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<title>KVM: always define KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU</title>
<updated>2026-02-28T14:31:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2026-02-11T18:06:31+00:00</published>
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KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU is provided by KVM's MMU notifiers, which are now always
available.  Move the definition from individual architectures to common
code.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU is provided by KVM's MMU notifiers, which are now always
available.  Move the definition from individual architectures to common
code.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2026-02-13T19:31:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-02-13T19:31:15+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Loongarch:

   - Add more CPUCFG mask bits

   - Improve feature detection

   - Add lazy load support for FPU and binary translation (LBT) register
     state

   - Fix return value for memory reads from and writes to in-kernel
     devices

   - Add support for detecting preemption from within a guest

   - Add KVM steal time test case to tools/selftests

  ARM:

   - Add support for FEAT_IDST, allowing ID registers that are not
     implemented to be reported as a normal trap rather than as an UNDEF
     exception

   - Add sanitisation of the VTCR_EL2 register, fixing a number of
     UXN/PXN/XN bugs in the process

   - Full handling of RESx bits, instead of only RES0, and resulting in
     SCTLR_EL2 being added to the list of sanitised registers

   - More pKVM fixes for features that are not supposed to be exposed to
     guests

   - Make sure that MTE being disabled on the pKVM host doesn't give it
     the ability to attack the hypervisor

   - Allow pKVM's host stage-2 mappings to use the Force Write Back
     version of the memory attributes by using the "pass-through'
     encoding

   - Fix trapping of ICC_DIR_EL1 on GICv5 hosts emulating GICv3 for the
     guest

   - Preliminary work for guest GICv5 support

   - A bunch of debugfs fixes, removing pointless custom iterators
     stored in guest data structures

   - A small set of FPSIMD cleanups

   - Selftest fixes addressing the incorrect alignment of page
     allocation

   - Other assorted low-impact fixes and spelling fixes

  RISC-V:

   - Fixes for issues discoverd by KVM API fuzzing in
     kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr(), kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_rw_attr(), and
     kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_imsic_update()

   - Allow Zalasr, Zilsd and Zclsd extensions for Guest/VM

   - Transparent huge page support for hypervisor page tables

   - Adjust the number of available guest irq files based on MMIO
     register sizes found in the device tree or the ACPI tables

   - Add RISC-V specific paging modes to KVM selftests

   - Detect paging mode at runtime for selftests

  s390:

   - Performance improvement for vSIE (aka nested virtualization)

   - Completely new memory management. s390 was a special snowflake that
     enlisted help from the architecture's page table management to
     build hypervisor page tables, in particular enabling sharing the
     last level of page tables. This however was a lot of code (~3K
     lines) in order to support KVM, and also blocked several features.
     The biggest advantages is that the page size of userspace is
     completely independent of the page size used by the guest:
     userspace can mix normal pages, THPs and hugetlbfs as it sees fit,
     and in fact transparent hugepages were not possible before. It's
     also now possible to have nested guests and guests with huge pages
     running on the same host

   - Maintainership change for s390 vfio-pci

   - Small quality of life improvement for protected guests

  x86:

   - Add support for giving the guest full ownership of PMU hardware
     (contexted switched around the fastpath run loop) and allowing
     direct access to data MSRs and PMCs (restricted by the vPMU model).

     KVM still intercepts access to control registers, e.g. to enforce
     event filtering and to prevent the guest from profiling sensitive
     host state. This is more accurate, since it has no risk of
     contention and thus dropped events, and also has significantly less
     overhead.

     For more information, see the commit message for merge commit
     bf2c3138ae36 ("Merge tag 'kvm-x86-pmu-6.20' ...")

   - Disallow changing the virtual CPU model if L2 is active, for all
     the same reasons KVM disallows change the model after the first
     KVM_RUN

   - Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly reject host accesses to PV
     MSRs when running with KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID enabled,
     even if those were advertised as supported to userspace,

   - Fix a bug with protected guest state (SEV-ES/SNP and TDX) VMs,
     where KVM would attempt to read CR3 configuring an async #PF entry

   - Fail the build if EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL or EXPORT_SYMBOL is used in KVM
     (for x86 only) to enforce usage of EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL.
     Only a few exports that are intended for external usage, and those
     are allowed explicitly

   - When checking nested events after a vCPU is unblocked, ignore
     -EBUSY instead of WARNing. Userspace can sometimes put the vCPU
     into what should be an impossible state, and spurious exit to
     userspace on -EBUSY does not really do anything to solve the issue

   - Also throw in the towel and drop the WARN on INIT/SIPI being
     blocked when vCPU is in Wait-For-SIPI, which also resulted in
     playing whack-a-mole with syzkaller stuffing architecturally
     impossible states into KVM

   - Add support for new Intel instructions that don't require anything
     beyond enumerating feature flags to userspace

   - Grab SRCU when reading PDPTRs in KVM_GET_SREGS2

   - Add WARNs to guard against modifying KVM's CPU caps outside of the
     intended setup flow, as nested VMX in particular is sensitive to
     unexpected changes in KVM's golden configuration

   - Add a quirk to allow userspace to opt-in to actually suppress EOI
     broadcasts when the suppression feature is enabled by the guest
     (currently limited to split IRQCHIP, i.e. userspace I/O APIC).
     Sadly, simply fixing KVM to honor Suppress EOI Broadcasts isn't an
     option as some userspaces have come to rely on KVM's buggy behavior
     (KVM advertises Supress EOI Broadcast irrespective of whether or
     not userspace I/O APIC supports Directed EOIs)

   - Clean up KVM's handling of marking mapped vCPU pages dirty

   - Drop a pile of *ancient* sanity checks hidden behind in KVM's
     unused ASSERT() macro, most of which could be trivially triggered
     by the guest and/or user, and all of which were useless

   - Fold "struct dest_map" into its sole user, "struct rtc_status", to
     make it more obvious what the weird parameter is used for, and to
     allow fropping these RTC shenanigans if CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC=n

   - Bury all of ioapic.h, i8254.h and related ioctls (including
     KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP) behind CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC=y

   - Add a regression test for recent APICv update fixes

   - Handle "hardware APIC ISR", a.k.a. SVI, updates in
     kvm_apic_update_apicv() to consolidate the updates, and to
     co-locate SVI updates with the updates for KVM's own cache of ISR
     information

   - Drop a dead function declaration

   - Minor cleanups

  x86 (Intel):

   - Rework KVM's handling of VMCS updates while L2 is active to
     temporarily switch to vmcs01 instead of deferring the update until
     the next nested VM-Exit.

     The deferred updates approach directly contributed to several bugs,
     was proving to be a maintenance burden due to the difficulty in
     auditing the correctness of deferred updates, and was polluting
     "struct nested_vmx" with a growing pile of booleans

   - Fix an SGX bug where KVM would incorrectly try to handle EPCM page
     faults, and instead always reflect them into the guest. Since KVM
     doesn't shadow EPCM entries, EPCM violations cannot be due to KVM
     interference and can't be resolved by KVM

   - Fix a bug where KVM would register its posted interrupt wakeup
     handler even if loading kvm-intel.ko ultimately failed

   - Disallow access to vmcb12 fields that aren't fully supported,
     mostly to avoid weirdness and complexity for FRED and other
     features, where KVM wants enable VMCS shadowing for fields that
     conditionally exist

   - Print out the "bad" offsets and values if kvm-intel.ko refuses to
     load (or refuses to online a CPU) due to a VMCS config mismatch

  x86 (AMD):

   - Drop a user-triggerable WARN on nested_svm_load_cr3() failure

   - Add support for virtualizing ERAPS. Note, correct virtualization of
     ERAPS relies on an upcoming, publicly announced change in the APM
     to reduce the set of conditions where hardware (i.e. KVM) *must*
     flush the RAP

   - Ignore nSVM intercepts for instructions that are not supported
     according to L1's virtual CPU model

   - Add support for expedited writes to the fast MMIO bus, a la VMX's
     fastpath for EPT Misconfig

   - Don't set GIF when clearing EFER.SVME, as GIF exists independently
     of SVM, and allow userspace to restore nested state with GIF=0

   - Treat exit_code as an unsigned 64-bit value through all of KVM

   - Add support for fetching SNP certificates from userspace

   - Fix a bug where KVM would use vmcb02 instead of vmcb01 when
     emulating VMLOAD or VMSAVE on behalf of L2

   - Misc fixes and cleanups

  x86 selftests:

   - Add a regression test for TPR&lt;=&gt;CR8 synchronization and IRQ masking

   - Overhaul selftest's MMU infrastructure to genericize stage-2 MMU
     support, and extend x86's infrastructure to support EPT and NPT
     (for L2 guests)

   - Extend several nested VMX tests to also cover nested SVM

   - Add a selftest for nested VMLOAD/VMSAVE

   - Rework the nested dirty log test, originally added as a regression
     test for PML where KVM logged L2 GPAs instead of L1 GPAs, to
     improve test coverage and to hopefully make the test easier to
     understand and maintain

  guest_memfd:

   - Remove kvm_gmem_populate()'s preparation tracking and half-baked
     hugepage handling. SEV/SNP was the only user of the tracking and it
     can do it via the RMP

   - Retroactively document and enforce (for SNP) that
     KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE and KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION require the
     source page to be 4KiB aligned, to avoid non-trivial complexity for
     something that no known VMM seems to be doing and to avoid an API
     special case for in-place conversion, which simply can't support
     unaligned sources

   - When populating guest_memfd memory, GUP the source page in common
     code and pass the refcounted page to the vendor callback, instead
     of letting vendor code do the heavy lifting. Doing so avoids a
     looming deadlock bug with in-place due an AB-BA conflict betwee
     mmap_lock and guest_memfd's filemap invalidate lock

  Generic:

   - Fix a bug where KVM would ignore the vCPU's selected address space
     when creating a vCPU-specific mapping of guest memory. Actually
     this bug could not be hit even on x86, the only architecture with
     multiple address spaces, but it's a bug nevertheless"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (267 commits)
  KVM: s390: Increase permitted SE header size to 1 MiB
  MAINTAINERS: Replace backup for s390 vfio-pci
  KVM: s390: vsie: Fix race in acquire_gmap_shadow()
  KVM: s390: vsie: Fix race in walk_guest_tables()
  KVM: s390: Use guest address to mark guest page dirty
  irqchip/riscv-imsic: Adjust the number of available guest irq files
  RISC-V: KVM: Transparent huge page support
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add Zalasr extensions to get-reg-list test
  RISC-V: KVM: Allow Zalasr extensions for Guest/VM
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add riscv vm satp modes
  KVM: riscv: selftests: add Zilsd and Zclsd extension to get-reg-list test
  riscv: KVM: allow Zilsd and Zclsd extensions for Guest/VM
  RISC-V: KVM: Skip IMSIC update if vCPU IMSIC state is not initialized
  RISC-V: KVM: Fix null pointer dereference in kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_rw_attr()
  RISC-V: KVM: Fix null pointer dereference in kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr()
  RISC-V: KVM: Remove unnecessary 'ret' assignment
  KVM: s390: Add explicit padding to struct kvm_s390_keyop
  KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add steal time test case
  LoongArch: KVM: Add paravirt vcpu_is_preempted() support in guest side
  LoongArch: KVM: Add paravirt preempt feature in hypervisor side
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Loongarch:

