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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T21:22:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T21:22:07+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:

   - Nested virtualization support for VGICv3, giving the nested
     hypervisor control of the VGIC hardware when running an L2 VM

   - Removal of 'late' nested virtualization feature register masking,
     making the supported feature set directly visible to userspace

   - Support for emulating FEAT_PMUv3 on Apple silicon, taking advantage
     of an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED trap that covers all PMUv3 registers

   - Paravirtual interface for discovering the set of CPU
     implementations where a VM may run, addressing a longstanding issue
     of guest CPU errata awareness in big-little systems and
     cross-implementation VM migration

   - Userspace control of the registers responsible for identifying a
     particular CPU implementation (MIDR_EL1, REVIDR_EL1, AIDR_EL1),
     allowing VMs to be migrated cross-implementation

   - pKVM updates, including support for tracking stage-2 page table
     allocations in the protected hypervisor in the 'SecPageTable' stat

   - Fixes to vPMU, ensuring that userspace updates to the vPMU after
     KVM_RUN are reflected into the backing perf events

  LoongArch:

   - Remove unnecessary header include path

   - Assume constant PGD during VM context switch

   - Add perf events support for guest VM

  RISC-V:

   - Disable the kernel perf counter during configure

   - KVM selftests improvements for PMU

   - Fix warning at the time of KVM module removal

  x86:

   - Add support for aging of SPTEs without holding mmu_lock.

     Not taking mmu_lock allows multiple aging actions to run in
     parallel, and more importantly avoids stalling vCPUs. This includes
     an implementation of per-rmap-entry locking; aging the gfn is done
     with only a per-rmap single-bin spinlock taken, whereas locking an
     rmap for write requires taking both the per-rmap spinlock and the
     mmu_lock.

     Note that this decreases slightly the accuracy of accessed-page
     information, because changes to the SPTE outside aging might not
     use atomic operations even if they could race against a clear of
     the Accessed bit.

     This is deliberate because KVM and mm/ tolerate false
     positives/negatives for accessed information, and testing has shown
     that reducing the latency of aging is far more beneficial to
     overall system performance than providing "perfect" young/old
     information.

   - Defer runtime CPUID updates until KVM emulates a CPUID instruction,
     to coalesce updates when multiple pieces of vCPU state are
     changing, e.g. as part of a nested transition

   - Fix a variety of nested emulation bugs, and add VMX support for
     synthesizing nested VM-Exit on interception (instead of injecting
     #UD into L2)

   - Drop "support" for async page faults for protected guests that do
     not set SEND_ALWAYS (i.e. that only want async page faults at CPL3)

   - Bring a bit of sanity to x86's VM teardown code, which has
     accumulated a lot of cruft over the years. Particularly, destroy
     vCPUs before the MMU, despite the latter being a VM-wide operation

   - Add common secure TSC infrastructure for use within SNP and in the
     future TDX

   - Block KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS if guest state is protected. It does not
     make sense to use the capability if the relevant registers are not
     available for reading or writing

   - Don't take kvm-&gt;lock when iterating over vCPUs in the suspend
     notifier to fix a largely theoretical deadlock

   - Use the vCPU's actual Xen PV clock information when starting the
     Xen timer, as the cached state in arch.hv_clock can be stale/bogus

   - Fix a bug where KVM could bleed PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED across
     different PV clocks; restrict PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED to kvmclock, as
     KVM's suspend notifier only accounts for kvmclock, and there's no
     evidence that the flag is actually supported by Xen guests

   - Clean up the per-vCPU "cache" of its reference pvclock, and instead
     only track the vCPU's TSC scaling (multipler+shift) metadata (which
     is moderately expensive to compute, and rarely changes for modern
     setups)

   - Don't write to the Xen hypercall page on MSR writes that are
     initiated by the host (userspace or KVM) to fix a class of bugs
     where KVM can write to guest memory at unexpected times, e.g.
     during vCPU creation if userspace has set the Xen hypercall MSR
     index to collide with an MSR that KVM emulates

   - Restrict the Xen hypercall MSR index to the unofficial synthetic
     range to reduce the set of possible collisions with MSRs that are
     emulated by KVM (collisions can still happen as KVM emulates
     Hyper-V MSRs, which also reside in the synthetic range)

   - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of Xen MSR writes and
     xen_hvm_config

   - Update Xen TSC leaves during CPUID emulation instead of modifying
     the CPUID entries when updating PV clocks; there is no guarantee PV
     clocks will be updated between TSC frequency changes and CPUID
     emulation, and guest reads of the TSC leaves should be rare, i.e.
     are not a hot path

  x86 (Intel):

   - Fix a bug where KVM unnecessarily reads XFD_ERR from hardware and
     thus modifies the vCPU's XFD_ERR on a #NM due to CR0.TS=1

   - Pass XFD_ERR as the payload when injecting #NM, as a preparatory
     step for upcoming FRED virtualization support

   - Decouple the EPT entry RWX protection bit macros from the EPT
     Violation bits, both as a general cleanup and in anticipation of
     adding support for emulating Mode-Based Execution Control (MBEC)

   - Reject KVM_RUN if userspace manages to gain control and stuff
     invalid guest state while KVM is in the middle of emulating nested
     VM-Enter

   - Add a macro to handle KVM's sanity checks on entry/exit VMCS
     control pairs in anticipation of adding sanity checks for secondary
     exit controls (the primary field is out of bits)

  x86 (AMD):

   - Ensure the PSP driver is initialized when both the PSP and KVM
     modules are built-in (the initcall framework doesn't handle
     dependencies)

   - Use long-term pins when registering encrypted memory regions, so
     that the pages are migrated out of MIGRATE_CMA/ZONE_MOVABLE and
     don't lead to excessive fragmentation

   - Add macros and helpers for setting GHCB return/error codes

   - Add support for Idle HLT interception, which elides interception if
     the vCPU has a pending, unmasked virtual IRQ when HLT is executed

   - Fix a bug in INVPCID emulation where KVM fails to check for a
     non-canonical address

   - Don't attempt VMRUN for SEV-ES+ guests if the vCPU's VMSA is
     invalid, e.g. because the vCPU was "destroyed" via SNP's AP
     Creation hypercall

   - Reject SNP AP Creation if the requested SEV features for the vCPU
     don't match the VM's configured set of features

  Selftests:

   - Fix again the Intel PMU counters test; add a data load and do
     CLFLUSH{OPT} on the data instead of executing code. The theory is
     that modern Intel CPUs have learned new code prefetching tricks
     that bypass the PMU counters

   - Fix a flaw in the Intel PMU counters test where it asserts that an
     event is counting correctly without actually knowing what the event
     counts on the underlying hardware

   - Fix a variety of flaws, bugs, and false failures/passes
     dirty_log_test, and improve its coverage by collecting all dirty
     entries on each iteration

   - Fix a few minor bugs related to handling of stats FDs

   - Add infrastructure to make vCPU and VM stats FDs available to tests
     by default (open the FDs during VM/vCPU creation)

   - Relax an assertion on the number of HLT exits in the xAPIC IPI test
     when running on a CPU that supports AMD's Idle HLT (which elides
     interception of HLT if a virtual IRQ is pending and unmasked)"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (216 commits)
  RISC-V: KVM: Optimize comments in kvm_riscv_vcpu_isa_disable_allowed
  RISC-V: KVM: Teardown riscv specific bits after kvm_exit
  LoongArch: KVM: Register perf callbacks for guest
  LoongArch: KVM: Implement arch-specific functions for guest perf
  LoongArch: KVM: Add stub for kvm_arch_vcpu_preempted_in_kernel()
  LoongArch: KVM: Remove PGD saving during VM context switch
  LoongArch: KVM: Remove unnecessary header include path
  KVM: arm64: Tear down vGIC on failed vCPU creation
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when resetting
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when user modifies registers
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix SET_ONE_REG for vPMC regs
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Assume PMU presence in pmu-emul.c
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Set raw values from user to PM{C,I}NTEN{SET,CLR}, PMOVS{SET,CLR}
  KVM: arm64: Create each pKVM hyp vcpu after its corresponding host vcpu
  KVM: arm64: Factor out pKVM hyp vcpu creation to separate function
  KVM: arm64: Initialize HCRX_EL2 traps in pKVM
  KVM: arm64: Factor out setting HCRX_EL2 traps into separate function
  KVM: x86: block KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS if guest state is protected
  KVM: x86: Add infrastructure for secure TSC
  KVM: x86: Push down setting vcpu.arch.user_set_tsc
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:

   - Nested virtualization support for VGICv3, giving the nested
     hypervisor control of the VGIC hardware when running an L2 VM

   - Removal of 'late' nested virtualization feature register masking,
     making the supported feature set directly visible to userspace

   - Support for emulating FEAT_PMUv3 on Apple silicon, taking advantage
     of an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED trap that covers all PMUv3 registers

   - Paravirtual interface for discovering the set of CPU
     implementations where a VM may run, addressing a longstanding issue
     of guest CPU errata awareness in big-little systems and
     cross-implementation VM migration

   - Userspace control of the registers responsible for identifying a
     particular CPU implementation (MIDR_EL1, REVIDR_EL1, AIDR_EL1),
     allowing VMs to be migrated cross-implementation

   - pKVM updates, including support for tracking stage-2 page table
     allocations in the protected hypervisor in the 'SecPageTable' stat

   - Fixes to vPMU, ensuring that userspace updates to the vPMU after
     KVM_RUN are reflected into the backing perf events

  LoongArch:

   - Remove unnecessary header include path

   - Assume constant PGD during VM context switch

   - Add perf events support for guest VM

  RISC-V:

   - Disable the kernel perf counter during configure

   - KVM selftests improvements for PMU

   - Fix warning at the time of KVM module removal

  x86:

   - Add support for aging of SPTEs without holding mmu_lock.

     Not taking mmu_lock allows multiple aging actions to run in
     parallel, and more importantly avoids stalling vCPUs. This includes
     an implementation of per-rmap-entry locking; aging the gfn is done
     with only a per-rmap single-bin spinlock taken, whereas locking an
     rmap for write requires taking both the per-rmap spinlock and the
     mmu_lock.

     Note that this decreases slightly the accuracy of accessed-page
     information, because changes to the SPTE outside aging might not
     use atomic operations even if they could race against a clear of
     the Accessed bit.

     This is deliberate because KVM and mm/ tolerate false
     positives/negatives for accessed information, and testing has shown
     that reducing the latency of aging is far more beneficial to
     overall system performance than providing "perfect" young/old
     information.

   - Defer runtime CPUID updates until KVM emulates a CPUID instruction,
     to coalesce updates when multiple pieces of vCPU state are
     changing, e.g. as part of a nested transition

   - Fix a variety of nested emulation bugs, and add VMX support for
     synthesizing nested VM-Exit on interception (instead of injecting
     #UD into L2)

   - Drop "support" for async page faults for protected guests that do
     not set SEND_ALWAYS (i.e. that only want async page faults at CPL3)

   - Bring a bit of sanity to x86's VM teardown code, which has
     accumulated a lot of cruft over the years. Particularly, destroy
     vCPUs before the MMU, despite the latter being a VM-wide operation

   - Add common secure TSC infrastructure for use within SNP and in the
     future TDX

   - Block KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS if guest state is protected. It does not
     make sense to use the capability if the relevant registers are not
     available for reading or writing

   - Don't take kvm-&gt;lock when iterating over vCPUs in the suspend
     notifier to fix a largely theoretical deadlock

   - Use the vCPU's actual Xen PV clock information when starting the
     Xen timer, as the cached state in arch.hv_clock can be stale/bogus

   - Fix a bug where KVM could bleed PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED across
     different PV clocks; restrict PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED to kvmclock, as
     KVM's suspend notifier only accounts for kvmclock, and there's no
     evidence that the flag is actually supported by Xen guests

   - Clean up the per-vCPU "cache" of its reference pvclock, and instead
     only track the vCPU's TSC scaling (multipler+shift) metadata (which
     is moderately expensive to compute, and rarely changes for modern
     setups)

   - Don't write to the Xen hypercall page on MSR writes that are
     initiated by the host (userspace or KVM) to fix a class of bugs
     where KVM can write to guest memory at unexpected times, e.g.
     during vCPU creation if userspace has set the Xen hypercall MSR
     index to collide with an MSR that KVM emulates

   - Restrict the Xen hypercall MSR index to the unofficial synthetic
     range to reduce the set of possible collisions with MSRs that are
     emulated by KVM (collisions can still happen as KVM emulates
     Hyper-V MSRs, which also reside in the synthetic range)

   - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of Xen MSR writes and
     xen_hvm_config

   - Update Xen TSC leaves during CPUID emulation instead of modifying
     the CPUID entries when updating PV clocks; there is no guarantee PV
     clocks will be updated between TSC frequency changes and CPUID
     emulation, and guest reads of the TSC leaves should be rare, i.e.
     are not a hot path

  x86 (Intel):

   - Fix a bug where KVM unnecessarily reads XFD_ERR from hardware and
     thus modifies the vCPU's XFD_ERR on a #NM due to CR0.TS=1

   - Pass XFD_ERR as the payload when injecting #NM, as a preparatory
     step for upcoming FRED virtualization support

   - Decouple the EPT entry RWX protection bit macros from the EPT
     Violation bits, both as a general cleanup and in anticipation of
     adding support for emulating Mode-Based Execution Control (MBEC)

   - Reject KVM_RUN if userspace manages to gain control and stuff
     invalid guest state while KVM is in the middle of emulating nested
     VM-Enter

   - Add a macro to handle KVM's sanity checks on entry/exit VMCS
     control pairs in anticipation of adding sanity checks for secondary
     exit controls (the primary field is out of bits)

  x86 (AMD):

   - Ensure the PSP driver is initialized when both the PSP and KVM
     modules are built-in (the initcall framework doesn't handle
     dependencies)

   - Use long-term pins when registering encrypted memory regions, so
     that the pages are migrated out of MIGRATE_CMA/ZONE_MOVABLE and
     don't lead to excessive fragmentation

   - Add macros and helpers for setting GHCB return/error codes

   - Add support for Idle HLT interception, which elides interception if
     the vCPU has a pending, unmasked virtual IRQ when HLT is executed

   - Fix a bug in INVPCID emulation where KVM fails to check for a
     non-canonical address

   - Don't attempt VMRUN for SEV-ES+ guests if the vCPU's VMSA is
     invalid, e.g. because the vCPU was "destroyed" via SNP's AP
     Creation hypercall

   - Reject SNP AP Creation if the requested SEV features for the vCPU
     don't match the VM's configured set of features

  Selftests:

   - Fix again the Intel PMU counters test; add a data load and do
     CLFLUSH{OPT} on the data instead of executing code. The theory is
     that modern Intel CPUs have learned new code prefetching tricks
     that bypass the PMU counters

   - Fix a flaw in the Intel PMU counters test where it asserts that an
     event is counting correctly without actually knowing what the event
     counts on the underlying hardware

   - Fix a variety of flaws, bugs, and false failures/passes
     dirty_log_test, and improve its coverage by collecting all dirty
     entries on each iteration

   - Fix a few minor bugs related to handling of stats FDs

   - Add infrastructure to make vCPU and VM stats FDs available to tests
     by default (open the FDs during VM/vCPU creation)

   - Relax an assertion on the number of HLT exits in the xAPIC IPI test
     when running on a CPU that supports AMD's Idle HLT (which elides
     interception of HLT if a virtual IRQ is pending and unmasked)"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (216 commits)
  RISC-V: KVM: Optimize comments in kvm_riscv_vcpu_isa_disable_allowed
  RISC-V: KVM: Teardown riscv specific bits after kvm_exit
  LoongArch: KVM: Register perf callbacks for guest
  LoongArch: KVM: Implement arch-specific functions for guest perf
  LoongArch: KVM: Add stub for kvm_arch_vcpu_preempted_in_kernel()
  LoongArch: KVM: Remove PGD saving during VM context switch
  LoongArch: KVM: Remove unnecessary header include path
  KVM: arm64: Tear down vGIC on failed vCPU creation
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when resetting
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when user modifies registers
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix SET_ONE_REG for vPMC regs
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Assume PMU presence in pmu-emul.c
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Set raw values from user to PM{C,I}NTEN{SET,CLR}, PMOVS{SET,CLR}
  KVM: arm64: Create each pKVM hyp vcpu after its corresponding host vcpu
  KVM: arm64: Factor out pKVM hyp vcpu creation to separate function
  KVM: arm64: Initialize HCRX_EL2 traps in pKVM
  KVM: arm64: Factor out setting HCRX_EL2 traps into separate function
  KVM: x86: block KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS if guest state is protected
  KVM: x86: Add infrastructure for secure TSC
  KVM: x86: Push down setting vcpu.arch.user_set_tsc
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-x86-xen-6.15' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T13:14:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-19T13:14:59+00:00</published>
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KVM Xen changes for 6.15

 - Don't write to the Xen hypercall page on MSR writes that are initiated by
   the host (userspace or KVM) to fix a class of bugs where KVM can write to
   guest memory at unexpected times, e.g. during vCPU creation if userspace has
   set the Xen hypercall MSR index to collide with an MSR that KVM emulates.

 - Restrict the Xen hypercall MSR indx to the unofficial synthetic range to
   reduce the set of possible collisions with MSRs that are emulated by KVM
   (collisions can still happen as KVM emulates Hyper-V MSRs, which also reside
   in the synthetic range).

 - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of Xen MSR writes and xen_hvm_config.

 - Update Xen TSC leaves during CPUID emulation instead of modifying the CPUID
   entries when updating PV clocks, as there is no guarantee PV clocks will be
   updated between TSC frequency changes and CPUID emulation, and guest reads
   of Xen TSC should be rare, i.e. are not a hot path.
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KVM Xen changes for 6.15

 - Don't write to the Xen hypercall page on MSR writes that are initiated by
   the host (userspace or KVM) to fix a class of bugs where KVM can write to
   guest memory at unexpected times, e.g. during vCPU creation if userspace has
   set the Xen hypercall MSR index to collide with an MSR that KVM emulates.

 - Restrict the Xen hypercall MSR indx to the unofficial synthetic range to
   reduce the set of possible collisions with MSRs that are emulated by KVM
   (collisions can still happen as KVM emulates Hyper-V MSRs, which also reside
   in the synthetic range).

 - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of Xen MSR writes and xen_hvm_config.

 - Update Xen TSC leaves during CPUID emulation instead of modifying the CPUID
   entries when updating PV clocks, as there is no guarantee PV clocks will be
   updated between TSC frequency changes and CPUID emulation, and guest reads
   of Xen TSC should be rare, i.e. are not a hot path.
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<entry>
<title>x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI headers</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T10:30:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Huth</name>
<email>thuth@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-10T10:42:56+00:00</published>
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__ASSEMBLY__ is only defined by the Makefile of the kernel, so
this is not really useful for UAPI headers (unless the userspace
Makefile defines it, too). Let's switch to __ASSEMBLER__ which
gets set automatically by the compiler when compiling assembly
code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310104256.123527-1-thuth@redhat.com
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__ASSEMBLY__ is only defined by the Makefile of the kernel, so
this is not really useful for UAPI headers (unless the userspace
Makefile defines it, too). Let's switch to __ASSEMBLER__ which
gets set automatically by the compiler when compiling assembly
code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310104256.123527-1-thuth@redhat.com
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<entry>
<title>KVM: SVM: Add Idle HLT intercept support</title>
<updated>2025-02-26T00:30:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Manali Shukla</name>
<email>Manali.Shukla@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-28T12:48:11+00:00</published>
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Add support for "Idle HLT" interception on AMD CPUs, and enable Idle HLT
interception instead of "normal" HLT interception for all VMs for which
HLT-exiting is enabled.  Idle HLT provides a mild performance boost for
all VM types, by avoiding a VM-Exit in the scenario where KVM would
immediately "wake" and resume the vCPU.

Idle HLT makes HLT-exiting conditional on the vCPU not having a valid,
unmasked interrupt.  Specifically, a VM-Exit occurs on execution of HLT
if and only if there are no pending V_IRQ or V_NMI events.  Note, Idle
is a replacement for full HLT interception, i.e. enabling HLT interception
would result in all HLT instructions causing unconditional VM-Exits.  Per
the APM:

 When both HLT and Idle HLT intercepts are active at the same time, the
 HLT intercept takes priority. This intercept occurs only if a virtual
 interrupt is not pending (V_INTR or V_NMI).

For KVM's use of V_IRQ (also called V_INTR in the APM) to detect interrupt
windows, the net effect of enabling Idle HLT is that, if a virtual
interupt is pending and unmasked at the time of HLT, the vCPU will take
a V_IRQ intercept instead of a HLT intercept.

When AVIC is enabled, Idle HLT works as intended: the vCPU continues
unimpeded and services the pending virtual interrupt.

Note, the APM's description of V_IRQ interaction with AVIC is quite
confusing, and requires piecing together implied behavior.  Per the APM,
when AVIC is enabled, V_IRQ *from the VMCB* is ignored:

  When AVIC mode is enabled for a virtual processor, the V_IRQ, V_INTR_PRIO,
  V_INTR_VECTOR, and V_IGN_TPR fields in the VMCB are ignored.

Which seems to contradict the behavior of Idle HLT:

  This intercept occurs only if a virtual interrupt is not pending (V_INTR
  or V_NMI).

What's not explicitly stated is that hardware's internal copy of V_IRQ
(and related fields) *are* still active, i.e. are presumably used to cache
information from the virtual APIC.

Handle Idle HLT exits as if they were normal HLT exits, e.g. don't try to
optimize the handling under the assumption that there isn't a pending IRQ.
Irrespective of AVIC, Idle HLT is inherently racy with respect to the vIRR,
as KVM can set vIRR bits asychronously.

No changes are required to support KVM's use Idle HLT while running
L2.  In fact, supporting Idle HLT is actually a bug fix to some extent.
If L1 wants to intercept HLT, recalc_intercepts() will enable HLT
interception in vmcb02 and forward the intercept to L1 as normal.

But if L1 does not want to intercept HLT, then KVM will run L2 with Idle
HLT enabled and HLT interception disabled.  If a V_IRQ or V_NMI for L2
becomes pending and L2 executes HLT, then use of Idle HLT will do the
right thing, i.e. not #VMEXIT and instead deliver the virtual event.  KVM
currently doesn't handle this scenario correctly, e.g. doesn't check V_IRQ
or V_NMI in vmcs02 as part of kvm_vcpu_has_events().

Do not expose Idle HLT to L1 at this time, as supporting nested Idle HLT is
more complex than just enumerating the feature, e.g. requires KVM to handle
the aforementioned scenarios of V_IRQ and V_NMI at the time of exit.

Signed-off-by: Manali Shukla &lt;Manali.Shukla@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania &lt;nikunj@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=306250
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250128124812.7324-3-manali.shukla@amd.com
[sean: rewrite changelog, drop nested "support"]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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Add support for "Idle HLT" interception on AMD CPUs, and enable Idle HLT
interception instead of "normal" HLT interception for all VMs for which
HLT-exiting is enabled.  Idle HLT provides a mild performance boost for
all VM types, by avoiding a VM-Exit in the scenario where KVM would
immediately "wake" and resume the vCPU.

Idle HLT makes HLT-exiting conditional on the vCPU not having a valid,
unmasked interrupt.  Specifically, a VM-Exit occurs on execution of HLT
if and only if there are no pending V_IRQ or V_NMI events.  Note, Idle
is a replacement for full HLT interception, i.e. enabling HLT interception
would result in all HLT instructions causing unconditional VM-Exits.  Per
the APM:

 When both HLT and Idle HLT intercepts are active at the same time, the
 HLT intercept takes priority. This intercept occurs only if a virtual
 interrupt is not pending (V_INTR or V_NMI).

For KVM's use of V_IRQ (also called V_INTR in the APM) to detect interrupt
windows, the net effect of enabling Idle HLT is that, if a virtual
interupt is pending and unmasked at the time of HLT, the vCPU will take
a V_IRQ intercept instead of a HLT intercept.

When AVIC is enabled, Idle HLT works as intended: the vCPU continues
unimpeded and services the pending virtual interrupt.

Note, the APM's description of V_IRQ interaction with AVIC is quite
confusing, and requires piecing together implied behavior.  Per the APM,
when AVIC is enabled, V_IRQ *from the VMCB* is ignored:

  When AVIC mode is enabled for a virtual processor, the V_IRQ, V_INTR_PRIO,
  V_INTR_VECTOR, and V_IGN_TPR fields in the VMCB are ignored.

Which seems to contradict the behavior of Idle HLT:

  This intercept occurs only if a virtual interrupt is not pending (V_INTR
  or V_NMI).

What's not explicitly stated is that hardware's internal copy of V_IRQ
(and related fields) *are* still active, i.e. are presumably used to cache
information from the virtual APIC.

Handle Idle HLT exits as if they were normal HLT exits, e.g. don't try to
optimize the handling under the assumption that there isn't a pending IRQ.
Irrespective of AVIC, Idle HLT is inherently racy with respect to the vIRR,
as KVM can set vIRR bits asychronously.

No changes are required to support KVM's use Idle HLT while running
L2.  In fact, supporting Idle HLT is actually a bug fix to some extent.
If L1 wants to intercept HLT, recalc_intercepts() will enable HLT
interception in vmcb02 and forward the intercept to L1 as normal.

But if L1 does not want to intercept HLT, then KVM will run L2 with Idle
HLT enabled and HLT interception disabled.  If a V_IRQ or V_NMI for L2
becomes pending and L2 executes HLT, then use of Idle HLT will do the
right thing, i.e. not #VMEXIT and instead deliver the virtual event.  KVM
currently doesn't handle this scenario correctly, e.g. doesn't check V_IRQ
or V_NMI in vmcs02 as part of kvm_vcpu_has_events().

Do not expose Idle HLT to L1 at this time, as supporting nested Idle HLT is
more complex than just enumerating the feature, e.g. requires KVM to handle
the aforementioned scenarios of V_IRQ and V_NMI at the time of exit.

Signed-off-by: Manali Shukla &lt;Manali.Shukla@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania &lt;nikunj@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=306250
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250128124812.7324-3-manali.shukla@amd.com
[sean: rewrite changelog, drop nested "support"]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86/xen: Restrict hypercall MSR to unofficial synthetic range</title>
<updated>2025-02-24T16:59:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-15T01:14:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5c17848134ab1ffb97c4a17a6e25b41390478152'/>
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Reject userspace attempts to set the Xen hypercall page MSR to an index
outside of the "standard" virtualization range [0x40000000, 0x4fffffff],
as KVM is not equipped to handle collisions with real MSRs, e.g. KVM
doesn't update MSR interception, conflicts with VMCS/VMCB fields, special
case writes in KVM, etc.

While the MSR index isn't strictly ABI, i.e. can theoretically float to
any value, in practice no known VMM sets the MSR index to anything other
than 0x40000000 or 0x40000200.

Cc: Joao Martins &lt;joao.m.martins@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant &lt;paul@xen.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215011437.1203084-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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Reject userspace attempts to set the Xen hypercall page MSR to an index
outside of the "standard" virtualization range [0x40000000, 0x4fffffff],
as KVM is not equipped to handle collisions with real MSRs, e.g. KVM
doesn't update MSR interception, conflicts with VMCS/VMCB fields, special
case writes in KVM, etc.

While the MSR index isn't strictly ABI, i.e. can theoretically float to
any value, in practice no known VMM sets the MSR index to anything other
than 0x40000000 or 0x40000200.

Cc: Joao Martins &lt;joao.m.martins@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant &lt;paul@xen.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215011437.1203084-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.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>2025-01-25T17:55:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-25T17:55:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0f8e26b38d7ac72b3ad764944a25dd5808f37a6e'/>
<id>0f8e26b38d7ac72b3ad764944a25dd5808f37a6e</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Loongarch:

   - Clear LLBCTL if secondary mmu mapping changes

   - Add hypercall service support for usermode VMM

  x86:

   - Add a comment to kvm_mmu_do_page_fault() to explain why KVM
     performs a direct call to kvm_tdp_page_fault() when RETPOLINE is
     enabled

   - Ensure that all SEV code is compiled out when disabled in Kconfig,
     even if building with less brilliant compilers

   - Remove a redundant TLB flush on AMD processors when guest CR4.PGE
     changes

   - Use str_enabled_disabled() to replace open coded strings

   - Drop kvm_x86_ops.hwapic_irr_update() as KVM updates hardware's
     APICv cache prior to every VM-Enter

   - Overhaul KVM's CPUID feature infrastructure to track all vCPU
     capabilities instead of just those where KVM needs to manage state
     and/or explicitly enable the feature in hardware. Along the way,
     refactor the code to make it easier to add features, and to make it
     more self-documenting how KVM is handling each feature

   - Rework KVM's handling of VM-Exits during event vectoring; this
     plugs holes where KVM unintentionally puts the vCPU into infinite
     loops in some scenarios (e.g. if emulation is triggered by the
     exit), and brings parity between VMX and SVM

   - Add pending request and interrupt injection information to the
     kvm_exit and kvm_entry tracepoints respectively

   - Fix a relatively benign flaw where KVM would end up redoing RDPKRU
     when loading guest/host PKRU, due to a refactoring of the kernel
     helpers that didn't account for KVM's pre-checking of the need to
     do WRPKRU

   - Make the completion of hypercalls go through the complete_hypercall
     function pointer argument, no matter if the hypercall exits to
     userspace or not.

     Previously, the code assumed that KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE specifically
     went to userspace, and all the others did not; the new code need
     not special case KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE and in fact does not care at
     all whether there was an exit to userspace or not

   - As part of enabling TDX virtual machines, support support
     separation of private/shared EPT into separate roots.

     When TDX will be enabled, operations on private pages will need to
     go through the privileged TDX Module via SEAMCALLs; as a result,
     they are limited and relatively slow compared to reading a PTE.

     The patches included in 6.14 allow KVM to keep a mirror of the
     private EPT in host memory, and define entries in kvm_x86_ops to
     operate on external page tables such as the TDX private EPT

   - The recently introduced conversion of the NX-page reclamation
     kthread to vhost_task moved the task under the main process. The
     task is created as soon as KVM_CREATE_VM was invoked and this, of
     course, broke userspace that didn't expect to see any child task of
     the VM process until it started creating its own userspace threads.

     In particular crosvm refuses to fork() if procfs shows any child
     task, so unbreak it by creating the task lazily. This is arguably a
     userspace bug, as there can be other kinds of legitimate worker
     tasks and they wouldn't impede fork(); but it's not like userspace
     has a way to distinguish kernel worker tasks right now. Should they
     show as "Kthread: 1" in proc/.../status?

  x86 - Intel:

   - Fix a bug where KVM updates hardware's APICv cache of the highest
     ISR bit while L2 is active, while ultimately results in a
     hardware-accelerated L1 EOI effectively being lost

   - Honor event priority when emulating Posted Interrupt delivery
     during nested VM-Enter by queueing KVM_REQ_EVENT instead of
     immediately handling the interrupt

   - Rework KVM's processing of the Page-Modification Logging buffer to
     reap entries in the same order they were created, i.e. to mark gfns
     dirty in the same order that hardware marked the page/PTE dirty

   - Misc cleanups

  Generic:

   - Cleanup and harden kvm_set_memory_region(); add proper lockdep
     assertions when setting memory regions and add a dedicated API for
     setting KVM-internal memory regions. The API can then explicitly
     disallow all flags for KVM-internal memory regions

   - Explicitly verify the target vCPU is online in kvm_get_vcpu() to
     fix a bug where KVM would return a pointer to a vCPU prior to it
     being fully online, and give kvm_for_each_vcpu() similar treatment
     to fix a similar flaw

