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<title>x86/acpi, x86/boot: Take RSDP address from boot params if available</title>
<updated>2018-11-20T08:43:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-20T07:25:29+00:00</published>
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In case the RSDP address in struct boot_params is specified don't try
to find the table by searching, but take the address directly as set
by the boot loader.

Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: daniel.kiper@oracle.com
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120072529.5489-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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In case the RSDP address in struct boot_params is specified don't try
to find the table by searching, but take the address directly as set
by the boot loader.

Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: daniel.kiper@oracle.com
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120072529.5489-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Mostly revert commit ae7e1238e68f2a ("Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header")</title>
<updated>2018-11-20T08:43:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-20T07:25:28+00:00</published>
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Peter Anvin pointed out that commit:

  ae7e1238e68f2a ("x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header")

should be reverted as setup_header should only contain items set by the
legacy BIOS.

So revert said commit. Instead of fully reverting the dependent commit
of:

  e7b66d16fe4172 ("x86/acpi, x86/boot: Take RSDP address for boot params if available")

just remove the setup_header reference in order to replace it by
a boot_params in a followup patch.

Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: daniel.kiper@oracle.com
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120072529.5489-2-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Peter Anvin pointed out that commit:

  ae7e1238e68f2a ("x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header")

should be reverted as setup_header should only contain items set by the
legacy BIOS.

So revert said commit. Instead of fully reverting the dependent commit
of:

  e7b66d16fe4172 ("x86/acpi, x86/boot: Take RSDP address for boot params if available")

just remove the setup_header reference in order to replace it by
a boot_params in a followup patch.

Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: daniel.kiper@oracle.com
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120072529.5489-2-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T00:57:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-26T00:57:35+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář:
 "ARM:
   - Improved guest IPA space support (32 to 52 bits)

   - RAS event delivery for 32bit

   - PMU fixes

   - Guest entry hardening

   - Various cleanups

   - Port of dirty_log_test selftest

  PPC:
   - Nested HV KVM support for radix guests on POWER9. The performance
     is much better than with PR KVM. Migration and arbitrary level of
     nesting is supported.

   - Disable nested HV-KVM on early POWER9 chips that need a particular
     hardware bug workaround

   - One VM per core mode to prevent potential data leaks

   - PCI pass-through optimization

   - merge ppc-kvm topic branch and kvm-ppc-fixes to get a better base

  s390:
   - Initial version of AP crypto virtualization via vfio-mdev

   - Improvement for vfio-ap

   - Set the host program identifier

   - Optimize page table locking

  x86:
   - Enable nested virtualization by default

   - Implement Hyper-V IPI hypercalls

   - Improve #PF and #DB handling

   - Allow guests to use Enlightened VMCS

   - Add migration selftests for VMCS and Enlightened VMCS

   - Allow coalesced PIO accesses

   - Add an option to perform nested VMCS host state consistency check
     through hardware

   - Automatic tuning of lapic_timer_advance_ns

   - Many fixes, minor improvements, and cleanups"

* tag 'kvm-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits)
  KVM/nVMX: Do not validate that posted_intr_desc_addr is page aligned
  Revert "kvm: x86: optimize dr6 restore"
  KVM: PPC: Optimize clearing TCEs for sparse tables
  x86/kvm/nVMX: tweak shadow fields
  selftests/kvm: add missing executables to .gitignore
  KVM: arm64: Safety check PSTATE when entering guest and handle IL
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't use streamlined entry path on early POWER9 chips
  arm/arm64: KVM: Enable 32 bits kvm vcpu events support
  arm/arm64: KVM: Rename function kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension()
  KVM: arm64: Fix caching of host MDCR_EL2 value
  KVM: VMX: enable nested virtualization by default
  KVM/x86: Use 32bit xor to clear registers in svm.c
  kvm: x86: Introduce KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD
  kvm: vmx: Defer setting of DR6 until #DB delivery
  kvm: x86: Defer setting of CR2 until #PF delivery
  kvm: x86: Add payload operands to kvm_multiple_exception
  kvm: x86: Add exception payload fields to kvm_vcpu_events
  kvm: x86: Add has_payload and payload to kvm_queued_exception
  KVM: Documentation: Fix omission in struct kvm_vcpu_events
  KVM: selftests: add Enlightened VMCS test
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář:
 "ARM:
   - Improved guest IPA space support (32 to 52 bits)

   - RAS event delivery for 32bit

   - PMU fixes

   - Guest entry hardening

   - Various cleanups

   - Port of dirty_log_test selftest

  PPC:
   - Nested HV KVM support for radix guests on POWER9. The performance
     is much better than with PR KVM. Migration and arbitrary level of
     nesting is supported.

   - Disable nested HV-KVM on early POWER9 chips that need a particular
     hardware bug workaround

   - One VM per core mode to prevent potential data leaks

   - PCI pass-through optimization

   - merge ppc-kvm topic branch and kvm-ppc-fixes to get a better base

  s390:
   - Initial version of AP crypto virtualization via vfio-mdev

   - Improvement for vfio-ap

   - Set the host program identifier

   - Optimize page table locking

  x86:
   - Enable nested virtualization by default

   - Implement Hyper-V IPI hypercalls

   - Improve #PF and #DB handling

   - Allow guests to use Enlightened VMCS

   - Add migration selftests for VMCS and Enlightened VMCS

   - Allow coalesced PIO accesses

   - Add an option to perform nested VMCS host state consistency check
     through hardware

   - Automatic tuning of lapic_timer_advance_ns

   - Many fixes, minor improvements, and cleanups"

* tag 'kvm-4.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits)
  KVM/nVMX: Do not validate that posted_intr_desc_addr is page aligned
  Revert "kvm: x86: optimize dr6 restore"
  KVM: PPC: Optimize clearing TCEs for sparse tables
  x86/kvm/nVMX: tweak shadow fields
  selftests/kvm: add missing executables to .gitignore
  KVM: arm64: Safety check PSTATE when entering guest and handle IL
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't use streamlined entry path on early POWER9 chips
  arm/arm64: KVM: Enable 32 bits kvm vcpu events support
  arm/arm64: KVM: Rename function kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension()
  KVM: arm64: Fix caching of host MDCR_EL2 value
  KVM: VMX: enable nested virtualization by default
  KVM/x86: Use 32bit xor to clear registers in svm.c
  kvm: x86: Introduce KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD
  kvm: vmx: Defer setting of DR6 until #DB delivery
  kvm: x86: Defer setting of CR2 until #PF delivery
  kvm: x86: Add payload operands to kvm_multiple_exception
  kvm: x86: Add exception payload fields to kvm_vcpu_events
  kvm: x86: Add has_payload and payload to kvm_queued_exception
  KVM: Documentation: Fix omission in struct kvm_vcpu_events
  KVM: selftests: add Enlightened VMCS test
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2018-10-24T10:22:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-24T10:22:39+00:00</published>
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Pull siginfo updates from Eric Biederman:
 "I have been slowly sorting out siginfo and this is the culmination of
  that work.

  The primary result is in several ways the signal infrastructure has
  been made less error prone. The code has been updated so that manually
  specifying SEND_SIG_FORCED is never necessary. The conversion to the
  new siginfo sending functions is now complete, which makes it
  difficult to send a signal without filling in the proper siginfo
  fields.

  At the tail end of the patchset comes the optimization of decreasing
  the size of struct siginfo in the kernel from 128 bytes to about 48
  bytes on 64bit. The fundamental observation that enables this is by
  definition none of the known ways to use struct siginfo uses the extra
  bytes.

  This comes at the cost of a small user space observable difference.
  For the rare case of siginfo being injected into the kernel only what
  can be copied into kernel_siginfo is delivered to the destination, the
  rest of the bytes are set to 0. For cases where the signal and the
  si_code are known this is safe, because we know those bytes are not
  used. For cases where the signal and si_code combination is unknown
  the bits that won't fit into struct kernel_siginfo are tested to
  verify they are zero, and the send fails if they are not.

  I made an extensive search through userspace code and I could not find
  anything that would break because of the above change. If it turns out
  I did break something it will take just the revert of a single change
  to restore kernel_siginfo to the same size as userspace siginfo.

  Testing did reveal dependencies on preferring the signo passed to
  sigqueueinfo over si-&gt;signo, so bit the bullet and added the
  complexity necessary to handle that case.