   - Add more CPUCFG mask bits

   - Improve feature detection

   - Add lazy load support for FPU and binary translation (LBT) register
     state

   - Fix return value for memory reads from and writes to in-kernel
     devices

   - Add support for detecting preemption from within a guest

   - Add KVM steal time test case to tools/selftests

  ARM:

   - Add support for FEAT_IDST, allowing ID registers that are not
     implemented to be reported as a normal trap rather than as an UNDEF
     exception

   - Add sanitisation of the VTCR_EL2 register, fixing a number of
     UXN/PXN/XN bugs in the process

   - Full handling of RESx bits, instead of only RES0, and resulting in
     SCTLR_EL2 being added to the list of sanitised registers

   - More pKVM fixes for features that are not supposed to be exposed to
     guests

   - Make sure that MTE being disabled on the pKVM host doesn't give it
     the ability to attack the hypervisor

   - Allow pKVM's host stage-2 mappings to use the Force Write Back
     version of the memory attributes by using the "pass-through'
     encoding

   - Fix trapping of ICC_DIR_EL1 on GICv5 hosts emulating GICv3 for the
     guest

   - Preliminary work for guest GICv5 support

   - A bunch of debugfs fixes, removing pointless custom iterators
     stored in guest data structures

   - A small set of FPSIMD cleanups

   - Selftest fixes addressing the incorrect alignment of page
     allocation

   - Other assorted low-impact fixes and spelling fixes

  RISC-V:

   - Fixes for issues discoverd by KVM API fuzzing in
     kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr(), kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_rw_attr(), and
     kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_imsic_update()

   - Allow Zalasr, Zilsd and Zclsd extensions for Guest/VM

   - Transparent huge page support for hypervisor page tables

   - Adjust the number of available guest irq files based on MMIO
     register sizes found in the device tree or the ACPI tables

   - Add RISC-V specific paging modes to KVM selftests

   - Detect paging mode at runtime for selftests

  s390:

   - Performance improvement for vSIE (aka nested virtualization)

   - Completely new memory management. s390 was a special snowflake that
     enlisted help from the architecture's page table management to
     build hypervisor page tables, in particular enabling sharing the
     last level of page tables. This however was a lot of code (~3K
     lines) in order to support KVM, and also blocked several features.
     The biggest advantages is that the page size of userspace is
     completely independent of the page size used by the guest:
     userspace can mix normal pages, THPs and hugetlbfs as it sees fit,
     and in fact transparent hugepages were not possible before. It's
     also now possible to have nested guests and guests with huge pages
     running on the same host

   - Maintainership change for s390 vfio-pci

   - Small quality of life improvement for protected guests

  x86:

   - Add support for giving the guest full ownership of PMU hardware
     (contexted switched around the fastpath run loop) and allowing
     direct access to data MSRs and PMCs (restricted by the vPMU model).

     KVM still intercepts access to control registers, e.g. to enforce
     event filtering and to prevent the guest from profiling sensitive
     host state. This is more accurate, since it has no risk of
     contention and thus dropped events, and also has significantly less
     overhead.

     For more information, see the commit message for merge commit
     bf2c3138ae36 ("Merge tag 'kvm-x86-pmu-6.20' ...")

   - Disallow changing the virtual CPU model if L2 is active, for all
     the same reasons KVM disallows change the model after the first
     KVM_RUN

   - Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly reject host accesses to PV
     MSRs when running with KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID enabled,
     even if those were advertised as supported to userspace,

   - Fix a bug with protected guest state (SEV-ES/SNP and TDX) VMs,
     where KVM would attempt to read CR3 configuring an async #PF entry

   - Fail the build if EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL or EXPORT_SYMBOL is used in KVM
     (for x86 only) to enforce usage of EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL.
     Only a few exports that are intended for external usage, and those
     are allowed explicitly

   - When checking nested events after a vCPU is unblocked, ignore
     -EBUSY instead of WARNing. Userspace can sometimes put the vCPU
     into what should be an impossible state, and spurious exit to
     userspace on -EBUSY does not really do anything to solve the issue

   - Also throw in the towel and drop the WARN on INIT/SIPI being
     blocked when vCPU is in Wait-For-SIPI, which also resulted in
     playing whack-a-mole with syzkaller stuffing architecturally
     impossible states into KVM

   - Add support for new Intel instructions that don't require anything
     beyond enumerating feature flags to userspace

   - Grab SRCU when reading PDPTRs in KVM_GET_SREGS2

   - Add WARNs to guard against modifying KVM's CPU caps outside of the
     intended setup flow, as nested VMX in particular is sensitive to
     unexpected changes in KVM's golden configuration

   - Add a quirk to allow userspace to opt-in to actually suppress EOI
     broadcasts when the suppression feature is enabled by the guest
     (currently limited to split IRQCHIP, i.e. userspace I/O APIC).
     Sadly, simply fixing KVM to honor Suppress EOI Broadcasts isn't an
     option as some userspaces have come to rely on KVM's buggy behavior
     (KVM advertises Supress EOI Broadcast irrespective of whether or
     not userspace I/O APIC supports Directed EOIs)

   - Clean up KVM's handling of marking mapped vCPU pages dirty

   - Drop a pile of *ancient* sanity checks hidden behind in KVM's
     unused ASSERT() macro, most of which could be trivially triggered
     by the guest and/or user, and all of which were useless

   - Fold "struct dest_map" into its sole user, "struct rtc_status", to
     make it more obvious what the weird parameter is used for, and to
     allow fropping these RTC shenanigans if CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC=n

   - Bury all of ioapic.h, i8254.h and related ioctls (including
     KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP) behind CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC=y

   - Add a regression test for recent APICv update fixes

   - Handle "hardware APIC ISR", a.k.a. SVI, updates in
     kvm_apic_update_apicv() to consolidate the updates, and to
     co-locate SVI updates with the updates for KVM's own cache of ISR
     information

   - Drop a dead function declaration

   - Minor cleanups

  x86 (Intel):

   - Rework KVM's handling of VMCS updates while L2 is active to
     temporarily switch to vmcs01 instead of deferring the update until
     the next nested VM-Exit.

     The deferred updates approach directly contributed to several bugs,
     was proving to be a maintenance burden due to the difficulty in
     auditing the correctness of deferred updates, and was polluting
     "struct nested_vmx" with a growing pile of booleans

   - Fix an SGX bug where KVM would incorrectly try to handle EPCM page
     faults, and instead always reflect them into the guest. Since KVM
     doesn't shadow EPCM entries, EPCM violations cannot be due to KVM
     interference and can't be resolved by KVM

   - Fix a bug where KVM would register its posted interrupt wakeup
     handler even if loading kvm-intel.ko ultimately failed

   - Disallow access to vmcb12 fields that aren't fully supported,
     mostly to avoid weirdness and complexity for FRED and other
     features, where KVM wants enable VMCS shadowing for fields that
     conditionally exist

   - Print out the "bad" offsets and values if kvm-intel.ko refuses to
     load (or refuses to online a CPU) due to a VMCS config mismatch

  x86 (AMD):

   - Drop a user-triggerable WARN on nested_svm_load_cr3() failure

   - Add support for virtualizing ERAPS. Note, correct virtualization of
     ERAPS relies on an upcoming, publicly announced change in the APM
     to reduce the set of conditions where hardware (i.e. KVM) *must*
     flush the RAP

   - Ignore nSVM intercepts for instructions that are not supported
     according to L1's virtual CPU model

   - Add support for expedited writes to the fast MMIO bus, a la VMX's
     fastpath for EPT Misconfig

   - Don't set GIF when clearing EFER.SVME, as GIF exists independently
     of SVM, and allow userspace to restore nested state with GIF=0

   - Treat exit_code as an unsigned 64-bit value through all of KVM

   - Add support for fetching SNP certificates from userspace

   - Fix a bug where KVM would use vmcb02 instead of vmcb01 when
     emulating VMLOAD or VMSAVE on behalf of L2

   - Misc fixes and cleanups

  x86 selftests:

   - Add a regression test for TPR&lt;=&gt;CR8 synchronization and IRQ masking

   - Overhaul selftest's MMU infrastructure to genericize stage-2 MMU
     support, and extend x86's infrastructure to support EPT and NPT
     (for L2 guests)

   - Extend several nested VMX tests to also cover nested SVM

   - Add a selftest for nested VMLOAD/VMSAVE

   - Rework the nested dirty log test, originally added as a regression
     test for PML where KVM logged L2 GPAs instead of L1 GPAs, to
     improve test coverage and to hopefully make the test easier to
     understand and maintain

  guest_memfd:

   - Remove kvm_gmem_populate()'s preparation tracking and half-baked
     hugepage handling. SEV/SNP was the only user of the tracking and it
     can do it via the RMP

   - Retroactively document and enforce (for SNP) that
     KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE and KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION require the
     source page to be 4KiB aligned, to avoid non-trivial complexity for
     something that no known VMM seems to be doing and to avoid an API
     special case for in-place conversion, which simply can't support
     unaligned sources

   - When populating guest_memfd memory, GUP the source page in common
     code and pass the refcounted page to the vendor callback, instead
     of letting vendor code do the heavy lifting. Doing so avoids a
     looming deadlock bug with in-place due an AB-BA conflict betwee
     mmap_lock and guest_memfd's filemap invalidate lock

  Generic:

