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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2019-03-31T15:55:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-31T15:55:59+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "A collection of x86 and ARM bugfixes, and some improvements to
  documentation.

  On top of this, a cleanup of kvm_para.h headers, which were exported
  by some architectures even though they not support KVM at all. This is
  responsible for all the Kbuild changes in the diffstat"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (28 commits)
  Documentation: kvm: clarify KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION
  KVM: doc: Document the life cycle of a VM and its resources
  KVM: selftests: complete IO before migrating guest state
  KVM: selftests: disable stack protector for all KVM tests
  KVM: selftests: explicitly disable PIE for tests
  KVM: selftests: assert on exit reason in CR4/cpuid sync test
  KVM: x86: update %rip after emulating IO
  x86/kvm/hyper-v: avoid spurious pending stimer on vCPU init
  kvm/x86: Move MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES to array emulated_msrs
  KVM: x86: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES on AMD hosts
  kvm: don't redefine flags as something else
  kvm: mmu: Used range based flushing in slot_handle_level_range
  KVM: export &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; iif KVM is supported
  KVM: x86: remove check on nr_mmu_pages in kvm_arch_commit_memory_region()
  kvm: nVMX: Add a vmentry check for HOST_SYSENTER_ESP and HOST_SYSENTER_EIP fields
  KVM: SVM: Workaround errata#1096 (insn_len maybe zero on SMAP violation)
  KVM: Reject device ioctls from processes other than the VM's creator
  KVM: doc: Fix incorrect word ordering regarding supported use of APIs
  KVM: x86: fix handling of role.cr4_pae and rename it to 'gpte_size'
  KVM: nVMX: Do not inherit quadrant and invalid for the root shadow EPT
  ...
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "A collection of x86 and ARM bugfixes, and some improvements to
  documentation.

  On top of this, a cleanup of kvm_para.h headers, which were exported
  by some architectures even though they not support KVM at all. This is
  responsible for all the Kbuild changes in the diffstat"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (28 commits)
  Documentation: kvm: clarify KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION
  KVM: doc: Document the life cycle of a VM and its resources
  KVM: selftests: complete IO before migrating guest state
  KVM: selftests: disable stack protector for all KVM tests
  KVM: selftests: explicitly disable PIE for tests
  KVM: selftests: assert on exit reason in CR4/cpuid sync test
  KVM: x86: update %rip after emulating IO
  x86/kvm/hyper-v: avoid spurious pending stimer on vCPU init
  kvm/x86: Move MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES to array emulated_msrs
  KVM: x86: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES on AMD hosts
  kvm: don't redefine flags as something else
  kvm: mmu: Used range based flushing in slot_handle_level_range
  KVM: export &lt;linux/kvm_para.h&gt; and &lt;asm/kvm_para.h&gt; iif KVM is supported
  KVM: x86: remove check on nr_mmu_pages in kvm_arch_commit_memory_region()
  kvm: nVMX: Add a vmentry check for HOST_SYSENTER_ESP and HOST_SYSENTER_EIP fields
  KVM: SVM: Workaround errata#1096 (insn_len maybe zero on SMAP violation)
  KVM: Reject device ioctls from processes other than the VM's creator
  KVM: doc: Fix incorrect word ordering regarding supported use of APIs
  KVM: x86: fix handling of role.cr4_pae and rename it to 'gpte_size'
  KVM: nVMX: Do not inherit quadrant and invalid for the root shadow EPT
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-03-31T15:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-31T15:40:15+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A pile of x86 updates:

   - Prevent exceeding he valid physical address space in the /dev/mem
     limit checks.

   - Move all header content inside the header guard to prevent compile
     failures.

   - Fix the bogus __percpu annotation in this_cpu_has() which makes
     sparse very noisy.

   - Disable switch jump tables completely when retpolines are enabled.

   - Prevent leaking the trampoline address"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/realmode: Make set_real_mode_mem() static inline
  x86/cpufeature: Fix __percpu annotation in this_cpu_has()
  x86/mm: Don't exceed the valid physical address space
  x86/retpolines: Disable switch jump tables when retpolines are enabled
  x86/realmode: Don't leak the trampoline kernel address
  x86/boot: Fix incorrect ifdeffery scope
  x86/resctrl: Remove unused variable
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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A pile of x86 updates:

   - Prevent exceeding he valid physical address space in the /dev/mem
     limit checks.

   - Move all header content inside the header guard to prevent compile
     failures.

   - Fix the bogus __percpu annotation in this_cpu_has() which makes
     sparse very noisy.

   - Disable switch jump tables completely when retpolines are enabled.

   - Prevent leaking the trampoline address"

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/realmode: Make set_real_mode_mem() static inline
  x86/cpufeature: Fix __percpu annotation in this_cpu_has()
  x86/mm: Don't exceed the valid physical address space
  x86/retpolines: Disable switch jump tables when retpolines are enabled
  x86/realmode: Don't leak the trampoline kernel address
  x86/boot: Fix incorrect ifdeffery scope
  x86/resctrl: Remove unused variable
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-03-31T15:22:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-31T15:22:12+00:00</published>
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Pull CPU hotplug fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Two SMT/hotplug related fixes:

   - Prevent crash when HOTPLUG_CPU is disabled and the CPU bringup
     aborts. This is triggered with the 'nosmt' command line option, but
     can happen by any abort condition. As the real unplug code is not
     compiled in, prevent the fail by keeping the CPU in zombie state.

   - Enforce HOTPLUG_CPU for SMP on x86 to avoid the above situation
     completely. With 'nosmt' being a popular option it's required to
     unplug the half brought up sibling CPUs (due to the MCE wreckage)
     completely"

* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/smp: Enforce CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU when SMP=y
  cpu/hotplug: Prevent crash when CPU bringup fails on CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n
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Pull CPU hotplug fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Two SMT/hotplug related fixes:

   - Prevent crash when HOTPLUG_CPU is disabled and the CPU bringup
     aborts. This is triggered with the 'nosmt' command line option, but
     can happen by any abort condition. As the real unplug code is not
     compiled in, prevent the fail by keeping the CPU in zombie state.

   - Enforce HOTPLUG_CPU for SMP on x86 to avoid the above situation
     completely. With 'nosmt' being a popular option it's required to
     unplug the half brought up sibling CPUs (due to the MCE wreckage)
     completely"

* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/smp: Enforce CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU when SMP=y
  cpu/hotplug: Prevent crash when CPU bringup fails on CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.1-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2019-03-31T14:44:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-31T14:44:13+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Three non-regression fixes.

   - Our optimised memcmp could read past the end of one of the buffers
     and potentially trigger a page fault leading to an oops.

   - Some of our code to read energy management data on PowerVM had an
     endian bug leading to bogus results.

   - When reporting a machine check exception we incorrectly reported
     TLB multihits as D-Cache multhits due to a missing entry in the
     array of causes.

  Thanks to: Chandan Rajendra, Gautham R. Shenoy, Mahesh Salgaonkar,
  Segher Boessenkool, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan"

* tag 'powerpc-5.1-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/pseries/mce: Fix misleading print for TLB mutlihit
  powerpc/pseries/energy: Use OF accessor functions to read ibm,drc-indexes
  powerpc/64: Fix memcmp reading past the end of src/dest
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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Three non-regression fixes.

   - Our optimised memcmp could read past the end of one of the buffers
     and potentially trigger a page fault leading to an oops.

   - Some of our code to read energy management data on PowerVM had an
     endian bug leading to bogus results.

   - When reporting a machine check exception we incorrectly reported
     TLB multihits as D-Cache multhits due to a missing entry in the
     array of causes.

  Thanks to: Chandan Rajendra, Gautham R. Shenoy, Mahesh Salgaonkar,
  Segher Boessenkool, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan"

* tag 'powerpc-5.1-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/pseries/mce: Fix misleading print for TLB mutlihit
  powerpc/pseries/energy: Use OF accessor functions to read ibm,drc-indexes
  powerpc/64: Fix memcmp reading past the end of src/dest
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2019-03-29T22:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-29T22:44:11+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 fix from Catalin Marinas:
 "Use memblock_alloc() instead of memblock_alloc_low() in
  request_standard_resources(), the latter being limited to the low 4G
  memory range on arm64"

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: replace memblock_alloc_low with memblock_alloc
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Pull arm64 fix from Catalin Marinas:
 "Use memblock_alloc() instead of memblock_alloc_low() in
  request_standard_resources(), the latter being limited to the low 4G
  memory range on arm64"

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  arm64: replace memblock_alloc_low with memblock_alloc
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<entry>
<title>x86/realmode: Make set_real_mode_mem() static inline</title>
<updated>2019-03-29T09:16:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matteo Croce</name>
<email>mcroce@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-28T11:42:33+00:00</published>
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Remove the unused @size argument and move it into a header file, so it
can be inlined.

 [ bp: Massage. ]

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha &lt;mojha@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-efi &lt;linux-efi@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190328114233.27835-1-mcroce@redhat.com
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Remove the unused @size argument and move it into a header file, so it
can be inlined.

 [ bp: Massage. ]

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce &lt;mcroce@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha &lt;mojha@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-efi &lt;linux-efi@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: x86-ml &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190328114233.27835-1-mcroce@redhat.com
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries/mce: Fix misleading print for TLB mutlihit</title>
<updated>2019-03-29T05:59:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mahesh Salgaonkar</name>
<email>mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-26T12:30:31+00:00</published>
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On pseries, TLB multihit are reported as D-Cache Multihit. This is because
the wrongly populated mc_err_types[] array. Per PAPR, TLB error type is 0x04
and mc_err_types[4] points to "D-Cache" instead of "TLB" string. Fixup the
mc_err_types[] array.

Machine check error type per PAPR:
  0x00 = Uncorrectable Memory Error (UE)
  0x01 = SLB error
  0x02 = ERAT Error
  0x04 = TLB error
  0x05 = D-Cache error
  0x07 = I-Cache error

Fixes: 8f0b80561f21 ("powerpc/pseries: Display machine check error details.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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On pseries, TLB multihit are reported as D-Cache Multihit. This is because
the wrongly populated mc_err_types[] array. Per PAPR, TLB error type is 0x04
and mc_err_types[4] points to "D-Cache" instead of "TLB" string. Fixup the
mc_err_types[] array.

Machine check error type per PAPR:
  0x00 = Uncorrectable Memory Error (UE)
  0x01 = SLB error
  0x02 = ERAT Error
  0x04 = TLB error
  0x05 = D-Cache error
  0x07 = I-Cache error

Fixes: 8f0b80561f21 ("powerpc/pseries: Display machine check error details.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into kvm-master</title>
<updated>2019-03-28T18:07:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-28T18:07:30+00:00</published>
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KVM/ARM fixes for 5.1

- Fix THP handling in the presence of pre-existing PTEs
- Honor request for PTE mappings even when THPs are available
- GICv4 performance improvement
- Take the srcu lock when writing to guest-controlled ITS data structures
- Reset the virtual PMU in preemptible context
- Various cleanups
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KVM/ARM fixes for 5.1

- Fix THP handling in the presence of pre-existing PTEs
- Honor request for PTE mappings even when THPs are available
- GICv4 performance improvement
- Take the srcu lock when writing to guest-controlled ITS data structures
- Reset the virtual PMU in preemptible context
- Various cleanups
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: update %rip after emulating IO</title>
<updated>2019-03-28T16:29:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>sean.j.christopherson@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-12T03:01:05+00:00</published>
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Most (all?) x86 platforms provide a port IO based reset mechanism, e.g.
OUT 92h or CF9h.  Userspace may emulate said mechanism, i.e. reset a
vCPU in response to KVM_EXIT_IO, without explicitly announcing to KVM
that it is doing a reset, e.g. Qemu jams vCPU state and resumes running.

To avoid corruping %rip after such a reset, commit 0967b7bf1c22 ("KVM:
Skip pio instruction when it is emulated, not executed") changed the
behavior of PIO handlers, i.e. today's "fast" PIO handling to skip the
instruction prior to exiting to userspace.  Full emulation doesn't need
such tricks becase re-emulating the instruction will naturally handle
%rip being changed to point at the reset vector.

Updating %rip prior to executing to userspace has several drawbacks:

  - Userspace sees the wrong %rip on the exit, e.g. if PIO emulation
    fails it will likely yell about the wrong address.
  - Single step exits to userspace for are effectively dropped as
    KVM_EXIT_DEBUG is overwritten with KVM_EXIT_IO.
  - Behavior of PIO emulation is different depending on whether it
    goes down the fast path or the slow path.

Rather than skip the PIO instruction before exiting to userspace,
snapshot the linear %rip and cancel PIO completion if the current
value does not match the snapshot.  For a 64-bit vCPU, i.e. the most
common scenario, the snapshot and comparison has negligible overhead
as VMCS.GUEST_RIP will be cached regardless, i.e. there is no extra
VMREAD in this case.

All other alternatives to snapshotting the linear %rip that don't
rely on an explicit reset announcenment suffer from one corner case
or another.  For example, canceling PIO completion on any write to
%rip fails if userspace does a save/restore of %rip, and attempting to
avoid that issue by canceling PIO only if %rip changed then fails if PIO
collides with the reset %rip.  Attempting to zero in on the exact reset
vector won't work for APs, which means adding more hooks such as the
vCPU's MP_STATE, and so on and so forth.

Checking for a linear %rip match technically suffers from corner cases,
e.g. userspace could theoretically rewrite the underlying code page and
expect a different instruction to execute, or the guest hardcodes a PIO
reset at 0xfffffff0, but those are far, far outside of what can be
considered normal operation.

Fixes: 432baf60eee3 ("KVM: VMX: use kvm_fast_pio_in for handling IN I/O")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Most (all?) x86 platforms provide a port IO based reset mechanism, e.g.
OUT 92h or CF9h.  Userspace may emulate said mechanism, i.e. reset a
vCPU in response to KVM_EXIT_IO, without explicitly announcing to KVM
that it is doing a reset, e.g. Qemu jams vCPU state and resumes running.

To avoid corruping %rip after such a reset, commit 0967b7bf1c22 ("KVM:
Skip pio instruction when it is emulated, not executed") changed the
behavior of PIO handlers, i.e. today's "fast" PIO handling to skip the
instruction prior to exiting to userspace.  Full emulation doesn't need
such tricks becase re-emulating the instruction will naturally handle
%rip being changed to point at the reset vector.

Updating %rip prior to executing to userspace has several drawbacks:

  - Userspace sees the wrong %rip on the exit, e.g. if PIO emulation
    fails it will likely yell about the wrong address.
  - Single step exits to userspace for are effectively dropped as
    KVM_EXIT_DEBUG is overwritten with KVM_EXIT_IO.
  - Behavior of PIO emulation is different depending on whether it
    goes down the fast path or the slow path.

Rather than skip the PIO instruction before exiting to userspace,
snapshot the linear %rip and cancel PIO completion if the current
value does not match the snapshot.  For a 64-bit vCPU, i.e. the most
common scenario, the snapshot and comparison has negligible overhead
as VMCS.GUEST_RIP will be cached regardless, i.e. there is no extra
VMREAD in this case.

All other alternatives to snapshotting the linear %rip that don't
rely on an explicit reset announcenment suffer from one corner case
or another.  For example, canceling PIO completion on any write to
%rip fails if userspace does a save/restore of %rip, and attempting to
avoid that issue by canceling PIO only if %rip changed then fails if PIO
collides with the reset %rip.  Attempting to zero in on the exact reset
vector won't work for APs, which means adding more hooks such as the
vCPU's MP_STATE, and so on and so forth.

