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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>tools/include: Sync arm64 asm/cputype.h with the kernel sources</title>
<updated>2024-04-11T17:38:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-08T18:55:20+00:00</published>
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To pick up the changes from:

  fb091ff39479 ("arm64: Subscribe Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 to ARM Neoverse N2 errata")

This should address these tools/perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408185520.1550865-10-namhyung@kernel.org
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To pick up the changes from:

  fb091ff39479 ("arm64: Subscribe Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 to ARM Neoverse N2 errata")

This should address these tools/perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408185520.1550865-10-namhyung@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>tools/include: Sync x86 asm/msr-index.h with the kernel sources</title>
<updated>2024-04-11T17:38:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-08T18:55:18+00:00</published>
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To pick up the changes from:

  8076fcde016c ("x86/rfds: Mitigate Register File Data Sampling (RFDS)")
  d7b69b590bc9 ("x86/sev: Dump SEV_STATUS")
  cd6df3f378f6 ("x86/cpu: Add MSR numbers for FRED configuration")
  216d106c7ff7 ("x86/sev: Add SEV-SNP host initialization support")

This should address these tools/perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h

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: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408185520.1550865-8-namhyung@kernel.org
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To pick up the changes from:

  8076fcde016c ("x86/rfds: Mitigate Register File Data Sampling (RFDS)")
  d7b69b590bc9 ("x86/sev: Dump SEV_STATUS")
  cd6df3f378f6 ("x86/cpu: Add MSR numbers for FRED configuration")
  216d106c7ff7 ("x86/sev: Add SEV-SNP host initialization support")

This should address these tools/perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h

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: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408185520.1550865-8-namhyung@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools/include: Sync x86 asm/irq_vectors.h with the kernel sources</title>
<updated>2024-04-11T17:38:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-08T18:55:17+00:00</published>
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To pick up the changes from:

  0cbca1bf44a0 ("x86: irq: unconditionally define KVM interrupt vectors")

This should address these tools/perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h

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: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408185520.1550865-7-namhyung@kernel.org
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<pre>
To pick up the changes from:

  0cbca1bf44a0 ("x86: irq: unconditionally define KVM interrupt vectors")

This should address these tools/perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h

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: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408185520.1550865-7-namhyung@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools/include: Sync x86 CPU feature headers with the kernel sources</title>
<updated>2024-04-11T17:38:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-08T18:55:16+00:00</published>
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To pick up the changes from:

  598c2fafc06f ("perf/x86/amd/lbr: Use freeze based on availability")
  7f274e609f3d ("x86/cpufeatures: Add new word for scattered features")

This should address these tools/perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h

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: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408185520.1550865-6-namhyung@kernel.org
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<pre>
To pick up the changes from:

  598c2fafc06f ("perf/x86/amd/lbr: Use freeze based on availability")
  7f274e609f3d ("x86/cpufeatures: Add new word for scattered features")

This should address these tools/perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h

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: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408185520.1550865-6-namhyung@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools/include: Sync uapi/linux/kvm.h and asm/kvm.h with the kernel sources</title>
<updated>2024-04-11T17:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-08T18:55:14+00:00</published>
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To pick up the changes from:

  6bda055d6258 ("KVM: define __KVM_HAVE_GUEST_DEBUG unconditionally")
  5d9cb71642db ("KVM: arm64: move ARM-specific defines to uapi/asm/kvm.h")
  71cd774ad2f9 ("KVM: s390: move s390-specific structs to uapi/asm/kvm.h")
  d750951c9ed7 ("KVM: powerpc: move powerpc-specific structs to uapi/asm/kvm.h")
  bcac0477277e ("KVM: x86: move x86-specific structs to uapi/asm/kvm.h")
  c0a411904e15 ("KVM: remove more traces of device assignment UAPI")
  f3c80061c0d3 ("KVM: SEV: fix compat ABI for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP")

That should be used to beautify the KVM arguments and it addresses these
tools/perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
    diff -u tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
    diff -u tools/arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
    diff -u tools/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h

Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408185520.1550865-4-namhyung@kernel.org
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To pick up the changes from:

  6bda055d6258 ("KVM: define __KVM_HAVE_GUEST_DEBUG unconditionally")
  5d9cb71642db ("KVM: arm64: move ARM-specific defines to uapi/asm/kvm.h")
  71cd774ad2f9 ("KVM: s390: move s390-specific structs to uapi/asm/kvm.h")
  d750951c9ed7 ("KVM: powerpc: move powerpc-specific structs to uapi/asm/kvm.h")
  bcac0477277e ("KVM: x86: move x86-specific structs to uapi/asm/kvm.h")
  c0a411904e15 ("KVM: remove more traces of device assignment UAPI")
  f3c80061c0d3 ("KVM: SEV: fix compat ABI for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP")

That should be used to beautify the KVM arguments and it addresses these
tools/perf build warnings:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
    diff -u tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
    diff -u tools/arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
    diff -u tools/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h

Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408185520.1550865-4-namhyung@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'loongarch-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson</title>
<updated>2024-03-22T17:22:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-22T17:22:45+00:00</published>
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Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen:

 - Add objtool support for LoongArch

 - Add ORC stack unwinder support for LoongArch

 - Add kernel livepatching support for LoongArch

 - Select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER in Kconfig

 - Select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR in Kconfig

 - Some bug fixes and other small changes

* tag 'loongarch-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson:
  LoongArch/crypto: Clean up useless assignment operations
  LoongArch: Define the __io_aw() hook as mmiowb()
  LoongArch: Remove superfluous flush_dcache_page() definition
  LoongArch: Move {dmw,tlb}_virt_to_page() definition to page.h
  LoongArch: Change __my_cpu_offset definition to avoid mis-optimization
  LoongArch: Select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR in Kconfig
  LoongArch: Select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER in Kconfig
  LoongArch: Add kernel livepatching support
  LoongArch: Add ORC stack unwinder support
  objtool: Check local label in read_unwind_hints()
  objtool: Check local label in add_dead_ends()
  objtool/LoongArch: Enable orc to be built
  objtool/x86: Separate arch-specific and generic parts
  objtool/LoongArch: Implement instruction decoder
  objtool/LoongArch: Enable objtool to be built
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Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen:

 - Add objtool support for LoongArch

 - Add ORC stack unwinder support for LoongArch

 - Add kernel livepatching support for LoongArch

 - Select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER in Kconfig

 - Select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR in Kconfig

 - Some bug fixes and other small changes

* tag 'loongarch-6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson:
  LoongArch/crypto: Clean up useless assignment operations
  LoongArch: Define the __io_aw() hook as mmiowb()
  LoongArch: Remove superfluous flush_dcache_page() definition
  LoongArch: Move {dmw,tlb}_virt_to_page() definition to page.h
  LoongArch: Change __my_cpu_offset definition to avoid mis-optimization
  LoongArch: Select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR in Kconfig
  LoongArch: Select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER in Kconfig
  LoongArch: Add kernel livepatching support
  LoongArch: Add ORC stack unwinder support
  objtool: Check local label in read_unwind_hints()
  objtool: Check local label in add_dead_ends()
  objtool/LoongArch: Enable orc to be built
  objtool/x86: Separate arch-specific and generic parts
  objtool/LoongArch: Implement instruction decoder
  objtool/LoongArch: Enable objtool to be built
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2024-03-15T20:03:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-15T20:03:13+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "S390:

   - Changes to FPU handling came in via the main s390 pull request

   - Only deliver to the guest the SCLP events that userspace has
     requested

   - More virtual vs physical address fixes (only a cleanup since
     virtual and physical address spaces are currently the same)

   - Fix selftests undefined behavior

  x86:

   - Fix a restriction that the guest can't program a PMU event whose
     encoding matches an architectural event that isn't included in the
     guest CPUID. The enumeration of an architectural event only says
     that if a CPU supports an architectural event, then the event can
     be programmed *using the architectural encoding*. The enumeration
     does NOT say anything about the encoding when the CPU doesn't
     report support the event *in general*. It might support it, and it
     might support it using the same encoding that made it into the
     architectural PMU spec

   - Fix a variety of bugs in KVM's emulation of RDPMC (more details on
     individual commits) and add a selftest to verify KVM correctly
     emulates RDMPC, counter availability, and a variety of other
     PMC-related behaviors that depend on guest CPUID and therefore are
     easier to validate with selftests than with custom guests (aka
     kvm-unit-tests)

   - Zero out PMU state on AMD if the virtual PMU is disabled, it does
     not cause any bug but it wastes time in various cases where KVM
     would check if a PMC event needs to be synthesized

   - Optimize triggering of emulated events, with a nice ~10%
     performance improvement in VM-Exit microbenchmarks when a vPMU is
     exposed to the guest

   - Tighten the check for "PMI in guest" to reduce false positives if
     an NMI arrives in the host while KVM is handling an IRQ VM-Exit

   - Fix a bug where KVM would report stale/bogus exit qualification
     information when exiting to userspace with an internal error exit
     code

   - Add a VMX flag in /proc/cpuinfo to report 5-level EPT support

   - Rework TDP MMU root unload, free, and alloc to run with mmu_lock
     held for read, e.g. to avoid serializing vCPUs when userspace
     deletes a memslot

   - Tear down TDP MMU page tables at 4KiB granularity (used to be
     1GiB). KVM doesn't support yielding in the middle of processing a
     zap, and 1GiB granularity resulted in multi-millisecond lags that
     are quite impolite for CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels

   - Allocate write-tracking metadata on-demand to avoid the memory
     overhead when a kernel is built with i915 virtualization support
     but the workloads use neither shadow paging nor i915 virtualization

   - Explicitly initialize a variety of on-stack variables in the
     emulator that triggered KMSAN false positives

   - Fix the debugregs ABI for 32-bit KVM

   - Rework the "force immediate exit" code so that vendor code
     ultimately decides how and when to force the exit, which allowed
     some optimization for both Intel and AMD

   - Fix a long-standing bug where kvm_has_noapic_vcpu could be left
     elevated if vCPU creation ultimately failed, causing extra
     unnecessary work

   - Cleanup the logic for checking if the currently loaded vCPU is
     in-kernel

   - Harden against underflowing the active mmu_notifier invalidation
     count, so that "bad" invalidations (usually due to bugs elsehwere
     in the kernel) are detected earlier and are less likely to hang the
     kernel

  x86 Xen emulation:

   - Overlay pages can now be cached based on host virtual address,
     instead of guest physical addresses. This removes the need to
     reconfigure and invalidate the cache if the guest changes the gpa
     but the underlying host virtual address remains the same

   - When possible, use a single host TSC value when computing the
     deadline for Xen timers in order to improve the accuracy of the
     timer emulation

   - Inject pending upcall events when the vCPU software-enables its
     APIC to fix a bug where an upcall can be lost (and to follow Xen's
     behavior)

   - Fall back to the slow path instead of warning if "fast" IRQ
     delivery of Xen events fails, e.g. if the guest has aliased xAPIC
     IDs

  RISC-V:

   - Support exception and interrupt handling in selftests

   - New self test for RISC-V architectural timer (Sstc extension)

   - New extension support (Ztso, Zacas)

   - Support userspace emulation of random number seed CSRs

  ARM:

   - Infrastructure for building KVM's trap configuration based on the
     architectural features (or lack thereof) advertised in the VM's ID
     registers

   - Support for mapping vfio-pci BARs as Normal-NC (vaguely similar to
     x86's WC) at stage-2, improving the performance of interacting with
     assigned devices that can tolerate it

   - Conversion of KVM's representation of LPIs to an xarray, utilized
     to address serialization some of the serialization on the LPI
     injection path

   - Support for _architectural_ VHE-only systems, advertised through
     the absence of FEAT_E2H0 in the CPU's ID register

   - Miscellaneous cleanups, fixes, and spelling corrections to KVM and
     selftests

  LoongArch:

   - Set reserved bits as zero in CPUCFG

   - Start SW timer only when vcpu is blocking

   - Do not restart SW timer when it is expired

   - Remove unnecessary CSR register saving during enter guest

   - Misc cleanups and fixes as usual

  Generic:

   - Clean up Kconfig by removing CONFIG_HAVE_KVM, which was basically
     always true on all architectures except MIPS (where Kconfig
     determines the available depending on CPU capabilities). It is
     replaced either by an architecture-dependent symbol for MIPS, and
     IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM) everywhere else

   - Factor common "select" statements in common code instead of
     requiring each architecture to specify it

   - Remove thoroughly obsolete APIs from the uapi headers

   - Move architecture-dependent stuff to uapi/asm/kvm.h

   - Always flush the async page fault workqueue when a work item is
     being removed, especially during vCPU destruction, to ensure that
     there are no workers running in KVM code when all references to
     KVM-the-module are gone, i.e. to prevent a very unlikely
     use-after-free if kvm.ko is unloaded

   - Grab a reference to the VM's mm_struct in the async #PF worker
     itself instead of gifting the worker a reference, so that there's
     no need to remember to *conditionally* clean up after the worker

  Selftests:

   - Reduce boilerplate especially when utilize selftest TAP
     infrastructure

   - Add basic smoke tests for SEV and SEV-ES, along with a pile of
     library support for handling private/encrypted/protected memory

   - Fix benign bugs where tests neglect to close() guest_memfd files"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (246 commits)
  selftests: kvm: remove meaningless assignments in Makefiles
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add Zacas extension to get-reg-list test
  RISC-V: KVM: Allow Zacas extension for Guest/VM
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add Ztso extension to get-reg-list test
  RISC-V: KVM: Allow Ztso extension for Guest/VM
  RISC-V: KVM: Forward SEED CSR access to user space
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add sstc timer test
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Change vcpu_has_ext to a common function
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add guest helper to get vcpu id
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add exception handling support
  LoongArch: KVM: Remove unnecessary CSR register saving during enter guest
  LoongArch: KVM: Do not restart SW timer when it is expired
  LoongArch: KVM: Start SW timer only when vcpu is blocking
  LoongArch: KVM: Set reserved bits as zero in CPUCFG
  KVM: selftests: Explicitly close guest_memfd files in some gmem tests
  KVM: x86/xen: fix recursive deadlock in timer injection
  KVM: pfncache: simplify locking and make more self-contained
  KVM: x86/xen: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() with false positives in evtchn delivery
  KVM: x86/xen: inject vCPU upcall vector when local APIC is enabled
  KVM: x86/xen: improve accuracy of Xen timers
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "S390:

   - Changes to FPU handling came in via the main s390 pull request

   - Only deliver to the guest the SCLP events that userspace has
     requested

   - More virtual vs physical address fixes (only a cleanup since
     virtual and physical address spaces are currently the same)

   - Fix selftests undefined behavior

  x86:

   - Fix a restriction that the guest can't program a PMU event whose
     encoding matches an architectural event that isn't included in the
     guest CPUID. The enumeration of an architectural event only says
     that if a CPU supports an architectural event, then the event can
     be programmed *using the architectural encoding*. The enumeration
     does NOT say anything about the encoding when the CPU doesn't
     report support the event *in general*. It might support it, and it
     might support it using the same encoding that made it into the
     architectural PMU spec

   - Fix a variety of bugs in KVM's emulation of RDPMC (more details on
     individual commits) and add a selftest to verify KVM correctly
     emulates RDMPC, counter availability, and a variety of other
     PMC-related behaviors that depend on guest CPUID and therefore are
     easier to validate with selftests than with custom guests (aka
     kvm-unit-tests)

   - Zero out PMU state on AMD if the virtual PMU is disabled, it does
     not cause any bug but it wastes time in various cases where KVM
     would check if a PMC event needs to be synthesized

   - Optimize triggering of emulated events, with a nice ~10%
     performance improvement in VM-Exit microbenchmarks when a vPMU is
     exposed to the guest

   - Tighten the check for "PMI in guest" to reduce false positives if
     an NMI arrives in the host while KVM is handling an IRQ VM-Exit

   - Fix a bug where KVM would report stale/bogus exit qualification
     information when exiting to userspace with an internal error exit
     code

   - Add a VMX flag in /proc/cpuinfo to report 5-level EPT support

   - Rework TDP MMU root unload, free, and alloc to run with mmu_lock
     held for read, e.g. to avoid serializing vCPUs when userspace
     deletes a memslot

   - Tear down TDP MMU page tables at 4KiB granularity (used to be
     1GiB). KVM doesn't support yielding in the middle of processing a
     zap, and 1GiB granularity resulted in multi-millisecond lags that
     are quite impolite for CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels

   - Allocate write-tracking metadata on-demand to avoid the memory
     overhead when a kernel is built with i915 virtualization support
     but the workloads use neither shadow paging nor i915 virtualization

   - Explicitly initialize a variety of on-stack variables in the
     emulator that triggered KMSAN false positives

   - Fix the debugregs ABI for 32-bit KVM

   - Rework the "force immediate exit" code so that vendor code
     ultimately decides how and when to force the exit, which allowed
     some optimization for both Intel and AMD

   - Fix a long-standing bug where kvm_has_noapic_vcpu could be left
     elevated if vCPU creation ultimately failed, causing extra
     unnecessary work

   - Cleanup the logic for checking if the currently loaded vCPU is
     in-kernel

   - Harden against underflowing the active mmu_notifier invalidation
     count, so that "bad" invalidations (usually due to bugs elsehwere
     in the kernel) are detected earlier and are less likely to hang the
     kernel

  x86 Xen emulation:

   - Overlay pages can now be cached based on host virtual address,
     instead of guest physical addresses. This removes the need to
     reconfigure and invalidate the cache if the guest changes the gpa
     but the underlying host virtual address remains the same

   - When possible, use a single host TSC value when computing the
     deadline for Xen timers in order to improve the accuracy of the
     timer emulation

   - Inject pending upcall events when the vCPU software-enables its
     APIC to fix a bug where an upcall can be lost (and to follow Xen's
     behavior)

   - Fall back to the slow path instead of warning if "fast" IRQ
     delivery of Xen events fails, e.g. if the guest has aliased xAPIC
     IDs

  RISC-V:

   - Support exception and interrupt handling in selftests

   - New self test for RISC-V architectural timer (Sstc extension)

   - New extension support (Ztso, Zacas)

   - Support userspace emulation of random number seed CSRs

  ARM:

   - Infrastructure for building KVM's trap configuration based on the
     architectural features (or lack thereof) advertised in the VM's ID
     registers

   - Support for mapping vfio-pci BARs as Normal-NC (vaguely similar to
     x86's WC) at stage-2, improving the performance of interacting with
     assigned devices that can tolerate it

   - Conversion of KVM's representation of LPIs to an xarray, utilized
     to address serialization some of the serialization on the LPI
     injection path

   - Support for _architectural_ VHE-only systems, advertised through
     the absence of FEAT_E2H0 in the CPU's ID register

   - Miscellaneous cleanups, fixes, and spelling corrections to KVM and
     selftests

  LoongArch:

   - Set reserved bits as zero in CPUCFG

   - Start SW timer only when vcpu is blocking

   - Do not restart SW timer when it is expired

   - Remove unnecessary CSR register saving during enter guest

   - Misc cleanups and fixes as usual

  Generic:

   - Clean up Kconfig by removing CONFIG_HAVE_KVM, which was basically
     always true on all architectures except MIPS (where Kconfig
     determines the available depending on CPU capabilities). It is
     replaced either by an architecture-dependent symbol for MIPS, and
     IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM) everywhere else

   - Factor common "select" statements in common code instead of
     requiring each architecture to specify it

   - Remove thoroughly obsolete APIs from the uapi headers

   - Move architecture-dependent stuff to uapi/asm/kvm.h

   - Always flush the async page fault workqueue when a work item is
     being removed, especially during vCPU destruction, to ensure that
     there are no workers running in KVM code when all references to
     KVM-the-module are gone, i.e. to prevent a very unlikely
     use-after-free if kvm.ko is unloaded

   - Grab a reference to the VM's mm_struct in the async #PF worker
     itself instead of gifting the worker a reference, so that there's
     no need to remember to *conditionally* clean up after the worker

  Selftests:

   - Reduce boilerplate especially when utilize selftest TAP
     infrastructure

   - Add basic smoke tests for SEV and SEV-ES, along with a pile of
     library support for handling private/encrypted/protected memory

   - Fix benign bugs where tests neglect to close() guest_memfd files"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (246 commits)
  selftests: kvm: remove meaningless assignments in Makefiles
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add Zacas extension to get-reg-list test
  RISC-V: KVM: Allow Zacas extension for Guest/VM
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add Ztso extension to get-reg-list test
  RISC-V: KVM: Allow Ztso extension for Guest/VM
  RISC-V: KVM: Forward SEED CSR access to user space
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add sstc timer test
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Change vcpu_has_ext to a common function
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add guest helper to get vcpu id
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add exception handling support
  LoongArch: KVM: Remove unnecessary CSR register saving during enter guest
  LoongArch: KVM: Do not restart SW timer when it is expired
  LoongArch: KVM: Start SW timer only when vcpu is blocking
  LoongArch: KVM: Set reserved bits as zero in CPUCFG
  KVM: selftests: Explicitly close guest_memfd files in some gmem tests
  KVM: x86/xen: fix recursive deadlock in timer injection
  KVM: pfncache: simplify locking and make more self-contained
  KVM: x86/xen: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() with false positives in evtchn delivery
  KVM: x86/xen: inject vCPU upcall vector when local APIC is enabled
  KVM: x86/xen: improve accuracy of Xen timers
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T02:53:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T02:53:15+00:00</published>
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Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code, to support the
   'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature, by Uros Bizjak:

      - This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative memory
        via variables declared with such attributes, which allows the
        compiler to better optimize those accesses than the previous
        inline assembly code.

      - The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations for
        various percpu access methods, plus a number of cleanups of %gs
        accesses in assembly code.

      - These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for the
        last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area.

 - Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally working handling
   of FPU switching - which also generates better code

 - Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code, to generate
   slightly better code

 - Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic, to
   make it easier for distros to follow &amp; maintain these options

 - Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and to clean up the
   logic

 - Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic

 - Misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/idle: Select idle routine only once
  x86/idle: Let prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt() return bool
  x86/idle: Cleanup idle_setup()
  x86/idle: Clean up idle selection
  x86/idle: Sanitize X86_BUG_AMD_E400 handling
  sched/idle: Conditionally handle tick broadcast in default_idle_call()
  x86: Increase brk randomness entropy for 64-bit systems
  x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region
  x86/vdso/kbuild: Group non-standard build attributes and primary object file rules together
  x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
  x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime
  x86/vdso: Use CONFIG_COMPAT_32 to specify vdso32
  x86/vdso: Use $(addprefix ) instead of $(foreach )
  x86/vdso: Simplify obj-y addition
  x86/vdso: Consolidate targets and clean-files
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETHUNK              =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETHUNK
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_SRSO             =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY       =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_UNRET_ENTRY      =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_SLS                  =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_SLS
  ...
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Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code, to support the
   'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature, by Uros Bizjak:

      - This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative memory
        via variables declared with such attributes, which allows the
        compiler to better optimize those accesses than the previous
        inline assembly code.

      - The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations for
        various percpu access methods, plus a number of cleanups of %gs
        accesses in assembly code.

      - These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for the
        last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area.

 - Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally working handling
   of FPU switching - which also generates better code

 - Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code, to generate
   slightly better code

 - Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic, to
   make it easier for distros to follow &amp; maintain these options

 - Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and to clean up the
   logic

 - Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic

 - Misc cleanups and fixes

* tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  x86/idle: Select idle routine only once
  x86/idle: Let prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt() return bool
  x86/idle: Cleanup idle_setup()
  x86/idle: Clean up idle selection
  x86/idle: Sanitize X86_BUG_AMD_E400 handling
  sched/idle: Conditionally handle tick broadcast in default_idle_call()
  x86: Increase brk randomness entropy for 64-bit systems
  x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region
  x86/vdso/kbuild: Group non-standard build attributes and primary object file rules together
  x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
  x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime
  x86/vdso: Use CONFIG_COMPAT_32 to specify vdso32
  x86/vdso: Use $(addprefix ) instead of $(foreach )
  x86/vdso: Simplify obj-y addition
  x86/vdso: Consolidate targets and clean-files
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETHUNK              =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETHUNK
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_SRSO             =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY       =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_UNRET_ENTRY      =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
  x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_SLS                  =&gt; CONFIG_MITIGATION_SLS
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-asm-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T02:13:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T02:13:06+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two changes to simplify the x86 decoder logic a bit"

* tag 'x86-asm-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/insn: Directly assign x86_64 state in insn_init()
  x86/insn: Remove superfluous checks from instruction decoding routines
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Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two changes to simplify the x86 decoder logic a bit"

* tag 'x86-asm-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/insn: Directly assign x86_64 state in insn_init()
  x86/insn: Remove superfluous checks from instruction decoding routines
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-03-12T00:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T00:44:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=38b334fc767e44816be087b3ec5d84b1438b735f'/>
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Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the x86 part of the SEV-SNP host support.

