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<title>kvm: don't take vcpu mutex for obviously invalid vcpu ioctls</title>
<updated>2014-10-30T16:40:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Matlack</name>
<email>dmatlack@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-19T23:03:25+00:00</published>
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commit 2ea75be3219571d0ec009ce20d9971e54af96e09 upstream.

vcpu ioctls can hang the calling thread if issued while a vcpu is running.
However, invalid ioctls can happen when userspace tries to probe the kind
of file descriptors (e.g. isatty() calls ioctl(TCGETS)); in that case,
we know the ioctl is going to be rejected as invalid anyway and we can
fail before trying to take the vcpu mutex.

This patch does not change functionality, it just makes invalid ioctls
fail faster.

Signed-off-by: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2ea75be3219571d0ec009ce20d9971e54af96e09 upstream.

vcpu ioctls can hang the calling thread if issued while a vcpu is running.
However, invalid ioctls can happen when userspace tries to probe the kind
of file descriptors (e.g. isatty() calls ioctl(TCGETS)); in that case,
we know the ioctl is going to be rejected as invalid anyway and we can
fail before trying to take the vcpu mutex.

This patch does not change functionality, it just makes invalid ioctls
fail faster.

Signed-off-by: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>KVM: do not bias the generation number in kvm_current_mmio_generation</title>
<updated>2014-10-30T16:40:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-20T12:29:21+00:00</published>
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commit 00f034a12fdd81210d58116326d92780aac5c238 upstream.

The next patch will give a meaning (a la seqcount) to the low bit of the
generation number.  Ensure that it matches between kvm-&gt;memslots-&gt;generation
and kvm_current_mmio_generation().

Reviewed-by: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 00f034a12fdd81210d58116326d92780aac5c238 upstream.

The next patch will give a meaning (a la seqcount) to the low bit of the
generation number.  Ensure that it matches between kvm-&gt;memslots-&gt;generation
and kvm_current_mmio_generation().

Reviewed-by: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: fix potentially corrupt mmio cache</title>
<updated>2014-10-30T16:40:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Matlack</name>
<email>dmatlack@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-18T22:46:06+00:00</published>
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commit ee3d1570b58677885b4552bce8217fda7b226a68 upstream.

vcpu exits and memslot mutations can run concurrently as long as the
vcpu does not aquire the slots mutex. Thus it is theoretically possible
for memslots to change underneath a vcpu that is handling an exit.

If we increment the memslot generation number again after
synchronize_srcu_expedited(), vcpus can safely cache memslot generation
without maintaining a single rcu_dereference through an entire vm exit.
And much of the x86/kvm code does not maintain a single rcu_dereference
of the current memslots during each exit.

We can prevent the following case:

   vcpu (CPU 0)                             | thread (CPU 1)
--------------------------------------------+--------------------------
1  vm exit                                  |
2  srcu_read_unlock(&amp;kvm-&gt;srcu)             |
3  decide to cache something based on       |
     old memslots                           |
4                                           | change memslots
                                            | (increments generation)
5                                           | synchronize_srcu(&amp;kvm-&gt;srcu);
6  retrieve generation # from new memslots  |
7  tag cache with new memslot generation    |
8  srcu_read_unlock(&amp;kvm-&gt;srcu)             |
...                                         |
   &lt;action based on cache occurs even       |
    though the caching decision was based   |
    on the old memslots&gt;                    |
...                                         |
   &lt;action *continues* to occur until next  |
    memslot generation change, which may    |
    be never&gt;                               |
                                            |

By incrementing the generation after synchronizing with kvm-&gt;srcu readers,
we ensure that the generation retrieved in (6) will become invalid soon
after (8).

Keeping the existing increment is not strictly necessary, but we
do keep it and just move it for consistency from update_memslots to
install_new_memslots.  It invalidates old cached MMIOs immediately,
instead of having to wait for the end of synchronize_srcu_expedited,
which makes the code more clearly correct in case CPU 1 is preempted
right after synchronize_srcu() returns.

To avoid halving the generation space in SPTEs, always presume that the
low bit of the generation is zero when reconstructing a generation number
out of an SPTE.  This effectively disables MMIO caching in SPTEs during
the call to synchronize_srcu_expedited.  Using the low bit this way is
somewhat like a seqcount---where the protected thing is a cache, and
instead of retrying we can simply punt if we observe the low bit to be 1.

Signed-off-by: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ee3d1570b58677885b4552bce8217fda7b226a68 upstream.

vcpu exits and memslot mutations can run concurrently as long as the
vcpu does not aquire the slots mutex. Thus it is theoretically possible
for memslots to change underneath a vcpu that is handling an exit.

If we increment the memslot generation number again after
synchronize_srcu_expedited(), vcpus can safely cache memslot generation
without maintaining a single rcu_dereference through an entire vm exit.
And much of the x86/kvm code does not maintain a single rcu_dereference
of the current memslots during each exit.

We can prevent the following case:

   vcpu (CPU 0)                             | thread (CPU 1)
--------------------------------------------+--------------------------
1  vm exit                                  |
2  srcu_read_unlock(&amp;kvm-&gt;srcu)             |
3  decide to cache something based on       |
     old memslots                           |
4                                           | change memslots
                                            | (increments generation)
5                                           | synchronize_srcu(&amp;kvm-&gt;srcu);
6  retrieve generation # from new memslots  |
7  tag cache with new memslot generation    |
8  srcu_read_unlock(&amp;kvm-&gt;srcu)             |
...                                         |
   &lt;action based on cache occurs even       |
    though the caching decision was based   |
    on the old memslots&gt;                    |
...                                         |
   &lt;action *continues* to occur until next  |
    memslot generation change, which may    |
    be never&gt;                               |
                                            |

By incrementing the generation after synchronizing with kvm-&gt;srcu readers,
we ensure that the generation retrieved in (6) will become invalid soon
after (8).

Keeping the existing increment is not strictly necessary, but we
do keep it and just move it for consistency from update_memslots to
install_new_memslots.  It invalidates old cached MMIOs immediately,
instead of having to wait for the end of synchronize_srcu_expedited,
which makes the code more clearly correct in case CPU 1 is preempted
right after synchronize_srcu() returns.

To avoid halving the generation space in SPTEs, always presume that the
low bit of the generation is zero when reconstructing a generation number
out of an SPTE.  This effectively disables MMIO caching in SPTEs during
the call to synchronize_srcu_expedited.  Using the low bit this way is
somewhat like a seqcount---where the protected thing is a cache, and
instead of retrying we can simply punt if we observe the low bit to be 1.

Signed-off-by: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: iommu: fix the third parameter of kvm_iommu_put_pages (CVE-2014-3601)</title>
<updated>2014-09-05T23:36:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-19T11:14:50+00:00</published>
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commit 350b8bdd689cd2ab2c67c8a86a0be86cfa0751a7 upstream.

The third parameter of kvm_iommu_put_pages is wrong,
It should be 'gfn - slot-&gt;base_gfn'.

By making gfn very large, malicious guest or userspace can cause kvm to
go to this error path, and subsequently to pass a huge value as size.
Alternatively if gfn is small, then pages would be pinned but never
unpinned, causing host memory leak and local DOS.

Passing a reasonable but large value could be the most dangerous case,
because it would unpin a page that should have stayed pinned, and thus
allow the device to DMA into arbitrary memory.  However, this cannot
happen because of the condition that can trigger the error:

- out of memory (where you can't allocate even a single page)
  should not be possible for the attacker to trigger

- when exceeding the iommu's address space, guest pages after gfn
  will also exceed the iommu's address space, and inside
  kvm_iommu_put_pages() the iommu_iova_to_phys() will fail.  The
  page thus would not be unpinned at all.

Reported-by: Jack Morgenstein &lt;jackm@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 350b8bdd689cd2ab2c67c8a86a0be86cfa0751a7 upstream.

The third parameter of kvm_iommu_put_pages is wrong,
It should be 'gfn - slot-&gt;base_gfn'.

By making gfn very large, malicious guest or userspace can cause kvm to
go to this error path, and subsequently to pass a huge value as size.
Alternatively if gfn is small, then pages would be pinned but never
unpinned, causing host memory leak and local DOS.

Passing a reasonable but large value could be the most dangerous case,
because it would unpin a page that should have stayed pinned, and thus
allow the device to DMA into arbitrary memory.  However, this cannot
happen because of the condition that can trigger the error:

- out of memory (where you can't allocate even a single page)
  should not be possible for the attacker to trigger

- when exceeding the iommu's address space, guest pages after gfn
  will also exceed the iommu's address space, and inside
  kvm_iommu_put_pages() the iommu_iova_to_phys() will fail.  The
  page thus would not be unpinned at all.

