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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2025-04-08T20:47:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-04-08T20:47:55+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:

   - Rework heuristics for resolving the fault IPA (HPFAR_EL2 v. re-walk
     stage-1 page tables) to align with the architecture. This avoids
     possibly taking an SEA at EL2 on the page table walk or using an
     architecturally UNKNOWN fault IPA

   - Use acquire/release semantics in the KVM FF-A proxy to avoid
     reading a stale value for the FF-A version

   - Fix KVM guest driver to match PV CPUID hypercall ABI

   - Use Inner Shareable Normal Write-Back mappings at stage-1 in KVM
     selftests, which is the only memory type for which atomic
     instructions are architecturally guaranteed to work

  s390:

   - Don't use %pK for debug printing and tracepoints

  x86:

   - Use a separate subclass when acquiring KVM's per-CPU posted
     interrupts wakeup lock in the scheduled out path, i.e. when adding
     a vCPU on the list of vCPUs to wake, to workaround a false positive
     deadlock. The schedule out code runs with a scheduler lock that the
     wakeup handler takes in the opposite order; but it does so with
     IRQs disabled and cannot run concurrently with a wakeup

   - Explicitly zero-initialize on-stack CPUID unions

   - Allow building irqbypass.ko as as module when kvm.ko is a module

   - Wrap relatively expensive sanity check with KVM_PROVE_MMU

   - Acquire SRCU in KVM_GET_MP_STATE to protect guest memory accesses

  selftests:

   - Add more scenarios to the MONITOR/MWAIT test

   - Add option to rseq test to override /dev/cpu_dma_latency

   - Bring list of exit reasons up to date

   - Cleanup Makefile to list once tests that are valid on all
     architectures

  Other:

   - Documentation fixes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (26 commits)
  KVM: arm64: Use acquire/release to communicate FF-A version negotiation
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Explicitly set the page attrs to Inner-Shareable
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Introduce and use hardware-definition macros
  KVM: VMX: Use separate subclasses for PI wakeup lock to squash false positive
  KVM: VMX: Assert that IRQs are disabled when putting vCPU on PI wakeup list
  KVM: x86: Explicitly zero-initialize on-stack CPUID unions
  KVM: Allow building irqbypass.ko as as module when kvm.ko is a module
  KVM: x86/mmu: Wrap sanity check on number of TDP MMU pages with KVM_PROVE_MMU
  KVM: selftests: Add option to rseq test to override /dev/cpu_dma_latency
  KVM: x86: Acquire SRCU in KVM_GET_MP_STATE to protect guest memory accesses
  Documentation: kvm: remove KVM_CAP_MIPS_TE
  Documentation: kvm: organize capabilities in the right section
  Documentation: kvm: fix some definition lists
  Documentation: kvm: drop "Capability" heading from capabilities
  Documentation: kvm: give correct name for KVM_CAP_SPAPR_MULTITCE
  Documentation: KVM: KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID now exposes TSC_DEADLINE
  selftests: kvm: list once tests that are valid on all architectures
  selftests: kvm: bring list of exit reasons up to date
  selftests: kvm: revamp MONITOR/MWAIT tests
  KVM: arm64: Don't translate FAR if invalid/unsafe
  ...
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Pull kvm fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:

   - Rework heuristics for resolving the fault IPA (HPFAR_EL2 v. re-walk
     stage-1 page tables) to align with the architecture. This avoids
     possibly taking an SEA at EL2 on the page table walk or using an
     architecturally UNKNOWN fault IPA

   - Use acquire/release semantics in the KVM FF-A proxy to avoid
     reading a stale value for the FF-A version

   - Fix KVM guest driver to match PV CPUID hypercall ABI

   - Use Inner Shareable Normal Write-Back mappings at stage-1 in KVM
     selftests, which is the only memory type for which atomic
     instructions are architecturally guaranteed to work

  s390:

   - Don't use %pK for debug printing and tracepoints

  x86:

   - Use a separate subclass when acquiring KVM's per-CPU posted
     interrupts wakeup lock in the scheduled out path, i.e. when adding
     a vCPU on the list of vCPUs to wake, to workaround a false positive
     deadlock. The schedule out code runs with a scheduler lock that the
     wakeup handler takes in the opposite order; but it does so with
     IRQs disabled and cannot run concurrently with a wakeup

   - Explicitly zero-initialize on-stack CPUID unions

   - Allow building irqbypass.ko as as module when kvm.ko is a module

   - Wrap relatively expensive sanity check with KVM_PROVE_MMU

   - Acquire SRCU in KVM_GET_MP_STATE to protect guest memory accesses

  selftests:

   - Add more scenarios to the MONITOR/MWAIT test

   - Add option to rseq test to override /dev/cpu_dma_latency

   - Bring list of exit reasons up to date

   - Cleanup Makefile to list once tests that are valid on all
     architectures

  Other:

