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| author | Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> | 2026-09-23 09:37:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2026-09-26 00:39:55 -0400 |
| commit | 93de2a6a4b91b72607136dd656edf03fb399d27f (patch) | |
| tree | 9220c76eb23cb39a146fac9692ee69afa4aa3135 /Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst | |
| download | linux-stable-93de2a6a4b91b72607136dd656edf03fb399d27f.tar.gz linux-stable-93de2a6a4b91b72607136dd656edf03fb399d27f.zip | |
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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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2759dc1cc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.rst @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +====================================================== +Virtual eXtensible Local Area Networking documentation +====================================================== + +The VXLAN protocol is a tunnelling protocol designed to solve the +problem of limited VLAN IDs (4096) in IEEE 802.1q. With VXLAN the +size of the identifier is expanded to 24 bits (16777216). + +VXLAN is described by IETF RFC 7348, and has been implemented by a +number of vendors. The protocol runs over UDP using a single +destination port. This document describes the Linux kernel tunnel +device, there is also a separate implementation of VXLAN for +Openvswitch. + +Unlike most tunnels, a VXLAN is a 1 to N network, not just point to +point. A VXLAN device can learn the IP address of the other endpoint +either dynamically in a manner similar to a learning bridge, or make +use of statically-configured forwarding entries. + +The management of vxlan is done in a manner similar to its two closest +neighbors GRE and VLAN. Configuring VXLAN requires the version of +iproute2 that matches the kernel release where VXLAN was first merged +upstream. + +1. Create vxlan device:: + + # ip link add vxlan0 type vxlan id 42 group 239.1.1.1 dev eth1 dstport 4789 + +This creates a new device named vxlan0. The device uses the multicast +group 239.1.1.1 over eth1 to handle traffic for which there is no +entry in the forwarding table. The destination port number is set to +the IANA-assigned value of 4789. The Linux implementation of VXLAN +pre-dates the IANA's selection of a standard destination port number +and uses the Linux-selected value by default to maintain backwards +compatibility. + +2. Delete vxlan device:: + + # ip link delete vxlan0 + +3. Show vxlan info:: + + # ip -d link show vxlan0 + +It is possible to create, destroy and display the vxlan +forwarding table using the new bridge command. + +1. Create forwarding table entry:: + + # bridge fdb add to 00:17:42:8a:b4:05 dst 192.19.0.2 dev vxlan0 + +2. Delete forwarding table entry:: + + # bridge fdb delete 00:17:42:8a:b4:05 dev vxlan0 + +3. Show forwarding table:: + + # bridge fdb show dev vxlan0 + +The following NIC features may indicate support for UDP tunnel-related +offloads (most commonly VXLAN features, but support for a particular +encapsulation protocol is NIC specific): + + - `tx-udp_tnl-segmentation` + - `tx-udp_tnl-csum-segmentation` + ability to perform TCP segmentation offload of UDP encapsulated frames + + - `rx-udp_tunnel-port-offload` + receive side parsing of UDP encapsulated frames which allows NICs to + perform protocol-aware offloads, like checksum validation offload of + inner frames (only needed by NICs without protocol-agnostic offloads) + +For devices supporting `rx-udp_tunnel-port-offload` the list of currently +offloaded ports can be interrogated with `ethtool`:: + + $ ethtool --show-tunnels eth0 + Tunnel information for eth0: + UDP port table 0: + Size: 4 + Types: vxlan + No entries + UDP port table 1: + Size: 4 + Types: geneve, vxlan-gpe + Entries (1): + port 1230, vxlan-gpe |