Reported-by: Jack Morgenstein &lt;jackm@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: always exit on EOIs for interrupts listed in the IOAPIC redir table</title>
<updated>2014-09-05T23:36:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-30T16:07:24+00:00</published>
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commit 0f6c0a740b7d3e1f3697395922d674000f83d060 upstream.

Currently, the EOI exit bitmap (used for APICv) does not include
interrupts that are masked.  However, this can cause a bug that manifests
as an interrupt storm inside the guest.  Alex Williamson reported the
bug and is the one who really debugged this; I only wrote the patch. :)

The scenario involves a multi-function PCI device with OHCI and EHCI
USB functions and an audio function, all assigned to the guest, where
both USB functions use legacy INTx interrupts.

As soon as the guest boots, interrupts for these devices turn into an
interrupt storm in the guest; the host does not see the interrupt storm.
Basically the EOI path does not work, and the guest continues to see the
interrupt over and over, even after it attempts to mask it at the APIC.
The bug is only visible with older kernels (RHEL6.5, based on 2.6.32
with not many changes in the area of APIC/IOAPIC handling).

Alex then tried forcing bit 59 (corresponding to the USB functions' IRQ)
on in the eoi_exit_bitmap and TMR, and things then work.  What happens
is that VFIO asserts IRQ11, then KVM recomputes the EOI exit bitmap.
It does not have set bit 59 because the RTE was masked, so the IOAPIC
never sees the EOI and the interrupt continues to fire in the guest.

My guess was that the guest is masking the interrupt in the redirection
table in the interrupt routine, i.e. while the interrupt is set in a
LAPIC's ISR, The simplest fix is to ignore the masking state, we would
rather have an unnecessary exit rather than a missed IRQ ACK and anyway
IOAPIC interrupts are not as performance-sensitive as for example MSIs.
Alex tested this patch and it fixed his bug.

[Thanks to Alex for his precise description of the problem
 and initial debugging effort.  A lot of the text above is
 based on emails exchanged with him.]

Reported-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0f6c0a740b7d3e1f3697395922d674000f83d060 upstream.

Currently, the EOI exit bitmap (used for APICv) does not include
interrupts that are masked.  However, this can cause a bug that manifests
as an interrupt storm inside the guest.  Alex Williamson reported the
bug and is the one who really debugged this; I only wrote the patch. :)

The scenario involves a multi-function PCI device with OHCI and EHCI
USB functions and an audio function, all assigned to the guest, where
both USB functions use legacy INTx interrupts.

As soon as the guest boots, interrupts for these devices turn into an
interrupt storm in the guest; the host does not see the interrupt storm.
Basically the EOI path does not work, and the guest continues to see the
interrupt over and over, even after it attempts to mask it at the APIC.
The bug is only visible with older kernels (RHEL6.5, based on 2.6.32
with not many changes in the area of APIC/IOAPIC handling).

Alex then tried forcing bit 59 (corresponding to the USB functions' IRQ)
on in the eoi_exit_bitmap and TMR, and things then work.  What happens
is that VFIO asserts IRQ11, then KVM recomputes the EOI exit bitmap.
It does not have set bit 59 because the RTE was masked, so the IOAPIC
never sees the EOI and the interrupt continues to fire in the guest.

My guess was that the guest is masking the interrupt in the redirection
table in the interrupt routine, i.e. while the interrupt is set in a
LAPIC's ISR, The simplest fix is to ignore the masking state, we would
rather have an unnecessary exit rather than a missed IRQ ACK and anyway
IOAPIC interrupts are not as performance-sensitive as for example MSIs.
Alex tested this patch and it fixed his bug.

[Thanks to Alex for his precise description of the problem
 and initial debugging effort.  A lot of the text above is
 based on emails exchanged with him.]

Reported-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: arm64: vgic: fix hyp panic with 64k pages on juno platform</title>
<updated>2014-07-30T12:35:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-25T15:29:12+00:00</published>
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If the physical address of GICV isn't page-aligned, then we end up
creating a stage-2 mapping of the page containing it, which causes us to
map neighbouring memory locations directly into the guest.

As an example, consider a platform with GICV at physical 0x2c02f000
running a 64k-page host kernel. If qemu maps this into the guest at
0x80010000, then guest physical addresses 0x80010000 - 0x8001efff will
map host physical region 0x2c020000 - 0x2c02efff. Accesses to these
physical regions may cause UNPREDICTABLE behaviour, for example, on the
Juno platform this will cause an SError exception to EL3, which brings
down the entire physical CPU resulting in RCU stalls / HYP panics / host
crashing / wasted weeks of debugging.

