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7 daysMerge tag 'kvm-s390-next-6.19-1' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD - SCA rework - VIRT_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK support - Operation exception forwarding support - Cleanups
7 daysMerge tag 'kvmarm-6.19' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD KVM/arm64 updates for 6.19 - Support for userspace handling of synchronous external aborts (SEAs), allowing the VMM to potentially handle the abort in a non-fatal manner. - Large rework of the VGIC's list register handling with the goal of supporting more active/pending IRQs than available list registers in hardware. In addition, the VGIC now supports EOImode==1 style deactivations for IRQs which may occur on a separate vCPU than the one that acked the IRQ. - Support for FEAT_XNX (user / privileged execute permissions) and FEAT_HAF (hardware update to the Access Flag) in the software page table walkers and shadow MMU. - Allow page table destruction to reschedule, fixing long need_resched latencies observed when destroying a large VM. - Minor fixes to KVM and selftests
7 daysMerge tag 'kvm-riscv-6.19-1' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM/riscv changes for 6.19 - SBI MPXY support for KVM guest - New KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY_NO_VSFILE for the case when in-kernel AIA virtualization fails to allocate IMSIC VS-file - Support enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks - Fix guest page fault within HLV* instructions - Flush VS-stage TLB after VCPU migration for Andes cores
14 daysMerge tag 'kvm-x86-svm-6.19' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM SVM changes for 6.19: - Fix a few missing "VMCB dirty" bugs. - Fix the worst of KVM's lack of EFER.LMSLE emulation. - Add AVIC support for addressing 4k vCPUs in x2AVIC mode. - Fix incorrect handling of selective CR0 writes when checking intercepts during emulation of L2 instructions. - Fix a currently-benign bug where KVM would clobber SPEC_CTRL[63:32] on VMRUN and #VMEXIT. - Fix a bug where KVM corrupt the guest code stream when re-injecting a soft interrupt if the guest patched the underlying code after the VM-Exit, e.g. when Linux patches code with a temporary INT3. - Add KVM_X86_SNP_POLICY_BITS to advertise supported SNP policy bits to userspace, and extend KVM "support" to all policy bits that don't require any actual support from KVM.
14 daysMerge tag 'kvm-x86-generic-6.19' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM generic changes for 6.19: - Use the recently-added WQ_PERCPU when creating the per-CPU workqueue for irqfd cleanup. - Fix a goof in the dirty ring documentation.
2025-11-24KVM: riscv: Support enabling dirty log gradually in small chunksDong Yang
There is already support of enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks for x86 in commit 3c9bd4006bfc ("KVM: x86: enable dirty log gradually in small chunks") and c862626 ("KVM: arm64: Support enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks"). This adds support for riscv. x86 and arm64 writes protect both huge pages and normal pages now, so riscv protect also protects both huge pages and normal pages. On a nested virtualization setup (RISC-V KVM running inside a QEMU VM on an [Intel® Core™ i5-12500H] host), I did some tests with a 2G Linux VM using different backing page sizes. The time taken for memory_global_dirty_log_start in the L2 QEMU is listed below: Page Size Before After Optimization 4K 4490.23ms 31.94ms 2M 48.97ms 45.46ms 1G 28.40ms 30.93ms Signed-off-by: Quan Zhou <zhouquan@iscas.ac.cn> Signed-off-by: Dong Yang <dayss1224@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251103062825.9084-1-dayss1224@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
2025-11-21KVM: s390: Add capability that forwards operation exceptionsJanosch Frank
Setting KVM_CAP_S390_USER_OPEREXEC will forward all operation exceptions to user space. This also includes the 0x0000 instructions managed by KVM_CAP_S390_USER_INSTR0. It's helpful if user space wants to emulate instructions which do not (yet) have an opcode. While we're at it refine the documentation for KVM_CAP_S390_USER_INSTR0. Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
2025-11-13KVM: x86: Document a virtualization gap for GIF on AMD CPUsYosry Ahmed
According to the APM Volume #2, Section 15.17, Table 15-10 (24593—Rev. 3.42—March 2024), When "GIF==0", an "Debug exception or trap, due to breakpoint register match" should be "Ignored and discarded". KVM lacks any handling of this. Even when vGIF is enabled and vGIF==0, the CPU does not ignore #DBs and relies on the VMM to do so. Handling this is possible, but the complexity is unjustified given the rarity of using HW breakpoints when GIF==0 (e.g. near VMRUN). KVM would need to intercept the #DB, temporarily disable the breakpoint, singe-step over the instruction (probably reusing NMI singe-stepping), and re-enable the breakpoint. Instead, document this as an erratum. Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030223757.2950309-1-yosry.ahmed@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-11-12Documentation: kvm: new UAPI for handling SEAJiaqi Yan
Document the new userspace-visible features and APIs for handling synchronous external abort (SEA) - KVM_CAP_ARM_SEA_TO_USER: How userspace enables the new feature. - KVM_EXIT_ARM_SEA: exit userspace gets when it needs to handle SEA and what userspace gets while taking the SEA. Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@google.com> Link: https://msgid.link/20251013185903.1372553-4-jiaqiyan@google.com [ oliver: make documentation concise, remove implementation detail ] Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
2025-10-20Documentation: kvm: Fix orderingJanosch Frank
7.43 has been assigned twice, make KVM_CAP_ARM_CACHEABLE_PFNMAP_SUPPORTED 7.44. Fixes: f55ce5a6cd33 ("KVM: arm64: Expose new KVM cap for cacheable PFNMAP") Reviewed-by: Ankit Agrawal <ankita@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
2025-10-18Merge tag 'kvm-x86-fixes-6.18-rc2' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM x86 fixes for 6.18: - Expand the KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY selftest to add a regression test for the bug fixed by commit 3ccbf6f47098 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Return -EAGAIN if userspace deletes/moves memslot during prefault") - Don't try to get PMU capabbilities from perf when running a CPU with hybrid CPUs/PMUs, as perf will rightly WARN. - Rework KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP (newly introduced in 6.18) into a more generic KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS - Add a guest_memfd INIT_SHARED flag and require userspace to explicitly set said flag to initialize memory as SHARED, irrespective of MMAP. The behavior merged in 6.18 is that enabling mmap() implicitly initializes memory as SHARED, which would result in an ABI collision for x86 CoCo VMs as their memory is currently always initialized PRIVATE. - Allow mmap() on guest_memfd for x86 CoCo VMs, i.e. on VMs with private memory, to enable testing such setups, i.e. to hopefully flush out any other lurking ABI issues before 6.18 is officially released. - Add testcases to the guest_memfd selftest to cover guest_memfd without MMAP, and host userspace accesses to mmap()'d private memory.
2025-10-14KVM: Fix VM exit code for full dirty ring in API documentationLeonardo Bras
While reading the documentation, I saw a exit code I could not grep for, to figure out it has a slightly different name. Fix that name in documentation so it points to the right exit code. Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leo.bras@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251014152802.13563-1-leo.bras@arm.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-10-13Documentation: KVM: Update GICv3 docs for GICv5 hostsSascha Bischoff
GICv5 hosts optionally include FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY, which allows them to execute GICv3-based VMs on GICv5 hardware. Update the GICv3 documentation to reflect this now that GICv3 guests are supports on compatible GICv5 hosts. Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff <sascha.bischoff@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2025-10-13KVM: arm64: Document vCPU event ioctls as requiring init'ed vCPUOliver Upton
KVM rejects calls to KVM_{GET,SET}_VCPU_EVENTS for an uninitialized vCPU as of commit cc96679f3c03 ("KVM: arm64: Prevent access to vCPU events before init"). Update the corresponding API documentation. Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2025-10-10KVM: guest_memfd: Add INIT_SHARED flag, reject user page faults if not setSean Christopherson
Add a guest_memfd flag to allow userspace to state that the underlying memory should be configured to be initialized as shared, and reject user page faults if the guest_memfd instance's memory isn't shared. Because KVM doesn't yet support in-place private<=>shared conversions, all guest_memfd memory effectively follows the initial state. Alternatively, KVM could deduce the initial state based on MMAP, which for all intents and purposes is what KVM currently does. However, implicitly deriving the default state based on MMAP will result in a messy ABI when support for in-place conversions is added. For x86 CoCo VMs, which don't yet support MMAP, memory is currently private by default (otherwise the memory would be unusable). If MMAP implies memory is shared by default, then the default state for CoCo VMs will vary based on MMAP, and from userspace's perspective, will change when in-place conversion support is added. I.e. to maintain guest<=>host ABI, userspace would need to immediately convert all memory from shared=>private, which is both ugly and inefficient. The inefficiency could be avoided by adding a flag to state that memory is _private_ by default, irrespective of MMAP, but that would lead to an equally messy and hard to document ABI. Bite the bullet and immediately add a flag to control the default state so that the effective behavior is explicit and straightforward. Fixes: 3d3a04fad25a ("KVM: Allow and advertise support for host mmap() on guest_memfd files") Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Tested-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Tested-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251003232606.4070510-3-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-10-10KVM: Rework KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP into KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGSSean Christopherson
Rework the not-yet-released KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP into a more generic KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS capability so that adding new flags doesn't require a new capability, and so that developers aren't tempted to bundle multiple flags into a single capability. Note, kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension_generic() can only return a 32-bit value, but that limitation can be easily circumvented by adding e.g. KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS2 in the unlikely event guest_memfd supports more than 32 flags. Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Tested-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251003232606.4070510-2-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-10-06Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "Generic: - Rework almost all of KVM's exports to expose symbols only to KVM's x86 vendor modules (kvm-{amd,intel}.ko and PPC's kvm-{pr,hv}.ko x86: - Rework almost all of KVM x86's exports to expose symbols only to KVM's vendor modules, i.e. to kvm-{amd,intel}.ko - Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) on Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD (Shadow Stacks). It is worth noting that while SHSTK and IBT can be enabled separately in CPUID, it is not really possible to virtualize them separately. Therefore, Intel processors will really allow both SHSTK and IBT under the hood if either is made visible in the guest's CPUID. The alternative would be to intercept XSAVES/XRSTORS, which is not feasible for performance reasons - Fix a variety of fuzzing WARNs all caused by checking L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O. KVM has already committed to allowing L2 to to perform I/O at that point - Emulate PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET for PerfMonV2 guests, as the MSR is supposed to exist for v2 PMUs - Allow Centaur CPU leaves (base 0xC000_0000) for Zhaoxin CPUs - Add support for the immediate forms of RDMSR and WRMSRNS, sans full emulator support (KVM should never need to emulate the MSRs outside of forced emulation and other contrived testing scenarios) - Clean up the MSR APIs in preparation for CET and FRED virtualization, as well as mediated vPMU support - Clean up a pile of PMU code in anticipation of adding support for mediated vPMUs - Reject in-kernel IOAPIC/PIT for TDX VMs, as KVM can't obtain EOI vmexits needed to faithfully emulate an I/O APIC for such guests - Many cleanups and minor fixes - Recover possible NX huge pages within the TDP MMU under read lock to reduce guest jitter when restoring NX huge pages - Return -EAGAIN during prefault if userspace concurrently deletes/moves the relevant memslot, to fix an issue where prefaulting could deadlock with the memslot update x86 (AMD): - Enable AVIC by default for Zen4+ if x2AVIC (and other prereqs) is supported - Require a minimum GHCB version of 2 when starting SEV-SNP guests via KVM_SEV_INIT2 so that invalid GHCB versions result in immediate errors instead of latent guest failures - Add support for SEV-SNP's CipherText Hiding, an opt-in feature that prevents unauthorized CPU accesses from reading the ciphertext of SNP guest private memory, e.g. to attempt an offline attack. This feature splits the shared SEV-ES/SEV-SNP ASID space into separate ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests, therefore a new module parameter is needed to control the number of ASIDs that can be used for VMs with CipherText Hiding vs. how many can be used to run SEV-ES guests - Add support for Secure TSC for SEV-SNP guests, which prevents the untrusted host from tampering with the guest's TSC frequency, while still allowing the the VMM to configure the guest's TSC frequency prior to launch - Validate the XCR0 provided by the guest (via the GHCB) to avoid bugs resulting from bogus XCR0 values - Save an SEV guest's policy if and only if LAUNCH_START fully succeeds to avoid leaving behind stale state (thankfully not consumed in KVM) - Explicitly reject non-positive effective lengths during SNP's LAUNCH_UPDATE instead of subtly relying on guest_memfd to deal with them - Reload the pre-VMRUN TSC_AUX on #VMEXIT for SEV-ES guests, not the host's desired TSC_AUX, to fix a bug where KVM was keeping a different vCPU's TSC_AUX in the host MSR until return to userspace KVM (Intel): - Preparation for FRED support - Don't retry in TDX's anti-zero-step mitigation if the target memslot is invalid, i.e. is being deleted or moved, to fix a deadlock scenario similar to the aforementioned prefaulting case - Misc bugfixes and minor cleanups" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (142 commits) KVM: x86: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only KVM: x86: Drop pointless exports of kvm_arch_xxx() hooks KVM: x86: Move kvm_intr_is_single_vcpu() to lapic.c KVM: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only KVM: s390/vfio-ap: Use kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() instead of open coded equivalent KVM: VMX: Make CR4.CET a guest owned bit KVM: selftests: Verify MSRs are (not) in save/restore list when (un)supported KVM: selftests: Add coverage for KVM-defined registers in MSRs test KVM: selftests: Add KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG coverage to MSRs test KVM: selftests: Extend MSRs test to validate vCPUs without supported features KVM: selftests: Add support for MSR_IA32_{S,U}_CET to MSRs test KVM: selftests: Add an MSR test to exercise guest/host and read/write KVM: x86: Define AMD's #HV, #VC, and #SX exception vectors KVM: x86: Define Control Protection Exception (#CP) vector KVM: x86: Add human friendly formatting for #XM, and #VE KVM: SVM: Enable shadow stack virtualization for SVM KVM: SEV: Synchronize MSR_IA32_XSS from the GHCB when it's valid KVM: SVM: Pass through shadow stack MSRs as appropriate KVM: SVM: Update dump_vmcb with shadow stack save area additions KVM: nSVM: Save/load CET Shadow Stack state to/from vmcb12/vmcb02 ...
2025-10-04Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "This excludes the bulk of the x86 changes, which I will send separately. They have two not complex but relatively unusual conflicts so I will wait for other dust to settle. guest_memfd: - Add support for host userspace mapping of guest_memfd-backed memory for VM types that do NOT use support KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE (which isn't precisely the same thing as CoCo VMs, since x86's SEV-MEM and SEV-ES have no way to detect private vs. shared). This lays the groundwork for removal of guest memory from the kernel direct map, as well as for limited mmap() for guest_memfd-backed memory. For more information see: - commit a6ad54137af9 ("Merge branch 'guest-memfd-mmap' into HEAD") - guest_memfd in Firecracker: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/tree/feature/secret-hiding - direct map removal: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221160728.1584559-1-roypat@amazon.co.uk/ - mmap support: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250328153133.3504118-1-tabba@google.com/ ARM: - Add support for FF-A 1.2 as the secure memory conduit for pKVM, allowing more registers to be used as part of the message payload. - Change the way pKVM allocates its VM handles, making sure that the privileged hypervisor is never tricked into using uninitialised data. - Speed up MMIO range registration by avoiding unnecessary RCU synchronisation, which results in VMs starting much quicker. - Add the dump of the instruction stream when panic-ing in the EL2 payload, just like the rest of the kernel has always done. This will hopefully help debugging non-VHE setups. - Add 52bit PA support to the stage-1 page-table walker, and make use of it to populate the fault level reported to the guest on failing to translate a stage-1 walk. - Add NV support to the GICv3-on-GICv5 emulation code, ensuring feature parity for guests, irrespective of the host platform. - Fix some really ugly architecture problems when dealing with debug in a nested VM. This has some bad performance impacts, but is at least correct. - Add enough infrastructure to be able to disable EL2 features and give effective values to the EL2 control registers. This then allows a bunch of features to be turned off, which helps cross-host migration. - Large rework of the selftest infrastructure to allow most tests to transparently run at EL2. This is the first step towards enabling NV testing. - Various fixes and improvements all over the map, including one BE fix, just in time for the removal of the feature. LoongArch: - Detect page table walk feature on new hardware - Add sign extension with kernel MMIO/IOCSR emulation - Improve in-kernel IPI emulation - Improve in-kernel PCH-PIC emulation - Move kvm_iocsr tracepoint out of generic code RISC-V: - Added SBI FWFT extension for Guest/VM with misaligned delegation and pointer masking PMLEN features - Added ONE_REG interface for SBI FWFT extension - Added Zicbop and bfloat16 extensions for Guest/VM - Enabled more common KVM selftests for RISC-V - Added SBI v3.0 PMU enhancements in KVM and perf driver s390: - Improve interrupt cpu for wakeup, in particular the heuristic to decide which vCPU to deliver a floating interrupt to. - Clear the PTE when discarding a swapped page because of CMMA; this bug was introduced in 6.16 when refactoring gmap code. x86 selftests: - Add #DE coverage in the fastops test (the only exception that's guest- triggerable in fastop-emulated instructions). - Fix PMU selftests errors encountered on Granite Rapids (GNR), Sierra Forest (SRF) and Clearwater Forest (CWF). - Minor cleanups and improvements x86 (guest side): - For the legacy PCI hole (memory between TOLUD and 4GiB) to UC when overriding guest MTRR for TDX/SNP to fix an issue where ACPI auto-mapping could map devices as WB and prevent the device drivers from mapping their devices with UC/UC-. - Make kvm_async_pf_task_wake() a local static helper and remove its export. - Use native qspinlocks when running in a VM with dedicated vCPU=>pCPU bindings even when PV_UNHALT is unsupported. Generic: - Remove a redundant __GFP_NOWARN from kvm_setup_async_pf() as __GFP_NOWARN is now included in GFP_NOWAIT. * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (178 commits) KVM: s390: Fix to clear PTE when discarding a swapped page KVM: arm64: selftests: Cover ID_AA64ISAR3_EL1 in set_id_regs KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove a duplicate register listing in set_id_regs KVM: arm64: selftests: Cope with arch silliness in EL2 selftest KVM: arm64: selftests: Add basic test for running in VHE EL2 KVM: arm64: selftests: Enable EL2 by default KVM: arm64: selftests: Initialize HCR_EL2 KVM: arm64: selftests: Use the vCPU attr for setting nr of PMU counters KVM: arm64: selftests: Use hyp timer IRQs when test runs at EL2 KVM: arm64: selftests: Select SMCCC conduit based on current EL KVM: arm64: selftests: Provide helper for getting default vCPU target KVM: arm64: selftests: Alias EL1 registers to EL2 counterparts KVM: arm64: selftests: Create a VGICv3 for 'default' VMs KVM: arm64: selftests: Add unsanitised helpers for VGICv3 creation KVM: arm64: selftests: Add helper to check for VGICv3 support KVM: arm64: selftests: Initialize VGICv3 only once KVM: arm64: selftests: Provide kvm_arch_vm_post_create() in library code KVM: selftests: Add ex_str() to print human friendly name of exception vectors selftests/kvm: remove stale TODO in xapic_state_test KVM: selftests: Handle Intel Atom errata that leads to PMU event overcount ...
