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| author | Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> | 2017-07-17 16:09:58 -0500 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-07-18 11:37:58 +0200 |
| commit | c262f3b9a3246da87c66ce398cd7e30d8f1529ea (patch) | |
| tree | cf5b2374433057fd678d3b5ad260e5cc1b7e2e46 /Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | 1ed7d32763857fbdc8e406352404538e41050d22 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-c262f3b9a3246da87c66ce398cd7e30d8f1529ea.tar.gz lwn-c262f3b9a3246da87c66ce398cd7e30d8f1529ea.zip | |
x86/cpu/AMD: Document AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME)
Create a Documentation entry to describe the AMD Secure Memory
Encryption (SME) feature and add documentation for the mem_encrypt=
kernel parameter.
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Toshimitsu Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca0a0c13b055fd804cfc92cbaca8acd68057eed0.1500319216.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index f701430f4894..372cc66bba23 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2233,6 +2233,17 @@ memory contents and reserves bad memory regions that are detected. + mem_encrypt= [X86-64] AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) control + Valid arguments: on, off + Default (depends on kernel configuration option): + on (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=y) + off (CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT=n) + mem_encrypt=on: Activate SME + mem_encrypt=off: Do not activate SME + + Refer to Documentation/x86/amd-memory-encryption.txt + for details on when memory encryption can be activated. + mem_sleep_default= [SUSPEND] Default system suspend mode: s2idle - Suspend-To-Idle shallow - Power-On Suspend or equivalent (if supported) |