SBSA recommends that systems alias the 4k GICV across the bounding 64k
region, in which case GICV physical could be described as 0x2c020000 in
the above scenario.

This patch fixes the problem by failing the vgic probe if the physical
base address or the size of GICV aren't page-aligned. Note that this
generated a warning in dmesg about freeing enabled IRQs, so I had to
move the IRQ enabling later in the probe.

Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Schopp &lt;joel.schopp@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Don Dutile &lt;ddutile@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Maydell &lt;peter.maydell@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Joel Schopp &lt;joel.schopp@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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If the physical address of GICV isn't page-aligned, then we end up
creating a stage-2 mapping of the page containing it, which causes us to
map neighbouring memory locations directly into the guest.

As an example, consider a platform with GICV at physical 0x2c02f000
running a 64k-page host kernel. If qemu maps this into the guest at
0x80010000, then guest physical addresses 0x80010000 - 0x8001efff will
map host physical region 0x2c020000 - 0x2c02efff. Accesses to these
physical regions may cause UNPREDICTABLE behaviour, for example, on the
Juno platform this will cause an SError exception to EL3, which brings
down the entire physical CPU resulting in RCU stalls / HYP panics / host
crashing / wasted weeks of debugging.

SBSA recommends that systems alias the 4k GICV across the bounding 64k
region, in which case GICV physical could be described as 0x2c020000 in
the above scenario.

This patch fixes the problem by failing the vgic probe if the physical
base address or the size of GICV aren't page-aligned. Note that this
generated a warning in dmesg about freeing enabled IRQs, so I had to
move the IRQ enabling later in the probe.

Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Schopp &lt;joel.schopp@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Don Dutile &lt;ddutile@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Maydell &lt;peter.maydell@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Joel Schopp &lt;joel.schopp@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-06-13T02:42:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-13T02:42:15+00:00</published>
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Pull more scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Second round of scheduler changes:
   - try-to-wakeup and IPI reduction speedups, from Andy Lutomirski
   - continued power scheduling cleanups and refactorings, from Nicolas
     Pitre
   - misc fixes and enhancements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/deadline: Delete extraneous extern for to_ratio()
  sched/idle: Optimize try-to-wake-up IPI
  sched/idle: Simplify wake_up_idle_cpu()
  sched/idle: Clear polling before descheduling the idle thread
  sched, trace: Add a tracepoint for IPI-less remote wakeups
  cpuidle: Set polling in poll_idle
  sched: Remove redundant assignment to "rt_rq" in update_curr_rt(...)
  sched: Rename capacity related flags
  sched: Final power vs. capacity cleanups
  sched: Remove remaining dubious usage of "power"
  sched: Let 'struct sched_group_power' care about CPU capacity
  sched/fair: Disambiguate existing/remaining "capacity" usage
  sched/fair: Change "has_capacity" to "has_free_capacity"
  sched/fair: Remove "power" from 'struct numa_stats'
  sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
  sched/fair: Use time_after() in record_wakee()
  sched/balancing: Reduce the rate of needless idle load balancing
  sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b-&gt;quota/period
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Pull more scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Second round of scheduler changes:
   - try-to-wakeup and IPI reduction speedups, from Andy Lutomirski
   - continued power scheduling cleanups and refactorings, from Nicolas
     Pitre
   - misc fixes and enhancements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/deadline: Delete extraneous extern for to_ratio()
  sched/idle: Optimize try-to-wake-up IPI
  sched/idle: Simplify wake_up_idle_cpu()
  sched/idle: Clear polling before descheduling the idle thread
  sched, trace: Add a tracepoint for IPI-less remote wakeups
  cpuidle: Set polling in poll_idle
  sched: Remove redundant assignment to "rt_rq" in update_curr_rt(...)
  sched: Rename capacity related flags
  sched: Final power vs. capacity cleanups
  sched: Remove remaining dubious usage of "power"
  sched: Let 'struct sched_group_power' care about CPU capacity
  sched/fair: Disambiguate existing/remaining "capacity" usage
  sched/fair: Change "has_capacity" to "has_free_capacity"
  sched/fair: Remove "power" from 'struct numa_stats'
  sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
  sched/fair: Use time_after() in record_wakee()
  sched/balancing: Reduce the rate of needless idle load balancing
  sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b-&gt;quota/period
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<title>sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()</title>
<updated>2014-06-05T09:52:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-23T10:20:42+00:00</published>
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yield_to() is supposed to return -ESRCH if there is no task to
yield to, but because the type is bool that is the same as returning
true.