2025-09-30Merge tag 'kvm-x86-cet-6.18' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM x86 CET virtualization support for 6.18 Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) on Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD (Shadow Stacks). CET is comprised of two distinct features, Shadow Stacks (SHSTK) and Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT), that can be utilized by software to help provide Control-flow integrity (CFI). SHSTK defends against backward-edge attacks (a.k.a. Return-oriented programming (ROP)), while IBT defends against forward-edge attacks (a.k.a. similarly CALL/JMP-oriented programming (COP/JOP)). Attackers commonly use ROP and COP/JOP methodologies to redirect the control- flow to unauthorized targets in order to execute small snippets of code, a.k.a. gadgets, of the attackers choice. By chaining together several gadgets, an attacker can perform arbitrary operations and circumvent the system's defenses. SHSTK defends against backward-edge attacks, which execute gadgets by modifying the stack to branch to the attacker's target via RET, by providing a second stack that is used exclusively to track control transfer operations. The shadow stack is separate from the data/normal stack, and can be enabled independently in user and kernel mode. When SHSTK is is enabled, CALL instructions push the return address on both the data and shadow stack. RET then pops the return address from both stacks and compares the addresses. If the return addresses from the two stacks do not match, the CPU generates a Control Protection (#CP) exception. IBT defends against backward-edge attacks, which branch to gadgets by executing indirect CALL and JMP instructions with attacker controlled register or memory state, by requiring the target of indirect branches to start with a special marker instruction, ENDBRANCH. If an indirect branch is executed and the next instruction is not an ENDBRANCH, the CPU generates a #CP. Note, ENDBRANCH behaves as a NOP if IBT is disabled or unsupported. From a virtualization perspective, CET presents several problems. While SHSTK and IBT have two layers of enabling, a global control in the form of a CR4 bit, and a per-feature control in user and kernel (supervisor) MSRs (U_CET and S_CET respectively), the {S,U}_CET MSRs can be context switched via XSAVES/XRSTORS. Practically speaking, intercepting and emulating XSAVES/XRSTORS is not a viable option due to complexity, and outright disallowing use of XSTATE to context switch SHSTK/IBT state would render the features unusable to most guests. To limit the overall complexity without sacrificing performance or usability, simply ignore the potential virtualization hole, but ensure that all paths in KVM treat SHSTK/IBT as usable by the guest if the feature is supported in hardware, and the guest has access to at least one of SHSTK or IBT. I.e. allow userspace to advertise one of SHSTK or IBT if both are supported in hardware, even though doing so would allow a misbehaving guest to use the unadvertised feature. Fully emulating SHSTK and IBT would also require significant complexity, e.g. to track and update branch state for IBT, and shadow stack state for SHSTK. Given that emulating large swaths of the guest code stream isn't necessary on modern CPUs, punt on emulating instructions that meaningful impact or consume SHSTK or IBT. However, instead of doing nothing, explicitly reject emulation of such instructions so that KVM's emulator can't be abused to circumvent CET. Disable support for SHSTK and IBT if KVM is configured such that emulation of arbitrary guest instructions may be required, specifically if Unrestricted Guest (Intel only) is disabled, or if KVM will emulate a guest.MAXPHYADDR that is smaller than host.MAXPHYADDR. Lastly disable SHSTK support if shadow paging is enabled, as the protections for the shadow stack are novel (shadow stacks require Writable=0,Dirty=1, so that they can't be directly modified by software), i.e. would require non-trivial support in the Shadow MMU. Note, AMD CPUs currently only support SHSTK. Explicitly disable IBT support so that KVM doesn't over-advertise if AMD CPUs add IBT, and virtualizing IBT in SVM requires KVM modifications.
2025-09-30Merge tag 'kvm-x86-misc-6.18' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM x86 changes for 6.18 - Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O to fix a flaw where a misbehaving usersepace (a.k.a. syzkaller) could swizzle L1's intercepts and trigger a variety of WARNs in KVM. - Emulate PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET for PerfMonV2 guests, as the MSR is supposed to exist for v2 PMUs. - Allow Centaur CPU leaves (base 0xC000_0000) for Zhaoxin CPUs. - Clean up KVM's vector hashing code for delivering lowest priority IRQs. - Clean up the fastpath handler code to only handle IPIs and WRMSRs that are actually "fast", as opposed to handling those that KVM _hopes_ are fast, and in the process of doing so add fastpath support for TSC_DEADLINE writes on AMD CPUs. - Clean up a pile of PMU code in anticipation of adding support for mediated vPMUs. - Add support for the immediate forms of RDMSR and WRMSRNS, sans full emulator support (KVM should never need to emulate the MSRs outside of forced emulation and other contrived testing scenarios). - Clean up the MSR APIs in preparation for CET and FRED virtualization, as well as mediated vPMU support. - Rejecting a fully in-kernel IRQCHIP if EOIs are protected, i.e. for TDX VMs, as KVM can't faithfully emulate an I/O APIC for such guests. - KVM_REQ_MSR_FILTER_CHANGED into a generic RECALC_INTERCEPTS in preparation for mediated vPMU support, as KVM will need to recalculate MSR intercepts in response to PMU refreshes for guests with mediated vPMUs. - Misc cleanups and minor fixes.
