linux-toradex.git/Documentation/virtual, branch v4.10-rc7

KVM: hyperv: fix locking of struct kvm_hv fields

2016-12-16T16:53:38+00:00

Introduce a new mutex to avoid an AB-BA deadlock between kvm->lock and
vcpu->mutex.  Protect accesses in kvm_hv_setup_tsc_page too, as suggested
by Roman.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2016-12-13T23:47:02+00:00

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Small release, the most interesting stuff is x86 nested virt
  improvements.

  x86:
   - userspace can now hide nested VMX features from guests
   - nested VMX can now run Hyper-V in a guest
   - support for AVX512_4VNNIW and AVX512_FMAPS in KVM
   - infrastructure support for virtual Intel GPUs.

  PPC:
   - support for KVM guests on POWER9
   - improved support for interrupt polling
   - optimizations and cleanups.

  s390:
   - two small optimizations, more stuff is in flight and will be in
     4.11.

  ARM:
   - support for the GICv3 ITS on 32bit platforms"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (94 commits)
  arm64: KVM: pmu: Reset PMSELR_EL0.SEL to a sane value before entering the guest
  KVM: arm/arm64: timer: Check for properly initialized timer on init
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Limit ITARGETSR bits to number of VCPUs
  KVM: x86: Handle the kthread worker using the new API
  KVM: nVMX: invvpid handling improvements
  KVM: nVMX: check host CR3 on vmentry and vmexit
  KVM: nVMX: introduce nested_vmx_load_cr3 and call it on vmentry
  KVM: nVMX: propagate errors from prepare_vmcs02
  KVM: nVMX: fix CR3 load if L2 uses PAE paging and EPT
  KVM: nVMX: load GUEST_EFER after GUEST_CR0 during emulated VM-entry
  KVM: nVMX: generate MSR_IA32_CR{0,4}_FIXED1 from guest CPUID
  KVM: nVMX: fix checks on CR{0,4} during virtual VMX operation
  KVM: nVMX: support restore of VMX capability MSRs
  KVM: nVMX: generate non-true VMX MSRs based on true versions
  KVM: x86: Do not clear RFLAGS.TF when a singlestep trap occurs.
  KVM: x86: Add kvm_skip_emulated_instruction and use it.
  KVM: VMX: Move skip_emulated_instruction out of nested_vmx_check_vmcs12
  KVM: VMX: Reorder some skip_emulated_instruction calls
  KVM: x86: Add a return value to kvm_emulate_cpuid
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move prototypes for KVM functions into kvm_ppc.h
  ...

Merge tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2016-12-13T05:58:13+00:00

Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "These are the documentation changes for 4.10.

  It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion
  continues. Highlights include:

   - Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but
     should be more solid now.

   - Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to
     go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and
     integrated.

   - Images in binary formats have been replaced with more
     source-friendly versions.

   - Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of
     various files discussed at the kernel summit.

   - New documentation for the device_link mechanism.

  ... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates"

* tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
  dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst
  Update Documentation/00-INDEX
  docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs
  docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries
  docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs
  docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description
  scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane
  Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGS
  Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation
  core-api: remove an unexpected unident
  ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off
  Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction"
  Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup
  Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup
  Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup
  docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation
  docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target
  docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules
  docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files
  docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image
  ...

Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

2016-12-12T06:29:39+00:00

KVM/ARM updates for 4.10:

- Support for the GICv3 ITS on 32bit platforms
- A handful of timer and GIC emulation fixes
- A PMU architecture fix

KVM: Add halt polling documentation

2016-11-28T00:48:47+00:00

There is currently no documentation about the halt polling capabilities
of the kvm module. Add some documentation describing the mechanism as well
as the module parameters to all better understanding of how halt polling
should be used and the effect of tuning the module parameters.

Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add new POWER9 guest-accessible SPRs

2016-11-23T22:24:23+00:00

This adds code to handle two new guest-accessible special-purpose
registers on POWER9: TIDR (thread ID register) and PSSCR (processor
stop status and control register).  They are context-switched
between host and guest, and the guest values can be read and set
via the one_reg interface.

The PSSCR contains some fields which are guest-accessible and some
which are only accessible in hypervisor mode.  We only allow the
guest-accessible fields to be read or set by userspace.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Documentation/virtual/kvm: Support the vCPU preemption check

2016-11-22T11:48:09+00:00

Commit ("x86/kvm: support vCPU preemption check") added a new
struct kvm_steal_time::preempted field. This field tells us if
a vCPU is running or not.

It is zero if some old KVM does not support this field or if the vCPU
is not preempted. Other values means the vCPU has been preempted.

Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: Radim Krčmář 
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478077718-37424-12-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Various typo fixes. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2016-11-21T04:17:55+00:00

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")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

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

2016-11-19T18:04:16+00:00

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

Merge tag 'v4.9-rc4' into sound

2016-11-18T23:13:41+00:00

Bring in -rc4 patches so I can successfully merge the sound doc changes.