashish