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<title>Documentation: kvm: remove KVM_CAP_MIPS_TE</title>
<updated>2025-04-04T10:32:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-04-01T13:04:06+00:00</published>
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Trap and emulate virtualization is not available anymore for MIPS.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Trap and emulate virtualization is not available anymore for MIPS.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>Documentation: kvm: organize capabilities in the right section</title>
<updated>2025-04-04T10:32:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-04-01T12:57:39+00:00</published>
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Categorize the capabilities correctly.  Section 6 is for enabled vCPU
capabilities; section 7 is for enabled VM capabilities; section 8 is
for informational ones.

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Categorize the capabilities correctly.  Section 6 is for enabled vCPU
capabilities; section 7 is for enabled VM capabilities; section 8 is
for informational ones.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Documentation: kvm: fix some definition lists</title>
<updated>2025-04-04T10:32:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-04-01T12:54:40+00:00</published>
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Ensure that they have a ":" in front of the defined item.

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Ensure that they have a ":" in front of the defined item.

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<title>Documentation: kvm: drop "Capability" heading from capabilities</title>
<updated>2025-04-04T10:32:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-01T12:50:43+00:00</published>
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It is redundant, and sometimes wrong.

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It is redundant, and sometimes wrong.

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<entry>
<title>Documentation: kvm: give correct name for KVM_CAP_SPAPR_MULTITCE</title>
<updated>2025-04-04T10:32:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-01T12:50:11+00:00</published>
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The capability is incorrectly called KVM_CAP_PPC_MULTITCE in the documentation.

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The capability is incorrectly called KVM_CAP_PPC_MULTITCE in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Documentation: KVM: KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID now exposes TSC_DEADLINE</title>
<updated>2025-04-04T10:24:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-31T15:05:50+00:00</published>
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TSC_DEADLINE is now advertised unconditionally by KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID,
since commit 9be4ec35d668 ("KVM: x86: Advertise TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER in
KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID", 2024-12-18).  Adjust the documentation to
reflect the new behavior.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250331150550.510320-1-pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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TSC_DEADLINE is now advertised unconditionally by KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID,
since commit 9be4ec35d668 ("KVM: x86: Advertise TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER in
KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID", 2024-12-18).  Adjust the documentation to
reflect the new behavior.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250331150550.510320-1-pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvmarm-6.15' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD</title>
<updated>2025-03-20T16:54:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-20T16:54:12+00:00</published>
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KVM/arm64 updates for 6.15

 - Nested virtualization support for VGICv3, giving the nested
   hypervisor control of the VGIC hardware when running an L2 VM

 - Removal of 'late' nested virtualization feature register masking,
   making the supported feature set directly visible to userspace

 - Support for emulating FEAT_PMUv3 on Apple silicon, taking advantage
   of an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED trap that covers all PMUv3 registers

 - Paravirtual interface for discovering the set of CPU implementations
   where a VM may run, addressing a longstanding issue of guest CPU
   errata awareness in big-little systems and cross-implementation VM
   migration

 - Userspace control of the registers responsible for identifying a
   particular CPU implementation (MIDR_EL1, REVIDR_EL1, AIDR_EL1),
   allowing VMs to be migrated cross-implementation

 - pKVM updates, including support for tracking stage-2 page table
   allocations in the protected hypervisor in the 'SecPageTable' stat

 - Fixes to vPMU, ensuring that userspace updates to the vPMU after
   KVM_RUN are reflected into the backing perf events
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KVM/arm64 updates for 6.15

 - Nested virtualization support for VGICv3, giving the nested
   hypervisor control of the VGIC hardware when running an L2 VM

 - Removal of 'late' nested virtualization feature register masking,
   making the supported feature set directly visible to userspace

 - Support for emulating FEAT_PMUv3 on Apple silicon, taking advantage
   of an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED trap that covers all PMUv3 registers

 - Paravirtual interface for discovering the set of CPU implementations
   where a VM may run, addressing a longstanding issue of guest CPU
   errata awareness in big-little systems and cross-implementation VM
   migration

 - Userspace control of the registers responsible for identifying a
   particular CPU implementation (MIDR_EL1, REVIDR_EL1, AIDR_EL1),
   allowing VMs to be migrated cross-implementation

 - pKVM updates, including support for tracking stage-2 page table
   allocations in the protected hypervisor in the 'SecPageTable' stat

 - Fixes to vPMU, ensuring that userspace updates to the vPMU after
   KVM_RUN are reflected into the backing perf events
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-arm64/writable-midr' into kvmarm/next</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T21:54:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-19T21:54:32+00:00</published>
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* kvm-arm64/writable-midr:
  : Writable implementation ID registers, courtesy of Sebastian Ott
  :
  : Introduce a new capability that allows userspace to set the
  : ID registers that identify a CPU implementation: MIDR_EL1, REVIDR_EL1,
  : and AIDR_EL1. Also plug a hole in KVM's trap configuration where
  : SMIDR_EL1 was readable at EL1, despite the fact that KVM does not
  : support SME.
  KVM: arm64: Fix documentation for KVM_CAP_ARM_WRITABLE_IMP_ID_REGS
  KVM: arm64: Copy MIDR_EL1 into hyp VM when it is writable
  KVM: arm64: Copy guest CTR_EL0 into hyp VM
  KVM: selftests: arm64: Test writes to MIDR,REVIDR,AIDR
  KVM: arm64: Allow userspace to change the implementation ID registers
  KVM: arm64: Load VPIDR_EL2 with the VM's MIDR_EL1 value
  KVM: arm64: Maintain per-VM copy of implementation ID regs
  KVM: arm64: Set HCR_EL2.TID1 unconditionally

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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* kvm-arm64/writable-midr:
  : Writable implementation ID registers, courtesy of Sebastian Ott
  :
  : Introduce a new capability that allows userspace to set the
  : ID registers that identify a CPU implementation: MIDR_EL1, REVIDR_EL1,
  : and AIDR_EL1. Also plug a hole in KVM's trap configuration where
  : SMIDR_EL1 was readable at EL1, despite the fact that KVM does not
  : support SME.
  KVM: arm64: Fix documentation for KVM_CAP_ARM_WRITABLE_IMP_ID_REGS
  KVM: arm64: Copy MIDR_EL1 into hyp VM when it is writable
  KVM: arm64: Copy guest CTR_EL0 into hyp VM
  KVM: selftests: arm64: Test writes to MIDR,REVIDR,AIDR
  KVM: arm64: Allow userspace to change the implementation ID registers
  KVM: arm64: Load VPIDR_EL2 with the VM's MIDR_EL1 value
  KVM: arm64: Maintain per-VM copy of implementation ID regs
  KVM: arm64: Set HCR_EL2.TID1 unconditionally

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'kvm-arm64/pv-cpuid' into kvmarm/next</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T21:53:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-19T21:53:09+00:00</published>
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* kvm-arm64/pv-cpuid:
  : Paravirtualized implementation ID, courtesy of Shameer Kolothum
  :
  : Big-little has historically been a pain in the ass to virtualize. The
  : implementation ID (MIDR, REVIDR, AIDR) of a vCPU can change at the whim
  : of vCPU scheduling. This can be particularly annoying when the guest
  : needs to know the underlying implementation to mitigate errata.
  :
  : "Hyperscalers" face a similar scheduling problem, where VMs may freely
  : migrate between hosts in a pool of heterogenous hardware. And yes, our
  : server-class friends are equally riddled with errata too.
  :
  : In absence of an architected solution to this wart on the ecosystem,
  : introduce support for paravirtualizing the implementation exposed
  : to a VM, allowing the VMM to describe the pool of implementations that a
  : VM may be exposed to due to scheduling/migration.
  :
  : Userspace is expected to intercept and handle these hypercalls using the
  : SMCCC filter UAPI, should it choose to do so.
  smccc: kvm_guest: Fix kernel builds for 32 bit arm
  KVM: selftests: Add test for KVM_REG_ARM_VENDOR_HYP_BMAP_2
  smccc/kvm_guest: Enable errata based on implementation CPUs
  arm64: Make  _midr_in_range_list() an exported function
  KVM: arm64: Introduce KVM_REG_ARM_VENDOR_HYP_BMAP_2
  KVM: arm64: Specify hypercall ABI for retrieving target implementations
  arm64: Modify _midr_range() functions to read MIDR/REVIDR internally

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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* kvm-arm64/pv-cpuid:
  : Paravirtualized implementation ID, courtesy of Shameer Kolothum
  :
  : Big-little has historically been a pain in the ass to virtualize. The
  : implementation ID (MIDR, REVIDR, AIDR) of a vCPU can change at the whim
  : of vCPU scheduling. This can be particularly annoying when the guest
  : needs to know the underlying implementation to mitigate errata.
  :
  : "Hyperscalers" face a similar scheduling problem, where VMs may freely
  : migrate between hosts in a pool of heterogenous hardware. And yes, our
  : server-class friends are equally riddled with errata too.
  :
  : In absence of an architected solution to this wart on the ecosystem,
  : introduce support for paravirtualizing the implementation exposed
  : to a VM, allowing the VMM to describe the pool of implementations that a
  : VM may be exposed to due to scheduling/migration.
  :
  : Userspace is expected to intercept and handle these hypercalls using the
  : SMCCC filter UAPI, should it choose to do so.
  smccc: kvm_guest: Fix kernel builds for 32 bit arm
  KVM: selftests: Add test for KVM_REG_ARM_VENDOR_HYP_BMAP_2
  smccc/kvm_guest: Enable errata based on implementation CPUs
  arm64: Make  _midr_in_range_list() an exported function
  KVM: arm64: Introduce KVM_REG_ARM_VENDOR_HYP_BMAP_2
  KVM: arm64: Specify hypercall ABI for retrieving target implementations
  arm64: Modify _midr_range() functions to read MIDR/REVIDR internally

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'kvm-arm64/nv-vgic' into kvmarm/next</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T21:51:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-19T21:51:39+00:00</published>
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* kvm-arm64/nv-vgic:
  : NV VGICv3 support, courtesy of Marc Zyngier
  :
  : Support for emulating the GIC hypervisor controls and managing shadow
  : VGICv3 state for the L1 hypervisor. As part of it, bring in support for
  : taking IRQs to the L1 and UAPI to manage the VGIC maintenance interrupt.
  KVM: arm64: nv: Fail KVM init if asking for NV without GICv3
  KVM: arm64: nv: Allow userland to set VGIC maintenance IRQ
  KVM: arm64: nv: Fold GICv3 host trapping requirements into guest setup
  KVM: arm64: nv: Propagate used_lrs between L1 and L0 contexts
  KVM: arm64: nv: Request vPE doorbell upon nested ERET to L2
  KVM: arm64: nv: Respect virtual HCR_EL2.TWx setting
  KVM: arm64: nv: Add Maintenance Interrupt emulation
  KVM: arm64: nv: Handle L2-&gt;L1 transition on interrupt injection
  KVM: arm64: nv: Nested GICv3 emulation
  KVM: arm64: nv: Sanitise ICH_HCR_EL2 accesses
  KVM: arm64: nv: Plumb handling of GICv3 EL2 accesses
  KVM: arm64: nv: Add ICH_*_EL2 registers to vpcu_sysreg
  KVM: arm64: nv: Load timer before the GIC
  arm64: sysreg: Add layout for ICH_MISR_EL2
  arm64: sysreg: Add layout for ICH_VTR_EL2
  arm64: sysreg: Add layout for ICH_HCR_EL2

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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* kvm-arm64/nv-vgic:
  : NV VGICv3 support, courtesy of Marc Zyngier
  :
  : Support for emulating the GIC hypervisor controls and managing shadow
  : VGICv3 state for the L1 hypervisor. As part of it, bring in support for
  : taking IRQs to the L1 and UAPI to manage the VGIC maintenance interrupt.
  KVM: arm64: nv: Fail KVM init if asking for NV without GICv3
  KVM: arm64: nv: Allow userland to set VGIC maintenance IRQ
  KVM: arm64: nv: Fold GICv3 host trapping requirements into guest setup
  KVM: arm64: nv: Propagate used_lrs between L1 and L0 contexts
  KVM: arm64: nv: Request vPE doorbell upon nested ERET to L2
  KVM: arm64: nv: Respect virtual HCR_EL2.TWx setting
  KVM: arm64: nv: Add Maintenance Interrupt emulation
  KVM: arm64: nv: Handle L2-&gt;L1 transition on interrupt injection
  KVM: arm64: nv: Nested GICv3 emulation
  KVM: arm64: nv: Sanitise ICH_HCR_EL2 accesses
  KVM: arm64: nv: Plumb handling of GICv3 EL2 accesses
  KVM: arm64: nv: Add ICH_*_EL2 registers to vpcu_sysreg
  KVM: arm64: nv: Load timer before the GIC
  arm64: sysreg: Add layout for ICH_MISR_EL2
  arm64: sysreg: Add layout for ICH_VTR_EL2
  arm64: sysreg: Add layout for ICH_HCR_EL2

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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