The only place I see which cares is kvm_vcpu_on_spin().

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Raghavendra &lt;raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140523102042.GA7267@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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yield_to() is supposed to return -ESRCH if there is no task to
yield to, but because the type is bool that is the same as returning
true.

The only place I see which cares is kvm_vcpu_on_spin().

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Raghavendra &lt;raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140523102042.GA7267@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T15:47:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T15:47:12+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "At over 200 commits, covering almost all supported architectures, this
  was a pretty active cycle for KVM.  Changes include:

   - a lot of s390 changes: optimizations, support for migration, GDB
     support and more

   - ARM changes are pretty small: support for the PSCI 0.2 hypercall
     interface on both the guest and the host (the latter acked by
     Catalin)

   - initial POWER8 and little-endian host support

   - support for running u-boot on embedded POWER targets

   - pretty large changes to MIPS too, completing the userspace
     interface and improving the handling of virtualized timer hardware

   - for x86, a larger set of changes is scheduled for 3.17.  Still, we
     have a few emulator bugfixes and support for running nested
     fully-virtualized Xen guests (para-virtualized Xen guests have
     always worked).  And some optimizations too.

  The only missing architecture here is ia64.  It's not a coincidence
  that support for KVM on ia64 is scheduled for removal in 3.17"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (203 commits)
  KVM: add missing cleanup_srcu_struct
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Rework SLB switching code
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Use SLB entry 0
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix machine check delivery to guest
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around POWER8 performance monitor bugs
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make sure we don't miss dirty pages
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix dirty map for hugepages
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Put huge-page HPTEs in rmap chain for base address
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix check for running inside guest in global_invalidates()
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move KVM_REG_PPC_WORT to an unused register number
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add ONE_REG register names that were missed
  KVM: PPC: Add CAP to indicate hcall fixes
  KVM: PPC: MPIC: Reset IRQ source private members
  KVM: PPC: Graciously fail broken LE hypercalls
  PPC: ePAPR: Fix hypercall on LE guest
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: Remove open coded make_dsisr in alignment handler
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: Always use the saved DAR value
  PPC: KVM: Make NX bit available with magic page
  KVM: PPC: Disable NX for old magic page using guests
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: Add mixed page-size support for guest
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "At over 200 commits, covering almost all supported architectures, this
  was a pretty active cycle for KVM.  Changes include:

   - a lot of s390 changes: optimizations, support for migration, GDB
     support and more

   - ARM changes are pretty small: support for the PSCI 0.2 hypercall
     interface on both the guest and the host (the latter acked by
     Catalin)

   - initial POWER8 and little-endian host support

   - support for running u-boot on embedded POWER targets

   - pretty large changes to MIPS too, completing the userspace
     interface and improving the handling of virtualized timer hardware

   - for x86, a larger set of changes is scheduled for 3.17.  Still, we
     have a few emulator bugfixes and support for running nested
     fully-virtualized Xen guests (para-virtualized Xen guests have
     always worked).  And some optimizations too.

  The only missing architecture here is ia64.  It's not a coincidence
  that support for KVM on ia64 is scheduled for removal in 3.17"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (203 commits)
  KVM: add missing cleanup_srcu_struct
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Rework SLB switching code
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Use SLB entry 0
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix machine check delivery to guest
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around POWER8 performance monitor bugs
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make sure we don't miss dirty pages
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix dirty map for hugepages
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Put huge-page HPTEs in rmap chain for base address
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix check for running inside guest in global_invalidates()
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move KVM_REG_PPC_WORT to an unused register number
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add ONE_REG register names that were missed
  KVM: PPC: Add CAP to indicate hcall fixes
  KVM: PPC: MPIC: Reset IRQ source private members
  KVM: PPC: Graciously fail broken LE hypercalls
  PPC: ePAPR: Fix hypercall on LE guest
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: Remove open coded make_dsisr in alignment handler
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: Always use the saved DAR value
  PPC: KVM: Make NX bit available with magic page
  KVM: PPC: Disable NX for old magic page using guests
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: Add mixed page-size support for guest
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: add missing cleanup_srcu_struct</title>
<updated>2014-06-03T11:44:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-03T11:44:17+00:00</published>
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Reported-by: hrg &lt;hrgstephen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Reported-by: hrg &lt;hrgstephen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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