   - Fix a bug where KVM would ignore the vCPU's selected address space
     when creating a vCPU-specific mapping of guest memory. Actually
     this bug could not be hit even on x86, the only architecture with
     multiple address spaces, but it's a bug nevertheless"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (267 commits)
  KVM: s390: Increase permitted SE header size to 1 MiB
  MAINTAINERS: Replace backup for s390 vfio-pci
  KVM: s390: vsie: Fix race in acquire_gmap_shadow()
  KVM: s390: vsie: Fix race in walk_guest_tables()
  KVM: s390: Use guest address to mark guest page dirty
  irqchip/riscv-imsic: Adjust the number of available guest irq files
  RISC-V: KVM: Transparent huge page support
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add Zalasr extensions to get-reg-list test
  RISC-V: KVM: Allow Zalasr extensions for Guest/VM
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add riscv vm satp modes
  KVM: riscv: selftests: add Zilsd and Zclsd extension to get-reg-list test
  riscv: KVM: allow Zilsd and Zclsd extensions for Guest/VM
  RISC-V: KVM: Skip IMSIC update if vCPU IMSIC state is not initialized
  RISC-V: KVM: Fix null pointer dereference in kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_rw_attr()
  RISC-V: KVM: Fix null pointer dereference in kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr()
  RISC-V: KVM: Remove unnecessary 'ret' assignment
  KVM: s390: Add explicit padding to struct kvm_s390_keyop
  KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add steal time test case
  LoongArch: KVM: Add paravirt vcpu_is_preempted() support in guest side
  LoongArch: KVM: Add paravirt preempt feature in hypervisor side
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-7.0-1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2026-02-11T17:52:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-11T17:52:27+00:00</published>
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- gmap rewrite: completely new memory management for kvm/s390
- vSIE improvement
- maintainership change for s390 vfio-pci
- small quality of life improvement for protected guests
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- gmap rewrite: completely new memory management for kvm/s390
- vSIE improvement
- maintainership change for s390 vfio-pci
- small quality of life improvement for protected guests
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-x86-gmem-6.20' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2026-02-11T17:45:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-09T18:08:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9123c5f956b1fbedd63821eb528ece55ddd0e49c'/>
<id>9123c5f956b1fbedd63821eb528ece55ddd0e49c</id>
<content type='text'>
KVM guest_memfd changes for 6.20

 - Remove kvm_gmem_populate()'s preparation tracking and half-baked hugepage
   handling, and instead rely on SNP (the only user of the tracking) to do its
   own tracking via the RMP.

 - Retroactively document and enforce (for SNP) that KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE
   and KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION require the source page to be 4KiB aligned, to
   avoid non-trivial complexity for a non-existent usecase (and because
   in-place conversion simply can't support unaligned sources).

 - When populating guest_memfd memory, GUP the source page in common code and
   pass the refcounted page to the vendor callback, instead of letting vendor
   code do the heavy lifting.  Doing so avoids a looming deadlock bug with
   in-place due an AB-BA conflict betwee mmap_lock and guest_memfd's filemap
   invalidate lock.
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
KVM guest_memfd changes for 6.20

 - Remove kvm_gmem_populate()'s preparation tracking and half-baked hugepage
   handling, and instead rely on SNP (the only user of the tracking) to do its
   own tracking via the RMP.

 - Retroactively document and enforce (for SNP) that KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE
   and KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION require the source page to be 4KiB aligned, to
   avoid non-trivial complexity for a non-existent usecase (and because
   in-place conversion simply can't support unaligned sources).

 - When populating guest_memfd memory, GUP the source page in common code and
   pass the refcounted page to the vendor callback, instead of letting vendor
   code do the heavy lifting.  Doing so avoids a looming deadlock bug with
   in-place due an AB-BA conflict betwee mmap_lock and guest_memfd's filemap
   invalidate lock.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux</title>
<updated>2026-02-10T04:53:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-10T04:53:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=72c395024dac5e215136cbff793455f065603b06'/>
<id>72c395024dac5e215136cbff793455f065603b06</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is
  still a fair amount going on, including:

   - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation

   - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for
     patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption
     by generative tools

   - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to
     tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink
     behind to avoid breaking scripts

   - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of
     documentation in Python code, better support for documenting
     variables, and lots of improvements and fixes

   - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example --
     to the online pages in the HTML build

  ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such"

* tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (107 commits)
  doc: development-process: add notice on testing
  tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message
  docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q
  docs: kdoc: Fix pdfdocs build for tools
  docs: ja_JP: process: translate 'Obtain a current source tree'
  docs: fix 're-use' -&gt; 'reuse' in documentation
  docs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rst
  docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete
  docs: automarkup.py: Skip common English words as C identifiers
  Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate
  docs: parse_features: make documentation more consistent
  docs: add parse_features module documentation
  docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements
  docs: add jobserver module documentation
  docs: kabi: helpers: add documentation for each "enum" value
  docs: kabi: helpers: add helper for debug bits 7 and 8
  docs: kabi: system_symbols: end docstring phrases with a dot
  docs: python: abi_regex: do some improvements at documentation
  docs: python: abi_parser: do some improvements at documentation
  docs: add kabi modules documentation
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is
  still a fair amount going on, including:

   - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation

   - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for
     patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption
     by generative tools

   - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to
     tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink
     behind to avoid breaking scripts

   - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of
     documentation in Python code, better support for documenting
     variables, and lots of improvements and fixes

   - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example --
     to the online pages in the HTML build

  ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such"

* tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (107 commits)
  doc: development-process: add notice on testing
  tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message
  docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q
  docs: kdoc: Fix pdfdocs build for tools
  docs: ja_JP: process: translate 'Obtain a current source tree'
  docs: fix 're-use' -&gt; 'reuse' in documentation
  docs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rst
  docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete
  docs: automarkup.py: Skip common English words as C identifiers
  Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate
  docs: parse_features: make documentation more consistent
  docs: add parse_features module documentation
  docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements
  docs: add jobserver module documentation
  docs: kabi: helpers: add documentation for each "enum" value
  docs: kabi: helpers: add helper for debug bits 7 and 8
  docs: kabi: system_symbols: end docstring phrases with a dot
  docs: python: abi_regex: do some improvements at documentation
  docs: python: abi_parser: do some improvements at documentation
  docs: add kabi modules documentation
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-x86-misc-6.20' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2026-02-09T17:53:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-09T17:53:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9e03b7caf4e65f5a5841dfed540fdcc3ff061734'/>
<id>9e03b7caf4e65f5a5841dfed540fdcc3ff061734</id>
<content type='text'>
KVM x86 misc changes for 6.20

 - Disallow changing the virtual CPU model if L2 is active, for all the same
   reasons KVM disallows change the model after the first KVM_RUN.

 - Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly reject host accesses to PV MSRs that
   were advertised as supported to userspace when running with
   KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID enabled.

 - Fix a bug where KVM would attempt to read protect guest state (CR3) when
   configuring an async #PF entry.

 - Fail the build if EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL or EXPORT_SYMBOL is used in KVM (for x86
   only) to enforce usage of EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL.  Explicitly allow
   the few exports that are intended for external usage.

 - Ignore -EBUSY when checking nested events after a vCPU exits blocking as
   the WARN is user-triggerable, and because exiting to userspace on -EBUSY
   does more harm than good in pretty much every situation.

 - Throw in the towel and drop the WARN on INIT/SIPI being blocked when vCPU is
   in Wait-For-SIPI, as playing whack-a-mole with syzkaller turned out to be an
   unwinnable game.

 - Add support for new Intel instructions that don't require anything beyond
   enumerating feature flags to userspace.

 - Grab SRCU when reading PDPTRs in KVM_GET_SREGS2.

 - Add WARNs to guard against modifying KVM's CPU caps outside of the intended
   setup flow, as nested VMX in particular is sensitive to unexpected changes
   in KVM's golden configuration.

 - Add a quirk to allow userspace to opt-in to actually suppress EOI broadcasts
   when the suppression feature is enabled by the guest (currently limited to
   split IRQCHIP, i.e. userspace I/O APIC).  Sadly, simply fixing KVM to honor
   Suppress EOI Broadcasts isn't an option as some userspaces have come to rely
   on KVM's buggy behavior (KVM advertises Supress EOI Broadcast irrespective
   of whether or not userspace I/O APIC supports Directed EOIs).

 - Minor cleanups.
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
KVM x86 misc changes for 6.20

 - Disallow changing the virtual CPU model if L2 is active, for all the same
   reasons KVM disallows change the model after the first KVM_RUN.

 - Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly reject host accesses to PV MSRs that
   were advertised as supported to userspace when running with
   KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID enabled.

 - Fix a bug where KVM would attempt to read protect guest state (CR3) when
   configuring an async #PF entry.

 - Fail the build if EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL or EXPORT_SYMBOL is used in KVM (for x86
   only) to enforce usage of EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL.  Explicitly allow
   the few exports that are intended for external usage.

 - Ignore -EBUSY when checking nested events after a vCPU exits blocking as
   the WARN is user-triggerable, and because exiting to userspace on -EBUSY
   does more harm than good in pretty much every situation.

 - Throw in the towel and drop the WARN on INIT/SIPI being blocked when vCPU is
   in Wait-For-SIPI, as playing whack-a-mole with syzkaller turned out to be an
   unwinnable game.

 - Add support for new Intel instructions that don't require anything beyond
   enumerating feature flags to userspace.

 - Grab SRCU when reading PDPTRs in KVM_GET_SREGS2.

 - Add WARNs to guard against modifying KVM's CPU caps outside of the intended
   setup flow, as nested VMX in particular is sensitive to unexpected changes
   in KVM's golden configuration.

 - Add a quirk to allow userspace to opt-in to actually suppress EOI broadcasts
   when the suppression feature is enabled by the guest (currently limited to
   split IRQCHIP, i.e. userspace I/O APIC).  Sadly, simply fixing KVM to honor
   Suppress EOI Broadcasts isn't an option as some userspaces have come to rely
   on KVM's buggy behavior (KVM advertises Supress EOI Broadcast irrespective
   of whether or not userspace I/O APIC supports Directed EOIs).

 - Minor cleanups.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-x86-svm-6.20' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2026-02-09T17:51:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-09T17:51:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4215ee0d7bb5358882375c84d3cd0488bb5813b2'/>
<id>4215ee0d7bb5358882375c84d3cd0488bb5813b2</id>
<content type='text'>
KVM SVM changes for 6.20

 - Drop a user-triggerable WARN on nested_svm_load_cr3() failure.

 - Add support for virtualizing ERAPS.  Note, correct virtualization of ERAPS
   relies on an upcoming, publicly announced change in the APM to reduce the
   set of conditions where hardware (i.e. KVM) *must* flush the RAP.

 - Ignore nSVM intercepts for instructions that are not supported according to
   L1's virtual CPU model.

 - Add support for expedited writes to the fast MMIO bus, a la VMX's fastpath
   for EPT Misconfig.

 - Don't set GIF when clearing EFER.SVME, as GIF exists independently of SVM,
   and allow userspace to restore nested state with GIF=0.

 - Treat exit_code as an unsigned 64-bit value through all of KVM.

 - Add support for fetching SNP certificates from userspace.

 - Fix a bug where KVM would use vmcb02 instead of vmcb01 when emulating VMLOAD
   or VMSAVE on behalf of L2.

 - Misc fixes and cleanups.
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
KVM SVM changes for 6.20

 - Drop a user-triggerable WARN on nested_svm_load_cr3() failure.

 - Add support for virtualizing ERAPS.  Note, correct virtualization of ERAPS
   relies on an upcoming, publicly announced change in the APM to reduce the
   set of conditions where hardware (i.e. KVM) *must* flush the RAP.