   - Documentation fixes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (26 commits)
  KVM: arm64: Use acquire/release to communicate FF-A version negotiation
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Explicitly set the page attrs to Inner-Shareable
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Introduce and use hardware-definition macros
  KVM: VMX: Use separate subclasses for PI wakeup lock to squash false positive
  KVM: VMX: Assert that IRQs are disabled when putting vCPU on PI wakeup list
  KVM: x86: Explicitly zero-initialize on-stack CPUID unions
  KVM: Allow building irqbypass.ko as as module when kvm.ko is a module
  KVM: x86/mmu: Wrap sanity check on number of TDP MMU pages with KVM_PROVE_MMU
  KVM: selftests: Add option to rseq test to override /dev/cpu_dma_latency
  KVM: x86: Acquire SRCU in KVM_GET_MP_STATE to protect guest memory accesses
  Documentation: kvm: remove KVM_CAP_MIPS_TE
  Documentation: kvm: organize capabilities in the right section
  Documentation: kvm: fix some definition lists
  Documentation: kvm: drop "Capability" heading from capabilities
  Documentation: kvm: give correct name for KVM_CAP_SPAPR_MULTITCE
  Documentation: KVM: KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID now exposes TSC_DEADLINE
  selftests: kvm: list once tests that are valid on all architectures
  selftests: kvm: bring list of exit reasons up to date
  selftests: kvm: revamp MONITOR/MWAIT tests
  KVM: arm64: Don't translate FAR if invalid/unsafe
  ...
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<title>arm64: Convert HPFAR_EL2 to sysreg table</title>
<updated>2025-04-03T07:28:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-02T20:17:24+00:00</published>
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Switch over to the typical sysreg table for HPFAR_EL2 as we're about to
start using more fields in the register.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402201725.2963645-3-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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Switch over to the typical sysreg table for HPFAR_EL2 as we're about to
start using more fields in the register.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402201725.2963645-3-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T21:22:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T21:22:07+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:

   - Nested virtualization support for VGICv3, giving the nested
     hypervisor control of the VGIC hardware when running an L2 VM

   - Removal of 'late' nested virtualization feature register masking,
     making the supported feature set directly visible to userspace

   - Support for emulating FEAT_PMUv3 on Apple silicon, taking advantage
     of an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED trap that covers all PMUv3 registers

   - Paravirtual interface for discovering the set of CPU
     implementations where a VM may run, addressing a longstanding issue
     of guest CPU errata awareness in big-little systems and
     cross-implementation VM migration

   - Userspace control of the registers responsible for identifying a
     particular CPU implementation (MIDR_EL1, REVIDR_EL1, AIDR_EL1),
     allowing VMs to be migrated cross-implementation

   - pKVM updates, including support for tracking stage-2 page table
     allocations in the protected hypervisor in the 'SecPageTable' stat

   - Fixes to vPMU, ensuring that userspace updates to the vPMU after
     KVM_RUN are reflected into the backing perf events

  LoongArch:

   - Remove unnecessary header include path

   - Assume constant PGD during VM context switch

   - Add perf events support for guest VM

  RISC-V:

   - Disable the kernel perf counter during configure

   - KVM selftests improvements for PMU

   - Fix warning at the time of KVM module removal

  x86:

   - Add support for aging of SPTEs without holding mmu_lock.

     Not taking mmu_lock allows multiple aging actions to run in
     parallel, and more importantly avoids stalling vCPUs. This includes
     an implementation of per-rmap-entry locking; aging the gfn is done
     with only a per-rmap single-bin spinlock taken, whereas locking an
     rmap for write requires taking both the per-rmap spinlock and the
     mmu_lock.

     Note that this decreases slightly the accuracy of accessed-page
     information, because changes to the SPTE outside aging might not
     use atomic operations even if they could race against a clear of
     the Accessed bit.

     This is deliberate because KVM and mm/ tolerate false
     positives/negatives for accessed information, and testing has shown
     that reducing the latency of aging is far more beneficial to
     overall system performance than providing "perfect" young/old
     information.

   - Defer runtime CPUID updates until KVM emulates a CPUID instruction,
     to coalesce updates when multiple pieces of vCPU state are
     changing, e.g. as part of a nested transition

   - Fix a variety of nested emulation bugs, and add VMX support for
     synthesizing nested VM-Exit on interception (instead of injecting
     #UD into L2)

   - Drop "support" for async page faults for protected guests that do
     not set SEND_ALWAYS (i.e. that only want async page faults at CPL3)

   - Bring a bit of sanity to x86's VM teardown code, which has
     accumulated a lot of cruft over the years. Particularly, destroy
     vCPUs before the MMU, despite the latter being a VM-wide operation

   - Add common secure TSC infrastructure for use within SNP and in the
     future TDX

   - Block KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS if guest state is protected. It does not
     make sense to use the capability if the relevant registers are not
     available for reading or writing

   - Don't take kvm-&gt;lock when iterating over vCPUs in the suspend
     notifier to fix a largely theoretical deadlock

   - Use the vCPU's actual Xen PV clock information when starting the
     Xen timer, as the cached state in arch.hv_clock can be stale/bogus

   - Fix a bug where KVM could bleed PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED across
     different PV clocks; restrict PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED to kvmclock, as
     KVM's suspend notifier only accounts for kvmclock, and there's no
     evidence that the flag is actually supported by Xen guests

   - Clean up the per-vCPU "cache" of its reference pvclock, and instead
     only track the vCPU's TSC scaling (multipler+shift) metadata (which
     is moderately expensive to compute, and rarely changes for modern
     setups)

   - Don't write to the Xen hypercall page on MSR writes that are
     initiated by the host (userspace or KVM) to fix a class of bugs
     where KVM can write to guest memory at unexpected times, e.g.
     during vCPU creation if userspace has set the Xen hypercall MSR
     index to collide with an MSR that KVM emulates

   - Restrict the Xen hypercall MSR index to the unofficial synthetic
     range to reduce the set of possible collisions with MSRs that are
     emulated by KVM (collisions can still happen as KVM emulates
     Hyper-V MSRs, which also reside in the synthetic range)

   - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of Xen MSR writes and
     xen_hvm_config

   - Update Xen TSC leaves during CPUID emulation instead of modifying
     the CPUID entries when updating PV clocks; there is no guarantee PV
     clocks will be updated between TSC frequency changes and CPUID
     emulation, and guest reads of the TSC leaves should be rare, i.e.
     are not a hot path

  x86 (Intel):

   - Fix a bug where KVM unnecessarily reads XFD_ERR from hardware and
     thus modifies the vCPU's XFD_ERR on a #NM due to CR0.TS=1

   - Pass XFD_ERR as the payload when injecting #NM, as a preparatory
     step for upcoming FRED virtualization support

   - Decouple the EPT entry RWX protection bit macros from the EPT
     Violation bits, both as a general cleanup and in anticipation of
     adding support for emulating Mode-Based Execution Control (MBEC)

   - Reject KVM_RUN if userspace manages to gain control and stuff
     invalid guest state while KVM is in the middle of emulating nested
     VM-Enter

   - Add a macro to handle KVM's sanity checks on entry/exit VMCS
     control pairs in anticipation of adding sanity checks for secondary
     exit controls (the primary field is out of bits)

  x86 (AMD):

   - Ensure the PSP driver is initialized when both the PSP and KVM
     modules are built-in (the initcall framework doesn't handle
     dependencies)

   - Use long-term pins when registering encrypted memory regions, so
     that the pages are migrated out of MIGRATE_CMA/ZONE_MOVABLE and
     don't lead to excessive fragmentation

   - Add macros and helpers for setting GHCB return/error codes

   - Add support for Idle HLT interception, which elides interception if
     the vCPU has a pending, unmasked virtual IRQ when HLT is executed

   - Fix a bug in INVPCID emulation where KVM fails to check for a
     non-canonical address

   - Don't attempt VMRUN for SEV-ES+ guests if the vCPU's VMSA is
     invalid, e.g. because the vCPU was "destroyed" via SNP's AP
     Creation hypercall

   - Reject SNP AP Creation if the requested SEV features for the vCPU
     don't match the VM's configured set of features

  Selftests:

   - Fix again the Intel PMU counters test; add a data load and do
     CLFLUSH{OPT} on the data instead of executing code. The theory is
     that modern Intel CPUs have learned new code prefetching tricks
     that bypass the PMU counters

   - Fix a flaw in the Intel PMU counters test where it asserts that an
     event is counting correctly without actually knowing what the event
     counts on the underlying hardware

   - Fix a variety of flaws, bugs, and false failures/passes
     dirty_log_test, and improve its coverage by collecting all dirty
     entries on each iteration

   - Fix a few minor bugs related to handling of stats FDs

   - Add infrastructure to make vCPU and VM stats FDs available to tests
     by default (open the FDs during VM/vCPU creation)

   - Relax an assertion on the number of HLT exits in the xAPIC IPI test
     when running on a CPU that supports AMD's Idle HLT (which elides
     interception of HLT if a virtual IRQ is pending and unmasked)"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (216 commits)
  RISC-V: KVM: Optimize comments in kvm_riscv_vcpu_isa_disable_allowed
  RISC-V: KVM: Teardown riscv specific bits after kvm_exit
  LoongArch: KVM: Register perf callbacks for guest
  LoongArch: KVM: Implement arch-specific functions for guest perf
  LoongArch: KVM: Add stub for kvm_arch_vcpu_preempted_in_kernel()
  LoongArch: KVM: Remove PGD saving during VM context switch
  LoongArch: KVM: Remove unnecessary header include path
  KVM: arm64: Tear down vGIC on failed vCPU creation
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when resetting
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when user modifies registers
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix SET_ONE_REG for vPMC regs
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Assume PMU presence in pmu-emul.c
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Set raw values from user to PM{C,I}NTEN{SET,CLR}, PMOVS{SET,CLR}
  KVM: arm64: Create each pKVM hyp vcpu after its corresponding host vcpu
  KVM: arm64: Factor out pKVM hyp vcpu creation to separate function
  KVM: arm64: Initialize HCRX_EL2 traps in pKVM
  KVM: arm64: Factor out setting HCRX_EL2 traps into separate function
  KVM: x86: block KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS if guest state is protected
  KVM: x86: Add infrastructure for secure TSC
  KVM: x86: Push down setting vcpu.arch.user_set_tsc
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:

   - Nested virtualization support for VGICv3, giving the nested
     hypervisor control of the VGIC hardware when running an L2 VM

   - Removal of 'late' nested virtualization feature register masking,
     making the supported feature set directly visible to userspace

   - Support for emulating FEAT_PMUv3 on Apple silicon, taking advantage
     of an IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED trap that covers all PMUv3 registers

   - Paravirtual interface for discovering the set of CPU
     implementations where a VM may run, addressing a longstanding issue
     of guest CPU errata awareness in big-little systems and
     cross-implementation VM migration

   - Userspace control of the registers responsible for identifying a
     particular CPU implementation (MIDR_EL1, REVIDR_EL1, AIDR_EL1),
     allowing VMs to be migrated cross-implementation

   - pKVM updates, including support for tracking stage-2 page table
     allocations in the protected hypervisor in the 'SecPageTable' stat

   - Fixes to vPMU, ensuring that userspace updates to the vPMU after
     KVM_RUN are reflected into the backing perf events

  LoongArch:

   - Remove unnecessary header include path

   - Assume constant PGD during VM context switch

   - Add perf events support for guest VM

  RISC-V:

   - Disable the kernel perf counter during configure

   - KVM selftests improvements for PMU

   - Fix warning at the time of KVM module removal

  x86:

   - Add support for aging of SPTEs without holding mmu_lock.

     Not taking mmu_lock allows multiple aging actions to run in
     parallel, and more importantly avoids stalling vCPUs. This includes
     an implementation of per-rmap-entry locking; aging the gfn is done
     with only a per-rmap single-bin spinlock taken, whereas locking an
     rmap for write requires taking both the per-rmap spinlock and the
     mmu_lock.

     Note that this decreases slightly the accuracy of accessed-page
     information, because changes to the SPTE outside aging might not
     use atomic operations even if they could race against a clear of
     the Accessed bit.

     This is deliberate because KVM and mm/ tolerate false
     positives/negatives for accessed information, and testing has shown
     that reducing the latency of aging is far more beneficial to
     overall system performance than providing "perfect" young/old
     information.

   - Defer runtime CPUID updates until KVM emulates a CPUID instruction,
     to coalesce updates when multiple pieces of vCPU state are
     changing, e.g. as part of a nested transition

   - Fix a variety of nested emulation bugs, and add VMX support for
     synthesizing nested VM-Exit on interception (instead of injecting
     #UD into L2)

   - Drop "support" for async page faults for protected guests that do
     not set SEND_ALWAYS (i.e. that only want async page faults at CPL3)

   - Bring a bit of sanity to x86's VM teardown code, which has
     accumulated a lot of cruft over the years. Particularly, destroy
     vCPUs before the MMU, despite the latter being a VM-wide operation

   - Add common secure TSC infrastructure for use within SNP and in the
     future TDX

   - Block KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS if guest state is protected. It does not
     make sense to use the capability if the relevant registers are not
     available for reading or writing

   - Don't take kvm-&gt;lock when iterating over vCPUs in the suspend
     notifier to fix a largely theoretical deadlock

   - Use the vCPU's actual Xen PV clock information when starting the
     Xen timer, as the cached state in arch.hv_clock can be stale/bogus

   - Fix a bug where KVM could bleed PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED across
     different PV clocks; restrict PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED to kvmclock, as
     KVM's suspend notifier only accounts for kvmclock, and there's no
     evidence that the flag is actually supported by Xen guests

   - Clean up the per-vCPU "cache" of its reference pvclock, and instead
     only track the vCPU's TSC scaling (multipler+shift) metadata (which
     is moderately expensive to compute, and rarely changes for modern
     setups)

