linux-kernel - Re: [Part2 PATCH v4 05/29] crypto: ccp: Add Platform Security Processor (PSP) device support

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Date:   Sat, 30 Sep 2017 18:11:04 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Gary Hook <gary.hook@....com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Part2 PATCH v4 05/29] crypto: ccp: Add Platform Security
 Processor (PSP) device support

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 10:55:25AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> CRYPTO_DEV_CCP_DD is supported on aarch64 and x86. Whereas the PSP
> interface I am adding is available on x86 only hence its safe to add add
> depend on CPU_SUP_AMD for CRYPTO_DEV_SP_PSP.

I think just from having CRYPTO_DEV_CCP_DD depend on CPU_SUP_AMD ||
ARM64, CRYPTO_DEV_SP_PSP gets almost the same dependency transitively.
But sure, let's make the PSP build only on x86. It should depend on
X86_64, to be precise.

> Yes its very much possible. The SEV FW provides two sets of commands 1)
> platform certificate management and 2) guest management
> 
> The platform certificate management commands is used outside the
> CONFIG_KVM_AMD.

Ok, please state that in the commit message so that it is written down
somewhere.

Thx.

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