Marc Hartmayer 65b9fc442c genprotimg: introduce new tool for the creation of PV images ...

Protected VMs (PVM) are KVM VMs, where KVM can't access the VM's state
like guest memory and guest registers anymore. Instead the PVMs are
mostly managed by a new entity called Ultravisor (UV), which provides
an API, so KVM and the PV can request management actions.

PVMs are encrypted at rest and protected from hypervisor access while
running. They switch from a normal operation into protected mode, so
we can still use the standard boot process to load an encrypted image
and then move it into protected mode.

This commit adds the tool 'genprotimg'. It takes a kernel, key files,
optionally an initrd, optionally a file with the kernel command line,
and it generates a single, loadable image file. The image consists of
a concatenation of a plain text boot loader, the encrypted components
for kernel, initrd, and cmdline, and the integrity-protected PV
header, containing metadata necessary for running the guest in PV
mode.

It's possible to use this image file as a kernel for zipl or for a
direct kernel boot using QEMU.

Reviewed-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Steuer <patrick.steuer@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>

2020-03-16 13:41:35 +01:00

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boot

genprotimg: introduce new tool for the creation of PV images

2020-03-16 13:41:35 +01:00

lib

Consolidate ALIGN, __ALIGN_MASK, ARRAY_SIZE macros

2020-03-16 13:39:10 +01:00