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12 daysMerge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull kvm fixes from Paolo Bonzini: "s390: - Fix S390_USER_OPEREXEC so it can now be enabled regardless of other unrelated capabilities - Fix handling of the _PAGE_UNUSED pte bit that could lead to guest memory corruption in some scenarios - A bunch of misc gmap fixes (locking, behaviour under memory pressure) - Fix CMMA dirty tracking x86: - Tidy up some WARN_ON() and BUG_ON(), replacing them with WARN_ON_ONCE() or KVM_BUG_ON(). All of these have obviously never triggered, or somebody would have been annoyed earlier, but still... - Fix missing interrupt due to stale CR8 intercept - Add a statistic that can come in handy to debug leaks as well as the vulnerability to a class of recently-discovered issues - Do not ask arch/x86/kernel to export default_cpu_present_to_apicid() just for KVM" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (22 commits) x86/apic: KVM: Use cpu_physical_id() to get APIC ID of running vCPU for AVIC KVM: x86/mmu: Expose number of shadow MMU shadow pages as a stat KVM: x86: Unconditionally recompute CR8 intercept on PPR update KVM: VMX: Grab vmcs12 on CR8 interception update iff vCPU is in guest mode KVM: x86: WARN (once) if RTC pending EOI tracking goes off the rails KVM: x86: WARN and fail kvm_set_irq() if a PIC or I/O APIC vector is invalid KVM: x86: Bug the VM, not the kernel, if the ISR count {under,over}flows KVM: x86/mmu: Bug the VM, not the host kernel, if KVM write-protects upper SPTEs KVM: x86: Replace BUG_ON() with WARN_ON_ONCE() on "bad" nested GPA translation KVM: Replace guest-triggerable BUG_ON() in ioeventfd datamatch with get_unaligned() KVM: s390: Return failure in case of failure in kvm_s390_set_cmma_bits() KVM: s390: selftests: Fix cmma selftest KVM: s390: Fix cmma dirty tracking KVM: s390: Fix locking in kvm_s390_set_mem_control() KVM: s390: Fix handle_{sske,pfmf} under memory pressure KVM: s390: Fix code typo in gmap_protect_asce_top_level() KVM: s390: Do not set special large pages dirty KVM: s390: Fix dat_peek_cmma() overflow s390/mm: Fix handling of _PAGE_UNUSED pte bit KVM: s390: Fix typo in UCONTROL documentation ...
13 daysMerge tag 'kvm-s390-next-7.2-2' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD * Fix S390_USER_OPEREXEC so it can now be enabled regardless of other unrelated capabilities * Fix handling of the _PAGE_UNUSED pte bit that could lead to guest memory corruption in some scenarios * A bunch of misc gmap fixes (locking, behaviour under memory pressure) * Fix CMMA dirty tracking
13 daysKVM: s390: Fix typo in UCONTROL documentationEric Farman
Small typo noticed while writing the USER_OPEREXEC selftest. Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Message-ID: <20260507200836.3500368-4-farman@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
2026-06-19Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "arm64: This is a bit of an odd merge window on the KVM/arm64 front. There is absolutely no new feature in the pull request. It is purely fixes, because it is simply becoming too hard to review new stuff when so many AI-fuelled fixes hit the list. - Significant cleanup of the vgic-v5 PPI support which was merged in 7.1. This makes the code more maintainable, and squashes a couple of bugs in the meantime - Set of fixes for the handling of the MMU in an NV context, particularly VNCR-triggered faults. S1POE support is fixed as well - Large set of pKVM fixes, mostly addressing recurring issues around hypervisor tracking of donated pages in obscure cases where the donation could fail and leave things in a bizarre state - Fixes for the so-called "lazy vgic init", which resulted in sleeping operations in non-preemptible sections. This turned out to be far more invasive than initially expected.. - Reduce the overhead of L1/L2 context switch by not touching the FP registers - Fix the way non-implemented page sizes are dealt with when a guest insist on using them for S2 translation - The usual set of low-impact fixes and cleanups all over the map Loongarch: - On a request for lazy FPU load, load all FPU state that the VM supports instead of enabling only the part (FPU, LSX or LASX) that caused the FPU load request - Some enhancements about interrupt injection - Some bug fixes and other small changes RISC-V: - Batch G-stage TLB flushes for GPA range based page table updates - Convert HGEI line management to fully per-HART - Fix missing CSR dirty marking when FWFT state updated via ONE_REG - Fix stale FWFT feature exposure to Guest/VM - Speed up dirty logging write faults using MMU rwlock and atomic PTE updates using cmpxchg() for permission-only changes - Use flexible array for APLIC IRQ state - Use kvm_slot_dirty_track_enabled() for logging enable check on a memslot - Avoid skipping valid pages in kvm_riscv_gstage_wp_range() - Avoid skipping valid pages in kvm_riscv_gstage_unmap_range() - Use endian-specific __lelong for NACL shared memory S390: - KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY support - Support for 2G hugepages - Support for the ASTFLEIE 2 facility - Support for fast inject using kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic - Fix potential leak of uninitialized bytes - A few more misc gmap fixes x86: - Generic support for the more granular permissions allowed by EPT, namely "read" (which was previously usurping the U bit) and separate execution bits for kernel and userspace - Do not assume that all page tables start with U=1/W=1/NX=0 at the root, as AMD GMET needs to have U=0 at the root - Introduce common assembly macros for use within Intel and AMD vendor-specific vmentry code. This touches the SPEC_CTRL handling, which is now entirely done in assembly for Intel (by reusing the AMD code that already existed), and register save/restore which uses some macro magic to compute the offsets in the struct. Both of these are preparatory changes for upcoming APX support - Clean up KVM's register tracking and storage, primarily to prepare for APX support, which expands the maximum number of GPRs from 16 to 32 - Keep a single copy of the PDPTRs rather than two, since architecturally there is just one - Handle EXIT_FASTPATH_EXIT_USERSPACE in vendor code to ensure vendor code gets a chance to handle things like reaping the PML buffer - Update KVM's view of PV async enabling if and only if the MSR write fully succeeds - Fix a variety of issues where the emulator doesn't honor guest-debug state, and clean up related code along the way - Synthesize EPT Violation and #NPF "error code" bits when injecting faults into L1 that didn't originate in hardware (in which case the VMCS/VMCB doesn't hold relevant information) - Add support for virtualizing (well, emulating) AMD's flavor of CPL>0 CPUID faulting - Clean up the GPR APIs so that KVM's use of "raw" is consistent, and fix a variety of minor bugs along the way - Fix an OOB memory access due to not checking the VP ID when handling a Hyper-V PV TLB flush for L2 - Fix a bug in the mediated PMU's handling of fixed counters that allowed the guest to bypass the PMU event filter - Allow userspace to return EAGAIN when handling SNP and TDX hypercalls, so the KVM can forward a "retry" status code to the guest, and reserve all unused error codes for future usage - Overhaul the TDP MMU => S-EPT code to move as much S-EPT specific logic as possible into the TDX code, and to funnel (almost) all S-EPT updates into a single chokepoint. The motivation is largely to prepare for upcoming Dynamic