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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>mm: unexport __get_user_pages_unlocked()</title>
<updated>2016-12-15T00:04:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lstoakes@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-14T23:06:55+00:00</published>
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Unexport the low-level __get_user_pages_unlocked() function and replaces
invocations with calls to more appropriate higher-level functions.

In hva_to_pfn_slow() we are able to replace __get_user_pages_unlocked()
with get_user_pages_unlocked() since we can now pass gup_flags.

In async_pf_execute() and process_vm_rw_single_vec() we need to pass
different tsk, mm arguments so get_user_pages_remote() is the sane
replacement in these cases (having added manual acquisition and release
of mmap_sem.)

Additionally get_user_pages_remote() reintroduces use of the FOLL_TOUCH
flag.  However, this flag was originally silently dropped by commit
1e9877902dc7 ("mm/gup: Introduce get_user_pages_remote()"), so this
appears to have been unintentional and reintroducing it is therefore not
an issue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161027095141.2569-3-lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Radim Krcmar &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Unexport the low-level __get_user_pages_unlocked() function and replaces
invocations with calls to more appropriate higher-level functions.

In hva_to_pfn_slow() we are able to replace __get_user_pages_unlocked()
with get_user_pages_unlocked() since we can now pass gup_flags.

In async_pf_execute() and process_vm_rw_single_vec() we need to pass
different tsk, mm arguments so get_user_pages_remote() is the sane
replacement in these cases (having added manual acquisition and release
of mmap_sem.)

Additionally get_user_pages_remote() reintroduces use of the FOLL_TOUCH
flag.  However, this flag was originally silently dropped by commit
1e9877902dc7 ("mm/gup: Introduce get_user_pages_remote()"), so this
appears to have been unintentional and reintroducing it is therefore not
an issue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161027095141.2569-3-lstoakes@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Radim Krcmar &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: async_pf: avoid recursive flushing of work items</title>
<updated>2016-11-19T18:04:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-17T14:55:45+00:00</published>
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This was reported by syzkaller:

    [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
    4.9.0-rc4+ #49 Not tainted
    ---------------------------------------------
    kworker/2:1/5658 is trying to acquire lock:
     ([ 1644.769018] (&amp;work-&gt;work)
    [&lt;     inline     &gt;] list_empty include/linux/compiler.h:243
    [&lt;ffffffff8128dd60&gt;] flush_work+0x0/0x660 kernel/workqueue.c:1511

    but task is already holding lock:
     ([ 1644.769018] (&amp;work-&gt;work)
    [&lt;ffffffff812916ab&gt;] process_one_work+0x94b/0x1900 kernel/workqueue.c:2093

    stack backtrace:
    CPU: 2 PID: 5658 Comm: kworker/2:1 Not tainted 4.9.0-rc4+ #49
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
    Workqueue: events async_pf_execute
     ffff8800676ff630 ffffffff81c2e46b ffffffff8485b930 ffff88006b1fc480
     0000000000000000 ffffffff8485b930 ffff8800676ff7e0 ffffffff81339b27
     ffff8800676ff7e8 0000000000000046 ffff88006b1fcce8 ffff88006b1fccf0
    Call Trace:
    ...
    [&lt;ffffffff8128ddf3&gt;] flush_work+0x93/0x660 kernel/workqueue.c:2846
    [&lt;ffffffff812954ea&gt;] __cancel_work_timer+0x17a/0x410 kernel/workqueue.c:2916
    [&lt;ffffffff81295797&gt;] cancel_work_sync+0x17/0x20 kernel/workqueue.c:2951
    [&lt;ffffffff81073037&gt;] kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue+0xd7/0x400 virt/kvm/async_pf.c:126
    [&lt;     inline     &gt;] kvm_free_vcpus arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7841
    [&lt;ffffffff810b728d&gt;] kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x23d/0x620 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7946
    [&lt;     inline     &gt;] kvm_destroy_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:731
    [&lt;ffffffff8105914e&gt;] kvm_put_kvm+0x40e/0x790 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:752
    [&lt;ffffffff81072b3d&gt;] async_pf_execute+0x23d/0x4f0 virt/kvm/async_pf.c:111
    [&lt;ffffffff8129175c&gt;] process_one_work+0x9fc/0x1900 kernel/workqueue.c:2096
    [&lt;ffffffff8129274f&gt;] worker_thread+0xef/0x1480 kernel/workqueue.c:2230
    [&lt;ffffffff812a5a94&gt;] kthread+0x244/0x2d0 kernel/kthread.c:209
    [&lt;ffffffff831f102a&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:433

The reason is that kvm_put_kvm is causing the destruction of the VM, but
the page fault is still on the -&gt;queue list.  The -&gt;queue list is owned
by the VCPU, not by the work items, so we cannot just add list_del to
the work item.

Instead, use work-&gt;vcpu to note async page faults that have been resolved
and will be processed through the done list.  There is no need to flush
those.

Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
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This was reported by syzkaller:

    [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
    4.9.0-rc4+ #49 Not tainted
    ---------------------------------------------
    kworker/2:1/5658 is trying to acquire lock:
     ([ 1644.769018] (&amp;work-&gt;work)
    [&lt;     inline     &gt;] list_empty include/linux/compiler.h:243
    [&lt;ffffffff8128dd60&gt;] flush_work+0x0/0x660 kernel/workqueue.c:1511

    but task is already holding lock:
     ([ 1644.769018] (&amp;work-&gt;work)
    [&lt;ffffffff812916ab&gt;] process_one_work+0x94b/0x1900 kernel/workqueue.c:2093

    stack backtrace:
    CPU: 2 PID: 5658 Comm: kworker/2:1 Not tainted 4.9.0-rc4+ #49
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
    Workqueue: events async_pf_execute
     ffff8800676ff630 ffffffff81c2e46b ffffffff8485b930 ffff88006b1fc480
     0000000000000000 ffffffff8485b930 ffff8800676ff7e0 ffffffff81339b27
     ffff8800676ff7e8 0000000000000046 ffff88006b1fcce8 ffff88006b1fccf0
    Call Trace:
    ...
    [&lt;ffffffff8128ddf3&gt;] flush_work+0x93/0x660 kernel/workqueue.c:2846
    [&lt;ffffffff812954ea&gt;] __cancel_work_timer+0x17a/0x410 kernel/workqueue.c:2916
    [&lt;ffffffff81295797&gt;] cancel_work_sync+0x17/0x20 kernel/workqueue.c:2951
    [&lt;ffffffff81073037&gt;] kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue+0xd7/0x400 virt/kvm/async_pf.c:126
    [&lt;     inline     &gt;] kvm_free_vcpus arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7841
    [&lt;ffffffff810b728d&gt;] kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x23d/0x620 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7946
    [&lt;     inline     &gt;] kvm_destroy_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:731
    [&lt;ffffffff8105914e&gt;] kvm_put_kvm+0x40e/0x790 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:752
    [&lt;ffffffff81072b3d&gt;] async_pf_execute+0x23d/0x4f0 virt/kvm/async_pf.c:111
    [&lt;ffffffff8129175c&gt;] process_one_work+0x9fc/0x1900 kernel/workqueue.c:2096
    [&lt;ffffffff8129274f&gt;] worker_thread+0xef/0x1480 kernel/workqueue.c:2230
    [&lt;ffffffff812a5a94&gt;] kthread+0x244/0x2d0 kernel/kthread.c:209
    [&lt;ffffffff831f102a&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:433

The reason is that kvm_put_kvm is causing the destruction of the VM, but
the page fault is still on the -&gt;queue list.  The -&gt;queue list is owned
by the VCPU, not by the work items, so we cannot just add list_del to
the work item.

Instead, use work-&gt;vcpu to note async page faults that have been resolved
and will be processed through the done list.  There is no need to flush
those.

Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked()</title>
<updated>2016-10-18T21:13:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lstoakes@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-13T00:20:12+00:00</published>
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This removes the redundant 'write' and 'force' parameters from
__get_user_pages_unlocked() to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in
callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and
hence bugs) within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This removes the redundant 'write' and 'force' parameters from
__get_user_pages_unlocked() to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in
callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and
hence bugs) within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-21T02:08:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-21T02:08:56+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 protection key support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds support for a new memory protection hardware feature
  that is available in upcoming Intel CPUs: 'protection keys' (pkeys).

  There's a background article at LWN.net:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/643797/

  The gist is that protection keys allow the encoding of
  user-controllable permission masks in the pte.  So instead of having a
  fixed protection mask in the pte (which needs a system call to change
  and works on a per page basis), the user can map a (handful of)
  protection mask variants and can change the masks runtime relatively
  cheaply, without having to change every single page in the affected
  virtual memory range.

  This allows the dynamic switching of the protection bits of large
  amounts of virtual memory, via user-space instructions.  It also
  allows more precise control of MMU permission bits: for example the
  executable bit is separate from the read bit (see more about that
  below).

  This tree adds the MM infrastructure and low level x86 glue needed for
  that, plus it adds a high level API to make use of protection keys -
  if a user-space application calls:

        mmap(..., PROT_EXEC);

  or

        mprotect(ptr, sz, PROT_EXEC);

  (note PROT_EXEC-only, without PROT_READ/WRITE), the kernel will notice
  this special case, and will set a special protection key on this
  memory range.  It also sets the appropriate bits in the Protection
  Keys User Rights (PKRU) register so that the memory becomes unreadable
  and unwritable.

  So using protection keys the kernel is able to implement 'true'
  PROT_EXEC on x86 CPUs: without protection keys PROT_EXEC implies
  PROT_READ as well.  Unreadable executable mappings have security
  advantages: they cannot be read via information leaks to figure out
  ASLR details, nor can they be scanned for ROP gadgets - and they
  cannot be used by exploits for data purposes either.

  We know about no user-space code that relies on pure PROT_EXEC
  mappings today, but binary loaders could start making use of this new
  feature to map binaries and libraries in a more secure fashion.

  There is other pending pkeys work that offers more high level system
  call APIs to manage protection keys - but those are not part of this
  pull request.

  Right now there's a Kconfig that controls this feature
  (CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS) that is default enabled
  (like most x86 CPU feature enablement code that has no runtime
  overhead), but it's not user-configurable at the moment.  If there's
  any serious problem with this then we can make it configurable and/or
  flip the default"

* 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix mismerge of protection keys CPUID bits
  mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix access_error() denial of writes to write-only VMA
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add execute-only protection keys support
  x86/mm/pkeys: Create an x86 arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() for VMA flags
  x86/mm/pkeys: Allow kernel to modify user pkey rights register
  x86/fpu: Allow setting of XSAVE state
  x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add arch_validate_pkey()
  mm/core, arch, powerpc: Pass a protection key in to calc_vm_flag_bits()
  x86/mm/pkeys: Actually enable Memory Protection Keys in the CPU
  x86/mm/pkeys: Add Kconfig prompt to existing config option
  x86/mm/pkeys: Dump pkey from VMA in /proc/pid/smaps
  x86/mm/pkeys: Dump PKRU with other kernel registers
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Differentiate instruction fetches
  x86/mm/pkeys: Optimize fault handling in access_error()
  mm/core: Do not enforce PKEY permissions on remote mm access
  um, pkeys: Add UML arch_*_access_permitted() methods
  mm/gup, x86/mm/pkeys: Check VMAs and PTEs for protection keys
  x86/mm/gup: Simplify get_user_pages() PTE bit handling
  ...
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Pull x86 protection key support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds support for a new memory protection hardware feature
  that is available in upcoming Intel CPUs: 'protection keys' (pkeys).

  There's a background article at LWN.net:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/643797/

  The gist is that protection keys allow the encoding of
  user-controllable permission masks in the pte.  So instead of having a
  fixed protection mask in the pte (which needs a system call to change
  and works on a per page basis), the user can map a (handful of)
  protection mask variants and can change the masks runtime relatively
  cheaply, without having to change every single page in the affected
  virtual memory range.

