On 15/04/2019 12:15, Andre Przywara wrote:
> KVM implements the firmware interface for mitigating cache speculation
> vulnerabilities. Guests may use this interface to ensure mitigation is
> active.
> If we want to migrate such a guest to a host with a different support
> level for those workarounds, migration might need to fail, to ensure that
> critical guests don't loose their protection.
> 
> Introduce a way for userland to save and restore the workarounds state.
> On restoring we do checks that make sure we don't downgrade our
> mitigation level.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Steven Price <[email protected]>

Thanks,

Steve
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