PAMT support, but the cleanups are nice to have on their own - Plug a hole in shadow page table handling, where KVM fails to recursively zap nested EPT/NPT shadow page tables when the nested hypervisor tears down its own EPT/NPT page tables from the bottom up x86 (Intel): - Support for nested MBEC (Mode-Based Execute Control), see above in the generic section; also run with MBEC enabled even for non-nested mode - Use the kernel's "enum pg_level" in the TDX APIs instead of the TDX-Module's level definitions (which are 0-based) - Rework the TDX memory APIs to not require/assume that guest memory is backed by "struct page" (in prepartion for guest_memfd hugepage support) - Fix a largely benign bug where KVM TDX would incorrectly state it could emulate several x2APIC MSRs - Use the "safe" WRMSR API when proxying LBR MSR writes as the to-be-written value is guest controlled and completely unvalidated x86 (AMD): - Support for nested GMET (Guest Mode Execution Trap), see above in the generic section; also run with GMET enabled even for non-nested mode - Fixes and minor cleanups to GHCB handling, on top of the earlier work already merged into 7.1-rc - Ensure KVM's copy of CR0 and CR3 are up-to-date prior to invoking fastpath handlers - Add support for virtualizing gPAT (KVM previously just used L1's PAT when running L2) - Fix goofs where KVM mishandles side effects (e.g. single-step and PMC updates) when emulating VMRUN - Fix a variety of bugs in AVIC's handling of x2APIC MSR interception, most notably where KVM didn't disable interception of IRR, ISR, and TMR regs - Add support for virtualizing Host-Only/Guest-Only bits in the mediated PMU - Don't advertise support for unusable VM types, and account for VM types that are disabled by firmware, e.g. to mitigate security vulnerabilities - Rewrite the SEV {en,de}crypt debug ioctls as they were riddle with bugs and unnecessarily complicated, and add comprehensive tests - Clean up and deduplicate the SEV page pinning code - Fix minor goofs related to writing back CPUID information after firmware rejects a CPUID page for an SNP vCPU Generic: - Rename invalidate_begin() to invalidate_start() throughout KVM to follow the kernel's nomenclature, e.g. for mmu_notifiers - Use guard() to cleanup up various KVM+VFIO flows - Minor cleanups guest_memfd: - Return -EEXIST instead of -EINVAL if userspace attempts to bind a gmem range to multiple memslots, and fix the test that was supposed to ensure KVM returns -EEXIST - Treat memslot binding offsets and sizes as unsigned values to fix a bug where KVM interprets a large "offset + size" as a negative value and allows a nonsensical offset - Use the inode number instead of the page offset for the NUMA interleaving index to fix a bug where the effective index would jump by two for consecutive pages (the caller also adds in the page offset) Selftests: - Randomize the dirty log test's delay when reaping the bitmap on the first pass, as always waiting only 1ms hid a KVM RISC-V bug as the test reaped the bitmap before KVM could build up enough state to hit the bug - A pile of one-off fixes and cleanups" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (326 commits) KVM: x86/mmu: Ensure hugepage is in by slot before checking max mapping level KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due to unexpected role KVM: s390: Introducing kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic fast inject KVM: s390: Enable adapter_indicators_set to use mapped pages KVM: s390: Add map/unmap ioctl and clean mappings post-guest riscv: kvm: Use endian-specific __lelong for NACL shared memory KVM: selftests: access_tracking_perf_test: bump number of NUMA nodes to 32 KVM: s390: vsie: Implement ASTFLEIE facility 2 KVM: s390: vsie: Refactor handle_stfle s390/sclp: Detect ASTFLEIE 2 facility KVM: s390: Minor refactor of base/ext facility lists KVM: x86/mmu: move pdptrs out of the MMU KVM: x86: check that kvm_handle_invpcid is only invoked with shadow paging KVM: nSVM: invalidate cached PDPTRs across nested NPT transitions KVM: nVMX: remove unnecessary code in prepare_vmcs02_rare KVM: x86: remove nested_mmu from mmu_is_nested() KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Make ABI commit helpers return void KVM: s390: Initialize KVM_S390_GET_CMMA_BITS memory LoongArch: KVM: Add missing slots_lock for device register/unregister LoongArch: KVM: Validate irqchip index in irqfd routing ...
2026-06-16Merge tag 'docs-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Things have calmed down a bit on the docs front, with no earthshaking changes this time around: - Ongoing work on the Japanese and Portuguese translations - Better integration of the MAINTAINERS file into the rendered documents, including a search interface - A seemingly infinite supply of fixes for typos, minor grammatical issues, and related problems that LLMs find with abandon" * tag 'docs-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (93 commits) docs: pt_BR: Translate 3.Early-stage.rst into Portuguese docs: pt_BR: update "Purpose of Defconfigs" section in maintainer-soc.rst Documentation: bug-hunting.rst: fix grammar docs/ja_JP: translate submitting-patches.rst (interleaved-replies) docs: Fix minor grammatical error docs/{it_it,sp_SP,zh_CN,zh_TW}: update references to removed CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB Documentation: process: fix brackets Documentation: arch: fix brackets docs/dyndbg: explain flags parse 1st docs/dyndbg: update examples \012 to \n docs: kernel-parameters: Fix stale sticore file paths docs: real-time: Fix duplicated sched(7) text docs: kgdb: Fix stale source file paths docs: sonypi: Fix stale header file path docs: kernel-parameters: Remove sa1100ir IrDA parameter iommu: Documentation: rearrange, update kernel-parameters docs: md: fix grammar in speed_limit description docs: changes.rst: restore pahole 1.26 minimum (regressed by sort) Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc docs: pt_BR: update maintainer-handbooks ...
2026-06-15Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-7.2-1' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD KVM: s390: New features for 7.2 New features for 7.2 for KVM/s390: * KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY support * Support for 2G hugepages * Support for the ASTFLEIE 2 facility * kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic Fast Inject * Fix potential leak of uninitialized bytes
2026-06-12Merge tag 'kvmarm-7.2' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD KVM/arm64 updates for 7.2 * New features: - None. Zilch. Nada. Que dalle. * Fixes and other improvements: - Significant cleanup of the vgic-v5 PPI support which was merged in 7.1. This makes the code more maintainable, and squashes a couple of bugs in the meantime. - Set of fixes for the handling of the MMU in an NV context, particularly VNCR-triggered faults. S1POE support is fixed as well. - Large set of pKVM fixes, mostly addressing recurring issues around hypervisor tracking of donated pages in obscure cases where the donation could fail and leave things in a bizarre state. - Fixes for the so-called "lazy vgic init", which resulted in sleeping operations in non-preemptible sections. This turned out to be far more invasive than initially expected... - Reduce the overhead of L1/L2 context switch by not touching the FP registers. - Fix the way non-implemented page sizes are dealt with when a guest insist on using them for S2 translation. - The usual set of low-impact fixes and cleanups all over the map.
2026-06-12Merge tag 'kvm-x86-svm-7.2' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM SVM changes for 7.2 - Add support for virtualizing gPAT (KVM previously just used L1's PAT when running L2). - Fix goofs where KVM mishandles side effects (e.g. single-step and PMC updates) when emulating VMRUN. - Fix a variety of bugs in AVIC's handling of x2APIC MSR interception, most notably where KVM didn't disable interception of IRR, ISR, and TMR regs. - Add support for virtualizing Host-Only/Guest-Only bits in the mediated PMU.
2026-06-12Merge tag 'kvm-x86-misc-7.2' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM misc x86 changes for 7.2 - Handle EXIT_FASTPATH_EXIT_USERSPACE in vendor code to ensure vendor code gets a chance to handle things like reaping the PML buffer. - Ensure KVM's copy of CR0 and CR3 are up-to-date on SVM prior to invoking fastpath handlers. - Update KVM's view of PV async enabling if and only if the MSR write fully succeeds. - Fix a variety of issues where the emulator doesn't honor guest-debug state, and clean up related code along the way. - Synthesize EPT Violation and #NPF "error code" bits when injecting faults into L1 that didn't originate in hardware (in which case the VMCS/VMCB doesn't hold relevant information). - Add support for virtualizing (well, emulating) AMD's flavor of CPL>0 CPUID faulting. - Clean up the GPR APIs so that KVM's use of "raw" is consistent, and fix a variety of minor bugs along the way. - Fix an OOB memory access due to not checking the VP ID when handling a Hyper-V PV TLB flush for L2. - Fix a bug in the mediated PMU's handling of fixed counters that allowed the guest to bypass the PMU event filter. - Allow userspace to return EAGAIN when handling SNP and TDX hypercalls, so the KVM can forward a "retry" status code to the guest, and reserve all unused error codes for future usage. - Misc fixes and cleanups.
2026-06-12Merge branch kvm-arm64/vgic-v5-PPI-fixes into kvmarm-master/nextMarc Zyngier
* kvm-arm64/vgic-v5-PPI-fixes: : . : Substantial cleanup of the vgic-v5 PPI support. From the original : cover letter: : : "With the GICv5 PPi support merged in, it has become obvious that a few : things could be improved, both from the correctness and maintainability : angles." : . KVM: arm64: Fix arch timer interrupts for GICv3-on-GICv5 guests irqchip/gic-v5: Immediately exec priority drop following activate Documentation: KVM: Clarify that PMU_V3_IRQ IntID requirements for GICv5 Documentation: KVM: Fix typos in VGICv5 documentation KVM: arm64: selftests: Improve error handling for GICv5 PPI selftest KVM: arm64: selftests: Cleanup unused vars in GICv5 PPI selftest KVM: arm64: selftests: Add missing GIC CDEN to no-vgic-v5 selftest KVM: arm64: vgic-v5: Atomically assign bits to PPI DVI bitmap KVM: arm64: vgic-v5: Add missing trap handing for NV triage KVM: arm64: vgic-v5: Limit support to 64 PPIs KVM: arm64: vgic: Rationalise per-CPU irq accessor KVM: arm64: vgic-v5: Drop defensive checks from vgic_v5_ppi_queue_irq_unlock() KVM: arm64: vgic: Consolidate vgic_allocate_private_irqs_locked() KVM: arm64: vgic: Constify struct irq_ops usage KVM: arm64: vgic-v5: Drop pointless ARM64_HAS_GICV5_CPUIF check KVM: arm64: vgic-v5: Remove use of __assign_bit() with a constant KVM: arm64: vgic-v5: Move PPI caps into kvm_vgic_global_state KVM: arm64: vgic-v5: Add for_each_visible_v5_ppi() iterator Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-06-09KVM: s390: Document the KVM_CAP_S390_HPAGE_2G capabilityClaudio Imbrenda
Document the KVM_CAP_S390_HPAGE_2G capability, which behaves very similarly to the existing KVM_CAP_S390_HPAGE_1M. Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Message-ID: <20260609150930.665370-5-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
2026-06-08Documentation: KVM: Synchronize x86 VM typesCarlos López
KVM has reflected KVM_X86_SNP_VM to userspace since 1dfe571c12cf ("KVM: SEV: Add initial SEV-SNP support"), and KVM_X86_TDX_VM since 161d34609f9b ("KVM: TDX: Make TDX VM type supported"). Update the documentation to reflect this fact. Fixes: 1dfe571c12cf ("KVM: SEV: Add initial SEV-SNP support") Fixes: 161d34609f9b ("KVM: TDX: Make TDX VM type supported") Signed-off-by: Carlos López <clopez@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603114504.814647-2-clopez@suse.de [sean: use one tab instead of two] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-06-03Merge branch 'kvm-ghcb-for-7.2' into HEADPaolo Bonzini
Merge the final part of the GHCB 7.2 fixes at https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260529183549.1104619-1-pbonzini@redhat.com/. Patches 1-17 have already been included in Linux 7.1; these are minor cleanups, and fixes for behaviors that are suboptimal or contradicting the specification. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2026-05-28KVM: s390: Update KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY API documentationClaudio Imbrenda
Update the API documentation for KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY to account for its s390 implementation. Reviewed-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Message-ID: <20260527144358.186359-4-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
2026-05-27KVM: TDX: Allow userspace to return errors to guest for MAPGPAVishal Annapurve
MAPGPA request from TDX VMs gets split into chunks by KVM using a loop of userspace exits until the complete range is handled. In some cases userspace VMM might decide to break the MAPGPA operation and continue it later. For example: in the case of intrahost migration userspace might decide to continue the MAPGPA operation after the migration is completed. Allow userspace to signal to TDX guests that the MAPGPA operation should be retried the next time the guest is scheduled. This is potentially a breaking change since if userspace sets hypercall.ret to a value other than EBUSY or EINVAL an EINVAL error code will be returned to userspace. As of now QEMU never sets hypercall.ret to a non-zero value after handling KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL so this change should be safe. Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com> Co-developed-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260305222627.4193305-2-sagis@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-05-25docs: fix typo in user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rstSakurai Shun
Replace "privilges" with "privileges" Signed-off-by: Sakurai Shun <ssh1326@icloud.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260517022456.5895-1-ssh1326@icloud.com>
2026-05-23Documentation: KVM: Clarify that PMU_V3_IRQ IntID requirements for GICv5Sascha Bischoff
When running a GICv5-based guest, the PMU must use PPI 23. This, however, must be communicated via the KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_CTRL->KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_IRQ ioctl as a full GICv5-style Interrupt ID. That is, 0x20000017. Optionally, the whole ioctl can be skipped for GICv5. This was previously not clearly documented, so bump the documentation accordingly. Fixes: 7c31c06e2d2d ("KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Mandate architected PPI for PMU emulation on GICv5") Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260319154937.3619520-1-sascha.bischoff%40arm.com Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260520091949.542365-17-maz@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-05-23Documentation: KVM: Fix typos in VGICv5 documentationSascha Bischoff
Fix two typos in the VGICv5 documentation. Fixes: d51c978b7d3e ("KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Communicate userspace-driveable PPIs via a UAPI") Fixes: eb3c4d2c9a4d ("Documentation: KVM: Introduce documentation for VGICv5") Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260319154937.3619520-1-sascha.bischoff%40arm.com Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260520091949.542365-16-maz@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-05-14KVM: x86: nSVM: Save/restore gPAT with KVM_{GET,SET}_NESTED_STATEJim Mattson
