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<title>linux/virt, branch v6.13</title>
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<title>Merge tag 'vfio-v6.13-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio</title>
<updated>2024-11-27T20:57:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson:

 - Constify an unmodified structure used in linking vfio and kvm
   (Christophe JAILLET)

 - Add ID for an additional hardware SKU supported by the nvgrace-gpu
   vfio-pci variant driver (Ankit Agrawal)

 - Fix incorrect signed cast in QAT vfio-pci variant driver, negating
   test in check_add_overflow(), though still caught by later tests
   (Giovanni Cabiddu)

 - Additional debugfs attributes exposed in hisi_acc vfio-pci variant
   driver for migration debugging (Longfang Liu)

 - Migration support is added to the virtio vfio-pci variant driver,
   becoming the primary feature of the driver while retaining emulation
   of virtio legacy support as a secondary option (Yishai Hadas)

 - Fixes to a few unwind flows in the mlx5 vfio-pci driver discovered
   through reviews of the virtio variant driver (Yishai Hadas)

 - Fix an unlikely issue where a PCI device exposed to userspace with an
   unknown capability at the base of the extended capability chain can
   overflow an array index (Avihai Horon)

* tag 'vfio-v6.13-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio:
  vfio/pci: Properly hide first-in-list PCIe extended capability
  vfio/mlx5: Fix unwind flows in mlx5vf_pci_save/resume_device_data()
  vfio/mlx5: Fix an unwind issue in mlx5vf_add_migration_pages()
  vfio/virtio: Enable live migration once VIRTIO_PCI was configured
  vfio/virtio: Add PRE_COPY support for live migration
  vfio/virtio: Add support for the basic live migration functionality
  virtio-pci: Introduce APIs to execute device parts admin commands
  virtio: Manage device and driver capabilities via the admin commands
  virtio: Extend the admin command to include the result size
  virtio_pci: Introduce device parts access commands
  Documentation: add debugfs description for hisi migration
  hisi_acc_vfio_pci: register debugfs for hisilicon migration driver
  hisi_acc_vfio_pci: create subfunction for data reading
  hisi_acc_vfio_pci: extract public functions for container_of
  vfio/qat: fix overflow check in qat_vf_resume_write()
  vfio/nvgrace-gpu: Add a new GH200 SKU to the devid table
  kvm/vfio: Constify struct kvm_device_ops
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<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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<title>Merge tag 'pull-fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-11-18T20:24:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T20:24:06Z</published>
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Pull 'struct fd' class updates from Al Viro:
 "The bulk of struct fd memory safety stuff

  Making sure that struct fd instances are destroyed in the same scope
  where they'd been created, getting rid of reassignments and passing
  them by reference, converting to CLASS(fd{,_pos,_raw}).

  We are getting very close to having the memory safety of that stuff
  trivial to verify"

* tag 'pull-fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  deal with the last remaing boolean uses of fd_file()
  css_set_fork(): switch to CLASS(fd_raw, ...)
  memcg_write_event_control(): switch to CLASS(fd)
  assorted variants of irqfd setup: convert to CLASS(fd)
  do_pollfd(): convert to CLASS(fd)
  convert do_select()
  convert vfs_dedupe_file_range().
  convert cifs_ioctl_copychunk()
  convert media_request_get_by_fd()
  convert spu_run(2)
  switch spufs_calls_{get,put}() to CLASS() use
  convert cachestat(2)
  convert do_preadv()/do_pwritev()
  fdget(), more trivial conversions
  fdget(), trivial conversions
  privcmd_ioeventfd_assign(): don't open-code eventfd_ctx_fdget()
  o2hb_region_dev_store(): avoid goto around fdget()/fdput()
  introduce "fd_pos" class, convert fdget_pos() users to it.
  fdget_raw() users: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)
  convert vmsplice() to CLASS(fd)
  ...
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<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task</title>
<updated>2024-11-14T18:20:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-08T09:56:31Z</published>
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kvm_vm_create_worker_thread() is meant to be used for kthreads that
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 it wants to charge the CPU time consumed by that work to
the VM's container.

However, because of these threads, cgroups which have kvm instances
inside never complete freezing.  This can be trivially reproduced:

  root@test ~# mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test
  root@test ~# echo $$ &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs
  root@test ~# qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -enable-kvm

and in another terminal:

  root@test ~# echo 1 &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.freeze
  root@test ~# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.events
  populated 1
  frozen 0

The cgroup freezing happens in the signal delivery path but
kvm_nx_huge_page_recovery_worker, while joining non-root cgroups, never
calls into the signal delivery path and thus never gets frozen. Because
the cgroup freezer determines whether a given cgroup is frozen by
comparing the number of frozen threads to the total number of threads
in the cgroup, the cgroup never becomes frozen and users waiting for
the state transition may hang indefinitely.

Since the worker kthread is tied to a user process, it's better if
it behaves similarly to user tasks as much as possible, including
being able to send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT.  In fact, vhost_task is all
that kvm_vm_create_worker_thread() wanted to be and more: not only it
inherits the userspace process's cgroups, it has other niceties like
being parented properly in the process tree.  Use it instead of the
homegrown alternative.

Incidentally, the new code is also better behaved when you flip recovery
back and forth to disabled and back to enabled.  If your recovery period
is 1 minute, it will run the next recovery after 1 minute independent
of how many times you flipped the parameter.

(Commit message based on emails from Tejun).

Reported-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Luca Boccassi &lt;bluca@debian.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi &lt;bluca@debian.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'kvm-x86-mmu-6.13' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2024-11-13T11:31:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-13T11:31:54Z</published>
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KVM x86 MMU changes for 6.13

 - Cleanup KVM's handling of Accessed and Dirty bits to dedup code, improve
   documentation, harden against unexpected changes, and to simplify
   A/D-disabled MMUs by using the hardware-defined A/D bits to track if a
   PFN is Accessed and/or Dirty.

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

 - Batch TLB flushes when zapping collapsible TDP MMU SPTEs, i.e. when
   dirty logging is toggled off, which reduces the time it takes to disable
   dirty logging by ~3x.

 - Recover huge pages in-place in the TDP MMU instead of zapping the SP
   and waiting until the page is re-accessed to create a huge mapping.
   Proactively installing huge pages can reduce vCPU jitter in extreme
   scenarios.

 - Remove support for (poorly) reclaiming page tables in shadow MMUs via
   the primary MMU's shrinker interface.
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-x86-generic-6.13' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2024-11-13T11:24:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-13T11:24:19Z</published>
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KVM generic changes for 6.13

 - Rework kvm_vcpu_on_spin() to use a single for-loop instead of making two
   partial poasses over "all" vCPUs.  Opportunistically expand the comment
   to better explain the motivation and logic.

 - 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 stalls due to having to wait for all CPUs become quiescent.
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-riscv-6.13-1' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2024-11-08T17:13:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-08T17:13:48Z</published>
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KVM/riscv changes for 6.13

- Accelerate KVM RISC-V when running as a guest
- Perf support to collect KVM guest statistics from host side
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<entry>
<title>assorted variants of irqfd setup: convert to CLASS(fd)</title>
<updated>2024-11-03T06:28:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-20T05:48:34Z</published>
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in all of those failure exits prior to fdget() are plain returns and
the only thing done after fdput() is (on failure exits) a kfree(),
which can be done before fdput() just fine.

NOTE: in acrn_irqfd_assign() 'fail:' failure exit is wrong for
eventfd_ctx_fileget() failure (we only want fdput() there) and once
we stop doing that, it doesn't need to check if eventfd is NULL or
ERR_PTR(...) there.

NOTE: in privcmd we move fdget() up before the allocation - more
to the point, before the copy_from_user() attempt.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>fdget(), more trivial conversions</title>
<updated>2024-11-03T06:28:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-20T01:19:02Z</published>
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all failure exits prior to fdget() leave the scope, all matching fdput()
are immediately followed by leaving the scope.

[xfs_ioc_commit_range() chunk moved here as well]

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fdget(), trivial conversions</title>
<updated>2024-11-03T06:28:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-20T00:17:58Z</published>
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fdget() is the first thing done in scope, all matching fdput() are
immediately followed by leaving the scope.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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