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Bug #12945
openSMT exclusion should be by pid rather than zoneid
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New
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
kernel
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Description
One part of #11048 was an API to restrict workloads from running on SMT pairs when vulnerable (or potentially aggressive) workloads were running on the sibling. This was primarily to mitigate HVM guests from using micro-architectural side channel attacks against the host or other guests. Originally this exclusion was implemented using zoneid
as the identifier to distinguish security boundaries. It would be valuable to change this to pid
. Doing so would better protect other host software running in a zone with an HVM instance, or when multiple HVM instances are running together in a (potentially global) zone.
Related issues
Updated by Patrick Mooney almost 3 years ago
- Related to Bug #12923: SMT exclusion should not balk at GZ added
Updated by Patrick Mooney almost 3 years ago
- Related to Bug #11048: need a way to disable SMT added
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