linux.git/Documentation/virtual, branch v4.5-rc2

KVM doc: Fix KVM_SMI chapter number

2016-01-26T15:29:59+00:00

The KVM_SMI capability is following the KVM_S390_SET_IRQ_STATE capability
which is "4.95", this changes the number of the KVM_SMI chapter to 4.96.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy 
Reviewed-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: s390: fix mismatch between user and in-kernel guest limit

2015-12-15T16:08:21+00:00

While the userspace interface requests the maximum size the gmap code
expects to get a maximum address.

This error resulted in bigger page tables than necessary for some guest
sizes, e.g. a 2GB guest used 3 levels instead of 2.

At the same time we introduce KVM_S390_NO_MEM_LIMIT, which allows in a
bright future that a guest spans the complete 64 bit address space.

We also switch to TASK_MAX_SIZE for the initial memory size, this is a
cosmetic change as the previous size also resulted in a 4 level pagetable
creation.

Reported-by: David Hildenbrand 
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck 
Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel 
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger

KVM: x86: MMU: Consolidate BUG_ON checks for reverse-mapped sptes

2015-11-25T16:26:47+00:00

At some call sites of rmap_get_first() and rmap_get_next(), BUG_ON is
placed right after the call to detect unrelated sptes which must not be
found in the reverse-mapping list.

Move this check in rmap_get_first/next() so that all call sites, not
just the users of the for_each_rmap_spte() macro, will be checked the
same way.

One thing to keep in mind is that kvm_mmu_unlink_parents() also uses
rmap_get_first() to handle parent sptes.  The change will not break it
because parent sptes are present, at least until drop_parent_pte()
actually unlinks them, and not mmio-sptes.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

kvm/x86: Hyper-V kvm exit

2015-11-25T16:24:22+00:00

A new vcpu exit is introduced to notify the userspace of the
changes in Hyper-V SynIC configuration triggered by guest writing to the
corresponding MSRs.

Changes v4:
* exit into userspace only if guest writes into SynIC MSR's

Changes v3:
* added KVM_EXIT_HYPERV types and structs notes into docs

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin 
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan 
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev 
CC: Gleb Natapov 
CC: Paolo Bonzini 
CC: Roman Kagan 
CC: Denis V. Lunev 
CC: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

kvm/x86: Hyper-V synthetic interrupt controller

2015-11-25T16:24:22+00:00

SynIC (synthetic interrupt controller) is a lapic extension,
which is controlled via MSRs and maintains for each vCPU
 - 16 synthetic interrupt "lines" (SINT's); each can be configured to
   trigger a specific interrupt vector optionally with auto-EOI
   semantics
 - a message page in the guest memory with 16 256-byte per-SINT message
   slots
 - an event flag page in the guest memory with 16 2048-bit per-SINT
   event flag areas

The host triggers a SINT whenever it delivers a new message to the
corresponding slot or flips an event flag bit in the corresponding area.
The guest informs the host that it can try delivering a message by
explicitly asserting EOI in lapic or writing to End-Of-Message (EOM)
MSR.

The userspace (qemu) triggers interrupts and receives EOM notifications
via irqfd with resampler; for that, a GSI is allocated for each
configured SINT, and irq_routing api is extended to support GSI-SINT
mapping.

Changes v4:
* added activation of SynIC by vcpu KVM_ENABLE_CAP
* added per SynIC active flag
* added deactivation of APICv upon SynIC activation

Changes v3:
* added KVM_CAP_HYPERV_SYNIC and KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_HV_SINT notes into
docs

Changes v2:
* do not use posted interrupts for Hyper-V SynIC AutoEOI vectors
* add Hyper-V SynIC vectors into EOI exit bitmap
* Hyper-V SyniIC SINT msr write logic simplified

Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin 
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan 
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev 
CC: Gleb Natapov 
CC: Paolo Bonzini 
CC: Roman Kagan 
CC: Denis V. Lunev 
CC: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

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

2015-11-06T00:26:26+00:00

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "First batch of KVM changes for 4.4.

  s390:
     A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time handling.

