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<title>KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM</title>
<updated>2026-03-25T10:08:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jim Mattson</name>
<email>jmattson@google.com</email>
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<published>2026-03-16T17:20:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e2ffe85b6d2bb7780174b87aa4468a39be17eb81 ]

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-&gt;guest_ia32_debugctl on nested VM-Enter")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
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 &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
[Rename quirk. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e2ffe85b6d2bb7780174b87aa4468a39be17eb81 ]

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-&gt;guest_ia32_debugctl on nested VM-Enter")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson &lt;jmattson@google.com&gt;
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 &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
[Rename quirk. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Introduce Intel specific quirk KVM_X86_QUIRK_IGNORE_GUEST_PAT</title>
<updated>2026-03-25T10:08:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yan Zhao</name>
<email>yan.y.zhao@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-16T17:20:01+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c9c1e20b4c7d60fa084b3257525d21a49fe651a1 ]

Introduce an Intel specific quirk KVM_X86_QUIRK_IGNORE_GUEST_PAT to have
KVM ignore guest PAT when this quirk is enabled.

On AMD platforms, KVM always honors guest PAT.  On Intel however there are
two issues.  First, KVM *cannot* honor guest PAT if CPU feature self-snoop
is not supported. Second, UC access on certain Intel platforms can be very
slow[1] and honoring guest PAT on those platforms may break some old
guests that accidentally specify video RAM as UC. Those old guests may
never expect the slowness since KVM always forces WB previously. See [2].

So, introduce a quirk that KVM can enable by default on all Intel platforms
to avoid breaking old unmodifiable guests. Newer userspace can disable this
quirk if it wishes KVM to honor guest PAT; disabling the quirk will fail
if self-snoop is not supported, i.e. if KVM cannot obey the wish.

The quirk is a no-op on AMD and also if any assigned devices have
non-coherent DMA.  This is not an issue, as KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED is
another example of a quirk that is sometimes automatically disabled.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao &lt;yan.y.zhao@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Ztl9NWCOupNfVaCA@yzhao56-desk.sh.intel.com # [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87jzfutmfc.fsf@redhat.com # [2]
Message-ID: &lt;20250224070946.31482-1-yan.y.zhao@intel.com&gt;
[Use supported_quirks/inapplicable_quirks to support both AMD and
 no-self-snoop cases, as well as to remove the shadow_memtype_mask check
 from kvm_mmu_may_ignore_guest_pat(). - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: e2ffe85b6d2b ("KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c9c1e20b4c7d60fa084b3257525d21a49fe651a1 ]

Introduce an Intel specific quirk KVM_X86_QUIRK_IGNORE_GUEST_PAT to have
KVM ignore guest PAT when this quirk is enabled.

On AMD platforms, KVM always honors guest PAT.  On Intel however there are
two issues.  First, KVM *cannot* honor guest PAT if CPU feature self-snoop
is not supported. Second, UC access on certain Intel platforms can be very
slow[1] and honoring guest PAT on those platforms may break some old
guests that accidentally specify video RAM as UC. Those old guests may
never expect the slowness since KVM always forces WB previously. See [2].

So, introduce a quirk that KVM can enable by default on all Intel platforms
to avoid breaking old unmodifiable guests. Newer userspace can disable this
quirk if it wishes KVM to honor guest PAT; disabling the quirk will fail
if self-snoop is not supported, i.e. if KVM cannot obey the wish.

