linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 16/26] KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV LAUNCH_UPDATE

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Date:   Wed, 13 Sep 2017 23:07:34 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        \"Radim Krčmář\" <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Part2 PATCH v3 16/26] KVM: SVM: Add support for SEV
 LAUNCH_UPDATE_DATA command

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 02:45:37PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> Actually I don't know what should be sane upper bound in this case --
> typically we encrypt the guest BIOS using LAUNCH_UPDATE_DATA command.
> I have heard that some user may want to create a pre-encrypted image
> (which may contains guest BIOS + kernel + initrd) -- this can be huge.
> 
> For SEV guest, we have been needing to pin the memory hence how about if
> we limit the number of pages to pin with rlimit ? The rlimit check can
> also include the guest RAM pinning.

rlimit sounds like a sensible thing to do. It would be interesting to
hear what the general policy is wrt guest sizes that KVM folk do ...

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    Boris.

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