  This allows the dynamic switching of the protection bits of large
  amounts of virtual memory, via user-space instructions.  It also
  allows more precise control of MMU permission bits: for example the
  executable bit is separate from the read bit (see more about that
  below).

  This tree adds the MM infrastructure and low level x86 glue needed for
  that, plus it adds a high level API to make use of protection keys -
  if a user-space application calls:

        mmap(..., PROT_EXEC);

  or

        mprotect(ptr, sz, PROT_EXEC);

  (note PROT_EXEC-only, without PROT_READ/WRITE), the kernel will notice
  this special case, and will set a special protection key on this
  memory range.  It also sets the appropriate bits in the Protection
  Keys User Rights (PKRU) register so that the memory becomes unreadable
  and unwritable.

  So using protection keys the kernel is able to implement 'true'
  PROT_EXEC on x86 CPUs: without protection keys PROT_EXEC implies
  PROT_READ as well.  Unreadable executable mappings have security
  advantages: they cannot be read via information leaks to figure out
  ASLR details, nor can they be scanned for ROP gadgets - and they
  cannot be used by exploits for data purposes either.

  We know about no user-space code that relies on pure PROT_EXEC
  mappings today, but binary loaders could start making use of this new
  feature to map binaries and libraries in a more secure fashion.

  There is other pending pkeys work that offers more high level system
  call APIs to manage protection keys - but those are not part of this
  pull request.

  Right now there's a Kconfig that controls this feature
  (CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS) that is default enabled
  (like most x86 CPU feature enablement code that has no runtime
  overhead), but it's not user-configurable at the moment.  If there's
  any serious problem with this then we can make it configurable and/or
  flip the default"

* 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix mismerge of protection keys CPUID bits
  mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field
  x86/mm/pkeys: Fix access_error() denial of writes to write-only VMA
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add execute-only protection keys support
  x86/mm/pkeys: Create an x86 arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() for VMA flags
  x86/mm/pkeys: Allow kernel to modify user pkey rights register
  x86/fpu: Allow setting of XSAVE state
  x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add arch_validate_pkey()
  mm/core, arch, powerpc: Pass a protection key in to calc_vm_flag_bits()
  x86/mm/pkeys: Actually enable Memory Protection Keys in the CPU
  x86/mm/pkeys: Add Kconfig prompt to existing config option
  x86/mm/pkeys: Dump pkey from VMA in /proc/pid/smaps
  x86/mm/pkeys: Dump PKRU with other kernel registers
  mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Differentiate instruction fetches
  x86/mm/pkeys: Optimize fault handling in access_error()
  mm/core: Do not enforce PKEY permissions on remote mm access
  um, pkeys: Add UML arch_*_access_permitted() methods
  mm/gup, x86/mm/pkeys: Check VMAs and PTEs for protection keys
  x86/mm/gup: Simplify get_user_pages() PTE bit handling
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2016-03-16T16:55:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-16T16:55:35+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "One of the largest releases for KVM...  Hardly any generic
  changes, but lots of architecture-specific updates.

  ARM:
   - VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
   - PMU support for guests
   - 32bit world switch rewritten in C
   - various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code.

  PPC:
   - enabled KVM-VFIO integration ("VFIO device")
   - optimizations to speed up IPIs between vcpus
   - in-kernel handling of IOMMU hypercalls
   - support for dynamic DMA windows (DDW).

  s390:
   - provide the floating point registers via sync regs;
   - separated instruction vs.  data accesses
   - dirty log improvements for huge guests
   - bugfixes and documentation improvements.