   This will allow the kernel to be used as a KVM hypervisor capable of
   running SNP (Secure Nested Paging) guests. Roughly speaking, SEV-SNP
   is the ultimate goal of the AMD confidential computing side,
   providing the most comprehensive confidential computing environment
   up to date.

   This is the x86 part and there is a KVM part which did not get ready
   in time for the merge window so latter will be forthcoming in the
   next cycle.

 - Rework the early code's position-dependent SEV variable references in
   order to allow building the kernel with clang and -fPIE/-fPIC and
   -mcmodel=kernel

 - The usual set of fixes, cleanups and improvements all over the place

* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/sev: Disable KMSAN for memory encryption TUs
  x86/sev: Dump SEV_STATUS
  crypto: ccp - Have it depend on AMD_IOMMU
  iommu/amd: Fix failure return from snp_lookup_rmpentry()
  x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code
  crypto: ccp: Make snp_range_list static
  x86/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT
  Documentation: virt: Fix up pre-formatted text block for SEV ioctls
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_SET_CONFIG command
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_COMMIT command
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_PLATFORM_STATUS command
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable/unmask SEV-SNP CPU feature
  KVM: SEV: Make AVIC backing, VMSA and VMCB memory allocation SNP safe
  crypto: ccp: Add panic notifier for SEV/SNP firmware shutdown on kdump
  iommu/amd: Clean up RMP entries for IOMMU pages during SNP shutdown
  crypto: ccp: Handle legacy SEV commands when SNP is enabled
  crypto: ccp: Handle non-volatile INIT_EX data when SNP is enabled
  crypto: ccp: Handle the legacy TMR allocation when SNP is enabled
  x86/sev: Introduce an SNP leaked pages list
  crypto: ccp: Provide an API to issue SEV and SNP commands
  ...
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Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add the x86 part of the SEV-SNP host support.

   This will allow the kernel to be used as a KVM hypervisor capable of
   running SNP (Secure Nested Paging) guests. Roughly speaking, SEV-SNP
   is the ultimate goal of the AMD confidential computing side,
   providing the most comprehensive confidential computing environment
   up to date.

   This is the x86 part and there is a KVM part which did not get ready
   in time for the merge window so latter will be forthcoming in the
   next cycle.

 - Rework the early code's position-dependent SEV variable references in
   order to allow building the kernel with clang and -fPIE/-fPIC and
   -mcmodel=kernel

 - The usual set of fixes, cleanups and improvements all over the place

* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/sev: Disable KMSAN for memory encryption TUs
  x86/sev: Dump SEV_STATUS
  crypto: ccp - Have it depend on AMD_IOMMU
  iommu/amd: Fix failure return from snp_lookup_rmpentry()
  x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code
  crypto: ccp: Make snp_range_list static
  x86/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT
  Documentation: virt: Fix up pre-formatted text block for SEV ioctls
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_SET_CONFIG command
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_COMMIT command
  crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_PLATFORM_STATUS command
  x86/cpufeatures: Enable/unmask SEV-SNP CPU feature
  KVM: SEV: Make AVIC backing, VMSA and VMCB memory allocation SNP safe
  crypto: ccp: Add panic notifier for SEV/SNP firmware shutdown on kdump
  iommu/amd: Clean up RMP entries for IOMMU pages during SNP shutdown
  crypto: ccp: Handle legacy SEV commands when SNP is enabled
  crypto: ccp: Handle non-volatile INIT_EX data when SNP is enabled
  crypto: ccp: Handle the legacy TMR allocation when SNP is enabled
  x86/sev: Introduce an SNP leaked pages list
  crypto: ccp: Provide an API to issue SEV and SNP commands
  ...
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