2025-09-23KVM: x86: Enable guest SSP read/write interface with new uAPIsYang Weijiang
Add a KVM-defined ONE_REG register, KVM_REG_GUEST_SSP, to let userspace save and restore the guest's Shadow Stack Pointer (SSP). On both Intel and AMD, SSP is a hardware register that can only be accessed by software via dedicated ISA (e.g. RDSSP) or via VMCS/VMCB fields (used by hardware to context switch SSP at entry/exit). As a result, SSP doesn't fit in any of KVM's existing interfaces for saving/restoring state. Internally, treat SSP as a fake/synthetic MSR, as the semantics of writes to SSP follow that of several other Shadow Stack MSRs, e.g. the PLx_SSP MSRs. Use a translation layer to hide the KVM-internal MSR index so that the arbitrary index doesn't become ABI, e.g. so that KVM can rework its implementation as needed, so long as the ONE_REG ABI is maintained. Explicitly reject accesses to SSP if the vCPU doesn't have Shadow Stack support to avoid running afoul of ignore_msrs, which unfortunately applies to host-initiated accesses (which is a discussion for another day). I.e. ensure consistent behavior for KVM-defined registers irrespective of ignore_msrs. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aca9d389-f11e-4811-90cf-d98e345a5cc2@intel.com Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@intel.com> Tested-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net> Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com> Tested-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919223258.1604852-14-seanjc@google.com Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-09-23KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG uAPIs supportYang Weijiang
Enable KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG uAPIs so that userspace can access MSRs and other non-MSR registers through them, along with support for KVM_GET_REG_LIST to enumerate support for KVM-defined registers. This is in preparation for allowing userspace to read/write the guest SSP register, which is needed for the upcoming CET virtualization support. Currently, two types of registers are supported: KVM_X86_REG_TYPE_MSR and KVM_X86_REG_TYPE_KVM. All MSRs are in the former type; the latter type is added for registers that lack existing KVM uAPIs to access them. The "KVM" in the name is intended to be vague to give KVM flexibility to include other potential registers. More precise names like "SYNTHETIC" and "SYNTHETIC_MSR" were considered, but were deemed too confusing (e.g. can be conflated with synthetic guest-visible MSRs) and may put KVM into a corner (e.g. if KVM wants to change how a KVM-defined register is modeled internally). Enumerate only KVM-defined registers in KVM_GET_REG_LIST to avoid duplicating KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST, and so that KVM can return _only_ registers that are fully supported (KVM_GET_REG_LIST is vCPU-scoped, i.e. can be precise, whereas KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST is system-scoped). Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240219074733.122080-18-weijiang.yang@intel.com [1] Tested-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net> Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com> Tested-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919223258.1604852-5-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-09-22KVM: x86: Fix hypercalls docs section number orderBagas Sanjaya
Commit 4180bf1b655a79 ("KVM: X86: Implement "send IPI" hypercall") documents KVM_HC_SEND_IPI hypercall, yet its section number duplicates KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING one (which both are 6th). Fix the numbering order so that the former should be 7th. Fixes: 4180bf1b655a ("KVM: X86: Implement "send IPI" hypercall") Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250909003952.10314-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-09-16Documentation: KVM: Call out that KVM strictly follows the 8254 PIT specJiaming Zhang
Explicitly document that the behavior of KVM_SET_PIT2 strictly conforms to the Intel 8254 PIT hardware specification, specifically that a write of '0' adheres to the spec's definition that a programmed count of '0' is converted to the maximum possible value (2^16). E.g. an unaware userspace might attempt to validate that KVM_GET_PIT2 returns the exact state set via KVM_SET_PIT2, and be surprised when the returned count is 65536, not 0. Add a references to the Intel 8254 PIT datasheet that will hopefully stay fresh for some time (the internet isn't exactly brimming with copies of the 8254 datasheet). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CANypQFbEySjKOFLqtFFf2vrEe=NBr7XJfbkjQhqXuZGg7Rpoxw@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jiaming Zhang <r772577952@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250905174736.260694-1-r772577952@gmail.com [sean: add context Link, drop local APIC change, massage changelog accordingly] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-09-03Documentation: Fix spelling mistakesRanganath V N
Corrected a few spelling mistakes to improve the readability. Signed-off-by: Ranganath V N <vnranganath.20@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250902193822.6349-1-vnranganath.20@gmail.com
2025-08-27KVM: Allow and advertise support for host mmap() on guest_memfd filesFuad Tabba
Now that all the x86 and arm64 plumbing for mmap() on guest_memfd is in place, allow userspace to set GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP and advertise support via a new capability, KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP. The availability of this capability is determined per architecture, and its enablement for a specific guest_memfd instance is controlled by the GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP flag at creation time. Update the KVM API documentation to detail the KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP capability, the associated GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP, and provide essential information regarding support for mmap in guest_memfd. Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20250729225455.670324-22-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-07-29Documentation: KVM: Use unordered list for pre-init VGIC registersOliver Upton
