user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/virtual, branch v4.9.241

x86/kvm/hyper-v: Explicitly align hcall param for kvm_hyperv_exit

2020-06-20T08:24:14Z

[ Upstream commit f7d31e65368aeef973fab788aa22c4f1d5a6af66 ] The problem the patch is trying to address is the fact that 'struct kvm_hyperv_exit' has different layout on when compiling in 32 and 64 bit modes. In 64-bit mode the default alignment boundary is 64 bits thus forcing extra gaps after 'type' and 'msr' but in 32-bit mode the boundary is at 32 bits thus no extra gaps. This is an issue as even when the kernel is 64 bit, the userspace using the interface can be both 32 and 64 bit but the same 32 bit userspace has to work with 32 bit kernel. The issue is fixed by forcing the 64 bit layout, this leads to ABI change for 32 bit builds and while we are obviously breaking '32 bit userspace with 32 bit kernel' case, we're fixing the '32 bit userspace with 64 bit kernel' one. As the interface has no (known) users and 32 bit KVM is rather baroque nowadays, this seems like a reasonable decision. Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov Signed-off-by: Jon Doron Message-Id: <20200424113746.3473563-2-arilou@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

kvm: Convert kvm_lock to a mutex

2019-11-16T09:29:49Z

commit 0d9ce162cf46c99628cc5da9510b959c7976735b upstream. It doesn't seem as if there is any particular need for kvm_lock to be a spinlock, so convert the lock to a mutex so that sleepable functions (in particular cond_resched()) can be called while holding it. Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini [bwh: Backported to 4.9: - Drop changes in kvm_hyperv_tsc_notifier(), vm_stat_clear(), vcpu_stat_clear(), kvm_uevent_notify_change() - Adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: Reject device ioctls from processes other than the VM's creator

2019-04-03T04:24:19Z

commit ddba91801aeb5c160b660caed1800eb3aef403f8 upstream. KVM's API requires thats ioctls must be issued from the same process that created the VM. In other words, userspace can play games with a VM's file descriptors, e.g. fork(), SCM_RIGHTS, etc..., but only the creator can do anything useful. Explicitly reject device ioctls that are issued by a process other than the VM's creator, and update KVM's API documentation to extend its requirements to device ioctls. Fixes: 852b6d57dc7f ("kvm: add device control API") Cc: Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: x86: Add a framework for supporting MSR-based features

2018-08-15T16:14:52Z

commit 801e459a6f3a63af9d447e6249088c76ae16efc4 upstream Provide a new KVM capability that allows bits within MSRs to be recognized as features. Two new ioctls are added to the /dev/kvm ioctl routine to retrieve the list of these MSRs and then retrieve their values. A kvm_x86_ops callback is used to determine support for the listed MSR-based features. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini [Tweaked documentation. - Radim] Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm/arm64: KVM: Add PSCI version selection API

2018-05-09T07:50:19Z

commit 85bd0ba1ff9875798fad94218b627ea9f768f3c3 upstream. Although we've implemented PSCI 0.1, 0.2 and 1.0, we expose either 0.1 or 1.0 to a guest, defaulting to the latest version of the PSCI implementation that is compatible with the requested version. This is no different from doing a firmware upgrade on KVM. But in order to give a chance to hypothetical badly implemented guests that would have a fit by discovering something other than PSCI 0.2, let's provide a new API that allows userspace to pick one particular version of the API. This is implemented as a new class of "firmware" registers, where we expose the PSCI version. This allows the PSCI version to be save/restored as part of a guest migration, and also set to any supported version if the guest requires it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.16 Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save/restore XER in checkpointed register state

2017-01-09T07:32:22Z

commit 0d808df06a44200f52262b6eb72bcb6042f5a7c5 upstream. When switching from/to a guest that has a transaction in progress, we need to save/restore the checkpointed register state. Although XER is part of the CPU state that gets checkpointed, the code that does this saving and restoring doesn't save/restore XER. This fixes it by saving and restoring the XER. To allow userspace to read/write the checkpointed XER value, we also add a new ONE_REG specifier. The visible effect of this bug is that the guest may see its XER value being corrupted when it uses transactions. Fixes: e4e38121507a ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add transactional memory support") Fixes: 0a8eccefcb34 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing code for transaction reclaim on guest exit") Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kvm: kvmclock: let KVM_GET_CLOCK return whether the master clock is in use

2016-11-19T18:04:16Z

Userspace can read the exact value of kvmclock by reading the TSC and fetching the timekeeping parameters out of guest memory. This however is brittle and not necessary anymore with KVM 4.11. Provide a mechanism that lets userspace know if the new KVM_GET_CLOCK semantics are in effect, and---since we are at it---if the clock is stable across all VCPUs. Cc: Radim Krčmář Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář

KVM: document lock orders

2016-10-27T09:35:47Z

This is long overdue, and not really hard. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Message-Id: <1476357057-17899-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: arm64: Require in-kernel irqchip for PMU support

2016-09-27T16:57:07Z

If userspace creates a PMU for the VCPU, but doesn't create an in-kernel irqchip, then we end up in a nasty path where we try to take an uninitialized spinlock, which can lead to all sorts of breakages. Luckily, QEMU always creates the VGIC before the PMU, so we can establish this as ABI and check for the VGIC in the PMU init stage. This can be relaxed at a later time if we want to support PMU with a userspace irqchip. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Shannon Zhao Acked-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall

KVM: arm/arm64: Add VGICv3 save/restore API documentation

2016-09-08T10:53:00Z

Factor out the GICv3 and ITS-specific documentation into a separate documentation file. Add description for how to access distributor, redistributor, and CPU interface registers for GICv3 in this new file, and add a group for accessing level triggered IRQ information for GICv3 as well. Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall