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<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>
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<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>MIPS: kvm/entry: Use GPR number macros</title>
<updated>2024-02-20T11:41:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiaxun Yang</name>
<email>jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-09T18:07:53+00:00</published>
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Use GPR number macros in uasm code generation parts to
reduce code duplication.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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Use GPR number macros in uasm code generation parts to
reduce code duplication.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Unify define of CP0 registers for uasm code</title>
<updated>2024-02-20T11:41:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiaxun Yang</name>
<email>jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-09T18:07:47+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Definitions of uasm variant of CP0 registers are unified to
mipsregs.h, so they lay together with uasm variant of
the code.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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<pre>
Definitions of uasm variant of CP0 registers are unified to
mipsregs.h, so they lay together with uasm variant of
the code.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-kconfig'</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T13:47:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-08T13:47:06+00:00</published>
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Cleanups to Kconfig definitions for KVM

* replace HAVE_KVM with an architecture-dependent symbol, when CONFIG_KVM
  may or may not be available depending on CPU capabilities (MIPS)

* replace HAVE_KVM with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM) for host-side code that is
  not part of the KVM module, so that it is completely compiled out

* factor common "select" statements in common code instead of requiring
  each architecture to specify it
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Cleanups to Kconfig definitions for KVM

* replace HAVE_KVM with an architecture-dependent symbol, when CONFIG_KVM
  may or may not be available depending on CPU capabilities (MIPS)

* replace HAVE_KVM with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM) for host-side code that is
  not part of the KVM module, so that it is completely compiled out

* factor common "select" statements in common code instead of requiring
  each architecture to specify it
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: introduce Kconfig for MIPS VZ</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T13:45:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-04T16:00:36+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Since MIPS/KVM only supports hardware virtualization using MIPS VZ,
do not enable KVM blindly.  Use a new Kconfig symbol CPU_SUPPORTS_VZ
and do not enable it for R2 processors.

Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
Since MIPS/KVM only supports hardware virtualization using MIPS VZ,
do not enable KVM blindly.  Use a new Kconfig symbol CPU_SUPPORTS_VZ
and do not enable it for R2 processors.

Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: replace __KVM_HAVE_READONLY_MEM with Kconfig symbol</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T13:41:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-11T08:00:34+00:00</published>
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KVM uses __KVM_HAVE_* symbols in the architecture-dependent uapi/asm/kvm.h to mask
unused definitions in include/uapi/linux/kvm.h.  __KVM_HAVE_READONLY_MEM however
was nothing but a misguided attempt to define KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM only on
architectures where KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM) could possibly
return nonzero.  This however does not make sense, and it prevented userspace
from supporting this architecture-independent feature without recompilation.

Therefore, these days __KVM_HAVE_READONLY_MEM does not mask anything and
is only used in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c.  Userspace does not need to test it
and there should be no need for it to exist.  Remove it and replace it
with a Kconfig symbol within Linux source code.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
KVM uses __KVM_HAVE_* symbols in the architecture-dependent uapi/asm/kvm.h to mask
unused definitions in include/uapi/linux/kvm.h.  __KVM_HAVE_READONLY_MEM however
was nothing but a misguided attempt to define KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM only on
architectures where KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM) could possibly
return nonzero.  This however does not make sense, and it prevented userspace
from supporting this architecture-independent feature without recompilation.

Therefore, these days __KVM_HAVE_READONLY_MEM does not mask anything and
is only used in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c.  Userspace does not need to test it
and there should be no need for it to exist.  Remove it and replace it
with a Kconfig symbol within Linux source code.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2024-01-17T21:03:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-17T21:03:37+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Generic:

   - Use memdup_array_user() to harden against overflow.

   - Unconditionally advertise KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL for all
     architectures.

   - Clean up Kconfigs that all KVM architectures were selecting

   - New functionality around "guest_memfd", a new userspace API that
     creates an anonymous file and returns a file descriptor that refers
     to it. guest_memfd files are bound to their owning virtual machine,
     cannot be mapped, read, or written by userspace, and cannot be
     resized. guest_memfd files do however support PUNCH_HOLE, which can
     be used to switch a memory area between guest_memfd and regular
     anonymous memory.

   - New ioctl KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES allowing userspace to specify
     per-page attributes for a given page of guest memory; right now the
     only attribute is whether the guest expects to access memory via
     guest_memfd or not, which in Confidential SVMs backed by SEV-SNP,
     TDX or ARM64 pKVM is checked by firmware or hypervisor that
     guarantees confidentiality (AMD PSP, Intel TDX module, or EL2 in
     the case of pKVM).

  x86:

   - Support for "software-protected VMs" that can use the new
     guest_memfd and page attributes infrastructure. This is mostly
     useful for testing, since there is no pKVM-like infrastructure to
     provide a meaningfully reduced TCB.

   - Fix a relatively benign off-by-one error when splitting huge pages
     during CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG.

   - Fix a bug where KVM could incorrectly test-and-clear dirty bits in
     non-leaf TDP MMU SPTEs if a racing thread replaces a huge SPTE with
     a non-huge SPTE.

   - Use more generic lockdep assertions in paths that don't actually
     care about whether the caller is a reader or a writer.

   - let Xen guests opt out of having PV clock reported as "based on a
     stable TSC", because some of them don't expect the "TSC stable" bit
     (added to the pvclock ABI by KVM, but never set by Xen) to be set.

   - Revert a bogus, made-up nested SVM consistency check for
     TLB_CONTROL.

   - Advertise flush-by-ASID support for nSVM unconditionally, as KVM
     always flushes on nested transitions, i.e. always satisfies flush
     requests. This allows running bleeding edge versions of VMware
     Workstation on top of KVM.

   - Sanity check that the CPU supports flush-by-ASID when enabling SEV
     support.

   - On AMD machines with vNMI, always rely on hardware instead of
     intercepting IRET in some cases to detect unmasking of NMIs

   - Support for virtualizing Linear Address Masking (LAM)

   - Fix a variety of vPMU bugs where KVM fail to stop/reset counters
     and other state prior to refreshing the vPMU model.

   - Fix a double-overflow PMU bug by tracking emulated counter events
     using a dedicated field instead of snapshotting the "previous"
     counter. If the hardware PMC count triggers overflow that is
     recognized in the same VM-Exit that KVM manually bumps an event
     count, KVM would pend PMIs for both the hardware-triggered overflow
     and for KVM-triggered overflow.

   - Turn off KVM_WERROR by default for all configs so that it's not
     inadvertantly enabled by non-KVM developers, which can be
     problematic for subsystems that require no regressions for W=1
     builds.

   - Advertise all of the host-supported CPUID bits that enumerate
     IA32_SPEC_CTRL "features".

   - Don't force a masterclock update when a vCPU synchronizes to the
     current TSC generation, as updating the masterclock can cause
     kvmclock's time to "jump" unexpectedly, e.g. when userspace
     hotplugs a pre-created vCPU.

   - Use RIP-relative address to read kvm_rebooting in the VM-Enter
     fault paths, partly as a super minor optimization, but mostly to
     make KVM play nice with position independent executable builds.

   - Guard KVM-on-HyperV's range-based TLB flush hooks with an #ifdef on
     CONFIG_HYPERV as a minor optimization, and to self-document the
     code.

   - Add CONFIG_KVM_HYPERV to allow disabling KVM support for HyperV
     "emulation" at build time.

  ARM64:

   - LPA2 support, adding 52bit IPA/PA capability for 4kB and 16kB base
     granule sizes. Branch shared with the arm64 tree.

   - Large Fine-Grained Trap rework, bringing some sanity to the
     feature, although there is more to come. This comes with a prefix
     branch shared with the arm64 tree.