   - Wait for a vCPU to come online prior to executing a vCPU ioctl, to
     fix a bug where userspace could coerce KVM into handling the ioctl
     on a vCPU that isn't yet onlined

   - Gracefully handle xarray insertion failures; even though such
     failures are impossible in practice after xa_reserve(), reserving
     an entry is always followed by xa_store() which does not know (or
     differentiate) whether there was an xa_reserve() before or not

  RISC-V:

   - Zabha, Svvptc, and Ziccrse extension support for guests. None of
     them require anything in KVM except for detecting them and marking
     them as supported; Zabha adds byte and halfword atomic operations,
     while the others are markers for specific operation of the TLB and
     of LL/SC instructions respectively

   - Virtualize SBI system suspend extension for Guest/VM

   - Support firmware counters which can be used by the guests to
     collect statistics about traps that occur in the host

  Selftests:

   - Rework vcpu_get_reg() to return a value instead of using an
     out-param, and update all affected arch code accordingly

   - Convert the max_guest_memory_test into a more generic
     mmu_stress_test. The basic gist of the "conversion" is to have the
     test do mprotect() on guest memory while vCPUs are accessing said
     memory, e.g. to verify KVM and mmu_notifiers are working as
     intended

   - Play nice with treewrite builds of unsupported architectures, e.g.
     arm (32-bit), as KVM selftests' Makefile doesn't do anything to
     ensure the target architecture is actually one KVM selftests
     supports

   - Use the kernel's $(ARCH) definition instead of the target triple
     for arch specific directories, e.g. arm64 instead of aarch64,
     mainly so as not to be different from the rest of the kernel

   - Ensure that format strings for logging statements are checked by
     the compiler even when the logging statement itself is disabled

   - Attempt to whack the last LLC references/misses mole in the Intel
     PMU counters test by adding a data load and doing CLFLUSH{OPT} on
     the data instead of the code being executed. It seems that modern
     Intel CPUs have learned new code prefetching tricks that bypass the
     PMU counters

   - Fix a flaw in the Intel PMU counters test where it asserts that
     events are counting correctly without actually knowing what the
     events count given the underlying hardware; this can happen if
     Intel reuses a formerly microarchitecture-specific event encoding
     as an architectural event, as was the case for Top-Down Slots"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (151 commits)
  kvm: defer huge page recovery vhost task to later
  KVM: x86/mmu: Return RET_PF* instead of 1 in kvm_mmu_page_fault()
  KVM: Disallow all flags for KVM-internal memslots
  KVM: x86: Drop double-underscores from __kvm_set_memory_region()
  KVM: Add a dedicated API for setting KVM-internal memslots
  KVM: Assert slots_lock is held when setting memory regions
  KVM: Open code kvm_set_memory_region() into its sole caller (ioctl() API)
  LoongArch: KVM: Add hypercall service support for usermode VMM
  LoongArch: KVM: Clear LLBCTL if secondary mmu mapping is changed
  KVM: SVM: Use str_enabled_disabled() helper in svm_hardware_setup()
  KVM: VMX: read the PML log in the same order as it was written
  KVM: VMX: refactor PML terminology
  KVM: VMX: Fix comment of handle_vmx_instruction()
  KVM: VMX: Reinstate __exit attribute for vmx_exit()
  KVM: SVM: Use str_enabled_disabled() helper in sev_hardware_setup()
  KVM: x86: Avoid double RDPKRU when loading host/guest PKRU
  KVM: x86: Use LVT_TIMER instead of an open coded literal
  RISC-V: KVM: Add new exit statstics for redirected traps
  RISC-V: KVM: Update firmware counters for various events
  RISC-V: KVM: Redirect instruction access fault trap to guest
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Loongarch:

   - Clear LLBCTL if secondary mmu mapping changes

   - Add hypercall service support for usermode VMM

  x86:

   - Add a comment to kvm_mmu_do_page_fault() to explain why KVM
     performs a direct call to kvm_tdp_page_fault() when RETPOLINE is
     enabled

   - Ensure that all SEV code is compiled out when disabled in Kconfig,
     even if building with less brilliant compilers

   - Remove a redundant TLB flush on AMD processors when guest CR4.PGE
     changes

   - Use str_enabled_disabled() to replace open coded strings

   - Drop kvm_x86_ops.hwapic_irr_update() as KVM updates hardware's
     APICv cache prior to every VM-Enter

   - Overhaul KVM's CPUID feature infrastructure to track all vCPU
     capabilities instead of just those where KVM needs to manage state
     and/or explicitly enable the feature in hardware. Along the way,
     refactor the code to make it easier to add features, and to make it
     more self-documenting how KVM is handling each feature

   - Rework KVM's handling of VM-Exits during event vectoring; this
     plugs holes where KVM unintentionally puts the vCPU into infinite
     loops in some scenarios (e.g. if emulation is triggered by the
     exit), and brings parity between VMX and SVM

   - Add pending request and interrupt injection information to the
     kvm_exit and kvm_entry tracepoints respectively

   - Fix a relatively benign flaw where KVM would end up redoing RDPKRU
     when loading guest/host PKRU, due to a refactoring of the kernel
     helpers that didn't account for KVM's pre-checking of the need to
     do WRPKRU

   - Make the completion of hypercalls go through the complete_hypercall
     function pointer argument, no matter if the hypercall exits to
     userspace or not.

     Previously, the code assumed that KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE specifically
     went to userspace, and all the others did not; the new code need
     not special case KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE and in fact does not care at
     all whether there was an exit to userspace or not

   - As part of enabling TDX virtual machines, support support
     separation of private/shared EPT into separate roots.

     When TDX will be enabled, operations on private pages will need to
     go through the privileged TDX Module via SEAMCALLs; as a result,
     they are limited and relatively slow compared to reading a PTE.

     The patches included in 6.14 allow KVM to keep a mirror of the
     private EPT in host memory, and define entries in kvm_x86_ops to
     operate on external page tables such as the TDX private EPT

   - The recently introduced conversion of the NX-page reclamation
     kthread to vhost_task moved the task under the main process. The
     task is created as soon as KVM_CREATE_VM was invoked and this, of
     course, broke userspace that didn't expect to see any child task of
     the VM process until it started creating its own userspace threads.

     In particular crosvm refuses to fork() if procfs shows any child
     task, so unbreak it by creating the task lazily. This is arguably a
     userspace bug, as there can be other kinds of legitimate worker
     tasks and they wouldn't impede fork(); but it's not like userspace
     has a way to distinguish kernel worker tasks right now. Should they
     show as "Kthread: 1" in proc/.../status?

  x86 - Intel:

   - Fix a bug where KVM updates hardware's APICv cache of the highest
     ISR bit while L2 is active, while ultimately results in a
     hardware-accelerated L1 EOI effectively being lost

   - Honor event priority when emulating Posted Interrupt delivery
     during nested VM-Enter by queueing KVM_REQ_EVENT instead of
     immediately handling the interrupt

   - Rework KVM's processing of the Page-Modification Logging buffer to
     reap entries in the same order they were created, i.e. to mark gfns
     dirty in the same order that hardware marked the page/PTE dirty

   - Misc cleanups

  Generic:

   - Cleanup and harden kvm_set_memory_region(); add proper lockdep
     assertions when setting memory regions and add a dedicated API for
     setting KVM-internal memory regions. The API can then explicitly
     disallow all flags for KVM-internal memory regions

   - Explicitly verify the target vCPU is online in kvm_get_vcpu() to
     fix a bug where KVM would return a pointer to a vCPU prior to it
     being fully online, and give kvm_for_each_vcpu() similar treatment
     to fix a similar flaw

   - Wait for a vCPU to come online prior to executing a vCPU ioctl, to
     fix a bug where userspace could coerce KVM into handling the ioctl
     on a vCPU that isn't yet onlined

   - Gracefully handle xarray insertion failures; even though such
     failures are impossible in practice after xa_reserve(), reserving
     an entry is always followed by xa_store() which does not know (or
     differentiate) whether there was an xa_reserve() before or not

  RISC-V:

   - Zabha, Svvptc, and Ziccrse extension support for guests. None of
     them require anything in KVM except for detecting them and marking
     them as supported; Zabha adds byte and halfword atomic operations,
     while the others are markers for specific operation of the TLB and
     of LL/SC instructions respectively

   - Virtualize SBI system suspend extension for Guest/VM

   - Support firmware counters which can be used by the guests to
     collect statistics about traps that occur in the host

  Selftests:

   - Rework vcpu_get_reg() to return a value instead of using an
     out-param, and update all affected arch code accordingly

   - Convert the max_guest_memory_test into a more generic
     mmu_stress_test. The basic gist of the "conversion" is to have the
     test do mprotect() on guest memory while vCPUs are accessing said
     memory, e.g. to verify KVM and mmu_notifiers are working as
     intended

   - Play nice with treewrite builds of unsupported architectures, e.g.
     arm (32-bit), as KVM selftests' Makefile doesn't do anything to
     ensure the target architecture is actually one KVM selftests
     supports

   - Use the kernel's $(ARCH) definition instead of the target triple
     for arch specific directories, e.g. arm64 instead of aarch64,
     mainly so as not to be different from the rest of the kernel

   - Ensure that format strings for logging statements are checked by
     the compiler even when the logging statement itself is disabled

   - Attempt to whack the last LLC references/misses mole in the Intel
     PMU counters test by adding a data load and doing CLFLUSH{OPT} on
     the data instead of the code being executed. It seems that modern
     Intel CPUs have learned new code prefetching tricks that bypass the
     PMU counters

   - Fix a flaw in the Intel PMU counters test where it asserts that
     events are counting correctly without actually knowing what the
     events count given the underlying hardware; this can happen if
     Intel reuses a formerly microarchitecture-specific event encoding
     as an architectural event, as was the case for Top-Down Slots"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (151 commits)
  kvm: defer huge page recovery vhost task to later
  KVM: x86/mmu: Return RET_PF* instead of 1 in kvm_mmu_page_fault()
  KVM: Disallow all flags for KVM-internal memslots
  KVM: x86: Drop double-underscores from __kvm_set_memory_region()
  KVM: Add a dedicated API for setting KVM-internal memslots
  KVM: Assert slots_lock is held when setting memory regions
  KVM: Open code kvm_set_memory_region() into its sole caller (ioctl() API)
  LoongArch: KVM: Add hypercall service support for usermode VMM
  LoongArch: KVM: Clear LLBCTL if secondary mmu mapping is changed
  KVM: SVM: Use str_enabled_disabled() helper in svm_hardware_setup()
  KVM: VMX: read the PML log in the same order as it was written
  KVM: VMX: refactor PML terminology
  KVM: VMX: Fix comment of handle_vmx_instruction()
  KVM: VMX: Reinstate __exit attribute for vmx_exit()
  KVM: SVM: Use str_enabled_disabled() helper in sev_hardware_setup()
  KVM: x86: Avoid double RDPKRU when loading host/guest PKRU
  KVM: x86: Use LVT_TIMER instead of an open coded literal
  RISC-V: KVM: Add new exit statstics for redirected traps
  RISC-V: KVM: Update firmware counters for various events
  RISC-V: KVM: Redirect instruction access fault trap to guest
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Add a VM type define for TDX</title>
<updated>2024-12-23T13:28:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rick Edgecombe</name>
<email>rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-18T21:12:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9364789567f9b49279b138f7d124f0c6db1d6589'/>
<id>9364789567f9b49279b138f7d124f0c6db1d6589</id>
<content type='text'>
Add a VM type define for TDX.

Future changes will need to lay the ground work for TDX support by
making some behavior conditional on the VM being a TDX guest.

Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe &lt;rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20240718211230.1492011-4-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Add a VM type define for TDX.

Future changes will need to lay the ground work for TDX support by
making some behavior conditional on the VM being a TDX guest.

Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe &lt;rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20240718211230.1492011-4-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Add support for HSMP protocol version 7 messages</title>
<updated>2024-12-02T17:20:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suma Hegde</name>
<email>suma.hegde@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T10:27:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=836d0d7107e53e6479b60d32fb73bd5f7813e5d1'/>
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Following new HSMP messages are available on family 0x1A, model 0x00-0x1F
platforms with protocol version 7. Add support for them in the driver.
- SetXgmiPstateRange(26h)
- CpuRailIsoFreqPolicy(27h)
- DfcEnable(28h)
- GetRaplUnit(30h)
- GetRaplCoreCounter(31h)
- GetRaplPackageCounter(32h)

Also update HSMP message PwrEfficiencyModeSelection-21h. This message is
updated to include GET option in recent firmware.

Signed-off-by: Suma Hegde &lt;suma.hegde@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi &lt;naveenkrishna.chatradhi@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241118102752.11703-1-suma.hegde@amd.com
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Following new HSMP messages are available on family 0x1A, model 0x00-0x1F
platforms with protocol version 7. Add support for them in the driver.
- SetXgmiPstateRange(26h)
- CpuRailIsoFreqPolicy(27h)
- DfcEnable(28h)
- GetRaplUnit(30h)
- GetRaplCoreCounter(31h)
- GetRaplPackageCounter(32h)

Also update HSMP message PwrEfficiencyModeSelection-21h. This message is
updated to include GET option in recent firmware.

Signed-off-by: Suma Hegde &lt;suma.hegde@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi &lt;naveenkrishna.chatradhi@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241118102752.11703-1-suma.hegde@amd.com
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2024-11-24T00:00:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-24T00:00:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9f16d5e6f220661f73b36a4be1b21575651d8833'/>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The biggest change here is eliminating the awful idea that KVM had of
  essentially guessing which pfns are refcounted pages.

  The reason to do so was that KVM needs to map both non-refcounted
  pages (for example BARs of VFIO devices) and VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXMEDMAP
  VMAs that contain refcounted pages.

  However, the result was security issues in the past, and more recently
  the inability to map VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory that _is_ backed by
  struct page but is not refcounted. In particular this broke virtio-gpu
  blob resources (which directly map host graphics buffers into the
  guest as "vram" for the virtio-gpu device) with the amdgpu driver,
  because amdgpu allocates non-compound higher order pages and the tail
  pages could not be mapped into KVM.

  This requires adjusting all uses of struct page in the
  per-architecture code, to always work on the pfn whenever possible.
  The large series that did this, from David Stevens and Sean
  Christopherson, also cleaned up substantially the set of functions
  that provided arch code with the pfn for a host virtual addresses.

  The previous maze of twisty little passages, all different, is
  replaced by five functions (__gfn_to_page, __kvm_faultin_pfn, the
  non-__ versions of these two, and kvm_prefetch_pages) saving almost
  200 lines of code.

  ARM:

   - Support for stage-1 permission indirection (FEAT_S1PIE) and
     permission overlays (FEAT_S1POE), including nested virt + the
     emulated page table walker

   - Introduce PSCI SYSTEM_OFF2 support to KVM + client driver. This
     call was introduced in PSCIv1.3 as a mechanism to request
     hibernation, similar to the S4 state in ACPI

   - Explicitly trap + hide FEAT_MPAM (QoS controls) from KVM guests. As
     part of it, introduce trivial initialization of the host's MPAM
     context so KVM can use the corresponding traps

   - PMU support under nested virtualization, honoring the guest
     hypervisor's trap configuration and event filtering when running a
     nested guest

   - Fixes to vgic ITS serialization where stale device/interrupt table
     entries are not zeroed when the mapping is invalidated by the VM

   - Avoid emulated MMIO completion if userspace has requested
     synchronous external abort injection

   - Various fixes and cleanups affecting pKVM, vCPU initialization, and
     selftests

  LoongArch:

   - Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel.

   - Add in-kernel interrupt controller emulation.

   - Add support for virtualization extensions to the eiointc irqchip.

  PPC:

   - Drop lingering and utterly obsolete references to PPC970 KVM, which
     was removed 10 years ago.

   - Fix incorrect documentation references to non-existing ioctls

  RISC-V:

   - Accelerate KVM RISC-V when running as a guest

   - Perf support to collect KVM guest statistics from host side

  s390:

   - New selftests: more ucontrol selftests and CPU model sanity checks

   - Support for the gen17 CPU model

   - List registers supported by KVM_GET/SET_ONE_REG in the
     documentation

  x86:

   - Cleanup KVM's handling of Accessed and Dirty bits to dedup code,
     improve documentation, harden against unexpected changes.

     Even if the hardware A/D tracking is disabled, it is possible to
     use the hardware-defined A/D bits to track if a PFN is Accessed
     and/or Dirty, and that removes a lot of special cases.

   - Elide TLB flushes when aging secondary PTEs, as has been done in
     x86's primary MMU for over 10 years.

   - Recover huge pages in-place in the TDP MMU when dirty page logging
     is toggled off, instead of zapping them and waiting until the page
     is re-accessed to create a huge mapping. This reduces vCPU jitter.

   - Batch TLB flushes when dirty page logging is toggled off. This
     reduces the time it takes to disable dirty logging by ~3x.

   - Remove the shrinker that was (poorly) attempting to reclaim shadow
     page tables in low-memory situations.

   - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of writes to
     MSR_IA32_APICBASE.

   - Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest

   - Quirk KVM's misguided behavior of initialized certain feature MSRs
     to their maximum supported feature set, which can result in KVM
     creating invalid vCPU state. E.g. initializing PERF_CAPABILITIES to
     a non-zero value results in the vCPU having invalid state if
     userspace hides PDCM from the guest, which in turn can lead to
     save/restore failures.

   - Fix KVM's handling of non-canonical checks for vCPUs that support
     LA57 to better follow the "architecture", in quotes because the
     actual behavior is poorly documented. E.g. most MSR writes and
     descriptor table loads ignore CR4.LA57 and operate purely on
     whether the CPU supports LA57.

   - Bypass the register cache when querying CPL from kvm_sched_out(),
     as filling the cache from IRQ context is generally unsafe; harden
     the cache accessors to try to prevent similar issues from occuring
     in the future. The issue that triggered this change was already
     fixed in 6.12, but was still kinda latent.

   - Advertise AMD_IBPB_RET to userspace, and fix a related bug where
     KVM over-advertises SPEC_CTRL when trying to support cross-vendor
     VMs.

   - Minor cleanups

   - Switch hugepage recovery thread to use vhost_task.

     These kthreads can consume significant amounts of CPU time on
     behalf of a VM or in response to how the VM behaves (for example
     how it accesses its memory); therefore KVM tried to place the
     thread in the VM's cgroups and charge the CPU time consumed by that
     work to the VM's container.

     However the kthreads did not process SIGSTOP/SIGCONT, and therefore
     cgroups which had KVM instances inside could not complete freezing.

     Fix this by replacing the kthread with a PF_USER_WORKER thread, via
     the vhost_task abstraction. Another 100+ lines removed, with
     generally better behavior too like having these threads properly
     parented in the process tree.

   - Revert a workaround for an old CPU erratum (Nehalem/Westmere) that
     didn't really work; there was really nothing to work around anyway:
     the broken patch was meant to fix nested virtualization, but the
     PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR is virtualized and therefore unaffected by the
     erratum.

   - Fix 6.12 regression where CONFIG_KVM will be built as a module even
     if asked to be builtin, as long as neither KVM_INTEL nor KVM_AMD is
     'y'.

  x86 selftests:

   - x86 selftests can now use AVX.

  Documentation:

   - Use rST internal links

   - Reorganize the introduction to the API document

  Generic:

   - Protect vcpu-&gt;pid accesses outside of vcpu-&gt;mutex with a rwlock
     instead of RCU, so that running a vCPU on a different task doesn't
     encounter long due to having to wait for all CPUs become quiescent.

     In general both reads and writes are rare, but userspace that
     supports confidential computing is introducing the use of "helper"
     vCPUs that may jump from one host processor to another. Those will
     be very happy to trigger a synchronize_rcu(), and the effect on
     performance is quite the disaster"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (298 commits)
  KVM: x86: Break CONFIG_KVM_X86's direct dependency on KVM_INTEL || KVM_AMD
  KVM: x86: add back X86_LOCAL_APIC dependency
  Revert "KVM: VMX: Move LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL errata handling out of setup_vmcs_config()"
  KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task
  KVM: x86: expose MSR_PLATFORM_INFO as a feature MSR
  x86: KVM: Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest
  Documentation: KVM: fix malformed table
  irqchip/loongson-eiointc: Add virt extension support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add irqfd support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC user mode read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC user mode read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI user mode read and write function
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI read and write function
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel
  KVM: arm64: Pass on SVE mapping failures
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The biggest change here is eliminating the awful idea that KVM had of
  essentially guessing which pfns are refcounted pages.

  The reason to do so was that KVM needs to map both non-refcounted
  pages (for example BARs of VFIO devices) and VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXMEDMAP
  VMAs that contain refcounted pages.

  However, the result was security issues in the past, and more recently
  the inability to map VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory that _is_ backed by
  struct page but is not refcounted. In particular this broke virtio-gpu
  blob resources (which directly map host graphics buffers into the
  guest as "vram" for the virtio-gpu device) with the amdgpu driver,
  because amdgpu allocates non-compound higher order pages and the tail
  pages could not be mapped into KVM.

  This requires adjusting all uses of struct page in the
  per-architecture code, to always work on the pfn whenever possible.
  The large series that did this, from David Stevens and Sean
  Christopherson, also cleaned up substantially the set of functions
  that provided arch code with the pfn for a host virtual addresses.

  The previous maze of twisty little passages, all different, is
  replaced by five functions (__gfn_to_page, __kvm_faultin_pfn, the
  non-__ versions of these two, and kvm_prefetch_pages) saving almost
  200 lines of code.

  ARM:

   - Support for stage-1 permission indirection (FEAT_S1PIE) and
     permission overlays (FEAT_S1POE), including nested virt + the
     emulated page table walker

   - Introduce PSCI SYSTEM_OFF2 support to KVM + client driver. This
     call was introduced in PSCIv1.3 as a mechanism to request
     hibernation, similar to the S4 state in ACPI

   - Explicitly trap + hide FEAT_MPAM (QoS controls) from KVM guests. As
     part of it, introduce trivial initialization of the host's MPAM
     context so KVM can use the corresponding traps

   - PMU support under nested virtualization, honoring the guest
     hypervisor's trap configuration and event filtering when running a
     nested guest

   - Fixes to vgic ITS serialization where stale device/interrupt table
     entries are not zeroed when the mapping is invalidated by the VM

   - Avoid emulated MMIO completion if userspace has requested
     synchronous external abort injection

   - Various fixes and cleanups affecting pKVM, vCPU initialization, and
     selftests

  LoongArch:

   - Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel.

   - Add in-kernel interrupt controller emulation.

   - Add support for virtualization extensions to the eiointc irqchip.

  PPC:

   - Drop lingering and utterly obsolete references to PPC970 KVM, which
     was removed 10 years ago.

   - Fix incorrect documentation references to non-existing ioctls

  RISC-V:

   - Accelerate KVM RISC-V when running as a guest

   - Perf support to collect KVM guest statistics from host side

  s390:

   - New selftests: more ucontrol selftests and CPU model sanity checks

   - Support for the gen17 CPU model

   - List registers supported by KVM_GET/SET_ONE_REG in the
     documentation

  x86:

   - Cleanup KVM's handling of Accessed and Dirty bits to dedup code,
     improve documentation, harden against unexpected changes.

     Even if the hardware A/D tracking is disabled, it is possible to
     use the hardware-defined A/D bits to track if a PFN is Accessed
     and/or Dirty, and that removes a lot of special cases.

   - Elide TLB flushes when aging secondary PTEs, as has been done in
     x86's primary MMU for over 10 years.

   - Recover huge pages in-place in the TDP MMU when dirty page logging
     is toggled off, instead of zapping them and waiting until the page
     is re-accessed to create a huge mapping. This reduces vCPU jitter.

   - Batch TLB flushes when dirty page logging is toggled off. This
     reduces the time it takes to disable dirty logging by ~3x.

   - Remove the shrinker that was (poorly) attempting to reclaim shadow
     page tables in low-memory situations.

   - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of writes to
     MSR_IA32_APICBASE.

   - Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest

   - Quirk KVM's misguided behavior of initialized certain feature MSRs
     to their maximum supported feature set, which can result in KVM
     creating invalid vCPU state. E.g. initializing PERF_CAPABILITIES to
     a non-zero value results in the vCPU having invalid state if
     userspace hides PDCM from the guest, which in turn can lead to
     save/restore failures.

   - Fix KVM's handling of non-canonical checks for vCPUs that support
     LA57 to better follow the "architecture", in quotes because the
     actual behavior is poorly documented. E.g. most MSR writes and
     descriptor table loads ignore CR4.LA57 and operate purely on
     whether the CPU supports LA57.

   - Bypass the register cache when querying CPL from kvm_sched_out(),
     as filling the cache from IRQ context is generally unsafe; harden
     the cache accessors to try to prevent similar issues from occuring
     in the future. The issue that triggered this change was already
     fixed in 6.12, but was still kinda latent.

   - Advertise AMD_IBPB_RET to userspace, and fix a related bug where
     KVM over-advertises SPEC_CTRL when trying to support cross-vendor
     VMs.

   - Minor cleanups

   - Switch hugepage recovery thread to use vhost_task.

     These kthreads can consume significant amounts of CPU time on
     behalf of a VM or in response to how the VM behaves (for example
     how it accesses its memory); therefore KVM tried to place the
     thread in the VM's cgroups and charge the CPU time consumed by that
     work to the VM's container.

     However the kthreads did not process SIGSTOP/SIGCONT, and therefore
     cgroups which had KVM instances inside could not complete freezing.

     Fix this by replacing the kthread with a PF_USER_WORKER thread, via
     the vhost_task abstraction. Another 100+ lines removed, with
     generally better behavior too like having these threads properly
     parented in the process tree.

   - Revert a workaround for an old CPU erratum (Nehalem/Westmere) that
     didn't really work; there was really nothing to work around anyway:
     the broken patch was meant to fix nested virtualization, but the
     PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR is virtualized and therefore unaffected by the
     erratum.

   - Fix 6.12 regression where CONFIG_KVM will be built as a module even
     if asked to be builtin, as long as neither KVM_INTEL nor KVM_AMD is
     'y'.

  x86 selftests:

   - x86 selftests can now use AVX.

  Documentation:

   - Use rST internal links

   - Reorganize the introduction to the API document

  Generic:

   - Protect vcpu-&gt;pid accesses outside of vcpu-&gt;mutex with a rwlock
     instead of RCU, so that running a vCPU on a different task doesn't
     encounter long due to having to wait for all CPUs become quiescent.

     In general both reads and writes are rare, but userspace that
     supports confidential computing is introducing the use of "helper"
     vCPUs that may jump from one host processor to another. Those will
     be very happy to trigger a synchronize_rcu(), and the effect on
     performance is quite the disaster"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (298 commits)
  KVM: x86: Break CONFIG_KVM_X86's direct dependency on KVM_INTEL || KVM_AMD
  KVM: x86: add back X86_LOCAL_APIC dependency
  Revert "KVM: VMX: Move LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL errata handling out of setup_vmcs_config()"
  KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task
  KVM: x86: expose MSR_PLATFORM_INFO as a feature MSR
  x86: KVM: Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest
  Documentation: KVM: fix malformed table
  irqchip/loongson-eiointc: Add virt extension support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add irqfd support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC user mode read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC user mode read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI user mode read and write function
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI read and write function
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel
  KVM: arm64: Pass on SVE mapping failures
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T22:07:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-20T22:07:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fcb3ad4366b9c810cbb9da34c076a9a52d8aa1e0'/>
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Pull x86 platform driver updates from Ilpo Järvinen:

 - alienware WMAX thermal interface support

 - Split ACPI and platform device based amd/hsmp drivers

 - AMD X3D frequency/cache mode switching support

 - asus thermal policy fixes

 - Disable C1 auto-demotion in suspend to allow entering the deepest
   C-states

 - Fix volume buttons on Thinkpad X12 Detachable Tablet Gen 1

 - Replace intel_scu_ipc "workaround" with 32-bit IO

 - Correct *_show() function error handling in panasonic-laptop

 - Gemini Lake P2SB devfn correction

 - think-lmi Admin/System certificate authentication support

 - Disable WMI devices for shutdown, refactoring continues

 - Vexia EDU ATLA 10 tablet support

 - Surface Pro 9 5G (Arm/QCOM) support

 - Misc cleanups / refactoring / improvements

* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (69 commits)
  platform/x86: p2sb: Cache correct PCI bar for P2SB on Gemini Lake
  platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: Return errno correctly in show callback
  Documentation: alienware-wmi: Describe THERMAL_INFORMATION operation 0x02
  alienware-wmi: create_thermal_profile() no longer brute-forces IDs
  alienware-wmi: Adds support to Alienware x17 R2
  alienware-wmi: extends the list of supported models
  alienware-wmi: order alienware_quirks[] alphabetically
  platform/x86/intel/pmt: allow user offset for PMT callbacks
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Change the error type
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Add new error code and error logs
  platform/x86/amd: amd_3d_vcache: Add sysfs ABI documentation
  platform/x86/amd: amd_3d_vcache: Add AMD 3D V-Cache optimizer driver
  intel-hid: fix volume buttons on Thinkpad X12 Detachable Tablet Gen 1
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: mark hsmp_msg_desc_table[] as maybe_unused
  platform/x86: asus-wmi: Use platform_profile_cycle()
  platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix inconsistent use of thermal policies
  platform/x86: hp: hp-bioscfg: remove redundant if statement
  MAINTAINERS: Update ISHTP ECLITE maintainer entry
  platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Add support for Vexia EDU ATLA 10 tablet
  platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Add support for getting i2c_adapter by PCI parent devname()
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull x86 platform driver updates from Ilpo Järvinen:

 - alienware WMAX thermal interface support

 - Split ACPI and platform device based amd/hsmp drivers

 - AMD X3D frequency/cache mode switching support

 - asus thermal policy fixes

 - Disable C1 auto-demotion in suspend to allow entering the deepest
   C-states

 - Fix volume buttons on Thinkpad X12 Detachable Tablet Gen 1

 - Replace intel_scu_ipc "workaround" with 32-bit IO

 - Correct *_show() function error handling in panasonic-laptop

 - Gemini Lake P2SB devfn correction

 - think-lmi Admin/System certificate authentication support

 - Disable WMI devices for shutdown, refactoring continues

 - Vexia EDU ATLA 10 tablet support

 - Surface Pro 9 5G (Arm/QCOM) support

 - Misc cleanups / refactoring / improvements

* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (69 commits)
  platform/x86: p2sb: Cache correct PCI bar for P2SB on Gemini Lake
  platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: Return errno correctly in show callback
  Documentation: alienware-wmi: Describe THERMAL_INFORMATION operation 0x02
  alienware-wmi: create_thermal_profile() no longer brute-forces IDs
  alienware-wmi: Adds support to Alienware x17 R2
  alienware-wmi: extends the list of supported models
  alienware-wmi: order alienware_quirks[] alphabetically
  platform/x86/intel/pmt: allow user offset for PMT callbacks
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Change the error type
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Add new error code and error logs
  platform/x86/amd: amd_3d_vcache: Add sysfs ABI documentation
  platform/x86/amd: amd_3d_vcache: Add AMD 3D V-Cache optimizer driver
  intel-hid: fix volume buttons on Thinkpad X12 Detachable Tablet Gen 1
  platform/x86/amd/hsmp: mark hsmp_msg_desc_table[] as maybe_unused
  platform/x86: asus-wmi: Use platform_profile_cycle()
  platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix inconsistent use of thermal policies
  platform/x86: hp: hp-bioscfg: remove redundant if statement
  MAINTAINERS: Update ISHTP ECLITE maintainer entry
  platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Add support for Vexia EDU ATLA 10 tablet
  platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Add support for getting i2c_adapter by PCI parent devname()
  ...
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