 - Ignore nSVM intercepts for instructions that are not supported according to
   L1's virtual CPU model.

 - Add support for expedited writes to the fast MMIO bus, a la VMX's fastpath
   for EPT Misconfig.

 - Don't set GIF when clearing EFER.SVME, as GIF exists independently of SVM,
   and allow userspace to restore nested state with GIF=0.

 - Treat exit_code as an unsigned 64-bit value through all of KVM.

 - Add support for fetching SNP certificates from userspace.

 - Fix a bug where KVM would use vmcb02 instead of vmcb01 when emulating VMLOAD
   or VMSAVE on behalf of L2.

 - Misc fixes and cleanups.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: s390: Storage key manipulation IOCTL</title>
<updated>2026-02-04T16:00:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Claudio Imbrenda</name>
<email>imbrenda@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-04T15:02:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0ee4ddc1647b8b3b9e7a94d798a1774a764428c1'/>
<id>0ee4ddc1647b8b3b9e7a94d798a1774a764428c1</id>
<content type='text'>
Add a new IOCTL to allow userspace to manipulate storage keys directly.

This will make it easier to write selftests related to storage keys.

Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add a new IOCTL to allow userspace to manipulate storage keys directly.

This will make it easier to write selftests related to storage keys.

Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Add x2APIC "features" to control EOI broadcast suppression</title>
<updated>2026-01-30T21:28:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Khushit Shah</name>
<email>khushit.shah@nutanix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-23T12:56:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6517dfbcc918f970a928d9dc17586904bac06893'/>
<id>6517dfbcc918f970a928d9dc17586904bac06893</id>
<content type='text'>
Add two flags for KVM_CAP_X2APIC_API to allow userspace to control support
for Suppress EOI Broadcasts when using a split IRQCHIP (I/O APIC emulated
by userspace), which KVM completely mishandles. When x2APIC support was
first added, KVM incorrectly advertised and "enabled" Suppress EOI
Broadcast, without fully supporting the I/O APIC side of the equation,
i.e. without adding directed EOI to KVM's in-kernel I/O APIC.

That flaw was carried over to split IRQCHIP support, i.e. KVM advertised
support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts irrespective of whether or not the
userspace I/O APIC implementation supported directed EOIs. Even worse,
KVM didn't actually suppress EOI broadcasts, i.e. userspace VMMs without
support for directed EOI came to rely on the "spurious" broadcasts.

KVM "fixed" the in-kernel I/O APIC implementation by completely disabling
support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts in commit 0bcc3fb95b97 ("KVM: lapic:
stop advertising DIRECTED_EOI when in-kernel IOAPIC is in use"), but
didn't do anything to remedy userspace I/O APIC implementations.

KVM's bogus handling of Suppress EOI Broadcast is problematic when the
guest relies on interrupts being masked in the I/O APIC until well after
the initial local APIC EOI. E.g. Windows with Credential Guard enabled
handles interrupts in the following order:
  1. Interrupt for L2 arrives.
  2. L1 APIC EOIs the interrupt.
  3. L1 resumes L2 and injects the interrupt.
  4. L2 EOIs after servicing.
  5. L1 performs the I/O APIC EOI.

Because KVM EOIs the I/O APIC at step #2, the guest can get an interrupt
storm, e.g. if the IRQ line is still asserted and userspace reacts to the
EOI by re-injecting the IRQ, because the guest doesn't de-assert the line
until step #4, and doesn't expect the interrupt to be re-enabled until
step #5.

Unfortunately, simply "fixing" the bug isn't an option, as KVM has no way
of knowing if the userspace I/O APIC supports directed EOIs, i.e.
suppressing EOI broadcasts would result in interrupts being stuck masked
in the userspace I/O APIC due to step #5 being ignored by userspace. And
fully disabling support for Suppress EOI Broadcast is also undesirable, as
picking up the fix would require a guest reboot, *and* more importantly
would change the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest without any buy-in
from userspace.

Add KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST and
KVM_X2APIC_DISABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST flags to allow userspace to
explicitly enable or disable support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts. This
gives userspace control over the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest,
as KVM should never have enabled support for Suppress EOI Broadcast without
userspace opt-in. Not setting either flag will result in legacy quirky
behavior for backward compatibility.

Disallow fully enabling SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST when using an in-kernel
I/O APIC, as KVM's history/support is just as tragic.  E.g. it's not clear
that commit c806a6ad35bf ("KVM: x86: call irq notifiers with directed EOI")
was entirely correct, i.e. it may have simply papered over the lack of
Directed EOI emulation in the I/O APIC.

Note, Suppress EOI Broadcasts is defined only in Intel's SDM, not in AMD's
APM. But the bit is writable on some AMD CPUs, e.g. Turin, and KVM's ABI
is to support Directed EOI (KVM's name) irrespective of guest CPU vendor.

Fixes: 7543a635aa09 ("KVM: x86: Add KVM exit for IOAPIC EOIs")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/7D497EF1-607D-4D37-98E7-DAF95F099342@nutanix.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Khushit Shah &lt;khushit.shah@nutanix.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123125657.3384063-1-khushit.shah@nutanix.com
[sean: clean up minor formatting goofs and fix a comment typo]
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add two flags for KVM_CAP_X2APIC_API to allow userspace to control support
for Suppress EOI Broadcasts when using a split IRQCHIP (I/O APIC emulated
by userspace), which KVM completely mishandles. When x2APIC support was
first added, KVM incorrectly advertised and "enabled" Suppress EOI
Broadcast, without fully supporting the I/O APIC side of the equation,
i.e. without adding directed EOI to KVM's in-kernel I/O APIC.