   - Some additional Nested Virtualization groundwork, mostly
     introducing the NV2 VNCR support and retargetting the NV support to
     that version of the architecture.

   - A small set of vgic fixes and associated cleanups.

  Loongarch:

   - Optimization for memslot hugepage checking

   - Cleanup and fix some HW/SW timer issues

   - Add LSX/LASX (128bit/256bit SIMD) support

  RISC-V:

   - KVM_GET_REG_LIST improvement for vector registers

   - Generate ISA extension reg_list using macros in get-reg-list
     selftest

   - Support for reporting steal time along with selftest

  s390:

   - Bugfixes

  Selftests:

   - Fix an annoying goof where the NX hugepage test prints out garbage
     instead of the magic token needed to run the test.

   - Fix build errors when a header is delete/moved due to a missing
     flag in the Makefile.

   - Detect if KVM bugged/killed a selftest's VM and print out a helpful
     message instead of complaining that a random ioctl() failed.

   - Annotate the guest printf/assert helpers with __printf(), and fix
     the various bugs that were lurking due to lack of said annotation"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (185 commits)
  x86/kvm: Do not try to disable kvmclock if it was not enabled
  KVM: x86: add missing "depends on KVM"
  KVM: fix direction of dependency on MMU notifiers
  KVM: introduce CONFIG_KVM_COMMON
  KVM: arm64: Add missing memory barriers when switching to pKVM's hyp pgd
  KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Avoid potential UAF in LPI translation cache
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add get-reg-list test for STA registers
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add steal_time test support
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add guest_sbi_probe_extension
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Move sbi_ecall to processor.c
  RISC-V: KVM: Implement SBI STA extension
  RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI STA registers
  RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI extension registers
  RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA info to vcpu_arch
  RISC-V: KVM: Add steal-update vcpu request
  RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA extension skeleton
  RISC-V: paravirt: Implement steal-time support
  RISC-V: Add SBI STA extension definitions
  RISC-V: paravirt: Add skeleton for pv-time support
  RISC-V: KVM: Fix indentation in kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_reg_csr()
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Generic:

   - Use memdup_array_user() to harden against overflow.

   - Unconditionally advertise KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL for all
     architectures.

   - Clean up Kconfigs that all KVM architectures were selecting

   - New functionality around "guest_memfd", a new userspace API that
     creates an anonymous file and returns a file descriptor that refers
     to it. guest_memfd files are bound to their owning virtual machine,
     cannot be mapped, read, or written by userspace, and cannot be
     resized. guest_memfd files do however support PUNCH_HOLE, which can
     be used to switch a memory area between guest_memfd and regular
     anonymous memory.

   - New ioctl KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES allowing userspace to specify
     per-page attributes for a given page of guest memory; right now the
     only attribute is whether the guest expects to access memory via
     guest_memfd or not, which in Confidential SVMs backed by SEV-SNP,
     TDX or ARM64 pKVM is checked by firmware or hypervisor that
     guarantees confidentiality (AMD PSP, Intel TDX module, or EL2 in
     the case of pKVM).

  x86:

   - Support for "software-protected VMs" that can use the new
     guest_memfd and page attributes infrastructure. This is mostly
     useful for testing, since there is no pKVM-like infrastructure to
     provide a meaningfully reduced TCB.

   - Fix a relatively benign off-by-one error when splitting huge pages
     during CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG.

   - Fix a bug where KVM could incorrectly test-and-clear dirty bits in
     non-leaf TDP MMU SPTEs if a racing thread replaces a huge SPTE with
     a non-huge SPTE.

   - Use more generic lockdep assertions in paths that don't actually
     care about whether the caller is a reader or a writer.

   - let Xen guests opt out of having PV clock reported as "based on a
     stable TSC", because some of them don't expect the "TSC stable" bit
     (added to the pvclock ABI by KVM, but never set by Xen) to be set.

   - Revert a bogus, made-up nested SVM consistency check for
     TLB_CONTROL.