The quirk is a no-op on AMD and also if any assigned devices have
non-coherent DMA.  This is not an issue, as KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED is
another example of a quirk that is sometimes automatically disabled.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Tian &lt;kevin.tian@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao &lt;yan.y.zhao@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Ztl9NWCOupNfVaCA@yzhao56-desk.sh.intel.com # [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87jzfutmfc.fsf@redhat.com # [2]
Message-ID: &lt;20250224070946.31482-1-yan.y.zhao@intel.com&gt;
[Use supported_quirks/inapplicable_quirks to support both AMD and
 no-self-snoop cases, as well as to remove the shadow_memtype_mask check
 from kvm_mmu_may_ignore_guest_pat(). - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: e2ffe85b6d2b ("KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Quirk initialization of feature MSRs to KVM's max configuration</title>
<updated>2026-03-25T10:08:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-16T17:19:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit dcb988cdac85bad177de86fbf409524eda4f9467 ]

Add a quirk to control KVM's misguided initialization of select feature
MSRs to KVM's max configuration, as enabling features by default violates
KVM's approach of letting userspace own the vCPU model, and is actively
problematic for MSRs that are conditionally supported, as the vCPU will
end up with an MSR value that userspace can't restore.  E.g. if the vCPU
is configured with PDCM=0, userspace will save and attempt to restore a
non-zero PERF_CAPABILITIES, thanks to KVM's meddling.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240802185511.305849-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: e2ffe85b6d2b ("KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit dcb988cdac85bad177de86fbf409524eda4f9467 ]

Add a quirk to control KVM's misguided initialization of select feature
MSRs to KVM's max configuration, as enabling features by default violates
KVM's approach of letting userspace own the vCPU model, and is actively
problematic for MSRs that are conditionally supported, as the vCPU will
end up with an MSR value that userspace can't restore.  E.g. if the vCPU
is configured with PDCM=0, userspace will save and attempt to restore a
non-zero PERF_CAPABILITIES, thanks to KVM's meddling.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240802185511.305849-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: e2ffe85b6d2b ("KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_X86_QUIRK_VMCS12_ALLOW_FREEZE_IN_SMM")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Clean up documentation for KVM_X86_QUIRK_SLOT_ZAP_ALL</title>
<updated>2024-10-20T11:31:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-09T19:23:45+00:00</published>
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Massage the documentation for KVM_X86_QUIRK_SLOT_ZAP_ALL to call out that
it applies to moved memslots as well as deleted memslots, to avoid KVM's
"fast zap" terminology (which has no meaning for userspace), and to reword
the documented targeted zap behavior to specifically say that KVM _may_
zap a subset of all SPTEs.  As evidenced by the fix to zap non-leafs SPTEs
with gPTEs, formally documenting KVM's exact internal behavior is risky
and unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20241009192345.1148353-4-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Massage the documentation for KVM_X86_QUIRK_SLOT_ZAP_ALL to call out that
it applies to moved memslots as well as deleted memslots, to avoid KVM's
"fast zap" terminology (which has no meaning for userspace), and to reword
the documented targeted zap behavior to specifically say that KVM _may_
zap a subset of all SPTEs.  As evidenced by the fix to zap non-leafs SPTEs
with gPTEs, formally documenting KVM's exact internal behavior is risky
and unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20241009192345.1148353-4-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: Remove unused kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_pfn_atomic</title>
<updated>2024-10-20T11:05:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dr. David Alan Gilbert</name>
<email>linux@treblig.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-01T14:13:54+00:00</published>
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The last use of kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_pfn_atomic was removed by commit
1bbc60d0c7e5 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Remove MMU auditing")

Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20241001141354.18009-3-linux@treblig.org&gt;
[Adjust Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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The last use of kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_pfn_atomic was removed by commit
1bbc60d0c7e5 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Remove MMU auditing")

Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20241001141354.18009-3-linux@treblig.org&gt;
[Adjust Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2024-09-28T16:20:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-28T16:20:14+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "x86:

   - KVM currently invalidates the entirety of the page tables, not just
     those for the memslot being touched, when a memslot is moved or
     deleted.

     This does not traditionally have particularly noticeable overhead,
     but Intel's TDX will require the guest to re-accept private pages
     if they are dropped from the secure EPT, which is a non starter.

     Actually, the only reason why this is not already being done is a
     bug which was never fully investigated and caused VM instability
     with assigned GeForce GPUs, so allow userspace to opt into the new
     behavior.