That flaw was carried over to split IRQCHIP support, i.e. KVM advertised
support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts irrespective of whether or not the
userspace I/O APIC implementation supported directed EOIs. Even worse,
KVM didn't actually suppress EOI broadcasts, i.e. userspace VMMs without
support for directed EOI came to rely on the "spurious" broadcasts.

KVM "fixed" the in-kernel I/O APIC implementation by completely disabling
support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts in commit 0bcc3fb95b97 ("KVM: lapic:
stop advertising DIRECTED_EOI when in-kernel IOAPIC is in use"), but
didn't do anything to remedy userspace I/O APIC implementations.

KVM's bogus handling of Suppress EOI Broadcast is problematic when the
guest relies on interrupts being masked in the I/O APIC until well after
the initial local APIC EOI. E.g. Windows with Credential Guard enabled
handles interrupts in the following order:
  1. Interrupt for L2 arrives.
  2. L1 APIC EOIs the interrupt.
  3. L1 resumes L2 and injects the interrupt.
  4. L2 EOIs after servicing.
  5. L1 performs the I/O APIC EOI.

Because KVM EOIs the I/O APIC at step #2, the guest can get an interrupt
storm, e.g. if the IRQ line is still asserted and userspace reacts to the
EOI by re-injecting the IRQ, because the guest doesn't de-assert the line
until step #4, and doesn't expect the interrupt to be re-enabled until
step #5.

Unfortunately, simply "fixing" the bug isn't an option, as KVM has no way
of knowing if the userspace I/O APIC supports directed EOIs, i.e.
suppressing EOI broadcasts would result in interrupts being stuck masked
in the userspace I/O APIC due to step #5 being ignored by userspace. And
fully disabling support for Suppress EOI Broadcast is also undesirable, as
picking up the fix would require a guest reboot, *and* more importantly
would change the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest without any buy-in
from userspace.

Add KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST and
KVM_X2APIC_DISABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST flags to allow userspace to
explicitly enable or disable support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts. This
gives userspace control over the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest,
as KVM should never have enabled support for Suppress EOI Broadcast without
userspace opt-in. Not setting either flag will result in legacy quirky
behavior for backward compatibility.

Disallow fully enabling SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST when using an in-kernel
I/O APIC, as KVM's history/support is just as tragic.  E.g. it's not clear
that commit c806a6ad35bf ("KVM: x86: call irq notifiers with directed EOI")
was entirely correct, i.e. it may have simply papered over the lack of
Directed EOI emulation in the I/O APIC.

Note, Suppress EOI Broadcasts is defined only in Intel's SDM, not in AMD's
APM. But the bit is writable on some AMD CPUs, e.g. Turin, and KVM's ABI
is to support Directed EOI (KVM's name) irrespective of guest CPU vendor.

Fixes: 7543a635aa09 ("KVM: x86: Add KVM exit for IOAPIC EOIs")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/7D497EF1-607D-4D37-98E7-DAF95F099342@nutanix.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Khushit Shah &lt;khushit.shah@nutanix.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123125657.3384063-1-khushit.shah@nutanix.com
[sean: clean up minor formatting goofs and fix a comment typo]
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate</title>
<updated>2026-01-23T18:59:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jani Nikula</name>
<email>jani.nikula@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-23T14:31:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a592a36e49372172d7c7551ec19ed18184c935e1'/>
<id>a592a36e49372172d7c7551ec19ed18184c935e1</id>
<content type='text'>
The root document usually has a special :ref:`genindex` link to the
generated index. This is also the case for Documentation/index.rst. The
other index.rst files deeper in the directory hierarchy usually don't.

For SPHINXDIRS builds, the root document isn't Documentation/index.rst,
but some other index.rst in the hierarchy. Currently they have a
".. only::" block to add the index link when doing SPHINXDIRS html
builds.

This is obviously very tedious and repetitive. The link is also added to
all index.rst files in the hierarchy for SPHINXDIRS builds, not just the
root document.

Put the boilerplate in a sphinx-includes/subproject-index.rst file, and
include it at the end of the root document for subproject builds in an
ad-hoc source-read extension defined in conf.py.

For now, keep having the boilerplate in translations, because this
approach currently doesn't cover translated index link headers.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
[jc: did s/doctree/kern_doc_dir/ ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20260123143149.2024303-1-jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
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The root document usually has a special :ref:`genindex` link to the
generated index. This is also the case for Documentation/index.rst. The
other index.rst files deeper in the directory hierarchy usually don't.

For SPHINXDIRS builds, the root document isn't Documentation/index.rst,
but some other index.rst in the hierarchy. Currently they have a
".. only::" block to add the index link when doing SPHINXDIRS html
builds.

This is obviously very tedious and repetitive. The link is also added to
all index.rst files in the hierarchy for SPHINXDIRS builds, not just the
root document.

Put the boilerplate in a sphinx-includes/subproject-index.rst file, and
include it at the end of the root document for subproject builds in an
ad-hoc source-read extension defined in conf.py.

For now, keep having the boilerplate in translations, because this
approach currently doesn't cover translated index link headers.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
[jc: did s/doctree/kern_doc_dir/ ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20260123143149.2024303-1-jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
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