The intent was to create a single column table, however the markup used was actually for a header which led to docs build failures: Sphinx parallel build error: docutils.utils.SystemMessage: Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-v3.rst:128: (SEVERE/4) Unexpected section title or transition. Fix the issue by converting the attempted table to an unordered list. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20250729142217.0d4e64cd@canb.auug.org.au/ Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Message-ID: <20250729152242.3232229-1-oliver.upton@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-07-29Merge tag 'kvmarm-6.17' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD KVM/arm64 changes for 6.17, round #1 - Host driver for GICv5, the next generation interrupt controller for arm64, including support for interrupt routing, MSIs, interrupt translation and wired interrupts. - Use FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY on GICv5 systems to virtualize GICv3 VMs on GICv5 hardware, leveraging the legacy VGIC interface. - Userspace control of the 'nASSGIcap' GICv3 feature, allowing userspace to disable support for SGIs w/o an active state on hardware that previously advertised it unconditionally. - Map supporting endpoints with cacheable memory attributes on systems with FEAT_S2FWB and DIC where KVM no longer needs to perform cache maintenance on the address range. - Nested support for FEAT_RAS and FEAT_DoubleFault2, allowing the guest hypervisor to inject external aborts into an L2 VM and take traps of masked external aborts to the hypervisor. - Convert more system register sanitization to the config-driven implementation. - Fixes to the visibility of EL2 registers, namely making VGICv3 system registers accessible through the VGIC device instead of the ONE_REG vCPU ioctls. - Various cleanups and minor fixes.
2025-07-29Merge tag 'kvm-x86-misc-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM x86 misc changes for 6.17 - Prevert the host's DEBUGCTL.FREEZE_IN_SMM (Intel only) when running the guest. Failure to honor FREEZE_IN_SMM can bleed host state into the guest. - Explicitly check vmcs12.GUEST_DEBUGCTL on nested VM-Enter (Intel only) to prevent L1 from running L2 with features that KVM doesn't support, e.g. BTF. - Intercept SPEC_CTRL on AMD if the MSR shouldn't exist according to the vCPU's CPUID model. - Rework the MSR interception code so that the SVM and VMX APIs are more or less identical. - Recalculate all MSR intercepts from the "source" on MSR filter changes, and drop the dedicated "shadow" bitmaps (and their awful "max" size defines). - WARN and reject loading kvm-amd.ko instead of panicking the kernel if the nested SVM MSRPM offsets tracker can't handle an MSR. - Advertise support for LKGS (Load Kernel GS base), a new instruction that's loosely related to FRED, but is supported and enumerated independently. - Fix a user-triggerable WARN that syzkaller found by stuffing INIT_RECEIVED, a.k.a. WFS, and then putting the vCPU into VMX Root Mode (post-VMXON). Use the same approach KVM uses for dealing with "impossible" emulation when running a !URG guest, and simply wait until KVM_RUN to detect that the vCPU has architecturally impossible state. - Add KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_APERFMPERF to allow disabling interception of APERF/MPERF reads, so that a "properly" configured VM can "virtualize" APERF/MPERF (with many caveats). - Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ if vCPUs have been created, as changing the "default" frequency is unsupported for VMs with a "secure" TSC, and there's no known use case for changing the default frequency for other VM types.
2025-07-29Merge tag 'kvm-riscv-6.17-2' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM/riscv changes for 6.17 - Enabled ring-based dirty memory tracking - Improved perf kvm stat to report interrupt events - Delegate illegal instruction trap to VS-mode - MMU related improvements for KVM RISC-V for upcoming nested virtualization
2025-07-28RISC-V: KVM: Enable ring-based dirty memory trackingQuan Zhou
Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking on riscv: - Enable CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING_ACQ_REL as riscv is weakly ordered. - Set KVM_DIRTY_LOG_PAGE_OFFSET for the ring buffer's physical page offset. - Add a check to kvm_vcpu_kvm_riscv_check_vcpu_requests for checking whether the dirty ring is soft full. To handle vCPU requests that cause exits to userspace, modified the `kvm_riscv_check_vcpu_requests` to return a value (currently only returns 0 or 1). Signed-off-by: Quan Zhou <zhouquan@iscas.ac.cn> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20e116efb1f7aff211dd8e3cf8990c5521ed5f34.1749810735.git.zhouquan@iscas.ac.cn Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
2025-07-28Merge branch 'kvm-arm64/vgic-v4-ctl' into kvmarm/nextOliver Upton
* kvm-arm64/vgic-v4-ctl: : Userspace control of nASSGIcap, courtesy of Raghavendra Rao Ananta : : Allow userspace to decide if support for SGIs without an active state is : advertised to the guest, allowing VMs from GICv3-only hardware to be : migrated to to GICv4.1 capable machines. Documentation: KVM: arm64: Describe VGICv3 registers writable pre-init KVM: arm64: selftests: Add test for nASSGIcap attribute KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Allow userspace to write GICD_TYPER2.nASSGIcap KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Allow access to GICD_IIDR prior to initialization KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Consolidate MAINT_IRQ handling KVM: arm64: Disambiguate support for vSGIs v. vLPIs Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