   - Advertise AVX10.1 to userspace (effectively prep work for the
     "real" AVX10 functionality that is on the horizon)

   - Rework common MSR handling code to suppress errors on userspace
     accesses to unsupported-but-advertised MSRs

     This will allow removing (almost?) all of KVM's exemptions for
     userspace access to MSRs that shouldn't exist based on the vCPU
     model (the actual cleanup is non-trivial future work)

   - Rework KVM's handling of x2APIC ICR, again, because AMD (x2AVIC)
     splits the 64-bit value into the legacy ICR and ICR2 storage,
     whereas Intel (APICv) stores the entire 64-bit value at the ICR
     offset

   - Fix a bug where KVM would fail to exit to userspace if one was
     triggered by a fastpath exit handler

   - Add fastpath handling of HLT VM-Exit to expedite re-entering the
     guest when there's already a pending wake event at the time of the
     exit

   - Fix a WARN caused by RSM entering a nested guest from SMM with
     invalid guest state, by forcing the vCPU out of guest mode prior to
     signalling SHUTDOWN (the SHUTDOWN hits the VM altogether, not the
     nested guest)

   - Overhaul the "unprotect and retry" logic to more precisely identify
     cases where retrying is actually helpful, and to harden all retry
     paths against putting the guest into an infinite retry loop

   - Add support for yielding, e.g. to honor NEED_RESCHED, when zapping
     rmaps in the shadow MMU

   - Refactor pieces of the shadow MMU related to aging SPTEs in
     prepartion for adding multi generation LRU support in KVM

   - Don't stuff the RSB after VM-Exit when RETPOLINE=y and AutoIBRS is
     enabled, i.e. when the CPU has already flushed the RSB

   - Trace the per-CPU host save area as a VMCB pointer to improve
     readability and cleanup the retrieval of the SEV-ES host save area

   - Remove unnecessary accounting of temporary nested VMCB related
     allocations

   - Set FINAL/PAGE in the page fault error code for EPT violations if
     and only if the GVA is valid. If the GVA is NOT valid, there is no
     guest-side page table walk and so stuffing paging related metadata
     is nonsensical

   - Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly synthesize a nested VM-Exit
     instead of emulating posted interrupt delivery to L2

   - Add a lockdep assertion to detect unsafe accesses of vmcs12
     structures

   - Harden eVMCS loading against an impossible NULL pointer deref
     (really truly should be impossible)

   - Minor SGX fix and a cleanup

   - Misc cleanups

  Generic:

   - Register KVM's cpuhp and syscore callbacks when enabling
     virtualization in hardware, as the sole purpose of said callbacks
     is to disable and re-enable virtualization as needed

   - Enable virtualization when KVM is loaded, not right before the
     first VM is created

     Together with the previous change, this simplifies a lot the logic
     of the callbacks, because their very existence implies
     virtualization is enabled

   - Fix a bug that results in KVM prematurely exiting to userspace for
     coalesced MMIO/PIO in many cases, clean up the related code, and
     add a testcase

   - Fix a bug in kvm_clear_guest() where it would trigger a buffer
     overflow _if_ the gpa+len crosses a page boundary, which thankfully
     is guaranteed to not happen in the current code base. Add WARNs in
     more helpers that read/write guest memory to detect similar bugs

  Selftests:

   - Fix a goof that caused some Hyper-V tests to be skipped when run on
     bare metal, i.e. NOT in a VM

   - Add a regression test for KVM's handling of SHUTDOWN for an SEV-ES
     guest

   - Explicitly include one-off assets in .gitignore. Past Sean was
     completely wrong about not being able to detect missing .gitignore
     entries

   - Verify userspace single-stepping works when KVM happens to handle a
     VM-Exit in its fastpath

