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KVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM during intra-host migrationgrafted
Manually perform cache maintenance on the source VM during intra-host migration to ensure no stale data is left in CPU caches after the VM is destroyed. Because the source VM is "converted" to a non-SEV VM, KVM's memory reclaim flows won't trigger cache maintenance, e.g. when all guest memory is reclaimed in response to detaching from the mmu_notifier. Note, relying on the destination VM to do cache maintenance isn't an option as KVM doesn't require identical guest memory configurations, i.e. the source VM may have access to memory that the destination VM does not. Enforcing equivalent memory configurations is infeasible, as it would require a *deep* comparison of memslots, e.g. to verify that not only are the memslot identical, but what the memslots point at is also identical. Fixes: b56639318bb2 ("KVM: SEV: Add support for SEV intra host migration") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Stefan Teodorescu <fane@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20260923163721.1584779-3-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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+=================================
+Documentation for /proc/sys/user/
+=================================
+
+kernel version 4.9.0
+
+Copyright (c) 2016 Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This file contains the documentation for the sysctl files in
+/proc/sys/user.
+
+The files in this directory can be used to override the default
+limits on the number of namespaces and other objects that have
+per user per user namespace limits.
+
+The primary purpose of these limits is to stop programs that
+malfunction and attempt to create a ridiculous number of objects,
+before the malfunction becomes a system wide problem. It is the
+intention that the defaults of these limits are set high enough that
+no program in normal operation should run into these limits.
+
+The creation of per user per user namespace objects are charged to
+the user in the user namespace who created the object and
+verified to be below the per user limit in that user namespace.
+
+The creation of objects is also charged to all of the users
+who created user namespaces the creation of the object happens
+in (user namespaces can be nested) and verified to be below the per user
+limits in the user namespaces of those users.
+
+This recursive counting of created objects ensures that creating a
+user namespace does not allow a user to escape their current limits.
+
+Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/user:
+
+max_cgroup_namespaces
+=====================
+
+ The maximum number of cgroup namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.
+
+max_ipc_namespaces
+==================
+
+ The maximum number of ipc namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.
+
+max_mnt_namespaces
+==================
+
+ The maximum number of mount namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.
+
+max_net_namespaces
+==================
+
+ The maximum number of network namespaces that any user in the
+ current user namespace may create.
+
+max_pid_namespaces
+==================
+
+ The maximum number of pid namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.
+
+max_time_namespaces
+===================
+
+ The maximum number of time namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.
+
+max_user_namespaces
+===================
+
+ The maximum number of user namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.
+
+max_uts_namespaces
+==================
+
+ The maximum number of user namespaces that any user in the current
+ user namespace may create.