linux/Documentation/virt
Linus Torvalds 8fa590bf34 ARM64:
* Enable the per-vcpu dirty-ring tracking mechanism, together with an
   option to keep the good old dirty log around for pages that are
   dirtied by something other than a vcpu.
 
 * Switch to the relaxed parallel fault handling, using RCU to delay
   page table reclaim and giving better performance under load.
 
 * Relax the MTE ABI, allowing a VMM to use the MAP_SHARED mapping option,
   which multi-process VMMs such as crosvm rely on (see merge commit 382b5b87a9:
   "Fix a number of issues with MTE, such as races on the tags being
   initialised vs the PG_mte_tagged flag as well as the lack of support
   for VM_SHARED when KVM is involved.  Patches from Catalin Marinas and
   Peter Collingbourne").
 
 * Merge the pKVM shadow vcpu state tracking that allows the hypervisor
   to have its own view of a vcpu, keeping that state private.
 
 * Add support for the PMUv3p5 architecture revision, bringing support
   for 64bit counters on systems that support it, and fix the
   no-quite-compliant CHAIN-ed counter support for the machines that
   actually exist out there.
 
 * Fix a handful of minor issues around 52bit VA/PA support (64kB pages
   only) as a prefix of the oncoming support for 4kB and 16kB pages.
 
 * Pick a small set of documentation and spelling fixes, because no
   good merge window would be complete without those.
 
 s390:
 
 * Second batch of the lazy destroy patches
 
 * First batch of KVM changes for kernel virtual != physical address support
 
 * Removal of a unused function
 
 x86:
 
 * Allow compiling out SMM support
 
 * Cleanup and documentation of SMM state save area format
 
 * Preserve interrupt shadow in SMM state save area
 
 * Respond to generic signals during slow page faults
 
 * Fixes and optimizations for the non-executable huge page errata fix.
 
 * Reprogram all performance counters on PMU filter change
 
 * Cleanups to Hyper-V emulation and tests
 
 * Process Hyper-V TLB flushes from a nested guest (i.e. from a L2 guest
   running on top of a L1 Hyper-V hypervisor)
 
 * Advertise several new Intel features
 
 * x86 Xen-for-KVM:
 
 ** Allow the Xen runstate information to cross a page boundary
 
 ** Allow XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag behaviour to be configured
 
 ** Add support for 32-bit guests in SCHEDOP_poll
 
 * Notable x86 fixes and cleanups:
 
 ** One-off fixes for various emulation flows (SGX, VMXON, NRIPS=0).
 
 ** Reinstate IBPB on emulated VM-Exit that was incorrectly dropped a few
    years back when eliminating unnecessary barriers when switching between
    vmcs01 and vmcs02.
 
 ** Clean up vmread_error_trampoline() to make it more obvious that params
    must be passed on the stack, even for x86-64.
 
 ** Let userspace set all supported bits in MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL irrespective
    of the current guest CPUID.
 
 ** Fudge around a race with TSC refinement that results in KVM incorrectly
    thinking a guest needs TSC scaling when running on a CPU with a
    constant TSC, but no hardware-enumerated TSC frequency.
 
 ** Advertise (on AMD) that the SMM_CTL MSR is not supported
 
 ** Remove unnecessary exports
 
 Generic:
 
 * Support for responding to signals during page faults; introduces
   new FOLL_INTERRUPTIBLE flag that was reviewed by mm folks
 
 Selftests:
 
 * Fix an inverted check in the access tracking perf test, and restore
   support for asserting that there aren't too many idle pages when
   running on bare metal.
 
 * Fix build errors that occur in certain setups (unsure exactly what is
   unique about the problematic setup) due to glibc overriding
   static_assert() to a variant that requires a custom message.
 
 * Introduce actual atomics for clear/set_bit() in selftests
 
 * Add support for pinning vCPUs in dirty_log_perf_test.
 
 * Rename the so called "perf_util" framework to "memstress".
 
 * Add a lightweight psuedo RNG for guest use, and use it to randomize
   the access pattern and write vs. read percentage in the memstress tests.
 
 * Add a common ucall implementation; code dedup and pre-work for running
   SEV (and beyond) guests in selftests.
 
 * Provide a common constructor and arch hook, which will eventually be
   used by x86 to automatically select the right hypercall (AMD vs. Intel).
 
 * A bunch of added/enabled/fixed selftests for ARM64, covering memslots,
   breakpoints, stage-2 faults and access tracking.
 
 * x86-specific selftest changes:
 
 ** Clean up x86's page table management.
 
 ** Clean up and enhance the "smaller maxphyaddr" test, and add a related
    test to cover generic emulation failure.
 
 ** Clean up the nEPT support checks.
 
 ** Add X86_PROPERTY_* framework to retrieve multi-bit CPUID values.
 
 ** Fix an ordering issue in the AMX test introduced by recent conversions
    to use kvm_cpu_has(), and harden the code to guard against similar bugs
    in the future.  Anything that tiggers caching of KVM's supported CPUID,
    kvm_cpu_has() in this case, effectively hides opt-in XSAVE features if
    the caching occurs before the test opts in via prctl().
 
 Documentation:
 
 * Remove deleted ioctls from documentation
 
 * Clean up the docs for the x86 MSR filter.
 
 * Various fixes
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM64:

   - Enable the per-vcpu dirty-ring tracking mechanism, together with an
     option to keep the good old dirty log around for pages that are
     dirtied by something other than a vcpu.

   - Switch to the relaxed parallel fault handling, using RCU to delay
     page table reclaim and giving better performance under load.

   - Relax the MTE ABI, allowing a VMM to use the MAP_SHARED mapping
     option, which multi-process VMMs such as crosvm rely on (see merge
     commit 382b5b87a9: "Fix a number of issues with MTE, such as
     races on the tags being initialised vs the PG_mte_tagged flag as
     well as the lack of support for VM_SHARED when KVM is involved.
     Patches from Catalin Marinas and Peter Collingbourne").

   - Merge the pKVM shadow vcpu state tracking that allows the
     hypervisor to have its own view of a vcpu, keeping that state
     private.

   - Add support for the PMUv3p5 architecture revision, bringing support
     for 64bit counters on systems that support it, and fix the
     no-quite-compliant CHAIN-ed counter support for the machines that
     actually exist out there.

   - Fix a handful of minor issues around 52bit VA/PA support (64kB
     pages only) as a prefix of the oncoming support for 4kB and 16kB
     pages.

   - Pick a small set of documentation and spelling fixes, because no
     good merge window would be complete without those.

  s390:

   - Second batch of the lazy destroy patches

   - First batch of KVM changes for kernel virtual != physical address
     support

   - Removal of a unused function

  x86:

   - Allow compiling out SMM support

   - Cleanup and documentation of SMM state save area format

   - Preserve interrupt shadow in SMM state save area

   - Respond to generic signals during slow page faults

   - Fixes and optimizations for the non-executable huge page errata
     fix.

   - Reprogram all performance counters on PMU filter change

   - Cleanups to Hyper-V emulation and tests

   - Process Hyper-V TLB flushes from a nested guest (i.e. from a L2
     guest running on top of a L1 Hyper-V hypervisor)

   - Advertise several new Intel features

   - x86 Xen-for-KVM:

      - Allow the Xen runstate information to cross a page boundary

      - Allow XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag behaviour to be configured

      - Add support for 32-bit guests in SCHEDOP_poll

   - Notable x86 fixes and cleanups:

      - One-off fixes for various emulation flows (SGX, VMXON, NRIPS=0).

      - Reinstate IBPB on emulated VM-Exit that was incorrectly dropped
        a few years back when eliminating unnecessary barriers when
        switching between vmcs01 and vmcs02.

      - Clean up vmread_error_trampoline() to make it more obvious that
        params must be passed on the stack, even for x86-64.

      - Let userspace set all supported bits in MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL
        irrespective of the current guest CPUID.

      - Fudge around a race with TSC refinement that results in KVM
        incorrectly thinking a guest needs TSC scaling when running on a
        CPU with a constant TSC, but no hardware-enumerated TSC
        frequency.

      - Advertise (on AMD) that the SMM_CTL MSR is not supported

      - Remove unnecessary exports

  Generic:

   - Support for responding to signals during page faults; introduces
     new FOLL_INTERRUPTIBLE flag that was reviewed by mm folks

  Selftests:

   - Fix an inverted check in the access tracking perf test, and restore
     support for asserting that there aren't too many idle pages when
     running on bare metal.

