On 09/22/2016 12:07 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 05:05:54PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

quoted

Which paragraph?

"Linux relies on BIOS to set this bit if BIOS has determined that the
reduction in the physical address space as a result of enabling memory
encryption..."

Basically, you can enable SME in the BIOS and you're all set.

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.

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.

Thanks,
Tom

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