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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
+
+========================================
+Bare UDP Tunnelling Module Documentation
+========================================
+
+There are various L3 encapsulation standards using UDP being discussed to
+leverage the UDP based load balancing capability of different networks.
+MPLSoUDP (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7510) is one among them.
+
+The Bareudp tunnel module provides a generic L3 encapsulation support for
+tunnelling different L3 protocols like MPLS, IP, NSH etc. inside a UDP tunnel.
+
+Special Handling
+----------------
+
+The bareudp device supports special handling for MPLS & IP as they can have
+multiple ethertypes.
+The MPLS protocol can have ethertypes ETH_P_MPLS_UC (unicast) & ETH_P_MPLS_MC (multicast).
+IP protocol can have ethertypes ETH_P_IP (v4) & ETH_P_IPV6 (v6).
+This special handling can be enabled only for ethertypes ETH_P_IP & ETH_P_MPLS_UC
+with a flag called multiproto mode.
+
+Usage
+------
+
+1) Device creation & deletion
+
+ a) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype mpls_uc
+
+ This creates a bareudp tunnel device which tunnels L3 traffic with ethertype
+ 0x8847 (MPLS traffic). The destination port of the UDP header will be set to
+ 6635.The device will listen on UDP port 6635 to receive traffic.
+
+ b) ip link delete bareudp0
+
+2) Device creation with multiproto mode enabled
+
+The multiproto mode allows bareudp tunnels to handle several protocols of the
+same family. It is currently only available for IP and MPLS. This mode has to
+be enabled explicitly with the "multiproto" flag.
+
+ a) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype ipv4 multiproto
+
+ For an IPv4 tunnel the multiproto mode allows the tunnel to also handle
+ IPv6.
+
+ b) ip link add dev bareudp0 type bareudp dstport 6635 ethertype mpls_uc multiproto
+
+ For MPLS, the multiproto mode allows the tunnel to handle both unicast
+ and multicast MPLS packets.
+
+3) Device Usage
+
+The bareudp device could be used along with OVS or flower filter in TC.
+The OVS or TC flower layer must set the tunnel information in the SKB dst field before
+sending the packet buffer to the bareudp device for transmission. On reception, the
+bareUDP device extracts and stores the tunnel information in the SKB dst field before
+passing the packet buffer to the network stack.