  x86:
   - Hyper-V VMBus hypercall userspace exit
   - alternative implementation of lowest-priority interrupts using
     vector hashing (for better VT-d posted interrupt support)
   - fixed guest debugging with nested virtualizations
   - improved interrupt tracking in the in-kernel IOAPIC
   - generic infrastructure for tracking writes to guest
     memory - currently its only use is to speedup the legacy shadow
     paging (pre-EPT) case, but in the future it will be used for
     virtual GPUs as well
   - much cleanup (LAPIC, kvmclock, MMU, PIT), including ubsan fixes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (217 commits)
  KVM: x86: remove eager_fpu field of struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX XSAVE features
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Reset LRs at boot time
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Do not save an LR known to be empty
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Avoid accessing ICH registers
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Make GICD_SGIR quicker to hit
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Reset LRs at boot time
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Do not save an LR known to be empty
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Move GICH_ELRSR saving to its own function
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Avoid accessing GICH registers
  KVM: s390: allocate only one DMA page per VM
  KVM: s390: enable STFLE interpretation only if enabled for the guest
  KVM: s390: wake up when the VCPU cpu timer expires
  KVM: s390: step the VCPU timer while in enabled wait
  KVM: s390: protect VCPU cpu timer with a seqcount
  KVM: s390: step VCPU cpu timer during kvm_run ioctl
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "One of the largest releases for KVM...  Hardly any generic
  changes, but lots of architecture-specific updates.

  ARM:
   - VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
   - PMU support for guests
   - 32bit world switch rewritten in C
   - various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code.

  PPC:
   - enabled KVM-VFIO integration ("VFIO device")
   - optimizations to speed up IPIs between vcpus
   - in-kernel handling of IOMMU hypercalls
   - support for dynamic DMA windows (DDW).

  s390:
   - provide the floating point registers via sync regs;
   - separated instruction vs.  data accesses
   - dirty log improvements for huge guests
   - bugfixes and documentation improvements.

  x86:
   - Hyper-V VMBus hypercall userspace exit
   - alternative implementation of lowest-priority interrupts using
     vector hashing (for better VT-d posted interrupt support)
   - fixed guest debugging with nested virtualizations
   - improved interrupt tracking in the in-kernel IOAPIC
   - generic infrastructure for tracking writes to guest
     memory - currently its only use is to speedup the legacy shadow
     paging (pre-EPT) case, but in the future it will be used for
     virtual GPUs as well
   - much cleanup (LAPIC, kvmclock, MMU, PIT), including ubsan fixes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (217 commits)
  KVM: x86: remove eager_fpu field of struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX XSAVE features
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Reset LRs at boot time
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Do not save an LR known to be empty
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Avoid accessing ICH registers
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Make GICD_SGIR quicker to hit
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Reset LRs at boot time
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Do not save an LR known to be empty
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Move GICH_ELRSR saving to its own function
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Avoid accessing GICH registers
  KVM: s390: allocate only one DMA page per VM
  KVM: s390: enable STFLE interpretation only if enabled for the guest
  KVM: s390: wake up when the VCPU cpu timer expires
  KVM: s390: step the VCPU timer while in enabled wait
  KVM: s390: protect VCPU cpu timer with a seqcount
  KVM: s390: step VCPU cpu timer during kvm_run ioctl
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD</title>
<updated>2016-03-09T10:50:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-09T10:50:42+00:00</published>
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KVM/ARM updates for 4.6

- VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
- PMU support for guests
- 32bit world switch rewritten in C
- Various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code

Conflicts:
	include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
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KVM/ARM updates for 4.6

- VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
- PMU support for guests
- 32bit world switch rewritten in C
- Various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code

Conflicts:
	include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to pick up fixes before applying new changes</title>
<updated>2016-02-29T08:42:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-29T08:42:07+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: Use simple waitqueue for vcpu-&gt;wq</title>
<updated>2016-02-25T10:27:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcelo Tosatti</name>
<email>mtosatti@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-19T08:46:39+00:00</published>
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The problem:

On -rt, an emulated LAPIC timer instances has the following path:

1) hard interrupt
2) ksoftirqd is scheduled
3) ksoftirqd wakes up vcpu thread
4) vcpu thread is scheduled

This extra context switch introduces unnecessary latency in the
LAPIC path for a KVM guest.

The solution:

Allow waking up vcpu thread from hardirq context,
thus avoiding the need for ksoftirqd to be scheduled.

Normal waitqueues make use of spinlocks, which on -RT
are sleepable locks. Therefore, waking up a waitqueue
waiter involves locking a sleeping lock, which
is not allowed from hard interrupt context.

cyclictest command line:

This patch reduces the average latency in my tests from 14us to 11us.