  Testing also revealed bad things can happen if a negative signal
  number is passed into the system calls. Something no sane application
  will do but something a malicious program or a fuzzer might do. So I
  have fixed the code that performs the bounds checks to ensure negative
  signal numbers are handled"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (80 commits)
  signal: Guard against negative signal numbers in copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal: Guard against negative signal numbers in copy_siginfo_from_user
  signal: In sigqueueinfo prefer sig not si_signo
  signal: Use a smaller struct siginfo in the kernel
  signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo
  signal: Introduce copy_siginfo_from_user and use it's return value
  signal: Remove the need for __ARCH_SI_PREABLE_SIZE and SI_PAD_SIZE
  signal: Fail sigqueueinfo if si_signo != sig
  signal/sparc: Move EMT_TAGOVF into the generic siginfo.h
  signal/unicore32: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/unicore32: Generate siginfo in ucs32_notify_die
  signal/unicore32: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arc: Push siginfo generation into unhandled_exception
  signal/ia64: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/ia64: Use the force_sig(SIGSEGV,...) in ia64_rt_sigreturn
  signal/ia64: Use the generic force_sigsegv in setup_frame
  signal/arm/kvm: Use send_sig_mceerr
  signal/arm: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arm: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  ...
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Pull siginfo updates from Eric Biederman:
 "I have been slowly sorting out siginfo and this is the culmination of
  that work.

  The primary result is in several ways the signal infrastructure has
  been made less error prone. The code has been updated so that manually
  specifying SEND_SIG_FORCED is never necessary. The conversion to the
  new siginfo sending functions is now complete, which makes it
  difficult to send a signal without filling in the proper siginfo
  fields.

  At the tail end of the patchset comes the optimization of decreasing
  the size of struct siginfo in the kernel from 128 bytes to about 48
  bytes on 64bit. The fundamental observation that enables this is by
  definition none of the known ways to use struct siginfo uses the extra
  bytes.

  This comes at the cost of a small user space observable difference.
  For the rare case of siginfo being injected into the kernel only what
  can be copied into kernel_siginfo is delivered to the destination, the
  rest of the bytes are set to 0. For cases where the signal and the
  si_code are known this is safe, because we know those bytes are not
  used. For cases where the signal and si_code combination is unknown
  the bits that won't fit into struct kernel_siginfo are tested to
  verify they are zero, and the send fails if they are not.

  I made an extensive search through userspace code and I could not find
  anything that would break because of the above change. If it turns out
  I did break something it will take just the revert of a single change
  to restore kernel_siginfo to the same size as userspace siginfo.

  Testing did reveal dependencies on preferring the signo passed to
  sigqueueinfo over si-&gt;signo, so bit the bullet and added the
  complexity necessary to handle that case.

  Testing also revealed bad things can happen if a negative signal
  number is passed into the system calls. Something no sane application
  will do but something a malicious program or a fuzzer might do. So I
  have fixed the code that performs the bounds checks to ensure negative
  signal numbers are handled"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (80 commits)
  signal: Guard against negative signal numbers in copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal: Guard against negative signal numbers in copy_siginfo_from_user
  signal: In sigqueueinfo prefer sig not si_signo
  signal: Use a smaller struct siginfo in the kernel
  signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo
  signal: Introduce copy_siginfo_from_user and use it's return value
  signal: Remove the need for __ARCH_SI_PREABLE_SIZE and SI_PAD_SIZE
  signal: Fail sigqueueinfo if si_signo != sig
  signal/sparc: Move EMT_TAGOVF into the generic siginfo.h
  signal/unicore32: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/unicore32: Generate siginfo in ucs32_notify_die
  signal/unicore32: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arc: Push siginfo generation into unhandled_exception
  signal/ia64: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/ia64: Use the force_sig(SIGSEGV,...) in ia64_rt_sigreturn
  signal/ia64: Use the generic force_sigsegv in setup_frame
  signal/arm/kvm: Use send_sig_mceerr
  signal/arm: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arm: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: x86: Add exception payload fields to kvm_vcpu_events</title>
<updated>2018-10-17T17:07:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jim Mattson</name>
<email>jmattson@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-16T21:29:20+00:00</published>
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The per-VM capability KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD (to be introduced in a
later commit) adds the following fields to struct kvm_vcpu_events:
exception_has_payload, exception_payload, and exception.pending.

With this capability set, all of the details of vcpu-&gt;arch.exception,
including the payload for a pending exception, are reported to
userspace in response to KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS.

With this capability clear, the original ABI is preserved, and the
exception.injected field is set for either pending or injected
exceptions.

When userspace calls KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS with
KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD clear, exception.injected is no longer
translated to exception.pending. KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS can now only
establish a pending exception when KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD is set.

Reported-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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The per-VM capability KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD (to be introduced in a
later commit) adds the following fields to struct kvm_vcpu_events:
exception_has_payload, exception_payload, and exception.pending.

With this capability set, all of the details of vcpu-&gt;arch.exception,
including the payload for a pending exception, are reported to
userspace in response to KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS.

With this capability clear, the original ABI is preserved, and the
exception.injected field is set for either pending or injected
exceptions.

When userspace calls KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS with
KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD clear, exception.injected is no longer
translated to exception.pending. KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS can now only
establish a pending exception when KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD is set.

Reported-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/kvm/nVMX: nested state migration for Enlightened VMCS</title>
<updated>2018-10-16T22:30:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-16T16:50:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8cab6507f64eff0ccfea01fccbc7e3e05e2aaf7e'/>
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<content type='text'>
Add support for get/set of nested state when Enlightened VMCS is in use.
A new KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS flag to indicate eVMCS on the vCPU was enabled
is added.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Add support for get/set of nested state when Enlightened VMCS is in use.
A new KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS flag to indicate eVMCS on the vCPU was enabled
is added.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header</title>
<updated>2018-10-10T08:44:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-10T06:14:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ae7e1238e68f2a472a125673ab506d49158c1889'/>
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Xen PVH guests receive the address of the RSDP table from Xen. In order
to support booting a Xen PVH guest via Grub2 using the standard x86
boot entry we need a way for Grub2 to pass the RSDP address to the
kernel.

For this purpose expand the struct setup_header to hold the physical
address of the RSDP address. Being zero means it isn't specified and
has to be located the legacy way (searching through low memory or
EBDA).

While documenting the new setup_header layout and protocol version
2.14 add the missing documentation of protocol version 2.13.

There are Grub2 versions in several distros with a downstream patch
violating the boot protocol by writing past the end of setup_header.
This requires another update of the boot protocol to enable the kernel
to distinguish between a specified RSDP address and one filled with
garbage by such a broken Grub2.

From protocol 2.14 on Grub2 will write the version it is supporting
(but never a higher value than found to be supported by the kernel)
ored with 0x8000 to the version field of setup_header. This enables
the kernel to know up to which field Grub2 has written information
to. All fields after that are supposed to be clobbered.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181010061456.22238-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Xen PVH guests receive the address of the RSDP table from Xen. In order
to support booting a Xen PVH guest via Grub2 using the standard x86
boot entry we need a way for Grub2 to pass the RSDP address to the
kernel.

For this purpose expand the struct setup_header to hold the physical
address of the RSDP address. Being zero means it isn't specified and
has to be located the legacy way (searching through low memory or
EBDA).

While documenting the new setup_header layout and protocol version
2.14 add the missing documentation of protocol version 2.13.

There are Grub2 versions in several distros with a downstream patch
violating the boot protocol by writing past the end of setup_header.
This requires another update of the boot protocol to enable the kernel
to distinguish between a specified RSDP address and one filled with
garbage by such a broken Grub2.

From protocol 2.14 on Grub2 will write the version it is supporting
(but never a higher value than found to be supported by the kernel)
ored with 0x8000 to the version field of setup_header. This enables
the kernel to know up to which field Grub2 has written information
to. All fields after that are supposed to be clobbered.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181010061456.22238-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Remove the need for __ARCH_SI_PREABLE_SIZE and SI_PAD_SIZE</title>
<updated>2018-10-03T14:46:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-18T22:48:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f28380185193610c716a90ec9b9e696638a495ce'/>
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Rework the defintion of struct siginfo so that the array padding
struct siginfo to SI_MAX_SIZE can be placed in a union along side of
the rest of the struct siginfo members.  The result is that we no
longer need the __ARCH_SI_PREAMBLE_SIZE or SI_PAD_SIZE definitions.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Rework the defintion of struct siginfo so that the array padding
struct siginfo to SI_MAX_SIZE can be placed in a union along side of
the rest of the struct siginfo members.  The result is that we no
longer need the __ARCH_SI_PREAMBLE_SIZE or SI_PAD_SIZE definitions.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/kvm/lapic: always disable MMIO interface in x2APIC mode</title>
<updated>2018-09-19T22:26:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-02T15:08:16+00:00</published>
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When VMX is used with flexpriority disabled (because of no support or
if disabled with module parameter) MMIO interface to lAPIC is still
available in x2APIC mode while it shouldn't be (kvm-unit-tests):

PASS: apic_disable: Local apic enabled in x2APIC mode
PASS: apic_disable: CPUID.1H:EDX.APIC[bit 9] is set
FAIL: apic_disable: *0xfee00030: 50014

The issue appears because we basically do nothing while switching to
x2APIC mode when APIC access page is not used. apic_mmio_{read,write}
only check if lAPIC is disabled before proceeding to actual write.

When APIC access is virtualized we correctly manipulate with VMX controls
in vmx_set_virtual_apic_mode() and we don't get vmexits from memory writes
in x2APIC mode so there's no issue.

Disabling MMIO interface seems to be easy. The question is: what do we
do with these reads and writes? If we add apic_x2apic_mode() check to
apic_mmio_in_range() and return -EOPNOTSUPP these reads and writes will
go to userspace. When lAPIC is in kernel, Qemu uses this interface to
inject MSIs only (see kvm_apic_mem_write() in hw/i386/kvm/apic.c). This
somehow works with disabled lAPIC but when we're in xAPIC mode we will
get a real injected MSI from every write to lAPIC. Not good.

The simplest solution seems to be to just ignore writes to the region
and return ~0 for all reads when we're in x2APIC mode. This is what this
patch does. However, this approach is inconsistent with what currently
happens when flexpriority is enabled: we allocate APIC access page and
create KVM memory region so in x2APIC modes all reads and writes go to
this pre-allocated page which is, btw, the same for all vCPUs.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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When VMX is used with flexpriority disabled (because of no support or
if disabled with module parameter) MMIO interface to lAPIC is still
available in x2APIC mode while it shouldn't be (kvm-unit-tests):

PASS: apic_disable: Local apic enabled in x2APIC mode
PASS: apic_disable: CPUID.1H:EDX.APIC[bit 9] is set
FAIL: apic_disable: *0xfee00030: 50014

The issue appears because we basically do nothing while switching to
x2APIC mode when APIC access page is not used. apic_mmio_{read,write}
only check if lAPIC is disabled before proceeding to actual write.

When APIC access is virtualized we correctly manipulate with VMX controls
in vmx_set_virtual_apic_mode() and we don't get vmexits from memory writes
in x2APIC mode so there's no issue.

Disabling MMIO interface seems to be easy. The question is: what do we
do with these reads and writes? If we add apic_x2apic_mode() check to
apic_mmio_in_range() and return -EOPNOTSUPP these reads and writes will
go to userspace. When lAPIC is in kernel, Qemu uses this interface to
inject MSIs only (see kvm_apic_mem_write() in hw/i386/kvm/apic.c). This
somehow works with disabled lAPIC but when we're in xAPIC mode we will
get a real injected MSI from every write to lAPIC. Not good.

The simplest solution seems to be to just ignore writes to the region
and return ~0 for all reads when we're in x2APIC mode. This is what this
patch does. However, this approach is inconsistent with what currently
happens when flexpriority is enabled: we allocate APIC access page and
create KVM memory region so in x2APIC modes all reads and writes go to
this pre-allocated page which is, btw, the same for all vCPUs.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: X86: Implement PV IPIs in linux guest</title>
<updated>2018-08-06T15:59:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wanpeng Li</name>
<email>wanpengli@tencent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-23T06:39:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=aaffcfd1e82d3378538408d0310b7424b98d8f81'/>
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Implement paravirtual apic hooks to enable PV IPIs for KVM if the "send IPI"
hypercall is available.  The hypercall lets a guest send IPIs, with
at most 128 destinations per hypercall in 64-bit mode and 64 vCPUs per
hypercall in 32-bit mode.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpengli@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Implement paravirtual apic hooks to enable PV IPIs for KVM if the "send IPI"
hypercall is available.  The hypercall lets a guest send IPIs, with
at most 128 destinations per hypercall in 64-bit mode and 64 vCPUs per
hypercall in 32-bit mode.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpengli@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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