Explain that it operates on the VM file descriptor, and also clarify how
detection of SEV operates on old kernels predating commit 2da1ed62d55c
("KVM: SVM: document KVM_MEM_ENCRYPT_OP, let userspace detect if SEV
is available").
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
---
.../virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
index 4f2eb441c718..84335d119ff1 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/amd-memory-encryption.rst
@@ -49,12 +49,13 @@ defined in the CPUID 0x8000001f[ecx] field.
The KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP ioctl
===============================
-The main ioctl to access SEV is KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP. If the argument
-to KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP is NULL, the ioctl returns 0 if SEV is enabled
-and ``ENOTTY`` if it is disabled (on some older versions of Linux,
-the ioctl runs normally even with a NULL argument, and therefore will
-likely return ``EFAULT``). If non-NULL, the argument to KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP
-must be a struct kvm_sev_cmd::
+The main ioctl to access SEV is KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP, which operates on
+the VM file descriptor. If the argument to KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP is NULL,
+the ioctl returns 0 if SEV is enabled and ``ENOTTY`` if it is disabled
+(on some older versions of Linux, the ioctl tries to run normally even
+with a NULL argument, and therefore will likely return ``EFAULT`` instead
+of zero if SEV is enabled). If non-NULL, the argument to
+KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP must be a struct kvm_sev_cmd::
struct kvm_sev_cmd {
__u32 id;
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