kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt, branch master

Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virt

2019-07-24T08:52:11+00:00

Renaming docs seems to be en vogue at the moment, so fix on of the grossly misnamed directories. We usually never use "virtual" as a shortcut for virtualization in the kernel, but always virt, as seen in the virt/ top-level directory. Fix up the documentation to match that. Fixes: ed16648eb5b8 ("Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: x86: Add fixed counters to PMU filter

2019-07-20T07:00:48+00:00

Updates KVM_CAP_PMU_EVENT_FILTER so it can also whitelist or blacklist fixed counters. Signed-off-by: Eric Hankland [No need to check padding fields for zero. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

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

2019-07-12T22:35:14+00:00

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: "ARM: - support for chained PMU counters in guests - improved SError handling - handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291 - allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated - standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s - fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit - selftests ckleanups x86: - PMU event {white,black}listing - ability for the guest to disable host-side interrupt polling - fixes for enlightened VMCS (Hyper-V pv nested virtualization), - new hypercall to yield to IPI target - support for passing cstate MSRs through to the guest - lots of cleanups and optimizations Generic: - Some txt->rST conversions for the documentation" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (128 commits) Documentation: virtual: Add toctree hooks Documentation: kvm: Convert cpuid.txt to .rst Documentation: virtual: Convert paravirt_ops.txt to .rst KVM: x86: Unconditionally enable irqs in guest context KVM: x86: PMU Event Filter kvm: x86: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings KVM: Properly check if "page" is valid in kvm_vcpu_unmap KVM: arm/arm64: Initialise host's MPIDRs by reading the actual register KVM: LAPIC: Retry tune per-vCPU timer_advance_ns if adaptive tuning goes insane kvm: LAPIC: write down valid APIC registers KVM: arm64: Migrate _elx sysreg accessors to msr_s/mrs_s KVM: doc: Add API documentation on the KVM_REG_ARM_WORKAROUNDS register KVM: arm/arm64: Add save/restore support for firmware workaround state arm64: KVM: Propagate full Spectre v2 workaround state to KVM guests KVM: arm/arm64: Support chained PMU counters KVM: arm/arm64: Remove pmc->bitmask KVM: arm/arm64: Re-create event when setting counter value KVM: arm/arm64: Extract duplicated code to own function KVM: arm/arm64: Rename kvm_pmu_{enable/disable}_counter functions KVM: LAPIC: ARBPRI is a reserved register for x2APIC ...

Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

2019-07-11T13:14:16+00:00

KVM/arm updates for 5.3 - Add support for chained PMU counters in guests - Improve SError handling - Handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291 - Allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated - Standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s - Fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit

KVM: x86: PMU Event Filter

2019-07-11T13:08:28+00:00

Some events can provide a guest with information about other guests or the host (e.g. L3 cache stats); providing the capability to restrict access to a "safe" set of events would limit the potential for the PMU to be used in any side channel attacks. This change introduces a new VM ioctl that sets an event filter. If the guest attempts to program a counter for any blacklisted or non-whitelisted event, the kernel counter won't be created, so any RDPMC/RDMSR will show 0 instances of that event. Signed-off-by: Eric Hankland [Lots of changes. All remaining bugs are probably mine. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2019-07-09T19:34:26+00:00

Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs: - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on. - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one on Spectre vulnerabilities. - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I will never understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type. - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4. - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits) docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/ Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used ...

KVM: x86: Modify struct kvm_nested_state to have explicit fields for data

2019-06-19T14:11:52+00:00

Improve the KVM_{GET,SET}_NESTED_STATE structs by detailing the format of VMX nested state data in a struct. In order to avoid changing the ioctl values of KVM_{GET,SET}_NESTED_STATE, there is a need to preserve sizeof(struct kvm_nested_state). This is done by defining the data struct as "data.vmx[0]". It was the most elegant way I found to preserve struct size while still keeping struct readable and easy to maintain. It does have a misfortunate side-effect that now it has to be accessed as "data.vmx[0]" rather than just "data.vmx". Because we are already modifying these structs, I also modified the following: * Define the "format" field values as macros. * Rename vmcs_pa to vmcs12_pa for better readability. Signed-off-by: Liran Alon [Remove SVM stubs, add KVM_STATE_NESTED_VMX_VMCS12_SIZE. - Paolo] Reviewed-by: Liran Alon Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: fix typo in documentation

2019-06-18T15:46:45+00:00

The documentation mentions a non-existing capability KVM_CAP_USER_MEM.s The right name is KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY. Signed-off-by: Dennis Restle Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

docs: arm64: convert docs to ReST and rename to .rst

2019-06-14T20:20:27+00:00

The documentation is in a format that is very close to ReST format. The conversion is actually: - add blank lines in order to identify paragraphs; - fixing tables markups; - adding some lists markups; - marking literal blocks; - adjust some title markups. At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable cstate msr read intercepts

2019-06-04T17:27:35+00:00

Allow guest reads CORE cstate when exposing host CPU power management capabilities to the guest. PKG cstate is restricted to avoid a guest to get the whole package information in multi-tenant scenario. Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Radim Krčmář Cc: Sean Christopherson Cc: Liran Alon Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini