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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm-6.14-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2025-01-30T23:10:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These are mostly fixes on top of the previously merged power
  management material with the addition of some teo cpuidle governor
  updates, some of which may also be regarded as fixes:

   - Add missing error handling for syscore_suspend() to the hibernation
     core code (Wentao Liang)

   - Revert a commit that added unused macros (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Synchronize the runtime PM status of devices that were runtime-
     suspended before a system-wide suspend and need to be resumed
     during the subsequent system-wide resume transition (Rafael
     Wysocki)

   - Clean up the teo cpuidle governor and make the handling of short
     idle intervals in it consistent regardless of the properties of
     idle states supplied by the cpuidle driver (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Fix some boost-related issues in cpufreq (Lifeng Zheng)

   - Fix build issues in the s3c64xx and airoha cpufreq drivers (Viresh
     Kumar)

   - Remove unconditional binding of schedutil governor kthreads to the
     affected CPUs if the cpufreq driver indicates that updates can
     happen from any CPU (Christian Loehle)"

* tag 'pm-6.14-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  PM: sleep: core: Synchronize runtime PM status of parents and children
  cpufreq: airoha: Depends on OF
  PM: Revert "Add EXPORT macros for exporting PM functions"
  PM: hibernate: Add error handling for syscore_suspend()
  cpufreq/schedutil: Only bind threads if needed
  cpufreq: ACPI: Remove set_boost in acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init()
  cpufreq: CPPC: Fix wrong max_freq in policy initialization
  cpufreq: Introduce a more generic way to set default per-policy boost flag
  cpufreq: Fix re-boost issue after hotplugging a CPU
  cpufreq: s3c64xx: Fix compilation warning
  cpuidle: teo: Skip sleep length computation for low latency constraints
  cpuidle: teo: Replace time_span_ns with a flag
  cpuidle: teo: Simplify handling of total events count
  cpuidle: teo: Skip getting the sleep length if wakeups are very frequent
  cpuidle: teo: Simplify counting events used for tick management
  cpuidle: teo: Clarify two code comments
  cpuidle: teo: Drop local variable prev_intercept_idx
  cpuidle: teo: Combine candidate state index checks against 0
  cpuidle: teo: Reorder candidate state index checks
  cpuidle: teo: Rearrange idle state lookup code
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-01-27T02:36:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-01-27T02:36:23Z</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
  indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.

   - "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
     the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
     free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
     refcount inc &amp; dec

   - "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
     use large folios other than PMD-sized ones

   - "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
     and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest

   - "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
     of the mapletree code

   - "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
     few minor code cleanups

   - "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
     a test for the mapletree code

   - "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
     Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
     (relatively) new mm/vma.c

   - "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
     Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
     page allocator

   - "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
     Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
     It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading

   - "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
     addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
     accumulated:

       https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/

     Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
     memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)

   - "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
     Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
     code when optional compiler warnings are enabled

   - "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
     David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
     __GFP_HARDWALL

   - "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
     various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
     pertaining to the pkeys tests

   - "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
     estimate application working set size

   - "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
     provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic

   - "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
     removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
     tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated

   - "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
     has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
     zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated

   - "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
     Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
     use-after-free race is fixed

   - "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
     simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
     logic

   - "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
     and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
     improvements in accounting accuracy

   - "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
     core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
     DAMON's sysfs file interface logic

   - "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
     SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
     presented in response to DAMOS actions

   - "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
     removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
     migration to sysfs is completed

   - "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
     Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
     accounting

   - "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
     removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface

   - "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
     extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
     but also inclusion (allowing) behavior

   - "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
     introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
     overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
     reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
     memory descriptors

   - "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
     and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
     demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
     build time with swap-on-zram

   - "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
     from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
     mmap_region() can be made MM-internal

   - "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
     MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance

   - "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
     Park updates DAMON documentation

   - "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing

   - "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
     Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
     folios, THP folios and migration

   - "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
     RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
     pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
     issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
     reading/writing fast devices

   - "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
     Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
  mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
  s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
  kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
  tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
  mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
  seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
  mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
  mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
  zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
  mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
  mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
  selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
  kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
  selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
  selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
  selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
  mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
  mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm/memblock: add memblock_alloc_or_panic interface</title>
<updated>2025-01-26T04:22:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Guo Weikang</name>
<email>guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-02T07:25:28Z</published>
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Before SLUB initialization, various subsystems used memblock_alloc to
allocate memory.  In most cases, when memory allocation fails, an
immediate panic is required.  To simplify this behavior and reduce
repetitive checks, introduce `memblock_alloc_or_panic`.  This function
ensures that memory allocation failures result in a panic automatically,
improving code readability and consistency across subsystems that require
this behavior.

[guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com: arch/s390: save_area_alloc default failure behavior changed to panic]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250109033136.2845676-1-guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z2fknmnNtiZbCc7x@kernel.org/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250102072528.650926-1-guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Guo Weikang &lt;guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;	[m68k]
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;	[s390]
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>PM: hibernate: Add error handling for syscore_suspend()</title>
<updated>2025-01-23T20:16:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Wentao Liang</name>
<email>vulab@iscas.ac.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-19T14:32:05Z</published>
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In hibernation_platform_enter(), the code did not check the
return value of syscore_suspend(), potentially leading to a
situation where syscore_resume() would be called even if
syscore_suspend() failed. This could cause unpredictable
behavior or system instability.

Modify the code sequence in question to properly handle errors returned
by syscore_suspend(). If an error occurs in the suspend path, the code
now jumps to label 'Enable_irqs' skipping the syscore_resume() call and
only enabling interrupts after setting the system state to SYSTEM_RUNNING.

Fixes: 40dc166cb5dd ("PM / Core: Introduce struct syscore_ops for core subsystems PM")
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang &lt;vulab@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250119143205.2103-1-vulab@iscas.ac.cn
[ rjw: Changelog edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'pm-sleep', 'pm-cpuidle' and 'pm-em'</title>
<updated>2025-01-20T18:14:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-20T18:14:15Z</published>
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Merge updates related to system sleep, a cpuidle update and an Energy
Model handling code update for 6.14-rc1:

 - Allow configuring the system suspend-resume (DPM) watchdog to warn
   earlier than panic (Douglas Anderson).

 - Implement devm_device_init_wakeup() helper and introduce a device-
   managed variant of dev_pm_set_wake_irq() (Joe Hattori, Peng Fan).

 - Remove direct inclusions of 'pm_wakeup.h' which should be only
   included via 'device.h' (Wolfram Sang).

 - Clean up two comments in the core system-wide PM code (Rafael
   Wysocki, Randy Dunlap).

 - Add Clearwater Forest processor support to the intel_idle cpuidle
   driver (Artem Bityutskiy).

 - Move sched domains rebuild function from the schedutil cpufreq
   governor to the Energy Model handling code (Rafael Wysocki).

* pm-sleep:
  PM: sleep: wakeirq: Introduce device-managed variant of dev_pm_set_wake_irq()
  PM: sleep: Allow configuring the DPM watchdog to warn earlier than panic
  PM: sleep: convert comment from kernel-doc to plain comment
  PM: wakeup: implement devm_device_init_wakeup() helper
  PM: sleep: sysfs: don't include 'pm_wakeup.h' directly
  PM: sleep: autosleep: don't include 'pm_wakeup.h' directly
  PM: sleep: Update stale comment in device_resume()

* pm-cpuidle:
  intel_idle: add Clearwater Forest SoC support

* pm-em:
  PM: EM: Move sched domains rebuild function from schedutil to EM
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<entry>
<title>PM: sleep: Allow configuring the DPM watchdog to warn earlier than panic</title>
<updated>2025-01-14T20:23:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Douglas Anderson</name>
<email>dianders@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-09T20:59:58Z</published>
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Allow configuring the DPM watchdog to warn about slow suspend/resume
functions without causing a system panic(). This allows you to set the
DPM_WATCHDOG_WARNING_TIMEOUT to something like 5 or 10 seconds to get
warnings about slow suspend/resume functions that eventually succeed.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tomasz Figa &lt;tfiga@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250109125957.v2.1.I4554f931b8da97948f308ecc651b124338ee9603@changeid
[ rjw: Subject edit ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: sleep: convert comment from kernel-doc to plain comment</title>
<updated>2025-01-14T20:14:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-11T06:31:07Z</published>
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Modify a non-kernel-doc comment to begin with /* instead of /**
so that it does not cause a kernel-doc warning.

power.h:114: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 *      Auxiliary structure used for reading the snapshot image data and
power.h:114: warning: missing initial short description on line:
 *      Auxiliary structure used for reading the snapshot image data and

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250111063107.910825-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: EM: Move sched domains rebuild function from schedutil to EM</title>
<updated>2024-12-18T19:32:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-12T12:01:02Z</published>
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Function sugov_eas_rebuild_sd() defined in the schedutil cpufreq governor
implements generic functionality that may be useful in other places.  In
particular, there is a plan to use it in the intel_pstate driver in the
future.

For this reason, move it from schedutil to the energy model code and
rename it to em_rebuild_sched_domains().

This also helps to get rid of some #ifdeffery in schedutil which is a
plus.

No intentional functional impact.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Loehle &lt;christian.loehle@arm.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: sleep: autosleep: don't include 'pm_wakeup.h' directly</title>
<updated>2024-12-05T11:14:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Wolfram Sang</name>
<email>wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T07:29:14Z</published>
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The header clearly states that it does not want to be included directly,
only via 'device.h'. 'platform_device.h' works equally well. Remove the
direct inclusion.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241118072917.3853-16-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com
[ rjw: Subject edit ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2024-11-24T00:00:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-24T00:00:50Z</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The biggest change here is eliminating the awful idea that KVM had of
  essentially guessing which pfns are refcounted pages.

  The reason to do so was that KVM needs to map both non-refcounted
  pages (for example BARs of VFIO devices) and VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXMEDMAP
  VMAs that contain refcounted pages.

  However, the result was security issues in the past, and more recently
  the inability to map VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory that _is_ backed by
  struct page but is not refcounted. In particular this broke virtio-gpu
  blob resources (which directly map host graphics buffers into the
  guest as "vram" for the virtio-gpu device) with the amdgpu driver,
  because amdgpu allocates non-compound higher order pages and the tail
  pages could not be mapped into KVM.

  This requires adjusting all uses of struct page in the
  per-architecture code, to always work on the pfn whenever possible.
  The large series that did this, from David Stevens and Sean
  Christopherson, also cleaned up substantially the set of functions
  that provided arch code with the pfn for a host virtual addresses.

  The previous maze of twisty little passages, all different, is
  replaced by five functions (__gfn_to_page, __kvm_faultin_pfn, the
  non-__ versions of these two, and kvm_prefetch_pages) saving almost
  200 lines of code.

  ARM:

   - Support for stage-1 permission indirection (FEAT_S1PIE) and
     permission overlays (FEAT_S1POE), including nested virt + the
     emulated page table walker

   - Introduce PSCI SYSTEM_OFF2 support to KVM + client driver. This
     call was introduced in PSCIv1.3 as a mechanism to request
     hibernation, similar to the S4 state in ACPI

   - Explicitly trap + hide FEAT_MPAM (QoS controls) from KVM guests. As
     part of it, introduce trivial initialization of the host's MPAM
     context so KVM can use the corresponding traps

   - PMU support under nested virtualization, honoring the guest
     hypervisor's trap configuration and event filtering when running a
     nested guest

   - Fixes to vgic ITS serialization where stale device/interrupt table
     entries are not zeroed when the mapping is invalidated by the VM

   - Avoid emulated MMIO completion if userspace has requested
     synchronous external abort injection

   - Various fixes and cleanups affecting pKVM, vCPU initialization, and
     selftests

  LoongArch:

   - Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel.

   - Add in-kernel interrupt controller emulation.

   - Add support for virtualization extensions to the eiointc irqchip.

  PPC:

   - Drop lingering and utterly obsolete references to PPC970 KVM, which
     was removed 10 years ago.

   - Fix incorrect documentation references to non-existing ioctls

  RISC-V:

   - Accelerate KVM RISC-V when running as a guest

   - Perf support to collect KVM guest statistics from host side

  s390:

   - New selftests: more ucontrol selftests and CPU model sanity checks

   - Support for the gen17 CPU model

   - List registers supported by KVM_GET/SET_ONE_REG in the
     documentation

  x86:

   - Cleanup KVM's handling of Accessed and Dirty bits to dedup code,
     improve documentation, harden against unexpected changes.

     Even if the hardware A/D tracking is disabled, it is possible to
     use the hardware-defined A/D bits to track if a PFN is Accessed
     and/or Dirty, and that removes a lot of special cases.

   - Elide TLB flushes when aging secondary PTEs, as has been done in
     x86's primary MMU for over 10 years.

   - Recover huge pages in-place in the TDP MMU when dirty page logging
     is toggled off, instead of zapping them and waiting until the page
     is re-accessed to create a huge mapping. This reduces vCPU jitter.

   - Batch TLB flushes when dirty page logging is toggled off. This
     reduces the time it takes to disable dirty logging by ~3x.

   - Remove the shrinker that was (poorly) attempting to reclaim shadow
     page tables in low-memory situations.

   - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of writes to
     MSR_IA32_APICBASE.

   - Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest

   - Quirk KVM's misguided behavior of initialized certain feature MSRs
     to their maximum supported feature set, which can result in KVM
     creating invalid vCPU state. E.g. initializing PERF_CAPABILITIES to
     a non-zero value results in the vCPU having invalid state if
     userspace hides PDCM from the guest, which in turn can lead to
     save/restore failures.

   - Fix KVM's handling of non-canonical checks for vCPUs that support
     LA57 to better follow the "architecture", in quotes because the
     actual behavior is poorly documented. E.g. most MSR writes and
     descriptor table loads ignore CR4.LA57 and operate purely on
     whether the CPU supports LA57.

   - Bypass the register cache when querying CPL from kvm_sched_out(),
     as filling the cache from IRQ context is generally unsafe; harden
     the cache accessors to try to prevent similar issues from occuring
     in the future. The issue that triggered this change was already
     fixed in 6.12, but was still kinda latent.

   - Advertise AMD_IBPB_RET to userspace, and fix a related bug where
     KVM over-advertises SPEC_CTRL when trying to support cross-vendor
     VMs.

   - Minor cleanups

   - Switch hugepage recovery thread to use vhost_task.

     These kthreads can consume significant amounts of CPU time on
     behalf of a VM or in response to how the VM behaves (for example
     how it accesses its memory); therefore KVM tried to place the
     thread in the VM's cgroups and charge the CPU time consumed by that
     work to the VM's container.

     However the kthreads did not process SIGSTOP/SIGCONT, and therefore
     cgroups which had KVM instances inside could not complete freezing.

     Fix this by replacing the kthread with a PF_USER_WORKER thread, via
     the vhost_task abstraction. Another 100+ lines removed, with
     generally better behavior too like having these threads properly
     parented in the process tree.

   - Revert a workaround for an old CPU erratum (Nehalem/Westmere) that
     didn't really work; there was really nothing to work around anyway:
     the broken patch was meant to fix nested virtualization, but the
     PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR is virtualized and therefore unaffected by the
     erratum.

   - Fix 6.12 regression where CONFIG_KVM will be built as a module even
     if asked to be builtin, as long as neither KVM_INTEL nor KVM_AMD is
     'y'.

  x86 selftests:

   - x86 selftests can now use AVX.

  Documentation:

   - Use rST internal links

   - Reorganize the introduction to the API document

  Generic:

   - Protect vcpu-&gt;pid accesses outside of vcpu-&gt;mutex with a rwlock
     instead of RCU, so that running a vCPU on a different task doesn't
     encounter long due to having to wait for all CPUs become quiescent.

     In general both reads and writes are rare, but userspace that
     supports confidential computing is introducing the use of "helper"
     vCPUs that may jump from one host processor to another. Those will
     be very happy to trigger a synchronize_rcu(), and the effect on
     performance is quite the disaster"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (298 commits)
  KVM: x86: Break CONFIG_KVM_X86's direct dependency on KVM_INTEL || KVM_AMD
  KVM: x86: add back X86_LOCAL_APIC dependency
  Revert "KVM: VMX: Move LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL errata handling out of setup_vmcs_config()"
  KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task
  KVM: x86: expose MSR_PLATFORM_INFO as a feature MSR
  x86: KVM: Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest
  Documentation: KVM: fix malformed table
  irqchip/loongson-eiointc: Add virt extension support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add irqfd support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC user mode read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC user mode read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI user mode read and write function
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI read and write function
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel
  KVM: arm64: Pass on SVE mapping failures
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