   - Advertise flush-by-ASID support for nSVM unconditionally, as KVM
     always flushes on nested transitions, i.e. always satisfies flush
     requests. This allows running bleeding edge versions of VMware
     Workstation on top of KVM.

   - Sanity check that the CPU supports flush-by-ASID when enabling SEV
     support.

   - On AMD machines with vNMI, always rely on hardware instead of
     intercepting IRET in some cases to detect unmasking of NMIs

   - Support for virtualizing Linear Address Masking (LAM)

   - Fix a variety of vPMU bugs where KVM fail to stop/reset counters
     and other state prior to refreshing the vPMU model.

   - Fix a double-overflow PMU bug by tracking emulated counter events
     using a dedicated field instead of snapshotting the "previous"
     counter. If the hardware PMC count triggers overflow that is
     recognized in the same VM-Exit that KVM manually bumps an event
     count, KVM would pend PMIs for both the hardware-triggered overflow
     and for KVM-triggered overflow.

   - Turn off KVM_WERROR by default for all configs so that it's not
     inadvertantly enabled by non-KVM developers, which can be
     problematic for subsystems that require no regressions for W=1
     builds.

   - Advertise all of the host-supported CPUID bits that enumerate
     IA32_SPEC_CTRL "features".

   - Don't force a masterclock update when a vCPU synchronizes to the
     current TSC generation, as updating the masterclock can cause
     kvmclock's time to "jump" unexpectedly, e.g. when userspace
     hotplugs a pre-created vCPU.

   - Use RIP-relative address to read kvm_rebooting in the VM-Enter
     fault paths, partly as a super minor optimization, but mostly to
     make KVM play nice with position independent executable builds.

   - Guard KVM-on-HyperV's range-based TLB flush hooks with an #ifdef on
     CONFIG_HYPERV as a minor optimization, and to self-document the
     code.

   - Add CONFIG_KVM_HYPERV to allow disabling KVM support for HyperV
     "emulation" at build time.

  ARM64:

   - LPA2 support, adding 52bit IPA/PA capability for 4kB and 16kB base
     granule sizes. Branch shared with the arm64 tree.

   - Large Fine-Grained Trap rework, bringing some sanity to the
     feature, although there is more to come. This comes with a prefix
     branch shared with the arm64 tree.

   - Some additional Nested Virtualization groundwork, mostly
     introducing the NV2 VNCR support and retargetting the NV support to
     that version of the architecture.

   - A small set of vgic fixes and associated cleanups.

  Loongarch:

   - Optimization for memslot hugepage checking

   - Cleanup and fix some HW/SW timer issues

   - Add LSX/LASX (128bit/256bit SIMD) support

  RISC-V:

   - KVM_GET_REG_LIST improvement for vector registers

   - Generate ISA extension reg_list using macros in get-reg-list
     selftest

   - Support for reporting steal time along with selftest

  s390:

   - Bugfixes

  Selftests:

   - Fix an annoying goof where the NX hugepage test prints out garbage
     instead of the magic token needed to run the test.

   - Fix build errors when a header is delete/moved due to a missing
     flag in the Makefile.

   - Detect if KVM bugged/killed a selftest's VM and print out a helpful
     message instead of complaining that a random ioctl() failed.

