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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; |