Re: [PATCH v8 14/18] EFI: Introduce the new AMD Memory Encryption GUID.

From: Ashish Kalra
Date: Sat May 30 2020 - 01:52:12 EST


Hello Steve,

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:07:56PM -0700, Steve Rutherford wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 2:20 PM Ashish Kalra <Ashish.Kalra@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Introduce a new AMD Memory Encryption GUID which is currently
> > used for defining a new UEFI enviroment variable which indicates
> > UEFI/OVMF support for the SEV live migration feature. This variable
> > is setup when UEFI/OVMF detects host/hypervisor support for SEV
> > live migration and later this variable is read by the kernel using
> > EFI runtime services to verify if OVMF supports the live migration
> > feature.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/linux/efi.h | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
> > index 251f1f783cdf..2efb42ccf3a8 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/efi.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/efi.h
> > @@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ void efi_native_runtime_setup(void);
> >
> > /* OEM GUIDs */
> > #define DELLEMC_EFI_RCI2_TABLE_GUID EFI_GUID(0x2d9f28a2, 0xa886, 0x456a, 0x97, 0xa8, 0xf1, 0x1e, 0xf2, 0x4f, 0xf4, 0x55)
> > +#define MEM_ENCRYPT_GUID EFI_GUID(0x0cf29b71, 0x9e51, 0x433a, 0xa3, 0xb7, 0x81, 0xf3, 0xab, 0x16, 0xb8, 0x75)
> >
> > typedef struct {
> > efi_guid_t guid;
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
> Have you gotten this GUID upstreamed into edk2?
>

Not yet.

This patch and the other OVMF patches are ready to be sent for
upstreaming, i was waiting for this kernel patch-set to be
accepted and upstreamed.

> Reviewed-by: Steve Rutherford <srutherford@xxxxxxxxxx>