linux-kernel - Re: [Part2 PATCH v6 01/38] Documentation/virtual/kvm: Add AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV)

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Message-ID: <20171020071807.3e771d3c@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 20 Oct 2017 07:18:07 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, bp@...en8.de,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Part2 PATCH v6 01/38] Documentation/virtual/kvm: Add AMD
 Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV)

On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 21:33:36 -0500
Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com> wrote:

> Create a Documentation entry to describe the AMD Secure Encrypted
> Virtualization (SEV) feature.

A couple of quick notes...

 - This is describing an x86 subarchitecture feature, so it seems to me
   that Documentation/x86 would be a more logical place for it.  Yes, KVM
   can use this feature, but it's not a KVM feature and there might be
   something else that takes advantage of it too.

 - Any chance of getting it formatted as RST?  It's almost there already.

Beyond that, the document obviously falls far short of what one would
have to know to use SEV; probably filling all that in would make it long
indeed.

Thanks,

jon