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KVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM during intra-host migrationgrafted
Manually perform cache maintenance on the source VM during intra-host migration to ensure no stale data is left in CPU caches after the VM is destroyed. Because the source VM is "converted" to a non-SEV VM, KVM's memory reclaim flows won't trigger cache maintenance, e.g. when all guest memory is reclaimed in response to detaching from the mmu_notifier. Note, relying on the destination VM to do cache maintenance isn't an option as KVM doesn't require identical guest memory configurations, i.e. the source VM may have access to memory that the destination VM does not. Enforcing equivalent memory configurations is infeasible, as it would require a *deep* comparison of memslots, e.g. to verify that not only are the memslot identical, but what the memslots point at is also identical. Fixes: b56639318bb2 ("KVM: SEV: Add support for SEV intra host migration") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Stefan Teodorescu <fane@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20260923163721.1584779-3-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=============================================
+AMD-TEE (AMD's Trusted Execution Environment)
+=============================================
+
+The AMD-TEE driver handles the communication with AMD's TEE environment. The
+TEE environment is provided by AMD Secure Processor.
+
+The AMD Secure Processor (formerly called Platform Security Processor or PSP)
+is a dedicated processor that features ARM TrustZone technology, along with a
+software-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) designed to enable
+third-party Trusted Applications. This feature is currently enabled only for
+APUs.
+
+The following picture shows a high level overview of AMD-TEE::
+
+ |
+ x86 |
+ |
+ User space (Kernel space) | AMD Secure Processor (PSP)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ |
+ +--------+ | +-------------+
+ | Client | | | Trusted |
+ +--------+ | | Application |
+ /\ | +-------------+
+ || | /\
+ || | ||
+ || | \/
+ || | +----------+
+ || | | TEE |
+ || | | Internal |
+ \/ | | API |
+ +---------+ +-----------+---------+ +----------+
+ | TEE | | TEE | AMD-TEE | | AMD-TEE |
+ | Client | | subsystem | driver | | Trusted |
+ | API | | | | | OS |
+ +---------+-----------+----+------+---------+---------+----------+
+ | Generic TEE API | | ASP | Mailbox |
+ | IOCTL (TEE_IOC_*) | | driver | Register Protocol |
+ +--------------------------+ +---------+--------------------+
+
+At the lowest level (in x86), the AMD Secure Processor (ASP) driver uses the
+CPU to PSP mailbox register to submit commands to the PSP. The format of the
+command buffer is opaque to the ASP driver. It's role is to submit commands to
+the secure processor and return results to AMD-TEE driver. The interface
+between AMD-TEE driver and AMD Secure Processor driver can be found in [1].
+
+The AMD-TEE driver packages the command buffer payload for processing in TEE.
+The command buffer format for the different TEE commands can be found in [2].
+
+The TEE commands supported by AMD-TEE Trusted OS are:
+
+* TEE_CMD_ID_LOAD_TA - loads a Trusted Application (TA) binary into
+ TEE environment.
+* TEE_CMD_ID_UNLOAD_TA - unloads TA binary from TEE environment.
+* TEE_CMD_ID_OPEN_SESSION - opens a session with a loaded TA.
+* TEE_CMD_ID_CLOSE_SESSION - closes session with loaded TA
+* TEE_CMD_ID_INVOKE_CMD - invokes a command with loaded TA
+* TEE_CMD_ID_MAP_SHARED_MEM - maps shared memory
+* TEE_CMD_ID_UNMAP_SHARED_MEM - unmaps shared memory
+
+AMD-TEE Trusted OS is the firmware running on AMD Secure Processor.
+
+The AMD-TEE driver registers itself with TEE subsystem and implements the
+following driver function callbacks:
+
+* get_version - returns the driver implementation id and capability.
+* open - sets up the driver context data structure.
+* release - frees up driver resources.
+* open_session - loads the TA binary and opens session with loaded TA.
+* close_session - closes session with loaded TA and unloads it.
+* invoke_func - invokes a command with loaded TA.
+
+cancel_req driver callback is not supported by AMD-TEE.
+
+The GlobalPlatform TEE Client API [3] can be used by the user space (client) to
+talk to AMD's TEE. AMD's TEE provides a secure environment for loading, opening
+a session, invoking commands and closing session with TA.
+
+References
+==========
+
+[1] include/linux/psp-tee.h
+
+[2] drivers/tee/amdtee/amdtee_if.h
+
+[3] http://www.globalplatform.org/specificationsdevice.asp look for
+ "TEE Client API Specification v1.0" and click download.