Add a 'gpat' field to kvm_svm_nested_state_hdr to carry L2's guest PAT value across save and restore. When KVM_X86_QUIRK_NESTED_SVM_SHARED_PAT is disabled and the vCPU is in guest mode with nested NPT enabled, save vmcb02's g_pat into the header on KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE, and restore it on KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE. Host-initiated accesses to IA32_PAT (via KVM_GET/SET_MSRS) always target L1's hPAT, so they cannot be used to save or restore gPAT. The separate header field ensures that KVM_GET/SET_MSRS and KVM_GET/SET_NESTED_STATE are independent and can be ordered arbitrarily during save and restore. Note that struct kvm_svm_nested_state_hdr is included in a union padded to 120 bytes, so there is room to add the gpat field without changing any offsets. Fixes: cc440cdad5b7 ("KVM: nSVM: implement KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE and KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE") Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407190343.325299-9-jmattson@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-05-14KVM: Documentation: document KVM_{GET,SET}_NESTED_STATE for SVMJim Mattson
Document the nested state constants and structures for SVM that were added by commit cc440cdad5b7 ("KVM: nSVM: implement KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE and KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE"). Fixes: cc440cdad5b7 ("KVM: nSVM: implement KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE and KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE") Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407190343.325299-8-jmattson@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-05-14KVM: x86: Define KVM_X86_QUIRK_NESTED_SVM_SHARED_PATJim Mattson
Define a quirk to control whether nested SVM shares L1's PAT with L2 (legacy behavior) or gives L2 its own independent gPAT (correct behavior per the APM). When the quirk is enabled (default), L2 shares L1's PAT, preserving the legacy KVM behavior. When userspace disables the quirk, KVM correctly virtualizes the PAT for nested SVM guests, giving L2 a separate gPAT as specified in the AMD architecture. Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260407190343.325299-2-jmattson@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-05-12Documentation: kvm: update links in the references section of AMD Memory ↵Ninad Naik
Encryption Replace non-working links in the reference section with the working ones. Signed-off-by: Ninad Naik <ninadnaik07@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511174302.811918-1-ninadnaik07@gmail.com/ Reviewed-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2026-05-10KVM: x86/mmu: move cr4_smep to base rolePaolo Bonzini
Guest page tables can be reused independent of the value of CR4.SMEP (at least if WP=1). However, this is not true of EPT MBEC pages, because presence of EPT entries is signaled by bits 0-2 when MBEC is off, and bits 0-2 + bit 10 when MBEC is on. In preparation for enabling MBEC, move cr4_smep to the base role. This makes the smep_andnot_wp bit redundant, so remove it. Tested-by: David Riley <d.riley@proxmox.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2026-04-13Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-7.1-1' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD - ESA nesting support - 4k memslots - LPSW/E fix
2026-04-08Merge branch kvm-arm64/pkvm-protected-guest into kvmarm-master/nextMarc Zyngier
* kvm-arm64/pkvm-protected-guest: (41 commits) : . : pKVM support for protected guests, implementing the very long : awaited support for anonymous memory, as the elusive guestmem : has failed to deliver on its promises despite a multi-year : effort. Patches courtesy of Will Deacon. From the initial cover : letter: : : "[...] this patch series implements support for protected guest : memory with pKVM, where pages are unmapped from the host as they are : faulted into the guest and can be shared back from the guest using pKVM : hypercalls. Protected guests are created using a new machine type : identifier and can be booted to a shell using the kvmtool patches : available at [2], which finally means that we are able to test the pVM : logic in pKVM. Since this is an incremental step towards full isolation : from the host (for example, the CPU register state and DMA accesses are : not yet isolated), creating a pVM requires a developer Kconfig option to : be enabled in addition to booting with 'kvm-arm.mode=protected' and : results in a kernel taint." : . KVM: arm64: Don't hold 'vm_table_lock' across guest page reclaim KVM: arm64: Allow get_pkvm_hyp_vm() to take a reference to a dying VM KVM: arm64: Prevent teardown finalisation of referenced 'hyp_vm' drivers/virt: pkvm: Add Kconfig dependency on DMA_RESTRICTED_POOL KVM: arm64: Rename PKVM_PAGE_STATE_MASK KVM: arm64: Extend pKVM page ownership selftests to cover guest hvcs KVM: arm64: Extend pKVM page ownership selftests to cover forced reclaim KVM: arm64: Register 'selftest_vm' in the VM table KVM: arm64: Extend pKVM page ownership selftests to cover guest donation KVM: arm64: Add some initial documentation for pKVM KVM: arm64: Allow userspace to create protected VMs when pKVM is enabled KVM: arm64: Implement the MEM_UNSHARE hypercall for protected VMs KVM: arm64: Implement the MEM_SHARE hypercall for protected VMs KVM: arm64: Add hvc handler at EL2 for hypercalls from protected VMs KVM: arm64: Return -EFAULT from VCPU_RUN on access to a poisoned pte KVM: arm64: Reclaim faulting page from pKVM in spurious fault handler KVM: arm64: Introduce hypercall to force reclaim of a protected page KVM: arm64: Annotate guest donations with handle and gfn in host stage-2 KVM: arm64: Change 'pkvm_handle_t' to u16 KVM: arm64: Introduce host_stage2_set_owner_metadata_locked() ... Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-04-02KVM: s390: Add KVM capability for ESA mode guestsHendrik Brueckner
Now that all the bits are properly addressed, provide a mechanism for testing ESA mode guests in nested configurations. Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com> [farman@us.ibm.com: Updated commit message] Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
2026-03-30KVM: arm64: Add some initial documentation for pKVMWill Deacon
Add some initial documentation for pKVM to help people understand what is supported, the limitations of protected VMs when compared to non-protected VMs and also what is left to do. Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Tested-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Tested-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330144841.26181-33-will@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-03-19KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Communicate userspace-driveable PPIs via a UAPISascha Bischoff
GICv5 systems will likely not support the full set of PPIs. The presence of any virtual PPI is tied to the presence of the physical PPI. Therefore, the available PPIs will be limited by the physical host. Userspace cannot drive any PPIs that are not implemented. Moreover, it is not desirable to expose all PPIs to the guest in the first place, even if they are supported in hardware. Some devices, such as the arch timer, are implemented in KVM, and hence those PPIs shouldn't be driven by userspace, either. Provided a new UAPI: KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL => KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_USERPSPACE_PPIs This allows userspace to query which PPIs it is able to drive via KVM_IRQ_LINE. Additionally, introduce a check in kvm_vm_ioctl_irq_line() to reject any PPIs not in the userspace mask. Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319154937.3619520-40-sascha.bischoff@arm.com Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-03-19Documentation: KVM: Introduce documentation for VGICv5Sascha Bischoff
Now that it is possible to create a VGICv5 device, provide initial documentation for it. At this stage, there is little to document. Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319154937.3619520-39-sascha.bischoff@arm.com Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-03-19KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Mandate architected PPI for PMU emulation on GICv5Sascha Bischoff
Make it mandatory to use the architected PPI when running a GICv5 guest. Attempts to set anything other than the architected PPI (23) are rejected. Additionally, KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_INIT is relaxed to no longer require KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_IRQ to be called for GICv5-based guests. In this case, the architectued PPI is automatically used. Documentation is bumped accordingly. Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319154937.3619520-33-sascha.bischoff@arm.com Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-03-19KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Support GICv5 interrupts with KVM_IRQ_LINESascha Bischoff
Interrupts under GICv5 look quite different to those from older Arm GICs. Specifically, the type is encoded in the top bits of the interrupt ID. Extend KVM_IRQ_LINE to cope with GICv5 PPIs and SPIs. The requires subtly changing the KVM_IRQ_LINE API for GICv5 guests. For older Arm GICs, PPIs had to be in the range of 16-31, and SPIs had to be 32-1019, but this no longer holds true for GICv5. Instead, for a GICv5 guest support PPIs in the range of 0-127, and SPIs in the range 0-65535. The documentation is updated accordingly. The SPI range doesn't cover the full SPI range that a GICv5 system can potentially cope with (GICv5 provides up to 24-bits of SPI ID space, and we only have 16 bits to work with in KVM_IRQ_LINE). However, 65k SPIs is more than would be reasonably expected on systems for years to come. In order to use vgic_is_v5(), the kvm/arm_vgic.h header is added to kvm/arm.c. Note: As the GICv5 KVM implementation currently doesn't support injecting SPIs attempts to do so will fail. This restriction will by lifted as the GICv5 KVM support evolves. Co-authored-by: Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260319154937.3619520-28-sascha.bischoff@arm.com Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2026-03-11Documentation: kvm: fix formatting of the quirks tablePaolo Bonzini
A recently added quirk does not fit in the left column of the table, so it all has to be reformatted and realigned. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2026-03-11KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMMJim Mattson
Add KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM to allow L1 to set FREEZE_IN_SMM in vmcs12's GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL field, as permitted prior to commit 6b1dd26544d0 ("KVM: VMX: Preserve host's DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_IN_SMM while running the guest"). Enable the quirk by default for backwards compatibility (like all quirks); userspace can disable it via KVM_CAP_DISABLE_QUIRKS2 for consistency with the constraints on WRMSR(IA32_DEBUGCTL). Note that the quirk only bypasses the consistency check. The vmcs02 bit is still owned by the host, and PMCs are not frozen during virtualized SMM. In particular, if a host administrator decides that PMCs should not be frozen during physical SMM, then L1 has no say in the matter. Fixes: 095686e6fcb4 ("KVM: nVMX: Check vmcs12->guest_ia32_debugctl on nested VM-Enter") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205231537.1278753-1-jmattson@google.com [sean: tag for stable@, clean-up and fix goofs in the comment and docs] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> [Rename quirk. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2026-03-11Merge tag 'kvm-x86-generic-7.0-rc3' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into ↵Paolo Bonzini
HEAD KVM generic changes for 7.0 - Remove a subtle pseudo-overlay of kvm_stats_desc, which, aside from being unnecessary and confusing, triggered compiler warnings due to -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end. - Document that vcpu->mutex is take outside of kvm->slots_lock and kvm->slots_arch_lock, which is intentional and desirable despite being rather unintuitive.
2026-03-02Documentation: KVM: Formalizing taking vcpu->mutex *outside* of kvm->slots_lockSean Christopherson
Explicitly document the ordering of vcpu->mutex being taken *outside* of kvm->slots_lock. While somewhat unintuitive since vCPUs conceptually have narrower scope than VMs, the scope of the owning object (vCPU versus VM) doesn't automatically carry over to the lock. In this case, vcpu->mutex has far broader scope than kvm->slots_lock. As Paolo put it, it's a "don't worry about multiple ioctls at the same time" mutex that's intended to be taken at the outer edges of KVM. More importantly, arm64 and x86 have gained flows that take kvm->slots_lock inside of vcpu->mutex. x86's kvm_inhibit_apic_access_page() is particularly nasty, as slots_lock is taken quite deep within KVM_RUN, i.e. simply swapping the ordering isn't an option. Commit to the vcpu->mutex => kvm->slots_lock ordering, as vcpu->mutex really is intended to be a "top-level" lock, whereas kvm->slots_lock is "just" a helper lock. Opportunistically document that vcpu->mutex is also taken outside of slots_arch_lock, e.g. when allocating shadow roots on x86 (which is the entire reason slots_arch_lock exists, as shadow roots must be allocated while holding kvm->srcu) kvm_mmu_new_pgd() | -> kvm_mmu_reload() | -> kvm_mmu_load() | -> mmu_alloc_shadow_roots() | -> mmu_first_shadow_root_alloc() but also when manipulating memslots in vCPU context, e.g. when inhibiting the APIC-access page via the aforementioned kvm_inhibit_apic_access_page() kvm_inhibit_apic_access_page() | -> __x86_set_memory_region() | -> kvm_set_internal_memslot() | -> kvm_set_memory_region() | -> kvm_set_memslot() Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302170239.596810-1-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-02-28KVM: always define KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMUPaolo Bonzini
KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU is provided by KVM's MMU notifiers, which are now always available. Move the definition from individual architectures to common code. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2026-02-13Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: "Loongarch: - Add more CPUCFG mask bits - Improve feature detection - Add lazy load support for FPU and binary translation (LBT) register state - Fix return value for memory reads from and writes to in-kernel devices - Add support for detecting preemption from within a guest - Add KVM steal time test case to tools/selftests ARM: - Add support for FEAT_IDST, allowing ID registers that are not implemented to be reported as a normal trap rather than as an UNDEF exception - Add sanitisation of the VTCR_EL2 register, fixing a number of UXN/PXN/XN bugs in the process - Full handling of RESx bits, instead of only RES0, and resulting in SCTLR_EL2 being added to the list of sanitised registers - More pKVM fixes for features that are not supposed to be exposed to guests - Make sure that MTE being disabled on the pKVM host doesn't give it the ability to attack the hypervisor - Allow pKVM's host stage-2 mappings to use the Force Write Back version of the memory attributes by using the "pass-through' encoding - Fix trapping of ICC_DIR_EL1 on GICv5 hosts emulating GICv3 for the guest - Preliminary work for guest GICv5 support - A bunch of debugfs fixes, removing pointless custom iterators stored in guest data structures - A small set of FPSIMD cleanups - Selftest fixes addressing the incorrect alignment of page allocation - Other assorted low-impact fixes and spelling fixes RISC-V: - Fixes for issues discoverd by KVM API fuzzing in kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr(), kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_rw_attr(), and kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_imsic_update() - Allow Zalasr, Zilsd and Zclsd extensions for Guest/VM - Transparent huge page support for hypervisor page tables - Adjust the number of available guest irq files based on MMIO register sizes found in the device tree or the ACPI tables - Add RISC-V specific paging modes to KVM selftests - Detect paging mode at runtime for selftests s390: - Performance improvement for vSIE (aka nested virtualization) - Completely new memory management. s390 was a special snowflake that enlisted help from the architecture's page table management to build hypervisor page tables, in particular enabling sharing the last level of page tables. This however was a lot of code (~3K lines) in order to support KVM, and also blocked several features. The biggest advantages is that the page size of userspace is completely independent of the page size used by the guest: userspace can mix normal pages, THPs and hugetlbfs as it sees fit, and in fact transparent hugepages were not possible before. It's also now possible to have nested guests and guests with huge pages running on the same host - Maintainership change for s390 vfio-pci - Small quality of life improvement for protected guests x86: - Add support for giving the guest full ownership of PMU hardware (contexted switched around the fastpath run loop) and allowing direct access to data MSRs and PMCs (restricted by the vPMU model). KVM still intercepts access to control registers, e.g. to enforce event filtering and to prevent the guest from profiling sensitive host state. This is more accurate, since it has no risk of contention and thus dropped events, and also has significantly less overhead. For more information, see the commit message for merge commit bf2c3138ae36 ("Merge tag 'kvm-x86-pmu-6.20' ...") - Disallow changing the virtual CPU model if L2 is active, for all the same reasons KVM disallows change the model after the first KVM_RUN - Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly reject host accesses to PV MSRs when running with KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID enabled, even if those were advertised as supported to userspace, - Fix a bug with protected guest state (SEV-ES/SNP and TDX) VMs, where KVM would attempt to read CR3 configuring an async #PF entry - Fail the build if EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL or EXPORT_SYMBOL is used in KVM (for x86 only) to enforce usage of EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL. Only a few exports that are intended for external usage, and those are allowed explicitly - When checking nested events after a vCPU is unblocked, ignore -EBUSY instead of WARNing. Userspace can sometimes put the vCPU into what should be an impossible state, and spurious exit to userspace on -EBUSY does not really do anything to solve the issue - Also throw in the towel and drop the WARN on INIT/SIPI being blocked when vCPU is in Wait-For-SIPI, which also resulted in playing whack-a-mole with syzkaller stuffing architecturally impossible states into KVM - Add support for new Intel instructions that don't require anything beyond enumerating feature flags to userspace - Grab SRCU when reading PDPTRs in KVM_GET_SREGS2 - Add WARNs to guard against modifying KVM's CPU caps outside of the intended setup flow, as nested VMX in particular is sensitive to unexpected changes in KVM's golden configuration - Add a quirk to allow userspace to opt-in to actually suppress EOI broadcasts when the suppression feature is enabled by the guest (currently limited to split IRQCHIP, i.e. userspace I/O APIC). Sadly, simply fixing KVM to honor Suppress EOI Broadcasts isn't an option as some userspaces have come to rely on KVM's buggy behavior (KVM advertises Supress EOI Broadcast irrespective of whether or not userspace I/O APIC supports Directed EOIs) - Clean up KVM's handling of marking mapped vCPU pages dirty - Drop a pile of *ancient* sanity checks hidden behind in KVM's unused ASSERT() macro, most of which could be trivially triggered by the guest and/or user, and all of which were useless - Fold "struct dest_map" into its sole user, "struct rtc_status", to make it more obvious what the weird parameter is used for, and to allow fropping these RTC shenanigans if CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC=n - Bury all of ioapic.h, i8254.h and related ioctls (including KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP) behind CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC=y - Add a regression test for recent APICv update fixes - Handle "hardware APIC ISR", a.k.a. SVI, updates in kvm_apic_update_apicv() to consolidate the updates, and to co-locate SVI updates with the updates for KVM's own cache of ISR information - Drop a dead function declaration - Minor cleanups x86 (Intel): - Rework KVM's handling of VMCS updates while L2 is active to temporarily switch to vmcs01 instead of deferring the update until the next nested VM-Exit. The deferred updates approach directly contributed to several bugs, was proving to be a maintenance burden due to the difficulty in auditing the correctness of deferred updates, and was polluting "struct nested_vmx" with a growing pile of booleans - Fix an SGX bug where KVM would incorrectly try to handle EPCM page faults, and instead always reflect them into the guest. Since KVM doesn't shadow EPCM entries, EPCM violations cannot be due to KVM interference and can't be resolved by KVM - Fix a bug where KVM would register its posted interrupt wakeup handler even if loading kvm-intel.ko ultimately failed - Disallow access to vmcb12 fields that aren't fully supported, mostly to avoid weirdness and complexity for FRED and other features, where KVM wants enable VMCS shadowing for fields that conditionally exist - Print out the "bad" offsets and values if kvm-intel.ko refuses to load (or refuses to online a CPU) due to a VMCS config mismatch x86 (AMD): - Drop a user-triggerable WARN on nested_svm_load_cr3() failure - Add support for virtualizing ERAPS. Note, correct virtualization of ERAPS relies on an upcoming, publicly announced change in the APM to reduce the set of conditions where hardware (i.e. KVM) *must* flush the RAP - Ignore nSVM intercepts for instructions that are not supported according to L1's virtual CPU model - Add support for expedited writes to the fast MMIO bus, a la VMX's fastpath for EPT Misconfig - Don't set GIF when clearing EFER.SVME, as GIF exists independently of SVM, and allow userspace to restore nested state with GIF=0 - Treat exit_code as an unsigned 64-bit value through all of KVM - Add support for fetching SNP certificates from userspace - Fix a bug where KVM would use vmcb02 instead of vmcb01 when emulating VMLOAD or VMSAVE on behalf of L2 - Misc fixes and cleanups x86 selftests: - Add a regression test for TPR<=>CR8 synchronization and IRQ masking - Overhaul selftest's MMU infrastructure to genericize stage-2 MMU support, and extend x86's infrastructure to support EPT and NPT (for L2 guests) - Extend several nested VMX tests to also cover nested SVM - Add a selftest for nested VMLOAD/VMSAVE - Rework the nested dirty log test, originally added as a regression test for PML where KVM logged L2 GPAs instead of L1 GPAs, to improve test coverage and to hopefully make the test easier to understand and maintain guest_memfd: - Remove kvm_gmem_populate()'s preparation tracking and half-baked hugepage handling. SEV/SNP was the only user of the tracking and it can do it via the RMP - Retroactively document and enforce (for SNP) that KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE and KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION require the source page to be 4KiB aligned, to avoid non-trivial complexity for something that no known VMM seems to be doing and to avoid an API special case for in-place conversion, which simply can't support unaligned sources - When populating guest_memfd memory, GUP the source page in common code and pass the refcounted page to the vendor callback, instead of letting vendor code do the heavy lifting. Doing so avoids a looming deadlock bug with in-place due an AB-BA conflict betwee mmap_lock and guest_memfd's filemap invalidate lock Generic: - Fix a bug where KVM would ignore the vCPU's selected address space when creating a vCPU-specific mapping of guest memory. Actually this bug could not be hit even on x86, the only architecture with multiple address spaces, but it's a bug nevertheless" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (267 commits) KVM: s390: Increase permitted SE header size to 1 MiB MAINTAINERS: Replace backup for s390 vfio-pci KVM: s390: vsie: Fix race in acquire_gmap_shadow() KVM: s390: vsie: Fix race in walk_guest_tables() KVM: s390: Use guest address to mark guest page dirty irqchip/riscv-imsic: Adjust the number of available guest irq files RISC-V: KVM: Transparent huge page support RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add Zalasr extensions to get-reg-list test RISC-V: KVM: Allow Zalasr extensions for Guest/VM KVM: riscv: selftests: Add riscv vm satp modes KVM: riscv: selftests: add Zilsd and Zclsd extension to get-reg-list test riscv: KVM: allow Zilsd and Zclsd extensions for Guest/VM RISC-V: KVM: Skip IMSIC update if vCPU IMSIC state is not initialized RISC-V: KVM: Fix null pointer dereference in kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_rw_attr() RISC-V: KVM: Fix null pointer dereference in kvm_riscv_aia_imsic_has_attr() RISC-V: KVM: Remove unnecessary 'ret' assignment KVM: s390: Add explicit padding to struct kvm_s390_keyop KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add steal time test case LoongArch: KVM: Add paravirt vcpu_is_preempted() support in guest side LoongArch: KVM: Add paravirt preempt feature in hypervisor side ...
2026-02-11Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-7.0-1' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD - gmap rewrite: completely new memory management for kvm/s390 - vSIE improvement - maintainership change for s390 vfio-pci - small quality of life improvement for protected guests
2026-02-11Merge tag 'kvm-x86-gmem-6.20' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM guest_memfd changes for 6.20 - Remove kvm_gmem_populate()'s preparation tracking and half-baked hugepage handling, and instead rely on SNP (the only user of the tracking) to do its own tracking via the RMP. - Retroactively document and enforce (for SNP) that KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE and KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION require the source page to be 4KiB aligned, to avoid non-trivial complexity for a non-existent usecase (and because in-place conversion simply can't support unaligned sources). - When populating guest_memfd memory, GUP the source page in common code and pass the refcounted page to the vendor callback, instead of letting vendor code do the heavy lifting. Doing so avoids a looming deadlock bug with in-place due an AB-BA conflict betwee mmap_lock and guest_memfd's filemap invalidate lock.
2026-02-09Merge tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A slightly calmer cycle for docs this time around, though there is still a fair amount going on, including: - Some signs of life on the long-moribund Japanese translation - Documentation on policies around the use of generative tools for patch submissions, and a separate document intended for consumption by generative tools - The completion of the move of the documentation tools to tools/docs. For now we're leaving a /scripts/kernel-doc symlink behind to avoid breaking scripts - Ongoing build-system work includes the incorporation of documentation in Python code, better support for documenting variables, and lots of improvements and fixes - Automatic linking of man-page references -- cat(1), for example -- to the online pages in the HTML build ...and the usual array of typo fixes and such" * tag 'docs-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (107 commits) doc: development-process: add notice on testing tools: sphinx-build-wrapper: improve its help message docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: allow -v override -q docs: kdoc: Fix pdfdocs build for tools docs: ja_JP: process: translate 'Obtain a current source tree' docs: fix 're-use' -> 'reuse' in documentation docs: ioctl-number: fix a typo in ioctl-number.rst docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete docs: automarkup.py: Skip common English words as C identifiers Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplate docs: parse_features: make documentation more consistent docs: add parse_features module documentation docs: jobserver: do some documentation improvements docs: add jobserver module documentation docs: kabi: helpers: add documentation for each "enum" value docs: kabi: helpers: add helper for debug bits 7 and 8 docs: kabi: system_symbols: end docstring phrases with a dot docs: python: abi_regex: do some improvements at documentation docs: python: abi_parser: do some improvements at documentation docs: add kabi modules documentation ...
2026-02-09Merge tag 'kvm-x86-misc-6.20' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM x86 misc changes for 6.20 - Disallow changing the virtual CPU model if L2 is active, for all the same reasons KVM disallows change the model after the first KVM_RUN. - Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly reject host accesses to PV MSRs that were advertised as supported to userspace when running with KVM_CAP_ENFORCE_PV_FEATURE_CPUID enabled. - Fix a bug where KVM would attempt to read protect guest state (CR3) when configuring an async #PF entry. - Fail the build if EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL or EXPORT_SYMBOL is used in KVM (for x86 only) to enforce usage of EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL. Explicitly allow the few exports that are intended for external usage. - Ignore -EBUSY when checking nested events after a vCPU exits blocking as the WARN is user-triggerable, and because exiting to userspace on -EBUSY does more harm than good in pretty much every situation. - Throw in the towel and drop the WARN on INIT/SIPI being blocked when vCPU is in Wait-For-SIPI, as playing whack-a-mole with syzkaller turned out to be an unwinnable game. - Add support for new Intel instructions that don't require anything beyond enumerating feature flags to userspace. - Grab SRCU when reading PDPTRs in KVM_GET_SREGS2. - Add WARNs to guard against modifying KVM's CPU caps outside of the intended setup flow, as nested VMX in particular is sensitive to unexpected changes in KVM's golden configuration. - Add a quirk to allow userspace to opt-in to actually suppress EOI broadcasts when the suppression feature is enabled by the guest (currently limited to split IRQCHIP, i.e. userspace I/O APIC). Sadly, simply fixing KVM to honor Suppress EOI Broadcasts isn't an option as some userspaces have come to rely on KVM's buggy behavior (KVM advertises Supress EOI Broadcast irrespective of whether or not userspace I/O APIC supports Directed EOIs). - Minor cleanups.
2026-02-09Merge tag 'kvm-x86-svm-6.20' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM SVM changes for 6.20 - Drop a user-triggerable WARN on nested_svm_load_cr3() failure. - Add support for virtualizing ERAPS. Note, correct virtualization of ERAPS relies on an upcoming, publicly announced change in the APM to reduce the set of conditions where hardware (i.e. KVM) *must* flush the RAP. - Ignore nSVM intercepts for instructions that are not supported according to L1's virtual CPU model. - Add support for expedited writes to the fast MMIO bus, a la VMX's fastpath for EPT Misconfig. - Don't set GIF when clearing EFER.SVME, as GIF exists independently of SVM, and allow userspace to restore nested state with GIF=0. - Treat exit_code as an unsigned 64-bit value through all of KVM. - Add support for fetching SNP certificates from userspace. - Fix a bug where KVM would use vmcb02 instead of vmcb01 when emulating VMLOAD or VMSAVE on behalf of L2. - Misc fixes and cleanups.
