linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/sev: Make SEV

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Message-ID: <20250310133833.GHZ87rWfuV6WgQTsoh@fat_crate.local>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:38:33 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org>,
	"Alexey Gladkov (Intel)" <alexey.gladkov@...el.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
	Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Larry.Dewey@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/sev: Make SEV_STATUS available via SYSFS

On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 01:49:46PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> 1. Only name the hypervisor nearest to the guest (similar to running Xen on
>    top of another hypervisor in nested virtualization, which would still
>    say "xen").
> 
> 2. Add another entry for naming the outer hypervisor(s) (if possible).
> 
> 3. Name all known hypervisor levels, like "kvm,svsm" or "svsm,kvm").

/sys/guest it is then.

Let's just keep /sys/hypervisor alone and as Joerg said, we can link to it
from /sys/guest.

I guess that sounds ok...

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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