Daniel writes:
Paolo asked for numbers from kvm-unit-tests/tscdeadline_latency
benchmark on mainline. The test was run 1000 times on
tip/sched/core 4.4.0-rc8-01134-g0905f04:

  ./x86-run x86/tscdeadline_latency.flat -cpu host

with idle=poll.

The test seems not to deliver really stable numbers though most of
them are smaller. Paolo write:

"Anything above ~10000 cycles means that the host went to C1 or
lower---the number means more or less nothing in that case.

The mean shows an improvement indeed."

Before:

               min             max         mean           std
count  1000.000000     1000.000000  1000.000000   1000.000000
mean   5162.596000  2019270.084000  5824.491541  20681.645558
std      75.431231   622607.723969    89.575700   6492.272062
min    4466.000000    23928.000000  5537.926500    585.864966
25%    5163.000000  1613252.750000  5790.132275  16683.745433
50%    5175.000000  2281919.000000  5834.654000  23151.990026
75%    5190.000000  2382865.750000  5861.412950  24148.206168
max    5228.000000  4175158.000000  6254.827300  46481.048691

After
               min            max         mean           std
count  1000.000000     1000.00000  1000.000000   1000.000000
mean   5143.511000  2076886.10300  5813.312474  21207.357565
std      77.668322   610413.09583    86.541500   6331.915127
min    4427.000000    25103.00000  5529.756600    559.187707
25%    5148.000000  1691272.75000  5784.889825  17473.518244
50%    5160.000000  2308328.50000  5832.025000  23464.837068
75%    5172.000000  2393037.75000  5853.177675  24223.969976
max    5222.000000  3922458.00000  6186.720500  42520.379830

[Patch was originaly based on the swait implementation found in the -rt
 tree. Daniel ported it to mainline's version and gathered the
 benchmark numbers for tscdeadline_latency test.]

Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner &lt;daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455871601-27484-4-git-send-email-wagi@monom.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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The problem:

On -rt, an emulated LAPIC timer instances has the following path:

1) hard interrupt
2) ksoftirqd is scheduled
3) ksoftirqd wakes up vcpu thread
4) vcpu thread is scheduled

This extra context switch introduces unnecessary latency in the
LAPIC path for a KVM guest.

The solution:

Allow waking up vcpu thread from hardirq context,
thus avoiding the need for ksoftirqd to be scheduled.

Normal waitqueues make use of spinlocks, which on -RT
are sleepable locks. Therefore, waking up a waitqueue
waiter involves locking a sleeping lock, which
is not allowed from hard interrupt context.

cyclictest command line:

This patch reduces the average latency in my tests from 14us to 11us.

Daniel writes:
Paolo asked for numbers from kvm-unit-tests/tscdeadline_latency
benchmark on mainline. The test was run 1000 times on
tip/sched/core 4.4.0-rc8-01134-g0905f04:

  ./x86-run x86/tscdeadline_latency.flat -cpu host

with idle=poll.

The test seems not to deliver really stable numbers though most of
them are smaller. Paolo write:

"Anything above ~10000 cycles means that the host went to C1 or
lower---the number means more or less nothing in that case.

The mean shows an improvement indeed."

Before:

               min             max         mean           std
count  1000.000000     1000.000000  1000.000000   1000.000000
mean   5162.596000  2019270.084000  5824.491541  20681.645558
std      75.431231   622607.723969    89.575700   6492.272062
min    4466.000000    23928.000000  5537.926500    585.864966
25%    5163.000000  1613252.750000  5790.132275  16683.745433
50%    5175.000000  2281919.000000  5834.654000  23151.990026
75%    5190.000000  2382865.750000  5861.412950  24148.206168
max    5228.000000  4175158.000000  6254.827300  46481.048691

After
               min            max         mean           std
count  1000.000000     1000.00000  1000.000000   1000.000000
mean   5143.511000  2076886.10300  5813.312474  21207.357565
std      77.668322   610413.09583    86.541500   6331.915127
min    4427.000000    25103.00000  5529.756600    559.187707
25%    5148.000000  1691272.75000  5784.889825  17473.518244
50%    5160.000000  2308328.50000  5832.025000  23464.837068
75%    5172.000000  2393037.75000  5853.177675  24223.969976
max    5222.000000  3922458.00000  6186.720500  42520.379830

[Patch was originaly based on the swait implementation found in the -rt
 tree. Daniel ported it to mainline's version and gathered the
 benchmark numbers for tscdeadline_latency test.]

Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner &lt;daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455871601-27484-4-git-send-email-wagi@monom.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: async_pf: do not warn on page allocation failures</title>
<updated>2016-02-24T13:47:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntraeger@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-19T12:11:46+00:00</published>
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In async_pf we try to allocate with NOWAIT to get an element quickly
or fail. This code also handle failures gracefully. Lets silence
potential page allocation failures under load.

qemu-system-s39: page allocation failure: order:0,mode:0x2200000
[...]
Call Trace:
([&lt;00000000001146b8&gt;] show_trace+0xf8/0x148)
[&lt;000000000011476a&gt;] show_stack+0x62/0xe8
[&lt;00000000004a36b8&gt;] dump_stack+0x70/0x98
[&lt;0000000000272c3a&gt;] warn_alloc_failed+0xd2/0x148
[&lt;000000000027709e&gt;] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x94e/0xb38
[&lt;00000000002cd36a&gt;] new_slab+0x382/0x400
[&lt;00000000002cf7ac&gt;] ___slab_alloc.constprop.30+0x2dc/0x378
[&lt;00000000002d03d0&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0x160/0x1d0
[&lt;0000000000133db4&gt;] kvm_setup_async_pf+0x6c/0x198
[&lt;000000000013dee8&gt;] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xd48/0xd58
[&lt;000000000012fcaa&gt;] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x372/0x690
[&lt;00000000002f66f6&gt;] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3be/0x510
[&lt;00000000002f68ec&gt;] SyS_ioctl+0xa4/0xb8
[&lt;0000000000781c5e&gt;] system_call+0xd6/0x264
[&lt;000003ffa24fa06a&gt;] 0x3ffa24fa06a

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dominik Dingel &lt;dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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In async_pf we try to allocate with NOWAIT to get an element quickly
or fail. This code also handle failures gracefully. Lets silence
potential page allocation failures under load.

qemu-system-s39: page allocation failure: order:0,mode:0x2200000
[...]
Call Trace:
([&lt;00000000001146b8&gt;] show_trace+0xf8/0x148)
[&lt;000000000011476a&gt;] show_stack+0x62/0xe8
[&lt;00000000004a36b8&gt;] dump_stack+0x70/0x98
[&lt;0000000000272c3a&gt;] warn_alloc_failed+0xd2/0x148
[&lt;000000000027709e&gt;] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x94e/0xb38
[&lt;00000000002cd36a&gt;] new_slab+0x382/0x400
[&lt;00000000002cf7ac&gt;] ___slab_alloc.constprop.30+0x2dc/0x378
[&lt;00000000002d03d0&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0x160/0x1d0
[&lt;0000000000133db4&gt;] kvm_setup_async_pf+0x6c/0x198
[&lt;000000000013dee8&gt;] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xd48/0xd58
[&lt;000000000012fcaa&gt;] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x372/0x690
[&lt;00000000002f66f6&gt;] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3be/0x510
[&lt;00000000002f68ec&gt;] SyS_ioctl+0xa4/0xb8
[&lt;0000000000781c5e&gt;] system_call+0xd6/0x264
[&lt;000003ffa24fa06a&gt;] 0x3ffa24fa06a

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dominik Dingel &lt;dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: async_pf: use list_first_entry</title>
<updated>2016-02-23T14:40:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geliang Tang</name>
<email>geliangtang@163.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-01T11:47:15+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
To make the intention clearer, use list_first_entry instead of
list_entry.

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang &lt;geliangtang@163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
To make the intention clearer, use list_first_entry instead of
list_entry.

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang &lt;geliangtang@163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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