e813e65038
PPC: Bugfixes
x86:
* Support for mapping DAX areas with large nested page table entries.
* Cleanups and bugfixes here too. A particularly important one is
a fix for FPU load when the thread has TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD. There is
also a race condition which could be used in guest userspace to exploit
the guest kernel, for which the embargo expired today.
* Fast path for IPI delivery vmexits, shaving about 200 clock cycles
from IPI latency.
* Protect against "Spectre-v1/L1TF" (bring data in the cache via
speculative out of bound accesses, use L1TF on the sibling hyperthread
to read it), which unfortunately is an even bigger whack-a-mole game
than SpectreV1.
Sean continues his mission to rewrite KVM. In addition to a sizable
number of x86 patches, this time he contributed a pretty large refactoring
of vCPU creation that affects all architectures but should not have any
visible effect.
s390 will come next week together with some more x86 patches.
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Merge tag 'kvm-5.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"This is the first batch of KVM changes.
ARM:
- cleanups and corner case fixes.
PPC:
- Bugfixes
x86:
- Support for mapping DAX areas with large nested page table entries.
- Cleanups and bugfixes here too. A particularly important one is a
fix for FPU load when the thread has TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD. There is
also a race condition which could be used in guest userspace to
exploit the guest kernel, for which the embargo expired today.
- Fast path for IPI delivery vmexits, shaving about 200 clock cycles
from IPI latency.
- Protect against "Spectre-v1/L1TF" (bring data in the cache via
speculative out of bound accesses, use L1TF on the sibling
hyperthread to read it), which unfortunately is an even bigger
whack-a-mole game than SpectreV1.
Sean continues his mission to rewrite KVM. In addition to a sizable
number of x86 patches, this time he contributed a pretty large
refactoring of vCPU creation that affects all architectures but should
not have any visible effect.
s390 will come next week together with some more x86 patches"
* tag 'kvm-5.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits)
x86/KVM: Clean up host's steal time structure
x86/KVM: Make sure KVM_VCPU_FLUSH_TLB flag is not missed
x86/kvm: Cache gfn to pfn translation
x86/kvm: Introduce kvm_(un)map_gfn()
x86/kvm: Be careful not to clear KVM_VCPU_FLUSH_TLB bit
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Fix -Werror=return-type build failure
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Release lock on page-out failure path
KVM: arm64: Treat emulated TVAL TimerValue as a signed 32-bit integer
KVM: arm64: pmu: Only handle supported event counters
KVM: arm64: pmu: Fix chained SW_INCR counters
KVM: arm64: pmu: Don't mark a counter as chained if the odd one is disabled
KVM: arm64: pmu: Don't increment SW_INCR if PMCR.E is unset
KVM: x86: Use a typedef for fastop functions
KVM: X86: Add 'else' to unify fastop and execute call path
KVM: x86: inline memslot_valid_for_gpte
KVM: x86/mmu: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files
KVM: x86/mmu: Remove lpage_is_disallowed() check from set_spte()
KVM: x86/mmu: Fold max_mapping_level() into kvm_mmu_hugepage_adjust()
KVM: x86/mmu: Zap any compound page when collapsing sptes
KVM: x86/mmu: Remove obsolete gfn restoration in FNAME(fetch)
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