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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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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+.. Copyright (c) 2024 Collabora Ltd
+
+=============================
+Device testing with kselftest
+=============================
+
+
+There are a few different kselftests available for testing devices generically,
+with some overlap in coverage and different requirements. This document aims to
+give an overview of each one.
+
+Note: Paths in this document are relative to the kselftest folder
+(``tools/testing/selftests``).
+
+Device oriented kselftests:
+
+* Devicetree (``dt``)
+
+ * **Coverage**: Probe status for devices described in Devicetree
+ * **Requirements**: None
+
+* Error logs (``devices/error_logs``)
+
+ * **Coverage**: Error (or more critical) log messages presence coming from any
+ device
+ * **Requirements**: None
+
+* Discoverable bus (``devices/probe``)
+
+ * **Coverage**: Presence and probe status of USB or PCI devices that have been
+ described in the reference file
+ * **Requirements**: Manually describe the devices that should be tested in a
+ YAML reference file (see ``devices/probe/boards/google,spherion.yaml`` for
+ an example)
+
+* Exist (``devices/exist``)
+
+ * **Coverage**: Presence of all devices
+ * **Requirements**: Generate the reference (see ``devices/exist/README.rst``
+ for details) on a known-good kernel
+
+Therefore, the suggestion is to enable the error log and devicetree tests on all
+(DT-based) platforms, since they don't have any requirements. Then to greatly
+improve coverage, generate the reference for each platform and enable the exist
+test. The discoverable bus test can be used to verify the probe status of
+specific USB or PCI devices, but is probably not worth it for most cases.