From f91f9f254ba10e94468663b23d0b780c240df268 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Gibson Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 17:00:30 +1000 Subject: confidential guest support: Introduce new confidential guest support class Several architectures have mechanisms which are designed to protect guest memory from interference or eavesdropping by a compromised hypervisor. AMD SEV does this with in-chip memory encryption and Intel's TDX can do similar things. POWER's Protected Execution Framework (PEF) accomplishes a similar goal using an ultravisor and new memory protection features, instead of encryption. To (partially) unify handling for these, this introduces a new ConfidentialGuestSupport QOM base class. "Confidential" is kind of vague, but "confidential computing" seems to be the buzzword about these schemes, and "secure" or "protected" are often used in connection to unrelated things (such as hypervisor-from-guest or guest-from-guest security). The "support" in the name is significant because in at least some of the cases it requires the guest to take specific actions in order to protect itself from hypervisor eavesdropping. Signed-off-by: David Gibson --- include/qemu/typedefs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/qemu') diff --git a/include/qemu/typedefs.h b/include/qemu/typedefs.h index 68deb74ef6..dc39b05c30 100644 --- a/include/qemu/typedefs.h +++ b/include/qemu/typedefs.h @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ typedef struct Chardev Chardev; typedef struct Clock Clock; typedef struct CompatProperty CompatProperty; typedef struct CoMutex CoMutex; +typedef struct ConfidentialGuestSupport ConfidentialGuestSupport; typedef struct CPUAddressSpace CPUAddressSpace; typedef struct CPUState CPUState; typedef struct DeviceListener DeviceListener; -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522