2026-02-04KVM: s390: Storage key manipulation IOCTLClaudio Imbrenda
Add a new IOCTL to allow userspace to manipulate storage keys directly. This will make it easier to write selftests related to storage keys. Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
2026-01-30KVM: x86: Add x2APIC "features" to control EOI broadcast suppressionKhushit Shah
Add two flags for KVM_CAP_X2APIC_API to allow userspace to control support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts when using a split IRQCHIP (I/O APIC emulated by userspace), which KVM completely mishandles. When x2APIC support was first added, KVM incorrectly advertised and "enabled" Suppress EOI Broadcast, without fully supporting the I/O APIC side of the equation, i.e. without adding directed EOI to KVM's in-kernel I/O APIC. That flaw was carried over to split IRQCHIP support, i.e. KVM advertised support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts irrespective of whether or not the userspace I/O APIC implementation supported directed EOIs. Even worse, KVM didn't actually suppress EOI broadcasts, i.e. userspace VMMs without support for directed EOI came to rely on the "spurious" broadcasts. KVM "fixed" the in-kernel I/O APIC implementation by completely disabling support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts in commit 0bcc3fb95b97 ("KVM: lapic: stop advertising DIRECTED_EOI when in-kernel IOAPIC is in use"), but didn't do anything to remedy userspace I/O APIC implementations. KVM's bogus handling of Suppress EOI Broadcast is problematic when the guest relies on interrupts being masked in the I/O APIC until well after the initial local APIC EOI. E.g. Windows with Credential Guard enabled handles interrupts in the following order: 1. Interrupt for L2 arrives. 2. L1 APIC EOIs the interrupt. 3. L1 resumes L2 and injects the interrupt. 4. L2 EOIs after servicing. 5. L1 performs the I/O APIC EOI. Because KVM EOIs the I/O APIC at step #2, the guest can get an interrupt storm, e.g. if the IRQ line is still asserted and userspace reacts to the EOI by re-injecting the IRQ, because the guest doesn't de-assert the line until step #4, and doesn't expect the interrupt to be re-enabled until step #5. Unfortunately, simply "fixing" the bug isn't an option, as KVM has no way of knowing if the userspace I/O APIC supports directed EOIs, i.e. suppressing EOI broadcasts would result in interrupts being stuck masked in the userspace I/O APIC due to step #5 being ignored by userspace. And fully disabling support for Suppress EOI Broadcast is also undesirable, as picking up the fix would require a guest reboot, *and* more importantly would change the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest without any buy-in from userspace. Add KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST and KVM_X2APIC_DISABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST flags to allow userspace to explicitly enable or disable support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts. This gives userspace control over the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest, as KVM should never have enabled support for Suppress EOI Broadcast without userspace opt-in. Not setting either flag will result in legacy quirky behavior for backward compatibility. Disallow fully enabling SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST when using an in-kernel I/O APIC, as KVM's history/support is just as tragic. E.g. it's not clear that commit c806a6ad35bf ("KVM: x86: call irq notifiers with directed EOI") was entirely correct, i.e. it may have simply papered over the lack of Directed EOI emulation in the I/O APIC. Note, Suppress EOI Broadcasts is defined only in Intel's SDM, not in AMD's APM. But the bit is writable on some AMD CPUs, e.g. Turin, and KVM's ABI is to support Directed EOI (KVM's name) irrespective of guest CPU vendor. Fixes: 7543a635aa09 ("KVM: x86: Add KVM exit for IOAPIC EOIs") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/7D497EF1-607D-4D37-98E7-DAF95F099342@nutanix.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Khushit Shah <khushit.shah@nutanix.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123125657.3384063-1-khushit.shah@nutanix.com [sean: clean up minor formatting goofs and fix a comment typo] Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-23Documentation: use a source-read extension for the index link boilerplateJani Nikula
The root document usually has a special :ref:`genindex` link to the generated index. This is also the case for Documentation/index.rst. The other index.rst files deeper in the directory hierarchy usually don't. For SPHINXDIRS builds, the root document isn't Documentation/index.rst, but some other index.rst in the hierarchy. Currently they have a ".. only::" block to add the index link when doing SPHINXDIRS html builds. This is obviously very tedious and repetitive. The link is also added to all index.rst files in the hierarchy for SPHINXDIRS builds, not just the root document. Put the boilerplate in a sphinx-includes/subproject-index.rst file, and include it at the end of the root document for subproject builds in an ad-hoc source-read extension defined in conf.py. For now, keep having the boilerplate in translations, because this approach currently doesn't cover translated index link headers. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> [jc: did s/doctree/kern_doc_dir/ ] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20260123143149.2024303-1-jani.nikula@intel.com>
2026-01-23KVM: SEV: Add KVM_SEV_SNP_ENABLE_REQ_CERTS commandMichael Roth
Introduce a new command for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP ioctl that can be used to enable fetching of endorsement key certificates from userspace via the new KVM_EXIT_SNP_REQ_CERTS exit type. Also introduce a new KVM_X86_SEV_SNP_REQ_CERTS KVM device attribute so that userspace can query whether the kernel supports the new command/exit. Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com> Tested-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260109231732.1160759-3-michael.roth@amd.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-23KVM: Introduce KVM_EXIT_SNP_REQ_CERTS for SNP certificate-fetchingMichael Roth
For SEV-SNP, the host can optionally provide a certificate table to the guest when it issues an attestation request to firmware (see GHCB 2.0 specification regarding "SNP Extended Guest Requests"). This certificate table can then be used to verify the endorsement key used by firmware to sign the attestation report. While it is possible for guests to obtain the certificates through other means, handling it via the host provides more flexibility in being able to keep the certificate data in sync with the endorsement key throughout host-side operations that might resulting in the endorsement key changing. In the case of KVM, userspace will be responsible for fetching the certificate table and keeping it in sync with any modifications to the endorsement key by other userspace management tools. Define a new KVM_EXIT_SNP_REQ_CERTS event where userspace is provided with the GPA of the buffer the guest has provided as part of the attestation request so that userspace can write the certificate data into it while relying on filesystem-based locking to keep the certificates up-to-date relative to the endorsement keys installed/utilized by firmware at the time the certificates are fetched. [Melody: Update the documentation scheme about how file locking is expected to happen.] Reviewed-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com> Tested-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com> Tested-by: Dionna Glaze <dionnaglaze@google.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Melody Wang <huibo.wang@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260109231732.1160759-2-michael.roth@amd.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-22KVM: arm64: Add documentation for KVM_EXIT_ARM_LDST64BMarc Zyngier
Add a bit of documentation for KVM_EXIT_ARM_LDST64B so that userspace knows what to expect. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2026-01-15KVM: TDX: Document alignment requirements for KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGIONMichael Roth
Since it was never possible to use a non-PAGE_SIZE-aligned @source_addr, go ahead and document this as a requirement. This is in preparation for enforcing page-aligned @source_addr for all architectures in guest_memfd. Reviewed-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com> Tested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108214622.1084057-6-michael.roth@amd.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-15KVM: SEV: Document/enforce page-alignment for KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATEMichael Roth
In the past, KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE accepted a non-page-aligned 'uaddr' parameter to copy data from, but continuing to support this with new functionality like in-place conversion and hugepages in the pipeline has proven to be more trouble than it is worth, since there are no known users that have been identified who use a non-page-aligned 'uaddr' parameter. Rather than locking guest_memfd into continuing to support this, go ahead and document page-alignment as a requirement and begin enforcing this in the handling function. Reviewed-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com> Tested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108214622.1084057-5-michael.roth@amd.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>