  PPC:
     Mostly bug fixes.

  ARM:
     No big features, but many small fixes and prerequisites including:

      - a number of fixes for the arch-timer

      - introducing proper level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers

      - a series of patches to synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite
        for IRQ forwarding)

      - some tracepoint improvements

      - a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers

      - some more VGIC cleanups getting rid of redundant state

  x86:
     Quite a few changes:

      - support for VT-d posted interrupts (i.e. PCI devices can inject
        interrupts directly into vCPUs).  This introduces a new
        component (in virt/lib/) that connects VFIO and KVM together.
        The same infrastructure will be used for ARM interrupt
        forwarding as well.

      - more Hyper-V features, though the main one Hyper-V synthetic
        interrupt controller will have to wait for 4.5.  These will let
        KVM expose Hyper-V devices.

      - nested virtualization now supports VPID (same as PCID but for
        vCPUs) which makes it quite a bit faster

      - for future hardware that supports NVDIMM, there is support for
        clflushopt, clwb, pcommit

      - support for "split irqchip", i.e.  LAPIC in kernel +
        IOAPIC/PIC/PIT in userspace, which reduces the attack surface of
        the hypervisor

      - obligatory smattering of SMM fixes

      - on the guest side, stable scheduler clock support was rewritten
        to not require help from the hypervisor"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (123 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix commit which broke PML
  KVM: x86: obey KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED in kvm_set_cr0()
  KVM: x86: allow RSM from 64-bit mode
  KVM: VMX: fix SMEP and SMAP without EPT
  KVM: x86: move kvm_set_irq_inatomic to legacy device assignment
  KVM: device assignment: remove pointless #ifdefs
  KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic
  KVM: x86: zero apic_arb_prio on reset
  drivers/hv: share Hyper-V SynIC constants with userspace
  KVM: x86: handle SMBASE as physical address in RSM
  KVM: x86: add read_phys to x86_emulate_ops
  KVM: x86: removing unused variable
  KVM: don't pointlessly leave KVM_COMPAT=y in non-KVM configs
  KVM: arm/arm64: Merge vgic_set_lr() and vgic_sync_lr_elrsr()
  KVM: arm/arm64: Clean up vgic_retire_lr() and surroundings
  KVM: arm/arm64: Optimize away redundant LR tracking
  KVM: s390: use simple switch statement as multiplexer
  KVM: s390: drop useless newline in debugging data
  KVM: s390: SCA must not cross page boundaries
  KVM: arm: Do not indent the arguments of DECLARE_BITMAP
  ...

Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

2015-11-04T15:24:17+00:00

KVM/ARM Changes for v4.4-rc1

Includes a number of fixes for the arch-timer, introducing proper
level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers, a series of patches to
synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite for IRQ forwarding), some tracepoint
improvements, a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers, some more VGIC cleanups
getting rid of redundant state, and finally a stylistic change that gets rid of
some ctags warnings.

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h

KVM: arm/arm64: Fix vGIC documentation

2015-10-22T21:01:47+00:00

Correct some old mistakes in the API documentation:

1. VCPU is identified by index (using kvm_get_vcpu() function), but
   "cpu id" can be mistaken for affinity ID.
2. Some error codes are wrong.

  [ Slightly tweaked some grammer and did some s/CPU index/vcpu_index/
    in the descriptions.  -Christoffer ]

Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin 
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall

arm/arm64: KVM: Add forwarded physical interrupts documentation

2015-10-22T21:01:43+00:00

Forwarded physical interrupts on arm/arm64 is a tricky concept and the
way we deal with them is not apparently easy to understand by reading
various specs.

Therefore, add a proper documentation file explaining the flow and
rationale of the behavior of the vgic.

Some of this text was contributed by Marc Zyngier and edited by me.
Omissions and errors are all mine.

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall

Doc:kvm: Fix typo in Doc/virtual/kvm

2015-10-11T21:35:23+00:00

This patch fix spelling typos in Documentation/virtual/kvm.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet