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<title>KVM: arm64: Do not change the PMU event filter after a VCPU has run</title>
<updated>2022-04-13T18:03:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>maz@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-27T16:17:54+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5177fe91e4cf78a659aada2c9cf712db4d788481 ]

Userspace can specify which events a guest is allowed to use with the
KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_FILTER attribute. The list of allowed events can be
identified by a guest from reading the PMCEID{0,1}_EL0 registers.

Changing the PMU event filter after a VCPU has run can cause reads of the
registers performed before the filter is changed to return different values
than reads performed with the new event filter in place. The architecture
defines the two registers as read-only, and this behaviour contradicts
that.

Keep track when the first VCPU has run and deny changes to the PMU event
filter to prevent this from happening.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
[ Alexandru E: Added commit message, updated ioctl documentation ]
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei &lt;alexandru.elisei@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127161759.53553-2-alexandru.elisei@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5177fe91e4cf78a659aada2c9cf712db4d788481 ]

Userspace can specify which events a guest is allowed to use with the
KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_FILTER attribute. The list of allowed events can be
identified by a guest from reading the PMCEID{0,1}_EL0 registers.

Changing the PMU event filter after a VCPU has run can cause reads of the
registers performed before the filter is changed to return different values
than reads performed with the new event filter in place. The architecture
defines the two registers as read-only, and this behaviour contradicts
that.

Keep track when the first VCPU has run and deny changes to the PMU event
filter to prevent this from happening.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
[ Alexandru E: Added commit message, updated ioctl documentation ]
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei &lt;alexandru.elisei@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127161759.53553-2-alexandru.elisei@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Add KVM_CAP_ENABLE_CAP to x86</title>
<updated>2022-03-08T18:14:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aaron Lewis</name>
<email>aaronlewis@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-14T21:29:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 127770ac0d043435375ab86434f31a93efa88215 ]

Follow the precedent set by other architectures that support the VCPU
ioctl, KVM_ENABLE_CAP, and advertise the VM extension, KVM_CAP_ENABLE_CAP.
This way, userspace can ensure that KVM_ENABLE_CAP is available on a
vcpu before using it.

Fixes: 5c919412fe61 ("kvm/x86: Hyper-V synthetic interrupt controller")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lewis &lt;aaronlewis@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20220214212950.1776943-1-aaronlewis@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 127770ac0d043435375ab86434f31a93efa88215 ]

Follow the precedent set by other architectures that support the VCPU
ioctl, KVM_ENABLE_CAP, and advertise the VM extension, KVM_CAP_ENABLE_CAP.
This way, userspace can ensure that KVM_ENABLE_CAP is available on a
vcpu before using it.

Fixes: 5c919412fe61 ("kvm/x86: Hyper-V synthetic interrupt controller")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lewis &lt;aaronlewis@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20220214212950.1776943-1-aaronlewis@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-sev-move-context' into kvm-master</title>
<updated>2021-11-11T16:02:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-11T15:52:26+00:00</published>
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Add support for AMD SEV and SEV-ES intra-host migration support.  Intra
host migration provides a low-cost mechanism for userspace VMM upgrades.

In the common case for intra host migration, we can rely on the normal
ioctls for passing data from one VMM to the next. SEV, SEV-ES, and other
confidential compute environments make most of this information opaque, and
render KVM ioctls such as "KVM_GET_REGS" irrelevant.  As a result, we need
the ability to pass this opaque metadata from one VMM to the next. The
easiest way to do this is to leave this data in the kernel, and transfer
ownership of the metadata from one KVM VM (or vCPU) to the next.  In-kernel
hand off makes it possible to move any data that would be
unsafe/impossible for the kernel to hand directly to userspace, and
cannot be reproduced using data that can be handed to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Add support for AMD SEV and SEV-ES intra-host migration support.  Intra
host migration provides a low-cost mechanism for userspace VMM upgrades.

In the common case for intra host migration, we can rely on the normal
ioctls for passing data from one VMM to the next. SEV, SEV-ES, and other
confidential compute environments make most of this information opaque, and
render KVM ioctls such as "KVM_GET_REGS" irrelevant.  As a result, we need
the ability to pass this opaque metadata from one VMM to the next. The
easiest way to do this is to leave this data in the kernel, and transfer
ownership of the metadata from one KVM VM (or vCPU) to the next.  In-kernel
hand off makes it possible to move any data that would be
unsafe/impossible for the kernel to hand directly to userspace, and
cannot be reproduced using data that can be handed to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: SEV: Add support for SEV intra host migration</title>
<updated>2021-11-11T15:35:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Gonda</name>
<email>pgonda@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-21T17:43:00+00:00</published>
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For SEV to work with intra host migration, contents of the SEV info struct
such as the ASID (used to index the encryption key in the AMD SP) and
the list of memory regions need to be transferred to the target VM.
This change adds a commands for a target VMM to get a source SEV VM's sev
info.

Signed-off-by: Peter Gonda &lt;pgonda@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Orr &lt;marcorr@google.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Orr &lt;marcorr@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brijesh Singh &lt;brijesh.singh@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpengli@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;joro@8bytes.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Message-Id: &lt;20211021174303.385706-3-pgonda@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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For SEV to work with intra host migration, contents of the SEV info struct
such as the ASID (used to index the encryption key in the AMD SP) and
the list of memory regions need to be transferred to the target VM.
This change adds a commands for a target VMM to get a source SEV VM's sev
info.

Signed-off-by: Peter Gonda &lt;pgonda@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Orr &lt;marcorr@google.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Orr &lt;marcorr@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brijesh Singh &lt;brijesh.singh@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpengli@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;joro@8bytes.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Message-Id: &lt;20211021174303.385706-3-pgonda@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2021-11-04T15:21:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-04T15:21:47+00:00</published>
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Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of char and misc and other tiny driver subsystem
  updates for 5.16-rc1.

  Loads of things in here, all of which have been in linux-next for a
  while with no reported problems (except for one called out below.)

  Included are:

   - habanana labs driver updates, including dma_buf usage, reviewed and
     acked by the dma_buf maintainers

   - iio driver update (going through this tree not staging as they
     really do not belong going through that tree anymore)

   - counter driver updates

   - hwmon driver updates that the counter drivers needed, acked by the
     hwmon maintainer

   - xillybus driver updates

   - binder driver updates

   - extcon driver updates

   - dma_buf module namespaces added (will cause a build error in arm64
     for allmodconfig, but that change is on its way through the drm
     tree)

   - lkdtm driver updates

   - pvpanic driver updates

   - phy driver updates

   - virt acrn and nitr_enclaves driver updates

   - smaller char and misc driver updates"

* tag 'char-misc-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (386 commits)
  comedi: dt9812: fix DMA buffers on stack
  comedi: ni_usb6501: fix NULL-deref in command paths
  arm64: errata: Enable TRBE workaround for write to out-of-range address
  arm64: errata: Enable workaround for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode
  coresight: trbe: Work around write to out of range
  coresight: trbe: Make sure we have enough space
  coresight: trbe: Add a helper to determine the minimum buffer size
  coresight: trbe: Workaround TRBE errata overwrite in FILL mode
  coresight: trbe: Add infrastructure for Errata handling
  coresight: trbe: Allow driver to choose a different alignment
  coresight: trbe: Decouple buffer base from the hardware base
  coresight: trbe: Add a helper to pad a given buffer area
  coresight: trbe: Add a helper to calculate the trace generated
  coresight: trbe: Defer the probe on offline CPUs
  coresight: trbe: Fix incorrect access of the sink specific data
  coresight: etm4x: Add ETM PID for Kryo-5XX
  coresight: trbe: Prohibit trace before disabling TRBE
  coresight: trbe: End the AUX handle on truncation
  coresight: trbe: Do not truncate buffer on IRQ
  coresight: trbe: Fix handling of spurious interrupts
  ...
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Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of char and misc and other tiny driver subsystem
  updates for 5.16-rc1.

  Loads of things in here, all of which have been in linux-next for a
  while with no reported problems (except for one called out below.)

  Included are:

   - habanana labs driver updates, including dma_buf usage, reviewed and
     acked by the dma_buf maintainers

   - iio driver update (going through this tree not staging as they
     really do not belong going through that tree anymore)

   - counter driver updates

   - hwmon driver updates that the counter drivers needed, acked by the
     hwmon maintainer

   - xillybus driver updates

   - binder driver updates

   - extcon driver updates

   - dma_buf module namespaces added (will cause a build error in arm64
     for allmodconfig, but that change is on its way through the drm
     tree)

   - lkdtm driver updates

   - pvpanic driver updates

   - phy driver updates

   - virt acrn and nitr_enclaves driver updates

   - smaller char and misc driver updates"

* tag 'char-misc-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (386 commits)
  comedi: dt9812: fix DMA buffers on stack
  comedi: ni_usb6501: fix NULL-deref in command paths
  arm64: errata: Enable TRBE workaround for write to out-of-range address
  arm64: errata: Enable workaround for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode
  coresight: trbe: Work around write to out of range
  coresight: trbe: Make sure we have enough space
  coresight: trbe: Add a helper to determine the minimum buffer size
  coresight: trbe: Workaround TRBE errata overwrite in FILL mode
  coresight: trbe: Add infrastructure for Errata handling
  coresight: trbe: Allow driver to choose a different alignment
  coresight: trbe: Decouple buffer base from the hardware base
  coresight: trbe: Add a helper to pad a given buffer area
  coresight: trbe: Add a helper to calculate the trace generated
  coresight: trbe: Defer the probe on offline CPUs
  coresight: trbe: Fix incorrect access of the sink specific data
  coresight: etm4x: Add ETM PID for Kryo-5XX
  coresight: trbe: Prohibit trace before disabling TRBE
  coresight: trbe: End the AUX handle on truncation
  coresight: trbe: Do not truncate buffer on IRQ
  coresight: trbe: Fix handling of spurious interrupts
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-5.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2021-11-03T05:11:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-03T05:11:39+00:00</published>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This is a relatively unexciting cycle for documentation.

   - Some small scripts/kerneldoc fixes

   - More Chinese translation work, but at a much reduced rate.

   - The tip-tree maintainer's handbook

  ...plus the usual array of build fixes, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (53 commits)
  kernel-doc: support DECLARE_PHY_INTERFACE_MASK()
  docs/zh_CN: add core-api xarray translation
  docs/zh_CN: add core-api assoc_array translation
  speakup: Fix typo in documentation "boo" -&gt; "boot"
  docs: submitting-patches: make section about the Link: tag more explicit
  docs: deprecated.rst: Clarify open-coded arithmetic with literals
  scripts: documentation-file-ref-check: fix bpf selftests path
  scripts: documentation-file-ref-check: ignore hidden files
  coding-style.rst: trivial: fix location of driver model macros
  docs: f2fs: fix text alignment
  docs/zh_CN add PCI pci.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN add PCI index.rst translation
  docs: translations: zh_CN: memory-hotplug.rst: fix a typo
  docs: translations: zn_CN: irq-affinity.rst: add a missing extension
  block: add documentation for inflight
  scripts: kernel-doc: Ignore __alloc_size() attribute
  docs: pdfdocs: Adjust \headheight for fancyhdr
  docs: UML: user_mode_linux_howto_v2 edits
  docs: use the lore redirector everywhere
  docs: proc.rst: mountinfo: align columns
  ...
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This is a relatively unexciting cycle for documentation.

   - Some small scripts/kerneldoc fixes

   - More Chinese translation work, but at a much reduced rate.

   - The tip-tree maintainer's handbook

  ...plus the usual array of build fixes, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (53 commits)
  kernel-doc: support DECLARE_PHY_INTERFACE_MASK()
  docs/zh_CN: add core-api xarray translation
  docs/zh_CN: add core-api assoc_array translation
  speakup: Fix typo in documentation "boo" -&gt; "boot"
  docs: submitting-patches: make section about the Link: tag more explicit
  docs: deprecated.rst: Clarify open-coded arithmetic with literals
  scripts: documentation-file-ref-check: fix bpf selftests path
  scripts: documentation-file-ref-check: ignore hidden files
  coding-style.rst: trivial: fix location of driver model macros
  docs: f2fs: fix text alignment
  docs/zh_CN add PCI pci.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN add PCI index.rst translation
  docs: translations: zh_CN: memory-hotplug.rst: fix a typo
  docs: translations: zn_CN: irq-affinity.rst: add a missing extension
  block: add documentation for inflight
  scripts: kernel-doc: Ignore __alloc_size() attribute
  docs: pdfdocs: Adjust \headheight for fancyhdr
  docs: UML: user_mode_linux_howto_v2 edits
  docs: use the lore redirector everywhere
  docs: proc.rst: mountinfo: align columns
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>selftests: KVM: Introduce system counter offset test</title>
<updated>2021-10-18T18:43:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oupton@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-16T18:15:51+00:00</published>
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Introduce a KVM selftest to verify that userspace manipulation of the
TSC (via the new vCPU attribute) results in the correct behavior within
the guest.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210916181555.973085-6-oupton@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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Introduce a KVM selftest to verify that userspace manipulation of the
TSC (via the new vCPU attribute) results in the correct behavior within
the guest.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210916181555.973085-6-oupton@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Expose TSC offset controls to userspace</title>
<updated>2021-10-18T18:43:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oupton@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-16T18:15:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=828ca89628bfcb1b8f27535025f69dd00eb55207'/>
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To date, VMM-directed TSC synchronization and migration has been a bit
messy. KVM has some baked-in heuristics around TSC writes to infer if
the VMM is attempting to synchronize. This is problematic, as it depends
on host userspace writing to the guest's TSC within 1 second of the last
write.

A much cleaner approach to configuring the guest's views of the TSC is to
simply migrate the TSC offset for every vCPU. Offsets are idempotent,
and thus not subject to change depending on when the VMM actually
reads/writes values from/to KVM. The VMM can then read the TSC once with
KVM_GET_CLOCK to capture a (realtime, host_tsc) pair at the instant when
the guest is paused.

Cc: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210916181538.968978-8-oupton@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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To date, VMM-directed TSC synchronization and migration has been a bit
messy. KVM has some baked-in heuristics around TSC writes to infer if
the VMM is attempting to synchronize. This is problematic, as it depends
on host userspace writing to the guest's TSC within 1 second of the last
write.

A much cleaner approach to configuring the guest's views of the TSC is to
simply migrate the TSC offset for every vCPU. Offsets are idempotent,
and thus not subject to change depending on when the VMM actually
reads/writes values from/to KVM. The VMM can then read the TSC once with
KVM_GET_CLOCK to capture a (realtime, host_tsc) pair at the instant when
the guest is paused.

Cc: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210916181538.968978-8-oupton@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>KVM: x86: Report host tsc and realtime values in KVM_GET_CLOCK</title>
<updated>2021-10-18T18:43:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oupton@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-16T18:15:35+00:00</published>
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Handling the migration of TSCs correctly is difficult, in part because
Linux does not provide userspace with the ability to retrieve a (TSC,
realtime) clock pair for a single instant in time. In lieu of a more
convenient facility, KVM can report similar information in the kvm_clock
structure.

Provide userspace with a host TSC &amp; realtime pair iff the realtime clock
is based on the TSC. If userspace provides KVM_SET_CLOCK with a valid
realtime value, advance the KVM clock by the amount of elapsed time. Do
not step the KVM clock backwards, though, as it is a monotonic
oscillator.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210916181538.968978-5-oupton@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Handling the migration of TSCs correctly is difficult, in part because
Linux does not provide userspace with the ability to retrieve a (TSC,
realtime) clock pair for a single instant in time. In lieu of a more
convenient facility, KVM can report similar information in the kvm_clock
structure.

Provide userspace with a host TSC &amp; realtime pair iff the realtime clock
is based on the TSC. If userspace provides KVM_SET_CLOCK with a valid
realtime value, advance the KVM clock by the amount of elapsed time. Do
not step the KVM clock backwards, though, as it is a monotonic
oscillator.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oupton@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210916181538.968978-5-oupton@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>docs: UML: user_mode_linux_howto_v2 edits</title>
<updated>2021-10-12T20:07:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-10T06:48:27+00:00</published>
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Fix various typos, command syntax, punctuation, capitalization,
and whitespace.

Fixes: 04301bf5b072 ("docs: replace the old User Mode Linux HowTo with a new one")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-By: anton ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211010064827.3405-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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Fix various typos, command syntax, punctuation, capitalization,
and whitespace.

Fixes: 04301bf5b072 ("docs: replace the old User Mode Linux HowTo with a new one")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Anton Ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-By: anton ivanov &lt;anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211010064827.3405-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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