   - Fix build errors that occur in certain setups (unsure exactly what
     is unique about the problematic setup) due to glibc overriding
     static_assert() to a variant that requires a custom message.

   - Introduce actual atomics for clear/set_bit() in selftests

   - Add support for pinning vCPUs in dirty_log_perf_test.

   - Rename the so called "perf_util" framework to "memstress".

   - Add a lightweight psuedo RNG for guest use, and use it to randomize
     the access pattern and write vs. read percentage in the memstress
     tests.

   - Add a common ucall implementation; code dedup and pre-work for
     running SEV (and beyond) guests in selftests.

   - Provide a common constructor and arch hook, which will eventually
     be used by x86 to automatically select the right hypercall (AMD vs.
     Intel).

   - A bunch of added/enabled/fixed selftests for ARM64, covering
     memslots, breakpoints, stage-2 faults and access tracking.

   - x86-specific selftest changes:

      - Clean up x86's page table management.

      - Clean up and enhance the "smaller maxphyaddr" test, and add a
        related test to cover generic emulation failure.

      - Clean up the nEPT support checks.

      - Add X86_PROPERTY_* framework to retrieve multi-bit CPUID values.

      - Fix an ordering issue in the AMX test introduced by recent
        conversions to use kvm_cpu_has(), and harden the code to guard
        against similar bugs in the future. Anything that tiggers
        caching of KVM's supported CPUID, kvm_cpu_has() in this case,
        effectively hides opt-in XSAVE features if the caching occurs
        before the test opts in via prctl().

  Documentation:

   - Remove deleted ioctls from documentation

   - Clean up the docs for the x86 MSR filter.

   - Various fixes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (361 commits)
  KVM: x86: Add proper ReST tables for userspace MSR exits/flags
  KVM: selftests: Allocate ucall pool from MEM_REGION_DATA
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Align VA space allocator with TTBR0
  KVM: arm64: Fix benign bug with incorrect use of VA_BITS
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix period computation for 64bit counters with 32bit overflow
  KVM: x86: Advertise that the SMM_CTL MSR is not supported
  KVM: x86: remove unnecessary exports
  KVM: selftests: Fix spelling mistake "probabalistic" -> "probabilistic"
  tools: KVM: selftests: Convert clear/set_bit() to actual atomics
  tools: Drop "atomic_" prefix from atomic test_and_set_bit()
  tools: Drop conflicting non-atomic test_and_{clear,set}_bit() helpers
  KVM: selftests: Use non-atomic clear/set bit helpers in KVM tests
  perf tools: Use dedicated non-atomic clear/set bit helpers
  tools: Take @bit as an "unsigned long" in {clear,set}_bit() helpers
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Enable single-step without a "full" ucall()
  KVM: x86: fix APICv/x2AVIC disabled when vm reboot by itself
  KVM: Remove stale comment about KVM_REQ_UNHALT
  KVM: Add missing arch for KVM_CREATE_DEVICE and KVM_{SET,GET}_DEVICE_ATTR
  KVM: Reference to kvm_userspace_memory_region in doc and comments
  KVM: Delete all references to removed KVM_SET_MEMORY_ALIAS ioctl
  ...
2022-12-15 11:12:21 -08:00
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acrn docs: acrn: Introduce ACRN 2021-02-09 10:58:18 +01:00
coco virt: Add TDX guest driver 2022-11-17 11:04:23 -08:00
hyperv Documentation: hyperv: Add overview of clocks and timers 2022-07-13 14:04:48 -06:00
kvm ARM64: 2022-12-15 11:12:21 -08:00
uml docs: UML: fix typo 2022-06-24 13:18:21 -06:00
guest-halt-polling.rst docs: virt: guest-halt-polling.txt convert to ReST 2020-02-12 20:10:08 +01:00
index.rst virt: Add TDX guest driver 2022-11-17 11:04:23 -08:00
ne_overview.rst nitro_enclaves: Update documentation for Arm64 support 2021-09-14 11:11:20 +02:00
paravirt_ops.rst