   - Misc cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (127 commits)
  Documentation: KVM: fix warning in "make htmldocs"
  s390: Enable KVM_S390_UCONTROL config in debug_defconfig
  selftests: kvm: s390: Add VM run test case
  KVM: SVM: let alternatives handle the cases when RSB filling is required
  KVM: VMX: Set PFERR_GUEST_{FINAL,PAGE}_MASK if and only if the GVA is valid
  KVM: x86/mmu: Use KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE() instead of an open coded equivalent
  KVM: x86/mmu: Add KVM_RMAP_MANY to replace open coded '1' and '1ul' literals
  KVM: x86/mmu: Fold mmu_spte_age() into kvm_rmap_age_gfn_range()
  KVM: x86/mmu: Morph kvm_handle_gfn_range() into an aging specific helper
  KVM: x86/mmu: Honor NEED_RESCHED when zapping rmaps and blocking is allowed
  KVM: x86/mmu: Add a helper to walk and zap rmaps for a memslot
  KVM: x86/mmu: Plumb a @can_yield parameter into __walk_slot_rmaps()
  KVM: x86/mmu: Move walk_slot_rmaps() up near for_each_slot_rmap_range()
  KVM: x86/mmu: WARN on MMIO cache hit when emulating write-protected gfn
  KVM: x86/mmu: Detect if unprotect will do anything based on invalid_list
  KVM: x86/mmu: Subsume kvm_mmu_unprotect_page() into the and_retry() version
  KVM: x86: Rename reexecute_instruction()=&gt;kvm_unprotect_and_retry_on_failure()
  KVM: x86: Update retry protection fields when forcing retry on emulation failure
  KVM: x86: Apply retry protection to "unprotect on failure" path
  KVM: x86: Check EMULTYPE_WRITE_PF_TO_SP before unprotecting gfn
  ...
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Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "x86:

   - KVM currently invalidates the entirety of the page tables, not just
     those for the memslot being touched, when a memslot is moved or
     deleted.

     This does not traditionally have particularly noticeable overhead,
     but Intel's TDX will require the guest to re-accept private pages
     if they are dropped from the secure EPT, which is a non starter.

     Actually, the only reason why this is not already being done is a
     bug which was never fully investigated and caused VM instability
     with assigned GeForce GPUs, so allow userspace to opt into the new
     behavior.

   - Advertise AVX10.1 to userspace (effectively prep work for the
     "real" AVX10 functionality that is on the horizon)

   - Rework common MSR handling code to suppress errors on userspace
     accesses to unsupported-but-advertised MSRs

     This will allow removing (almost?) all of KVM's exemptions for
     userspace access to MSRs that shouldn't exist based on the vCPU
     model (the actual cleanup is non-trivial future work)

   - Rework KVM's handling of x2APIC ICR, again, because AMD (x2AVIC)
     splits the 64-bit value into the legacy ICR and ICR2 storage,
     whereas Intel (APICv) stores the entire 64-bit value at the ICR
     offset

   - Fix a bug where KVM would fail to exit to userspace if one was
     triggered by a fastpath exit handler

   - Add fastpath handling of HLT VM-Exit to expedite re-entering the
     guest when there's already a pending wake event at the time of the
     exit

   - Fix a WARN caused by RSM entering a nested guest from SMM with
     invalid guest state, by forcing the vCPU out of guest mode prior to
     signalling SHUTDOWN (the SHUTDOWN hits the VM altogether, not the
     nested guest)

   - Overhaul the "unprotect and retry" logic to more precisely identify
     cases where retrying is actually helpful, and to harden all retry
     paths against putting the guest into an infinite retry loop

   - Add support for yielding, e.g. to honor NEED_RESCHED, when zapping
     rmaps in the shadow MMU

   - Refactor pieces of the shadow MMU related to aging SPTEs in
     prepartion for adding multi generation LRU support in KVM

   - Don't stuff the RSB after VM-Exit when RETPOLINE=y and AutoIBRS is
     enabled, i.e. when the CPU has already flushed the RSB

   - Trace the per-CPU host save area as a VMCB pointer to improve
     readability and cleanup the retrieval of the SEV-ES host save area

   - Remove unnecessary accounting of temporary nested VMCB related
     allocations

   - Set FINAL/PAGE in the page fault error code for EPT violations if
     and only if the GVA is valid. If the GVA is NOT valid, there is no
     guest-side page table walk and so stuffing paging related metadata
     is nonsensical

   - Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly synthesize a nested VM-Exit
     instead of emulating posted interrupt delivery to L2

   - Add a lockdep assertion to detect unsafe accesses of vmcs12
     structures

   - Harden eVMCS loading against an impossible NULL pointer deref
     (really truly should be impossible)

   - Minor SGX fix and a cleanup

   - Misc cleanups

  Generic:

   - Register KVM's cpuhp and syscore callbacks when enabling
     virtualization in hardware, as the sole purpose of said callbacks
     is to disable and re-enable virtualization as needed

   - Enable virtualization when KVM is loaded, not right before the
     first VM is created

     Together with the previous change, this simplifies a lot the logic
     of the callbacks, because their very existence implies
     virtualization is enabled

   - Fix a bug that results in KVM prematurely exiting to userspace for
     coalesced MMIO/PIO in many cases, clean up the related code, and
     add a testcase

   - Fix a bug in kvm_clear_guest() where it would trigger a buffer
     overflow _if_ the gpa+len crosses a page boundary, which thankfully
     is guaranteed to not happen in the current code base. Add WARNs in
     more helpers that read/write guest memory to detect similar bugs

  Selftests:

   - Fix a goof that caused some Hyper-V tests to be skipped when run on
     bare metal, i.e. NOT in a VM

   - Add a regression test for KVM's handling of SHUTDOWN for an SEV-ES
     guest

   - Explicitly include one-off assets in .gitignore. Past Sean was
     completely wrong about not being able to detect missing .gitignore
     entries

   - Verify userspace single-stepping works when KVM happens to handle a
     VM-Exit in its fastpath

   - Misc cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (127 commits)
  Documentation: KVM: fix warning in "make htmldocs"
  s390: Enable KVM_S390_UCONTROL config in debug_defconfig
  selftests: kvm: s390: Add VM run test case
  KVM: SVM: let alternatives handle the cases when RSB filling is required
  KVM: VMX: Set PFERR_GUEST_{FINAL,PAGE}_MASK if and only if the GVA is valid
  KVM: x86/mmu: Use KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE() instead of an open coded equivalent
  KVM: x86/mmu: Add KVM_RMAP_MANY to replace open coded '1' and '1ul' literals
  KVM: x86/mmu: Fold mmu_spte_age() into kvm_rmap_age_gfn_range()
  KVM: x86/mmu: Morph kvm_handle_gfn_range() into an aging specific helper
  KVM: x86/mmu: Honor NEED_RESCHED when zapping rmaps and blocking is allowed
  KVM: x86/mmu: Add a helper to walk and zap rmaps for a memslot
  KVM: x86/mmu: Plumb a @can_yield parameter into __walk_slot_rmaps()
  KVM: x86/mmu: Move walk_slot_rmaps() up near for_each_slot_rmap_range()
  KVM: x86/mmu: WARN on MMIO cache hit when emulating write-protected gfn
  KVM: x86/mmu: Detect if unprotect will do anything based on invalid_list
  KVM: x86/mmu: Subsume kvm_mmu_unprotect_page() into the and_retry() version
  KVM: x86: Rename reexecute_instruction()=&gt;kvm_unprotect_and_retry_on_failure()
  KVM: x86: Update retry protection fields when forcing retry on emulation failure
  KVM: x86: Apply retry protection to "unprotect on failure" path
  KVM: x86: Check EMULTYPE_WRITE_PF_TO_SP before unprotecting gfn
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'uml-for-linus-6.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux</title>
<updated>2024-09-27T19:48:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-27T19:48:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=12cc5240f41a90b7fabc075c92c04846670c6932'/>
<id>12cc5240f41a90b7fabc075c92c04846670c6932</id>
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Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - Removal of dead code (TT mode leftovers, etc)

