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<title>s390: Update defconfigs</title>
<updated>2024-10-16T09:32:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
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<published>2024-10-14T10:07:26+00:00</published>
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<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>
<title>s390: Enable KVM_S390_UCONTROL config in debug_defconfig</title>
<updated>2024-09-16T08:33:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Schlameuss</name>
<email>schlameuss@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-07T15:45:12+00:00</published>
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To simplify testing enable UCONTROL KVM by default in debug kernels.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Schlameuss &lt;schlameuss@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240807154512.316936-11-schlameuss@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20240807154512.316936-11-schlameuss@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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To simplify testing enable UCONTROL KVM by default in debug kernels.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Schlameuss &lt;schlameuss@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240807154512.316936-11-schlameuss@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20240807154512.316936-11-schlameuss@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390/pkey: Introduce pkey base with handler registry and handler modules</title>
<updated>2024-08-29T20:56:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harald Freudenberger</name>
<email>freude@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-22T09:32:19+00:00</published>
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Introduce pkey base kernel code with a simple pkey handler registry.
Regroup the pkey code into these kernel modules:
- pkey is the pkey api supporting the ioctls, sysfs and in-kernel api.
  Also the pkey base code which offers the handler registry and
  handler wrapping invocation functions is integrated there. This
  module is automatically loaded in via CPU feature if the MSA feature
  is available.
- pkey-cca is the CCA related handler code kernel module a offering
  CCA specific implementation for pkey. This module is loaded in
  via MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE when a CEX[4-8] card becomes available.
- pkey-ep11 is the EP11 related handler code kernel module offering an
  EP11 specific implementation for pkey. This module is loaded in via
  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE when a CEX[4-8] card becomes available.
- pkey-pckmo is the PCKMO related handler code kernel module. This
  module is loaded in via CPU feature if the MSA feature is available,
  but on init a check for availability of the pckmo instruction is
  performed.

The handler modules register via a pkey_handler struct at the pkey
base code and the pkey customer (that is currently the pkey api code
fetches a handler via pkey handler registry functions and calls the
unified handler functions via the pkey base handler functions.

As a result the pkey-cca, pkey-ep11 and pkey-pckmo modules get
independent from each other and it becomes possible to write new
handlers which offer another kind of implementation without implicit
dependencies to other handler implementations and/or kernel device
drivers.

For each of these 4 kernel modules there is an individual Kconfig
entry: CONFIG_PKEY for the base and api, CONFIG_PKEY_CCA for the PKEY
CCA support handler, CONFIG_PKEY_EP11 for the EP11 support handler and
CONFIG_PKEY_PCKMO for the pckmo support. The both CEX related handler
modules (PKEY CCA and PKEY EP11) have a dependency to the zcrypt api
of the zcrypt device driver.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Holger Dengler &lt;dengler@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Introduce pkey base kernel code with a simple pkey handler registry.
Regroup the pkey code into these kernel modules:
- pkey is the pkey api supporting the ioctls, sysfs and in-kernel api.
  Also the pkey base code which offers the handler registry and
  handler wrapping invocation functions is integrated there. This
  module is automatically loaded in via CPU feature if the MSA feature
  is available.
- pkey-cca is the CCA related handler code kernel module a offering
  CCA specific implementation for pkey. This module is loaded in
  via MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE when a CEX[4-8] card becomes available.
- pkey-ep11 is the EP11 related handler code kernel module offering an
  EP11 specific implementation for pkey. This module is loaded in via
  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE when a CEX[4-8] card becomes available.
- pkey-pckmo is the PCKMO related handler code kernel module. This
  module is loaded in via CPU feature if the MSA feature is available,
  but on init a check for availability of the pckmo instruction is
  performed.

The handler modules register via a pkey_handler struct at the pkey
base code and the pkey customer (that is currently the pkey api code
fetches a handler via pkey handler registry functions and calls the
unified handler functions via the pkey base handler functions.