   - Don't write to the Xen hypercall page on MSR writes that are
     initiated by the host (userspace or KVM) to fix a class of bugs
     where KVM can write to guest memory at unexpected times, e.g.
     during vCPU creation if userspace has set the Xen hypercall MSR
     index to collide with an MSR that KVM emulates

   - Restrict the Xen hypercall MSR index to the unofficial synthetic
     range to reduce the set of possible collisions with MSRs that are
     emulated by KVM (collisions can still happen as KVM emulates
     Hyper-V MSRs, which also reside in the synthetic range)

   - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of Xen MSR writes and
     xen_hvm_config

   - Update Xen TSC leaves during CPUID emulation instead of modifying
     the CPUID entries when updating PV clocks; there is no guarantee PV
     clocks will be updated between TSC frequency changes and CPUID
     emulation, and guest reads of the TSC leaves should be rare, i.e.
     are not a hot path

  x86 (Intel):

   - Fix a bug where KVM unnecessarily reads XFD_ERR from hardware and
     thus modifies the vCPU's XFD_ERR on a #NM due to CR0.TS=1

   - Pass XFD_ERR as the payload when injecting #NM, as a preparatory
     step for upcoming FRED virtualization support

   - Decouple the EPT entry RWX protection bit macros from the EPT
     Violation bits, both as a general cleanup and in anticipation of
     adding support for emulating Mode-Based Execution Control (MBEC)

   - Reject KVM_RUN if userspace manages to gain control and stuff
     invalid guest state while KVM is in the middle of emulating nested
     VM-Enter

   - Add a macro to handle KVM's sanity checks on entry/exit VMCS
     control pairs in anticipation of adding sanity checks for secondary
     exit controls (the primary field is out of bits)

  x86 (AMD):

   - Ensure the PSP driver is initialized when both the PSP and KVM
     modules are built-in (the initcall framework doesn't handle
     dependencies)

   - Use long-term pins when registering encrypted memory regions, so
     that the pages are migrated out of MIGRATE_CMA/ZONE_MOVABLE and
     don't lead to excessive fragmentation

   - Add macros and helpers for setting GHCB return/error codes

   - Add support for Idle HLT interception, which elides interception if
     the vCPU has a pending, unmasked virtual IRQ when HLT is executed

   - Fix a bug in INVPCID emulation where KVM fails to check for a
     non-canonical address

   - Don't attempt VMRUN for SEV-ES+ guests if the vCPU's VMSA is
     invalid, e.g. because the vCPU was "destroyed" via SNP's AP
     Creation hypercall

   - Reject SNP AP Creation if the requested SEV features for the vCPU
     don't match the VM's configured set of features

  Selftests:

   - Fix again the Intel PMU counters test; add a data load and do
     CLFLUSH{OPT} on the data instead of executing code. The theory is
     that modern Intel CPUs have learned new code prefetching tricks
     that bypass the PMU counters

   - Fix a flaw in the Intel PMU counters test where it asserts that an
     event is counting correctly without actually knowing what the event
     counts on the underlying hardware

   - Fix a variety of flaws, bugs, and false failures/passes
     dirty_log_test, and improve its coverage by collecting all dirty
     entries on each iteration

   - Fix a few minor bugs related to handling of stats FDs

   - Add infrastructure to make vCPU and VM stats FDs available to tests
     by default (open the FDs during VM/vCPU creation)

   - Relax an assertion on the number of HLT exits in the xAPIC IPI test
     when running on a CPU that supports AMD's Idle HLT (which elides
     interception of HLT if a virtual IRQ is pending and unmasked)"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (216 commits)
  RISC-V: KVM: Optimize comments in kvm_riscv_vcpu_isa_disable_allowed
  RISC-V: KVM: Teardown riscv specific bits after kvm_exit
  LoongArch: KVM: Register perf callbacks for guest
  LoongArch: KVM: Implement arch-specific functions for guest perf
  LoongArch: KVM: Add stub for kvm_arch_vcpu_preempted_in_kernel()
  LoongArch: KVM: Remove PGD saving during VM context switch
  LoongArch: KVM: Remove unnecessary header include path
  KVM: arm64: Tear down vGIC on failed vCPU creation
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when resetting
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when user modifies registers
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix SET_ONE_REG for vPMC regs
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Assume PMU presence in pmu-emul.c
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Set raw values from user to PM{C,I}NTEN{SET,CLR}, PMOVS{SET,CLR}
  KVM: arm64: Create each pKVM hyp vcpu after its corresponding host vcpu
  KVM: arm64: Factor out pKVM hyp vcpu creation to separate function
  KVM: arm64: Initialize HCRX_EL2 traps in pKVM
  KVM: arm64: Factor out setting HCRX_EL2 traps into separate function
  KVM: x86: block KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS if guest state is protected
  KVM: x86: Add infrastructure for secure TSC
  KVM: x86: Push down setting vcpu.arch.user_set_tsc
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T20:16:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T20:16:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=2d09a9449ecd9a2b9fdac62408c12ee20b6307d2'/>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Nothing major this time around.

  Apart from the usual perf/PMU updates, some page table cleanups, the
  notable features are average CPU frequency based on the AMUv1
  counters, CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT and MOPS instructions (memcpy/memset) in
  the uaccess routines.

  Perf and PMUs:

   - Support for the 'Rainier' CPU PMU from Arm

   - Preparatory driver changes and cleanups that pave the way for BRBE
     support

   - Support for partial virtualisation of the Apple-M1 PMU

   - Support for the second event filter in Arm CSPMU designs

   - Minor fixes and cleanups (CMN and DWC PMUs)

   - Enable EL2 requirements for FEAT_PMUv3p9

  Power, CPU topology:

   - Support for AMUv1-based average CPU frequency

   - Run-time SMT control wired up for arm64 (CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT). It
     adds a generic topology_is_primary_thread() function overridden by
     x86 and powerpc

  New(ish) features:

   - MOPS (memcpy/memset) support for the uaccess routines

  Security/confidential compute:

   - Fix the DMA address for devices used in Realms with Arm CCA. The
     CCA architecture uses the address bit to differentiate between
     shared and private addresses

   - Spectre-BHB: assume CPUs Linux doesn't know about vulnerable by
     default

  Memory management clean-ups:

   - Drop the P*D_TABLE_BIT definition in preparation for 128-bit PTEs

   - Some minor page table accessor clean-ups

   - PIE/POE (permission indirection/overlay) helpers clean-up

  Kselftests:

   - MTE: skip hugetlb tests if MTE is not supported on such mappings
     and user correct naming for sync/async tag checking modes

  Miscellaneous:

   - Add a PKEY_UNRESTRICTED definition as 0 to uapi (toolchain people
     request)

   - Sysreg updates for new register fields

   - CPU type info for some Qualcomm Kryo cores"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (72 commits)
  arm64: mm: Don't use %pK through printk
  perf/arm_cspmu: Fix missing io.h include
  arm64: errata: Add newer ARM cores to the spectre_bhb_loop_affected() lists
  arm64: cputype: Add MIDR_CORTEX_A76AE
  arm64: errata: Add KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver cores to Spectre BHB safe list
  arm64: errata: Assume that unknown CPUs _are_ vulnerable to Spectre BHB
  arm64: errata: Add QCOM_KRYO_4XX_GOLD to the spectre_bhb_k24_list
  arm64/sysreg: Enforce whole word match for open/close tokens
  arm64/sysreg: Fix unbalanced closing block
  arm64: Kconfig: Enable HOTPLUG_SMT
  arm64: topology: Support SMT control on ACPI based system
  arch_topology: Support SMT control for OF based system
  cpu/SMT: Provide a default topology_is_primary_thread()
  arm64/mm: Define PTDESC_ORDER
  perf/arm_cspmu: Add PMEVFILT2R support
  perf/arm_cspmu: Generalise event filtering
  perf/arm_cspmu: Move register definitons to header
  arm64/kernel: Always use level 2 or higher for early mappings
  arm64/mm: Drop PXD_TABLE_BIT
  arm64/mm: Check pmd_table() in pmd_trans_huge()
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Nothing major this time around.

  Apart from the usual perf/PMU updates, some page table cleanups, the
  notable features are average CPU frequency based on the AMUv1
  counters, CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT and MOPS instructions (memcpy/memset) in
  the uaccess routines.

  Perf and PMUs:

   - Support for the 'Rainier' CPU PMU from Arm

   - Preparatory driver changes and cleanups that pave the way for BRBE
     support

   - Support for partial virtualisation of the Apple-M1 PMU

   - Support for the second event filter in Arm CSPMU designs

   - Minor fixes and cleanups (CMN and DWC PMUs)

   - Enable EL2 requirements for FEAT_PMUv3p9

  Power, CPU topology:

   - Support for AMUv1-based average CPU frequency

   - Run-time SMT control wired up for arm64 (CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT). It
     adds a generic topology_is_primary_thread() function overridden by
     x86 and powerpc

  New(ish) features:

   - MOPS (memcpy/memset) support for the uaccess routines

  Security/confidential compute:

   - Fix the DMA address for devices used in Realms with Arm CCA. The
     CCA architecture uses the address bit to differentiate between
     shared and private addresses

   - Spectre-BHB: assume CPUs Linux doesn't know about vulnerable by
     default

  Memory management clean-ups:

   - Drop the P*D_TABLE_BIT definition in preparation for 128-bit PTEs

   - Some minor page table accessor clean-ups

   - PIE/POE (permission indirection/overlay) helpers clean-up

  Kselftests:

   - MTE: skip hugetlb tests if MTE is not supported on such mappings
     and user correct naming for sync/async tag checking modes

  Miscellaneous:

   - Add a PKEY_UNRESTRICTED definition as 0 to uapi (toolchain people
     request)

   - Sysreg updates for new register fields

   - CPU type info for some Qualcomm Kryo cores"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (72 commits)
  arm64: mm: Don't use %pK through printk
  perf/arm_cspmu: Fix missing io.h include
  arm64: errata: Add newer ARM cores to the spectre_bhb_loop_affected() lists
  arm64: cputype: Add MIDR_CORTEX_A76AE
  arm64: errata: Add KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver cores to Spectre BHB safe list
  arm64: errata: Assume that unknown CPUs _are_ vulnerable to Spectre BHB
  arm64: errata: Add QCOM_KRYO_4XX_GOLD to the spectre_bhb_k24_list
  arm64/sysreg: Enforce whole word match for open/close tokens
  arm64/sysreg: Fix unbalanced closing block
  arm64: Kconfig: Enable HOTPLUG_SMT
  arm64: topology: Support SMT control on ACPI based system
  arch_topology: Support SMT control for OF based system
  cpu/SMT: Provide a default topology_is_primary_thread()
  arm64/mm: Define PTDESC_ORDER
  perf/arm_cspmu: Add PMEVFILT2R support
  perf/arm_cspmu: Generalise event filtering
  perf/arm_cspmu: Move register definitons to header
  arm64/kernel: Always use level 2 or higher for early mappings
  arm64/mm: Drop PXD_TABLE_BIT
  arm64/mm: Check pmd_table() in pmd_trans_huge()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-arm64/pmuv3-asahi' into kvmarm/next</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T21:54:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-19T21:53:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=1b1d1b17b8775f58215b166e24d931890682608e'/>
<id>1b1d1b17b8775f58215b166e24d931890682608e</id>
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* kvm-arm64/pmuv3-asahi:
  : Support PMUv3 for KVM guests on Apple silicon
  :
  : Take advantage of some IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED traps available on Apple
  : parts to trap-and-emulate the PMUv3 registers on behalf of a KVM guest.
  : Constrain the vPMU to a cycle counter and single event counter, as the
  : Apple PMU has events that cannot be counted on every counter.
  :
  : There is a small new interface between the ARM PMU driver and KVM, where
  : the PMU driver owns the PMUv3 -&gt; hardware event mappings.
  arm64: Enable IMP DEF PMUv3 traps on Apple M*
  KVM: arm64: Provide 1 event counter on IMPDEF hardware
  drivers/perf: apple_m1: Provide helper for mapping PMUv3 events
  KVM: arm64: Remap PMUv3 events onto hardware
  KVM: arm64: Advertise PMUv3 if IMPDEF traps are present
  KVM: arm64: Compute synthetic sysreg ESR for Apple PMUv3 traps
  KVM: arm64: Move PMUVer filtering into KVM code
  KVM: arm64: Use guard() to cleanup usage of arm_pmus_lock
  KVM: arm64: Drop kvm_arm_pmu_available static key
  KVM: arm64: Use a cpucap to determine if system supports FEAT_PMUv3
  KVM: arm64: Always support SW_INCR PMU event
  KVM: arm64: Compute PMCEID from arm_pmu's event bitmaps
  drivers/perf: apple_m1: Support host/guest event filtering
  drivers/perf: apple_m1: Refactor event select/filter configuration

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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* kvm-arm64/pmuv3-asahi:
  : Support PMUv3 for KVM guests on Apple silicon
  :
  : Take advantage of some IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED traps available on Apple
  : parts to trap-and-emulate the PMUv3 registers on behalf of a KVM guest.
  : Constrain the vPMU to a cycle counter and single event counter, as the
  : Apple PMU has events that cannot be counted on every counter.
  :
  : There is a small new interface between the ARM PMU driver and KVM, where
  : the PMU driver owns the PMUv3 -&gt; hardware event mappings.
  arm64: Enable IMP DEF PMUv3 traps on Apple M*
  KVM: arm64: Provide 1 event counter on IMPDEF hardware
  drivers/perf: apple_m1: Provide helper for mapping PMUv3 events
  KVM: arm64: Remap PMUv3 events onto hardware
  KVM: arm64: Advertise PMUv3 if IMPDEF traps are present
  KVM: arm64: Compute synthetic sysreg ESR for Apple PMUv3 traps
  KVM: arm64: Move PMUVer filtering into KVM code
  KVM: arm64: Use guard() to cleanup usage of arm_pmus_lock
  KVM: arm64: Drop kvm_arm_pmu_available static key
  KVM: arm64: Use a cpucap to determine if system supports FEAT_PMUv3
  KVM: arm64: Always support SW_INCR PMU event
  KVM: arm64: Compute PMCEID from arm_pmu's event bitmaps
  drivers/perf: apple_m1: Support host/guest event filtering
  drivers/perf: apple_m1: Refactor event select/filter configuration

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sysreg: Enforce whole word match for open/close tokens</title>
<updated>2025-03-14T17:54:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Clark</name>
<email>james.clark@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-15T16:25:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=2fdbf2ff388441476aae5d914a04c47b247b5e7b'/>
<id>2fdbf2ff388441476aae5d914a04c47b247b5e7b</id>
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Opening and closing tokens can also match on words with common prefixes
like "Endsysreg" vs "EndsysregFields". This could potentially make the
script go wrong in weird ways so make it fall through to the fatal
unhandled statement catcher if it doesn't fully match the current
block.

Closing ones also get expect_fields(1) to ensure nothing other than
whitespace follows.

Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250115162600.2153226-3-james.clark@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Opening and closing tokens can also match on words with common prefixes
like "Endsysreg" vs "EndsysregFields". This could potentially make the
script go wrong in weird ways so make it fall through to the fatal
unhandled statement catcher if it doesn't fully match the current
block.

Closing ones also get expect_fields(1) to ensure nothing other than
whitespace follows.

Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250115162600.2153226-3-james.clark@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sysreg: Fix unbalanced closing block</title>
<updated>2025-03-14T17:54:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Clark</name>
<email>james.clark@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-15T16:25:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=00cb1e01cd29c664dcd22cabc25be410e2c7faa7'/>
<id>00cb1e01cd29c664dcd22cabc25be410e2c7faa7</id>
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This is a sysreg block so close it with one. This doesn't make a
difference to the output because the script only matches on the
beginning of the word to close blocks which is correct by coincidence
here.

Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250115162600.2153226-2-james.clark@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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This is a sysreg block so close it with one. This doesn't make a
difference to the output because the script only matches on the
beginning of the word to close blocks which is correct by coincidence
here.

Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250115162600.2153226-2-james.clark@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: Compute synthetic sysreg ESR for Apple PMUv3 traps</title>
<updated>2025-03-11T19:54:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-05T20:26:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=2c433f70dccc1af6922931404bfe23d215bdfff0'/>
<id>2c433f70dccc1af6922931404bfe23d215bdfff0</id>
<content type='text'>
Apple M* CPUs provide an IMPDEF trap for PMUv3 sysregs, where ESR_EL2.EC
is a reserved value (0x3F) and a sysreg-like ISS is reported in
AFSR1_EL2.

Compute a synthetic ESR for these PMUv3 traps, giving the illusion of
something architectural to the rest of KVM.

Tested-by: Janne Grunau &lt;j@jannau.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305202641.428114-10-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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Apple M* CPUs provide an IMPDEF trap for PMUv3 sysregs, where ESR_EL2.EC
is a reserved value (0x3F) and a sysreg-like ISS is reported in
AFSR1_EL2.

Compute a synthetic ESR for these PMUv3 traps, giving the illusion of
something architectural to the rest of KVM.

Tested-by: Janne Grunau &lt;j@jannau.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305202641.428114-10-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: Use a cpucap to determine if system supports FEAT_PMUv3</title>
<updated>2025-03-11T19:54:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-05T20:26:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=6f34024d185e2fa6636c660431c4595a6529328d'/>
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KVM is about to learn some new tricks to virtualize PMUv3 on IMPDEF
hardware. As part of that, we now need to differentiate host support
from guest support for PMUv3.

Add a cpucap to determine if an architectural PMUv3 is present to guard
host usage of PMUv3 controls.

Tested-by: Janne Grunau &lt;j@jannau.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305202641.428114-6-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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KVM is about to learn some new tricks to virtualize PMUv3 on IMPDEF
hardware. As part of that, we now need to differentiate host support
from guest support for PMUv3.

Add a cpucap to determine if an architectural PMUv3 is present to guard
host usage of PMUv3 controls.

Tested-by: Janne Grunau &lt;j@jannau.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305202641.428114-6-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: sysreg: Add layout for ICH_MISR_EL2</title>
<updated>2025-03-03T22:51:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>maz@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-25T17:29:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=b7a252e881f3322abb9ec899d13dbf7bae7d9bea'/>
<id>b7a252e881f3322abb9ec899d13dbf7bae7d9bea</id>
<content type='text'>
The ICH_MISR_EL2-related macros are missing a number of status
bits that we are about to handle. Take this opportunity to fully
describe the layout of that register as part of the automatic
generation infrastructure.

Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250225172930.1850838-4-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
</content>
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The ICH_MISR_EL2-related macros are missing a number of status
bits that we are about to handle. Take this opportunity to fully
describe the layout of that register as part of the automatic
generation infrastructure.

Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250225172930.1850838-4-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
</pre>
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