Checking for a linear %rip match technically suffers from corner cases,
e.g. userspace could theoretically rewrite the underlying code page and
expect a different instruction to execute, or the guest hardcodes a PIO
reset at 0xfffffff0, but those are far, far outside of what can be
considered normal operation.

Fixes: 432baf60eee3 ("KVM: VMX: use kvm_fast_pio_in for handling IN I/O")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>x86/kvm/hyper-v: avoid spurious pending stimer on vCPU init</title>
<updated>2019-03-28T16:29:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-13T17:13:42+00:00</published>
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When userspace initializes guest vCPUs it may want to zero all supported
MSRs including Hyper-V related ones including HV_X64_MSR_STIMERn_CONFIG/
HV_X64_MSR_STIMERn_COUNT. With commit f3b138c5d89a ("kvm/x86: Update SynIC
timers on guest entry only") we began doing stimer_mark_pending()
unconditionally on every config change.

The issue I'm observing manifests itself as following:
- Qemu writes 0 to STIMERn_{CONFIG,COUNT} MSRs and marks all stimers as
  pending in stimer_pending_bitmap, arms KVM_REQ_HV_STIMER;
- kvm_hv_has_stimer_pending() starts returning true;
- kvm_vcpu_has_events() starts returning true;
- kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable() starts returning true;
- when kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run() gets into
  (vcpu-&gt;arch.mp_state == KVM_MP_STATE_UNINITIALIZED) case:
  - kvm_vcpu_block() gets in 'kvm_vcpu_check_block(vcpu) &lt; 0' and returns
    immediately, avoiding normal wait path;
  - -EAGAIN is returned from kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run() immediately forcing
    userspace to retry.

So instead of normal wait path we get a busy loop on all secondary vCPUs
before they get INIT signal. This seems to be undesirable, especially given
that this happens even when Hyper-V extensions are not used.

Generally, it seems to be pointless to mark an stimer as pending in
stimer_pending_bitmap and arm KVM_REQ_HV_STIMER as the only thing
kvm_hv_process_stimers() will do is clear the corresponding bit. We may
just not mark disabled timers as pending instead.

Fixes: f3b138c5d89a ("kvm/x86: Update SynIC timers on guest entry only")
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
When userspace initializes guest vCPUs it may want to zero all supported
MSRs including Hyper-V related ones including HV_X64_MSR_STIMERn_CONFIG/
HV_X64_MSR_STIMERn_COUNT. With commit f3b138c5d89a ("kvm/x86: Update SynIC
timers on guest entry only") we began doing stimer_mark_pending()
unconditionally on every config change.

The issue I'm observing manifests itself as following:
- Qemu writes 0 to STIMERn_{CONFIG,COUNT} MSRs and marks all stimers as
  pending in stimer_pending_bitmap, arms KVM_REQ_HV_STIMER;
- kvm_hv_has_stimer_pending() starts returning true;
- kvm_vcpu_has_events() starts returning true;
- kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable() starts returning true;
- when kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run() gets into
  (vcpu-&gt;arch.mp_state == KVM_MP_STATE_UNINITIALIZED) case:
  - kvm_vcpu_block() gets in 'kvm_vcpu_check_block(vcpu) &lt; 0' and returns
    immediately, avoiding normal wait path;
  - -EAGAIN is returned from kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run() immediately forcing
    userspace to retry.

So instead of normal wait path we get a busy loop on all secondary vCPUs
before they get INIT signal. This seems to be undesirable, especially given
that this happens even when Hyper-V extensions are not used.

Generally, it seems to be pointless to mark an stimer as pending in
stimer_pending_bitmap and arm KVM_REQ_HV_STIMER as the only thing
kvm_hv_process_stimers() will do is clear the corresponding bit. We may
just not mark disabled timers as pending instead.

Fixes: f3b138c5d89a ("kvm/x86: Update SynIC timers on guest entry only")
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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