linux-stable.git/Documentation/virtual, branch v3.16.40

KVM: MMU: fix SMAP virtualization

2015-06-02T11:08:13+00:00

commit 0be0226f07d14b153a5eedf2bb86e1eb7dcefab5 upstream.

KVM may turn a user page to a kernel page when kernel writes a readonly
user page if CR0.WP = 1. This shadow page entry will be reused after
SMAP is enabled so that kernel is allowed to access this user page

Fix it by setting SMAP && !CR0.WP into shadow page's role and reset mmu
once CR4.SMAP is updated

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

arm/arm64: KVM: Correct KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT power off option

2015-05-20T12:25:50+00:00

commit 3ad8b3de526a76fbe9466b366059e4958957b88f upstream.

The implementation of KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT is currently not doing what
userspace expects, namely making sure that a vcpu which may have been
turned off using PSCI is returned to its initial state, which would be
powered on if userspace does not set the KVM_ARM_VCPU_POWER_OFF flag.

Implement the expected functionality and clarify the ABI.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier 
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall 
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao 
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

kvm: fix potentially corrupt mmio cache

2014-10-30T16:40:10+00:00

commit ee3d1570b58677885b4552bce8217fda7b226a68 upstream.

vcpu exits and memslot mutations can run concurrently as long as the
vcpu does not aquire the slots mutex. Thus it is theoretically possible
for memslots to change underneath a vcpu that is handling an exit.

If we increment the memslot generation number again after
synchronize_srcu_expedited(), vcpus can safely cache memslot generation
without maintaining a single rcu_dereference through an entire vm exit.
And much of the x86/kvm code does not maintain a single rcu_dereference
of the current memslots during each exit.

We can prevent the following case:

   vcpu (CPU 0)                             | thread (CPU 1)
--------------------------------------------+--------------------------
1  vm exit                                  |
2  srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu)             |
3  decide to cache something based on       |
     old memslots                           |
4                                           | change memslots
                                            | (increments generation)
5                                           | synchronize_srcu(&kvm->srcu);
6  retrieve generation # from new memslots  |
7  tag cache with new memslot generation    |
8  srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu)             |
...                                         |
                       |
...                                         |
                                  |
                                            |

By incrementing the generation after synchronizing with kvm->srcu readers,
we ensure that the generation retrieved in (6) will become invalid soon
after (8).

Keeping the existing increment is not strictly necessary, but we
do keep it and just move it for consistency from update_memslots to
install_new_memslots.  It invalidates old cached MMIOs immediately,
instead of having to wait for the end of synchronize_srcu_expedited,
which makes the code more clearly correct in case CPU 1 is preempted
right after synchronize_srcu() returns.

To avoid halving the generation space in SPTEs, always presume that the
low bit of the generation is zero when reconstructing a generation number
out of an SPTE.  This effectively disables MMIO caching in SPTEs during
the call to synchronize_srcu_expedited.  Using the low bit this way is
somewhat like a seqcount---where the protected thing is a cache, and
instead of retrying we can simply punt if we observe the low bit to be 1.

Signed-off-by: David Matlack 
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong 
Reviewed-by: David Matlack 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: PPC: Book3S: Fix LPCR one_reg interface

2014-09-05T23:36:32+00:00

commit a0840240c0c6bcbac8f0f5db11f95c19aaf9b52f upstream.

Unfortunately, the LPCR got defined as a 32-bit register in the
one_reg interface.  This is unfortunate because KVM allows userspace
to control the DPFD (default prefetch depth) field, which is in the
upper 32 bits.  The result is that DPFD always get set to 0, which
reduces performance in the guest.

We can't just change KVM_REG_PPC_LPCR to be a 64-bit register ID,
since that would break existing userspace binaries.  Instead we define
a new KVM_REG_PPC_LPCR_64 id which is 64-bit.  Userspace can still use
the old KVM_REG_PPC_LPCR id, but it now only modifies those fields in
the bottom 32 bits that userspace can modify (ILE, TC and AIL).
If userspace uses the new KVM_REG_PPC_LPCR_64 id, it can modify DPFD
as well.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial into next

