BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/Documentation/virtual, branch dev-4.7

KVM: arm64: Require in-kernel irqchip for PMU support

2016-10-16T15:50:37+00:00

commit 6fe407f2d18a4f94216263f91cb7d1f08fa5887c upstream. If userspace creates a PMU for the VCPU, but doesn't create an in-kernel irqchip, then we end up in a nasty path where we try to take an uninitialized spinlock, which can lead to all sorts of breakages. Luckily, QEMU always creates the VGIC before the PMU, so we can establish this as ABI and check for the VGIC in the PMU init stage. This can be relaxed at a later time if we want to support PMU with a userspace irqchip. Cc: Shannon Zhao Acked-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kvm: introduce KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID

2016-05-11T20:37:54+00:00

The KVM_MAX_VCPUS define provides the maximum number of vCPUs per guest, and also the upper limit for vCPU ids. This is okay for all archs except PowerPC which can have higher ids, depending on the cpu/core/thread topology. In the worst case (single threaded guest, host with 8 threads per core), it limits the maximum number of vCPUS to KVM_MAX_VCPUS / 8. This patch separates the vCPU numbering from the total number of vCPUs, with the introduction of KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID, as the maximal valid value for vCPU ids plus one. The corresponding KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID allows userspace to validate vCPU ids before passing them to KVM_CREATE_VCPU. This patch only implements KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID with a specific value for PowerPC. Other archs continue to return KVM_MAX_VCPUS instead. Suggested-by: Radim Krcmar Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-4.7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD

2016-05-10T14:37:38+00:00

KVM: s390: features and fixes for 4.7 part2 - Use hardware provided information about facility bits that do not need any hypervisor activitiy - Add missing documentation for KVM_CAP_S390_RI - Some updates/fixes for handling cpu models and facilities

KVM: s390: document KVM_CAP_S390_RI

2016-05-09T11:33:58+00:00

We forgot to document that capability, let's add documentation. Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger

Documentation: virtual: fix spelling mistake

2016-04-25T14:59:49+00:00

Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom Acked-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář

KVM: s390: add clear I/O irq operation for FLIC

2016-04-20T12:27:32+00:00

Introduce a FLIC operation for clearing I/O interrupts for a subchannel. Rationale: According to the platform specification, pending I/O interruption requests have to be revoked in certain situations. For instance, according to the Principles of Operation (page 17-27), a subchannel put into the installed parameters initialized state is in the same state as after an I/O system reset (just parameters possibly changed). This implies that any I/O interrupts for that subchannel are no longer pending (as I/O system resets clear I/O interrupts). Therefore, we need an interface to clear pending I/O interrupts. Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck

KVM: s390: document FLIC behavior on unsupported

2016-04-20T12:27:32+00:00

FLIC behavior deviates from the API documentation in reporting EINVAL instead of ENXIO for KVM_SET_DEVICE_ATTR/KVM_GET_DEVICE_ATTR when the group or attribute is unknown/unsupported. Unfortunately this can not be fixed for historical reasons. Let us at least have it documented. Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2016-03-16T16:55:35+00:00

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: "One of the largest releases for KVM... Hardly any generic changes, but lots of architecture-specific updates. ARM: - VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems - PMU support for guests - 32bit world switch rewritten in C - various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code. PPC: - enabled KVM-VFIO integration ("VFIO device") - optimizations to speed up IPIs between vcpus - in-kernel handling of IOMMU hypercalls - support for dynamic DMA windows (DDW). s390: - provide the floating point registers via sync regs; - separated instruction vs. data accesses - dirty log improvements for huge guests - bugfixes and documentation improvements. x86: - Hyper-V VMBus hypercall userspace exit - alternative implementation of lowest-priority interrupts using vector hashing (for better VT-d posted interrupt support) - fixed guest debugging with nested virtualizations - improved interrupt tracking in the in-kernel IOAPIC - generic infrastructure for tracking writes to guest memory - currently its only use is to speedup the legacy shadow paging (pre-EPT) case, but in the future it will be used for virtual GPUs as well - much cleanup (LAPIC, kvmclock, MMU, PIT), including ubsan fixes" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (217 commits) KVM: x86: remove eager_fpu field of struct kvm_vcpu_arch KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX XSAVE features arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Reset LRs at boot time arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Do not save an LR known to be empty arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Avoid accessing ICH registers KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Make GICD_SGIR quicker to hit KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Reset LRs at boot time KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Do not save an LR known to be empty KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Move GICH_ELRSR saving to its own function KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Avoid accessing GICH registers KVM: s390: allocate only one DMA page per VM KVM: s390: enable STFLE interpretation only if enabled for the guest KVM: s390: wake up when the VCPU cpu timer expires KVM: s390: step the VCPU timer while in enabled wait KVM: s390: protect VCPU cpu timer with a seqcount KVM: s390: step VCPU cpu timer during kvm_run ioctl ...

KVM: MMU: fix ept=0/pte.u=1/pte.w=0/CR0.WP=0/CR4.SMEP=1/EFER.NX=0 combo

2016-03-10T10:26:07+00:00

Yes, all of these are needed. :) This is admittedly a bit odd, but kvm-unit-tests access.flat tests this if you run it with "-cpu host" and of course ept=0. KVM runs the guest with CR0.WP=1, so it must handle supervisor writes specially when pte.u=1/pte.w=0/CR0.WP=0. Such writes cause a fault when U=1 and W=0 in the SPTE, but they must succeed because CR0.WP=0. When KVM gets the fault, it sets U=0 and W=1 in the shadow PTE and restarts execution. This will still cause a user write to fault, while supervisor writes will succeed. User reads will fault spuriously now, and KVM will then flip U and W again in the SPTE (U=1, W=0). User reads will be enabled and supervisor writes disabled, going back to the originary situation where supervisor writes fault spuriously. When SMEP is in effect, however, U=0 will enable kernel execution of this page. To avoid this, KVM also sets NX=1 in the shadow PTE together with U=0. If the guest has not enabled NX, the result is a continuous stream of page faults due to the NX bit being reserved. The fix is to force EFER.NX=1 even if the CPU is taking care of the EFER switch. (All machines with SMEP have the CPU_LOAD_IA32_EFER vm-entry control, so they do not use user-return notifiers for EFER---if they did, EFER.NX would be forced to the same value as the host). There is another bug in the reserved bit check, which I've split to a separate patch for easier application to stable kernels. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andy Lutomirski Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong Fixes: f6577a5fa15d82217ca73c74cd2dcbc0f6c781dd Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

2016-03-09T10:50:42+00:00

KVM/ARM updates for 4.6 - VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems - PMU support for guests - 32bit world switch rewritten in C - Various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code Conflicts: include/uapi/linux/kvm.h