Re: [PATCH] x86/sev: Make SEV_STATUS available via SYSFS

[Jürgen Groß]

On 10.03.25 17:06, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 05:00:50PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > There is work in progress for SEV guests at least.
>
> Nice.
>   
> > Shouldn't the coco related information be the same regardless of the
> > hypervisor beneath?
>
> Right, but...
>
> > IOW: do you envision the coding for populating the coco related sysfs guest
> > nodes to be different when running as a KVM or a Hyper-V guest?
>
> ... if you have some coco tools which need to read out HV info - for whatever
> reason - then they'll have to do:
>
> 	if (HV == KVM)
> 		read /sys/kvm
> 	else if (HV == Xen)
> 		read /sys/xen
> 	else
> 		...
>
> which we might save them upfront...

In case there is the need for such information in a guest (and it can only
be in a guest, as every Linux under Xen is a guest, same applies to Hyper-V
and VMWare), the information should be under /sys/hypervisor.

If Linux supports running as a hypervisor using something different than KVM
then we should add something like /sys/virt-platform for such data.


Juergen

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