 - Fixes for the network vector driver

 - Fixes for time-travel mode

* tag 'uml-for-linus-6.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux:
  um: fix time-travel syscall scheduling hack
  um: Remove outdated asm/sysrq.h header
  um: Remove the declaration of user_thread function
  um: Remove the call to SUBARCH_EXECVE1 macro
  um: Remove unused mm_fd field from mm_id
  um: Remove unused fields from thread_struct
  um: Remove the redundant newpage check in update_pte_range
  um: Remove unused kpte_clear_flush macro
  um: Remove obsoleted declaration for execute_syscall_skas
  user_mode_linux_howto_v2: add VDE vector support in doc
  vector_user: add VDE support
  um: remove ARCH_NO_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  um: vector: Fix NAPI budget handling
  um: vector: Replace locks guarding queue depth with atomics
  um: remove variable stack array in os_rcv_fd_msg()
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Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - Removal of dead code (TT mode leftovers, etc)

 - Fixes for the network vector driver

 - Fixes for time-travel mode

* tag 'uml-for-linus-6.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux:
  um: fix time-travel syscall scheduling hack
  um: Remove outdated asm/sysrq.h header
  um: Remove the declaration of user_thread function
  um: Remove the call to SUBARCH_EXECVE1 macro
  um: Remove unused mm_fd field from mm_id
  um: Remove unused fields from thread_struct
  um: Remove the redundant newpage check in update_pte_range
  um: Remove unused kpte_clear_flush macro
  um: Remove obsoleted declaration for execute_syscall_skas
  user_mode_linux_howto_v2: add VDE vector support in doc
  vector_user: add VDE support
  um: remove ARCH_NO_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  um: vector: Fix NAPI budget handling
  um: vector: Replace locks guarding queue depth with atomics
  um: remove variable stack array in os_rcv_fd_msg()
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: KVM: fix warning in "make htmldocs"</title>
<updated>2024-09-27T15:45:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-27T15:45:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=efbc6bd090f48ccf64f7a8dd5daea775821d57ec'/>
<id>efbc6bd090f48ccf64f7a8dd5daea775821d57ec</id>
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The warning

 Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst:31: ERROR: Unexpected indentation.

is caused by incorrectly treating a line as the continuation of a paragraph,
rather than as the first line in a bullet list.

Fixed: 44d174596260 ("KVM: Use dedicated mutex to protect kvm_usage_count to avoid deadlock")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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The warning

 Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst:31: ERROR: Unexpected indentation.

is caused by incorrectly treating a line as the continuation of a paragraph,
rather than as the first line in a bullet list.

Fixed: 44d174596260 ("KVM: Use dedicated mutex to protect kvm_usage_count to avoid deadlock")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-x86-vmx-6.12' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD</title>
<updated>2024-09-17T16:41:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-14T13:56:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=3f8df6285271d9d8f17d733433e5213a63b83a0b'/>
<id>3f8df6285271d9d8f17d733433e5213a63b83a0b</id>
<content type='text'>
KVM VMX changes for 6.12:

 - Set FINAL/PAGE in the page fault error code for EPT Violations if and only
   if the GVA is valid.  If the GVA is NOT valid, there is no guest-side page
   table walk and so stuffing paging related metadata is nonsensical.

 - Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly synthesize a nested VM-Exit instead of
   emulating posted interrupt delivery to L2.

 - Add a lockdep assertion to detect unsafe accesses of vmcs12 structures.

 - Harden eVMCS loading against an impossible NULL pointer deref (really truly
   should be impossible).

