Re: [PATCH 1/1] s390x/protvirt: allow to IPL secure execution guests with -no-reboot

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:29:29 +0200
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 21.07.20 14:25, Janosch Frank wrote:
> > On 7/21/20 12:32 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:  
> >> Right now -no-reboot does prevent secure execution guests from running.  
> > 
> > s/-no-reboot/--no-reboot/  
> 
> Actually qemu --help gives the parameters with just one "-"
> 
> 
> Not sure about secure vs protected. Whatever Conny prefers.

The doc seems to talk about "protected virtualization", "protected
mode", and "secure guests". What about (slight rewording):

"s390x/protvirt: allow to IPL secure guests with -no-reboot

Right now, -no-reboot prevents secure guests from running. This is
correct from an implementation point of view, as we have modeled the
transition from non-secure to secure as a program directed IPL. From a
user perspective, this is not the behavior of least surprise.

We should implement the IPL into protected mode similar to the functions
that we use for kdump/kexec. In other words, we do not stop here when
-no-reboot is specified on the command line. Like function 0 or function
1, function 10 is not a classic reboot. For example, it can only be called
once. Before calling it a second time, a real reboot/reset must happen
in-between. So function code 10 is more or less a state transition
reset, but not a "standard" reset or reboot."

I think this is still appropriate for hard freeze.