[PATCH 0/3] Add AMD SEV and SEV-ES local migration support

[Peter Gonda]

Local migration provides a low-cost mechanism for userspace VMM upgrades.
It is an alternative to traditional (i.e., remote) live migration. Whereas
remote migration handles move a guest to a new host, local migration only
handles moving a guest to a new userspace VMM within a host.  This can be
used to update, rollback, change flags of the VMM, etc. The lower cost
compared to live migration comes from the fact that the guest's memory does
not need to be copied between processes. A handle to the guest memory
simply gets passed to the new VMM, this could be done via using /dev/shm
with share=on or similar feature.

The guest state can be transferred from an old VMM to a new VMM as follows:
1. Export guest state from KVM to the old user-space VMM via a getter
user-space/kernel API 2. Transfer guest state from old VMM to new VMM via
IPC communication 3. Import guest state into KVM from the new user-space
VMM via a setter user-space/kernel API VMMs by exporting from KVM using
getters, sending that data to the new VMM, then setting it again in KVM.

In the common case for local migration, we can rely on the normal ioctls
for passing data from one VMM to the next. SEV, SEV-ES, and other
confidential compute environments make most of this information opaque, and
render KVM ioctls such as "KVM_GET_REGS" irrelevant.  As a result, we need
the ability to pass this opaque metadata from one VMM to the next. The
easiest way to do this is to leave this data in the kernel, and transfer
ownership of the metadata from one KVM VM (or vCPU) to the next. For
example, we need to move the SEV enabled ASID, VMSAs, and GHCB metadata
from one VMM to the next.  In general, we need to be able to hand off any
data that would be unsafe/impossible for the kernel to hand directly to
userspace (and cannot be reproduced using data that can be handed safely to
userspace).

During the local send operation the SEV required metadata, the guest's
ASID is loaded into a kvm wide hashmap keyed by a value given by
userspace. This allows the userspace VMM to pass the key to the target
VMM. Then on local receive the target VMM can be loaded with the
metadata from the hashmap.

Peter Gonda (3):
  KVM, SEV: Refactor out function for unregistering encrypted regions
  KVM, SEV: Add support for SEV local migration
  KVM, SEV: Add support for SEV-ES local migration

 .../virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst        |  43 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c                        | 434 +++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h                        |   1 +
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h                      |  12 +
 4 files changed, 471 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

base-commit: f1b832550832

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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