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Message-ID: <20160922191138.lnp4ac3cfkiebjo3@pd.tnic>
Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2016 21:11:38 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>,
        simon.guinot@...uanux.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 09/28] x86/efi: Access EFI data as encrypted when
 SEV is active

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 02:04:27PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> That's not what I mean here.  If the BIOS sets the SMEE bit in the
> SYS_CFG msr then, even if the encryption bit is never used, there is
> still a reduction in physical address space.

I thought that reduction is the reservation of bits for the SME mask.

What other reduction is there?

> Transparent SME (TSME) will be a BIOS option that will result in the
> memory controller performing encryption no matter what. In this case
> all data will be encrypted without a reduction in physical address
> space.

Now I'm confused: aren't we reducing the address space with the SME
mask?

Or what reduction do you mean?

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