   - Annotate the guest printf/assert helpers with __printf(), and fix
     the various bugs that were lurking due to lack of said annotation"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (185 commits)
  x86/kvm: Do not try to disable kvmclock if it was not enabled
  KVM: x86: add missing "depends on KVM"
  KVM: fix direction of dependency on MMU notifiers
  KVM: introduce CONFIG_KVM_COMMON
  KVM: arm64: Add missing memory barriers when switching to pKVM's hyp pgd
  KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Avoid potential UAF in LPI translation cache
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add get-reg-list test for STA registers
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add steal_time test support
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add guest_sbi_probe_extension
  RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Move sbi_ecall to processor.c
  RISC-V: KVM: Implement SBI STA extension
  RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI STA registers
  RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI extension registers
  RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA info to vcpu_arch
  RISC-V: KVM: Add steal-update vcpu request
  RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA extension skeleton
  RISC-V: paravirt: Implement steal-time support
  RISC-V: Add SBI STA extension definitions
  RISC-V: paravirt: Add skeleton for pv-time support
  RISC-V: KVM: Fix indentation in kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_reg_csr()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>KVM: introduce CONFIG_KVM_COMMON</title>
<updated>2024-01-08T13:09:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-04T16:15:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=caadf876bb7449bf25ef817afe7fb881df8198a2'/>
<id>caadf876bb7449bf25ef817afe7fb881df8198a2</id>
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CONFIG_HAVE_KVM is currently used by some architectures to either
enabled the KVM config proper, or to enable host-side code that is
not part of the KVM module.  However, CONFIG_KVM's "select" statement
in virt/kvm/Kconfig corresponds to a third meaning, namely to
enable common Kconfigs required by all architectures that support
KVM.

These three meanings can be replaced respectively by an
architecture-specific Kconfig, by IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM), or by
a new Kconfig symbol that is in turn selected by the
architecture-specific "config KVM".

Start by introducing such a new Kconfig symbol, CONFIG_KVM_COMMON.
Unlike CONFIG_HAVE_KVM, it is selected by CONFIG_KVM, not by
architecture code, and it brings in all dependencies of common
KVM code.  In particular, INTERVAL_TREE was missing in loongarch
and riscv, so that is another thing that is fixed.

Fixes: 8132d887a702 ("KVM: remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD", 2023-12-08)
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/44907c6b-c5bd-4e4a-a921-e4d3825539d8@infradead.org/
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;ajones@ventanamicro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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CONFIG_HAVE_KVM is currently used by some architectures to either
enabled the KVM config proper, or to enable host-side code that is
not part of the KVM module.  However, CONFIG_KVM's "select" statement
in virt/kvm/Kconfig corresponds to a third meaning, namely to
enable common Kconfigs required by all architectures that support
KVM.

These three meanings can be replaced respectively by an
architecture-specific Kconfig, by IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM), or by
a new Kconfig symbol that is in turn selected by the
architecture-specific "config KVM".

Start by introducing such a new Kconfig symbol, CONFIG_KVM_COMMON.
Unlike CONFIG_HAVE_KVM, it is selected by CONFIG_KVM, not by
architecture code, and it brings in all dependencies of common
KVM code.  In particular, INTERVAL_TREE was missing in loongarch
and riscv, so that is another thing that is fixed.

Fixes: 8132d887a702 ("KVM: remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD", 2023-12-08)
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/44907c6b-c5bd-4e4a-a921-e4d3825539d8@infradead.org/
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;ajones@ventanamicro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix typos</title>
<updated>2024-01-08T09:39:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjorn Helgaas</name>
<email>bhelgaas@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-03T23:16:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2f9060b1db4aa2c21c248e34476d8936a2b69cf6'/>
<id>2f9060b1db4aa2c21c248e34476d8936a2b69cf6</id>
<content type='text'>
Fix typos, most reported by "codespell arch/mips".  Only touches comments,
no code changes.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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Fix typos, most reported by "codespell arch/mips".  Only touches comments,
no code changes.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: remove CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD</title>
<updated>2023-12-08T20:43:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-18T16:11:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8132d887a7023b212f242a51ae89281c69fde996'/>
<id>8132d887a7023b212f242a51ae89281c69fde996</id>
<content type='text'>
virt/kvm/eventfd.c is compiled unconditionally, meaning that the ioeventfds
member of struct kvm is accessed unconditionally.  CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD
therefore must be defined for KVM common code to compile successfully,
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
virt/kvm/eventfd.c is compiled unconditionally, meaning that the ioeventfds
member of struct kvm is accessed unconditionally.  CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD
therefore must be defined for KVM common code to compile successfully,
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
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