 - Minor SGX fix and a cleanup.
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
KVM VMX changes for 6.12:

 - Set FINAL/PAGE in the page fault error code for EPT Violations if and only
   if the GVA is valid.  If the GVA is NOT valid, there is no guest-side page
   table walk and so stuffing paging related metadata is nonsensical.

 - Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly synthesize a nested VM-Exit instead of
   emulating posted interrupt delivery to L2.

 - Add a lockdep assertion to detect unsafe accesses of vmcs12 structures.

 - Harden eVMCS loading against an impossible NULL pointer deref (really truly
   should be impossible).

 - Minor SGX fix and a cleanup.
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-6.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2024-09-17T14:44:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-17T14:44:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=d58db3f3a00af00fce5f914c9d1a946ef7feecb6'/>
<id>d58db3f3a00af00fce5f914c9d1a946ef7feecb6</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Another relatively mundane cycle for docs:

   - The beginning of an EEVDF scheduler document

   - More Chinese translations

   - A rethrashing of our bisection documentation

  ...plus the usual array of smaller fixes, and more than the usual
  number of typo fixes"

* tag 'docs-6.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (48 commits)
  Remove duplicate "and" in 'Linux NVMe docs.
  docs:filesystems: fix spelling and grammar mistakes
  docs:filesystem: fix mispelled words on autofs page
  docs:mm: fixed spelling and grammar mistakes on vmalloc kernel stack page
  Documentation: PCI: fix typo in pci.rst
  docs/zh_CN: add the translation of kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst
  docs/process: fix typos
  docs:mm: fix spelling mistakes in heterogeneous memory management page
  accel/qaic: Fix a typo
  docs/zh_CN: update the translation of security-bugs
  docs: block: Fix grammar and spelling mistakes in bfq-iosched.rst
  Documentation: Fix spelling mistakes
  Documentation/gpu: Fix typo in Documentation/gpu/komeda-kms.rst
  scripts: sphinx-pre-install: remove unnecessary double check for $cur_version
  Loongarch: KVM: Add KVM hypercalls documentation for LoongArch
  Documentation: Document the kernel flag bdev_allow_write_mounted
  docs: scheduler: completion: Update member of struct completion
  docs: kerneldoc-preamble.sty: Suppress extra spaces in CJK literal blocks
  docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4
  docs: update dev-tools/kcsan.rst url about KTSAN
  ...
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<pre>
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Another relatively mundane cycle for docs:

   - The beginning of an EEVDF scheduler document

   - More Chinese translations

   - A rethrashing of our bisection documentation

  ...plus the usual array of smaller fixes, and more than the usual
  number of typo fixes"

* tag 'docs-6.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (48 commits)
  Remove duplicate "and" in 'Linux NVMe docs.
  docs:filesystems: fix spelling and grammar mistakes
  docs:filesystem: fix mispelled words on autofs page
  docs:mm: fixed spelling and grammar mistakes on vmalloc kernel stack page
  Documentation: PCI: fix typo in pci.rst
  docs/zh_CN: add the translation of kbuild/gcc-plugins.rst
  docs/process: fix typos
  docs:mm: fix spelling mistakes in heterogeneous memory management page
  accel/qaic: Fix a typo
  docs/zh_CN: update the translation of security-bugs
  docs: block: Fix grammar and spelling mistakes in bfq-iosched.rst
  Documentation: Fix spelling mistakes
  Documentation/gpu: Fix typo in Documentation/gpu/komeda-kms.rst
  scripts: sphinx-pre-install: remove unnecessary double check for $cur_version
  Loongarch: KVM: Add KVM hypercalls documentation for LoongArch
  Documentation: Document the kernel flag bdev_allow_write_mounted
  docs: scheduler: completion: Update member of struct completion
  docs: kerneldoc-preamble.sty: Suppress extra spaces in CJK literal blocks
  docs: submitting-patches: Advertise b4
  docs: update dev-tools/kcsan.rst url about KTSAN
  ...
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