As a result the pkey-cca, pkey-ep11 and pkey-pckmo modules get
independent from each other and it becomes possible to write new
handlers which offer another kind of implementation without implicit
dependencies to other handler implementations and/or kernel device
drivers.

For each of these 4 kernel modules there is an individual Kconfig
entry: CONFIG_PKEY for the base and api, CONFIG_PKEY_CCA for the PKEY
CCA support handler, CONFIG_PKEY_EP11 for the EP11 support handler and
CONFIG_PKEY_PCKMO for the pckmo support. The both CEX related handler
modules (PKEY CCA and PKEY EP11) have a dependency to the zcrypt api
of the zcrypt device driver.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Holger Dengler &lt;dengler@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/crypto: Add hardware acceleration for HMAC modes</title>
<updated>2024-08-29T20:56:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Holger Dengler</name>
<email>dengler@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-07T16:06:29+00:00</published>
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Add new shash exploiting the HMAC hardware accelerations for SHA224,
SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 introduced with message-security assist
extension 11.

Reviewed-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Holger Dengler &lt;dengler@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Add new shash exploiting the HMAC hardware accelerations for SHA224,
SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 introduced with message-security assist
extension 11.

Reviewed-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Holger Dengler &lt;dengler@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: Remove protvirt and kvm config guards for uv code</title>
<updated>2024-07-23T14:02:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Janosch Frank</name>
<email>frankja@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-04T11:02:46+00:00</published>
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Removing the CONFIG_PROTECTED_VIRTUALIZATION_GUEST ifdefs and config
option as well as CONFIG_KVM ifdefs in uv files.

Having this configurable has been more of a pain than a help.
It's time to remove the ifdefs and the config option.

Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Removing the CONFIG_PROTECTED_VIRTUALIZATION_GUEST ifdefs and config
option as well as CONFIG_KVM ifdefs in uv files.

Having this configurable has been more of a pain than a help.
It's time to remove the ifdefs and the config option.

Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank &lt;frankja@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: Update defconfigs</title>
<updated>2024-07-02T08:16:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-27T12:23:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=feaa3344ff974c862c4b44384a239b1e610e6063'/>
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<content type='text'>
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: Update defconfigs</title>
<updated>2024-06-11T14:20:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-09T08:21:39+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>crypto: remove CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS</title>
<updated>2024-04-02T02:49:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-13T03:48:21+00:00</published>
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Remove support for the "Crypto usage statistics" feature
(CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS).  This feature does not appear to have ever been
used, and it is harmful because it significantly reduces performance and
is a large maintenance burden.

Covering each of these points in detail:

1. Feature is not being used

Since these generic crypto statistics are only readable using netlink,
it's fairly straightforward to look for programs that use them.  I'm
unable to find any evidence that any such programs exist.  For example,
Debian Code Search returns no hits except the kernel header and kernel
code itself and translations of the kernel header:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=CRYPTOCFGA_STAT&amp;literal=1&amp;perpkg=1

The patch series that added this feature in 2018
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/1537351855-16618-1-git-send-email-clabbe@baylibre.com/)
said "The goal is to have an ifconfig for crypto device."  This doesn't
appear to have happened.

It's not clear that there is real demand for crypto statistics.  Just
because the kernel provides other types of statistics such as I/O and
networking statistics and some people find those useful does not mean
that crypto statistics are useful too.

Further evidence that programs are not using CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is that
it was able to be disabled in RHEL and Fedora as a bug fix
(https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_requests/2947).

Even further evidence comes from the fact that there are and have been
bugs in how the stats work, but they were never reported.  For example,
before Linux v6.7 hash stats were double-counted in most cases.

There has also never been any documentation for this feature, so it
might be hard to use even if someone wanted to.

2. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces performance

Enabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces the performance of
the crypto API, even if no program ever retrieves the statistics.  This
primarily affects systems with a large number of CPUs.  For example,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2039576 reported
that Lustre client encryption performance improved from 21.7GB/s to
48.2GB/s by disabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS.

It can be argued that this means that CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS should be
optimized with per-cpu counters similar to many of the networking
counters.  But no one has done this in 5+ years.  This is consistent
with the fact that the feature appears to be unused, so there seems to
be little interest in improving it as opposed to just disabling it.

It can be argued that because CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is off by default,
performance doesn't matter.  But Linux distros tend to error on the side
of enabling options.  The option is enabled in Ubuntu and Arch Linux,
and until recently was enabled in RHEL and Fedora (see above).  So, even
just having the option available is harmful to users.

3. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is a large maintenance burden

There are over 1000 lines of code associated with CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS,
spread among 32 files.  It significantly complicates much of the
implementation of the crypto API.  After the initial submission, many
fixes and refactorings have consumed effort of multiple people to keep
this feature "working".  We should be spending this effort elsewhere.

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Corentin Labbe &lt;clabbe@baylibre.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Remove support for the "Crypto usage statistics" feature
(CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS).  This feature does not appear to have ever been
used, and it is harmful because it significantly reduces performance and
is a large maintenance burden.

Covering each of these points in detail:

1. Feature is not being used

Since these generic crypto statistics are only readable using netlink,
it's fairly straightforward to look for programs that use them.  I'm
unable to find any evidence that any such programs exist.  For example,
Debian Code Search returns no hits except the kernel header and kernel
code itself and translations of the kernel header:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=CRYPTOCFGA_STAT&amp;literal=1&amp;perpkg=1

The patch series that added this feature in 2018
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/1537351855-16618-1-git-send-email-clabbe@baylibre.com/)
said "The goal is to have an ifconfig for crypto device."  This doesn't
appear to have happened.

It's not clear that there is real demand for crypto statistics.  Just
because the kernel provides other types of statistics such as I/O and
networking statistics and some people find those useful does not mean
that crypto statistics are useful too.

Further evidence that programs are not using CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is that
it was able to be disabled in RHEL and Fedora as a bug fix
(https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_requests/2947).

Even further evidence comes from the fact that there are and have been
bugs in how the stats work, but they were never reported.  For example,
before Linux v6.7 hash stats were double-counted in most cases.

There has also never been any documentation for this feature, so it
might be hard to use even if someone wanted to.

2. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces performance

Enabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS significantly reduces the performance of
the crypto API, even if no program ever retrieves the statistics.  This
primarily affects systems with a large number of CPUs.  For example,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2039576 reported
that Lustre client encryption performance improved from 21.7GB/s to
48.2GB/s by disabling CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS.

It can be argued that this means that CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS should be
optimized with per-cpu counters similar to many of the networking
counters.  But no one has done this in 5+ years.  This is consistent
with the fact that the feature appears to be unused, so there seems to
be little interest in improving it as opposed to just disabling it.

It can be argued that because CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is off by default,
performance doesn't matter.  But Linux distros tend to error on the side
of enabling options.  The option is enabled in Ubuntu and Arch Linux,
and until recently was enabled in RHEL and Fedora (see above).  So, even
just having the option available is harmful to users.

3. CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS is a large maintenance burden

There are over 1000 lines of code associated with CONFIG_CRYPTO_STATS,
spread among 32 files.  It significantly complicates much of the
implementation of the crypto API.  After the initial submission, many
fixes and refactorings have consumed effort of multiple people to keep
this feature "working".  We should be spending this effort elsewhere.

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Corentin Labbe &lt;clabbe@baylibre.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>s390/mm: provide simple ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL support</title>
<updated>2024-03-13T08:23:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-07T12:28:27+00:00</published>
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Provide a very simple ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL implementation.
For now errors are only reported for the following cases:

- Trying to translate a vmalloc or module address to a physical address

- Translating a supposed to be ZONE_DMA virtual address into a physical
  address, and the resulting physical address is larger than two GiB

Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Provide a very simple ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL implementation.
For now errors are only reported for the following cases:

- Trying to translate a vmalloc or module address to a physical address

- Translating a supposed to be ZONE_DMA virtual address into a physical
  address, and the resulting physical address is larger than two GiB

Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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