2014-06-04T15:50:34+00:00

Pull trivial tree changes from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual pile of patches from trivial tree that make the world go round"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits)
  staging: go7007: remove reference to CONFIG_KMOD
  aic7xxx: Remove obsolete preprocessor define
  of: dma: doc fixes
  doc: fix incorrect formula to calculate CommitLimit value
  doc: Note need of bc in the kernel build from 3.10 onwards
  mm: Fix printk typo in dmapool.c
  modpost: Fix comment typo "Modules.symvers"
  Kconfig.debug: Grammar s/addition/additional/
  wimax: Spelling s/than/that/, wording s/destinatary/recipient/
  aic7xxx: Spelling s/termnation/termination/
  arm64: mm: Remove superfluous "the" in comment
  of: Spelling s/anonymouns/anonymous/
  dma: imx-sdma: Spelling s/determnine/determine/
  ath10k: Improve grammar in comments
  ath6kl: Spelling s/determnine/determine/
  of: Improve grammar for of_alias_get_id() documentation
  drm/exynos: Spelling s/contro/control/
  radio-bcm2048.c: fix wrong overflow check
  doc: printk-formats: do not mention casts for u64/s64
  doc: spelling error changes
  ...

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm into next

2014-06-04T15:47:12+00:00

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "At over 200 commits, covering almost all supported architectures, this
  was a pretty active cycle for KVM.  Changes include:

   - a lot of s390 changes: optimizations, support for migration, GDB
     support and more

   - ARM changes are pretty small: support for the PSCI 0.2 hypercall
     interface on both the guest and the host (the latter acked by
     Catalin)

   - initial POWER8 and little-endian host support

   - support for running u-boot on embedded POWER targets

   - pretty large changes to MIPS too, completing the userspace
     interface and improving the handling of virtualized timer hardware

   - for x86, a larger set of changes is scheduled for 3.17.  Still, we
     have a few emulator bugfixes and support for running nested
     fully-virtualized Xen guests (para-virtualized Xen guests have
     always worked).  And some optimizations too.

  The only missing architecture here is ia64.  It's not a coincidence
  that support for KVM on ia64 is scheduled for removal in 3.17"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (203 commits)
  KVM: add missing cleanup_srcu_struct
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Rework SLB switching code
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Use SLB entry 0
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix machine check delivery to guest
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around POWER8 performance monitor bugs
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make sure we don't miss dirty pages
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix dirty map for hugepages
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Put huge-page HPTEs in rmap chain for base address
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix check for running inside guest in global_invalidates()
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move KVM_REG_PPC_WORT to an unused register number
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add ONE_REG register names that were missed
  KVM: PPC: Add CAP to indicate hcall fixes
  KVM: PPC: MPIC: Reset IRQ source private members
  KVM: PPC: Graciously fail broken LE hypercalls
  PPC: ePAPR: Fix hypercall on LE guest
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: Remove open coded make_dsisr in alignment handler
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: Always use the saved DAR value
  PPC: KVM: Make NX bit available with magic page
  KVM: PPC: Disable NX for old magic page using guests
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: Add mixed page-size support for guest
  ...

Merge tag 'signed-kvm-ppc-next' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6 into kvm-next

2014-05-30T12:51:40+00:00

Patch queue for ppc - 2014-05-30

In this round we have a few nice gems. PR KVM gains initial POWER8 support
as well as LE host awareness, ihe e500 targets can now properly run u-boot,
LE guests now work with PR KVM including KVM hypercalls and HV KVM guests
can now use huge pages.

On top of this there are some bug fixes.

Conflicts:
	include/uapi/linux/kvm.h

KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move KVM_REG_PPC_WORT to an unused register number

2014-05-30T12:26:28+00:00

Commit b005255e12a3 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Context-switch new POWER8
SPRs") added a definition of KVM_REG_PPC_WORT with the same register
number as the existing KVM_REG_PPC_VRSAVE (though in fact the
definitions are not identical because of the different register sizes.)

For clarity, this moves KVM_REG_PPC_WORT to the next unused number,
and also adds it to api.txt.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf

KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add ONE_REG register names that were missed

2014-05-30T12:26:27+00:00

Commit 3b7834743f9 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Reserve POWER8 space in get/set_one_reg") added definitions for several KVM_REG_PPC_* symbols
but missed adding some to api.txt.  This adds them.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf

KVM: PPC: Disable NX for old magic page using guests

2014-05-30T12:26:24+00:00

Old guests try to use the magic page, but map their trampoline code inside
of an NX region.

Since we can't fix those old kernels, try to detect whether the guest is sane
or not. If not, just disable NX functionality in KVM so that old guests at
least work at all. For newer guests, add a bit that we can set to keep NX
functionality available.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf