kernel/linux.git/arch/x86/hyperv, branch v7.0-rc7

x86/hyperv: Use any general-purpose register when saving %cr2 and %cr8

2026-03-12T04:25:20+00:00

hv_hvcrash_ctxt_save() in arch/x86/hyperv/hv_crash.c currently saves %cr2 and %cr8 using %eax ("=a"). This unnecessarily forces a specific register. Update the inline assembly to use a general-purpose register ("=r") for both %cr2 and %cr8. This makes the code more flexible for the compiler while producing the same saved context contents. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Wei Liu Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Long Li Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Wei Liu

x86/hyperv: Use current_stack_pointer to avoid asm() in hv_hvcrash_ctxt_save()

2026-03-12T04:25:19+00:00

Use current_stack_pointer to avoid asm() when saving %rsp to the crash context memory in hv_hvcrash_ctxt_save(). The new code is more readable and results in exactly the same object file. Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Wei Liu Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Long Li Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Wei Liu

x86/hyperv: Save segment registers directly to memory in hv_hvcrash_ctxt_save()

2026-03-12T04:25:19+00:00

hv_hvcrash_ctxt_save() in arch/x86/hyperv/hv_crash.c currently saves segment registers via a general-purpose register (%eax). Update the code to save segment registers (cs, ss, ds, es, fs, gs) directly to the crash context memory using movw. This avoids unnecessary use of a general-purpose register, making the code simpler and more efficient. The size of the corresponding object file improves as follows: text data bss dec hex filename 4167 176 200 4543 11bf hv_crash-old.o 4151 176 200 4527 11af hv_crash-new.o No functional change occurs to the saved context contents; this is purely a code-quality improvement. Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Wei Liu Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Long Li Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Wei Liu

x86/hyperv: Use __naked attribute to fix stackless C function

2026-03-11T16:54:24+00:00

hv_crash_c_entry() is a C function that is entered without a stack, and this is only allowed for functions that have the __naked attribute, which informs the compiler that it must not emit the usual prologue and epilogue or emit any other kind of instrumentation that relies on a stack frame. So split up the function, and set the __naked attribute on the initial part that sets up the stack, GDT, IDT and other pieces that are needed for ordinary C execution. Given that function calls are not permitted either, use the existing long return coded in an asm() block to call the second part of the function, which is an ordinary function that is permitted to call other functions as usual. Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper # asm parts, not hv parts Reviewed-by: Mukesh Rathor Acked-by: Uros Bizjak Cc: Wei Liu Cc: linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 94212d34618c ("x86/hyperv: Implement hypervisor RAM collection into vmcore") Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Wei Liu

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next line. Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial. So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed' scripts. The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want whitespace cleanup anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20260218' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux

2026-02-20T16:48:31+00:00

Pull Hyper-V updates from Wei Liu: - Debugfs support for MSHV statistics (Nuno Das Neves) - Support for the integrated scheduler (Stanislav Kinsburskii) - Various fixes for MSHV memory management and hypervisor status handling (Stanislav Kinsburskii) - Expose more capabilities and flags for MSHV partition management (Anatol Belski, Muminul Islam, Magnus Kulke) - Miscellaneous fixes to improve code quality and stability (Carlos López, Ethan Nelson-Moore, Li RongQing, Michael Kelley, Mukesh Rathor, Purna Pavan Chandra Aekkaladevi, Stanislav Kinsburskii, Uros Bizjak) - PREEMPT_RT fixes for vmbus interrupts (Jan Kiszka) * tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20260218' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux: (34 commits) mshv: Handle insufficient root memory hypervisor statuses mshv: Handle insufficient contiguous memory hypervisor status mshv: Introduce hv_deposit_memory helper functions mshv: Introduce hv_result_needs_memory() helper function mshv: Add SMT_ENABLED_GUEST partition creation flag mshv: Add nested virtualization creation flag Drivers: hv: vmbus: Simplify allocation of vmbus_evt mshv: expose the scrub partition hypercall mshv: Add support for integrated scheduler mshv: Use try_cmpxchg() instead of cmpxchg() x86/hyperv: Fix error pointer dereference x86/hyperv: Reserve 3 interrupt vectors used exclusively by MSHV Drivers: hv: vmbus: Use kthread for vmbus interrupts on PREEMPT_RT x86/hyperv: Remove ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT with VMMCALL insn x86/hyperv: Use savesegment() instead of inline asm() to save segment registers mshv: fix SRCU protection in irqfd resampler ack handler mshv: make field names descriptive in a header struct x86/hyperv: Update comment in hyperv_cleanup() mshv: clear eventfd counter on irqfd shutdown x86/hyperv: Use memremap()/memunmap() instead of ioremap_cache()/iounmap() ...

x86/hyperv: Fix error pointer dereference

2026-02-18T23:22:27+00:00

The function idle_thread_get() can return an error pointer and is not checked for it. Add check for error pointer. Detected by Smatch: arch/x86/hyperv/hv_vtl.c:126 hv_vtl_bringup_vcpu() error: 'idle' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR() Fixes: 2b4b90e053a29 ("x86/hyperv: Use per cpu initial stack for vtl context") Signed-off-by: Ethan Tidmore Signed-off-by: Wei Liu

x86/hyperv: Remove ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT with VMMCALL insn

2026-02-18T06:42:57+00:00

Unlike CALL instruction, VMMCALL does not push to the stack, so it's OK to allow the compiler to insert it before the frame pointer gets set up by the containing function. ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT is for CALLs that must be inserted after the frame pointer is set up, so it is over-constraining here and can be removed. Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak Tested-by: Michael Kelley Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Wei Liu Cc: Dexuan Cui Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Wei Liu