* 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
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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