2025-07-28Merge branch 'kvm-arm64/el2-reg-visibility' into kvmarm/nextOliver Upton
* kvm-arm64/el2-reg-visibility: : Fixes to EL2 register visibility, courtesy of Marc Zyngier : : - Expose EL2 VGICv3 registers via the VGIC attributes accessor, not the : KVM_{GET,SET}_ONE_REG ioctls : : - Condition visibility of FGT registers on the presence of FEAT_FGT in : the VM KVM: arm64: selftest: vgic-v3: Add basic GICv3 sysreg userspace access test KVM: arm64: Enforce the sorting of the GICv3 system register table KVM: arm64: Clarify the check for reset callback in check_sysreg_table() KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Fix ordering of ICH_HCR_EL2 KVM: arm64: Document registers exposed via KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_SYSREGS KVM: arm64: selftests: get-reg-list: Add base EL2 registers KVM: arm64: selftests: get-reg-list: Simplify feature dependency KVM: arm64: Advertise FGT2 registers to userspace KVM: arm64: Condition FGT registers on feature availability KVM: arm64: Expose GICv3 EL2 registers via KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_SYSREGS KVM: arm64: Let GICv3 save/restore honor visibility attribute KVM: arm64: Define helper for ICH_VTR_EL2 KVM: arm64: Define constant value for ICC_SRE_EL2 KVM: arm64: Don't advertise ICH_*_EL2 registers through GET_ONE_REG KVM: arm64: Make RVBAR_EL2 accesses UNDEF Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
2025-07-26Documentation: KVM: arm64: Describe VGICv3 registers writable pre-initOliver Upton
KVM allows userspace to control GICD_IIDR.Revision and GICD_TYPER2.nASSGIcap prior to initialization for the sake of provisioning the guest-visible feature set. Document the userspace expectations surrounding accesses to these registers. Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724062805.2658919-7-oliver.upton@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
2025-07-17Merge tag 'kvm-x86-fixes-6.16-rc7' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM TDX fixes for 6.16 - Fix a formatting goof in the TDX documentation. - Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ for guests with a protected TSC (currently only TDX). - Ensure struct kvm_tdx_capabilities fields that are not explicitly set by KVM are zeroed.
2025-07-15KVM: arm64: Document registers exposed via KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_SYSREGSMarc Zyngier
We never documented which GICv3 registers are available for save/restore via the KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_SYSREGS interface. Let's take the opportunity of adding the EL2 registers to document the whole thing in one go. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714122634.3334816-12-maz@kernel.org [ oliver: fix trailing whitespace ] Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
2025-07-15KVM: Documentation: document how KVM is testedPaolo Bonzini
Proper testing greatly simplifies both patch development and review, but it can be unclear what kind of userspace or guest support should accompany new features. Clarify maintainer expectations in terms of testing expectations; additionally, list the cases in which open-source userspace support is pretty much a necessity and its absence can only be mitigated by selftests. While these ideas have long been followed implicitly by KVM contributors and maintainers, formalize them in writing to provide consistent (though not universal) guidelines. Suggested-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-07-15KVM: Documentation: minimal updates to review-checklist.rstPaolo Bonzini
While the file could stand a larger update, these are the bare minimum changes needed to make it more widely applicable. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-07-15KVM: x86: Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ vCPU ioctl for TSC protected guestKai Huang
Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ vCPU ioctl if guest's TSC is protected and not changeable by KVM, and update the documentation to reflect it. For such TSC protected guests, e.g. TDX guests, typically the TSC is configured once at VM level before any vCPU are created and remains unchanged during VM's lifetime. KVM provides the KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ VM scope ioctl to allow the userspace VMM to configure the TSC of such VM. After that the userspace VMM is not supposed to call the KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ vCPU scope ioctl anymore when creating the vCPU. The de facto userspace VMM Qemu does this for TDX guests. The upcoming SEV-SNP guests with Secure TSC should follow. Note, TDX support hasn't been fully released as of the "buggy" commit, i.e. there is no established ABI to break. Fixes: adafea110600 ("KVM: x86: Add infrastructure for secure TSC") Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/71bbdf87fdd423e3ba3a45b57642c119ee2dd98c.1752444335.git.kai.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-07-14KVM: x86: Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ VM ioctl when vCPUs have been createdKai Huang
Reject the KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ VM ioctl when vCPUs have been created and update the documentation to reflect it. The VM scope KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ ioctl is used to set up the default TSC frequency that all subsequently created vCPUs can use. It is only intended to be called before any vCPU is created. Allowing it to be called after that only results in confusion but nothing good. Note this is an ABI change. But currently in Qemu (the de facto userspace VMM) only TDX uses this VM ioctl, and it is only called once before creating any vCPU, therefore the risk of breaking userspace is pretty low. Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/135a35223ce8d01cea06b6cef30bfe494ec85827.1752444335.git.kai.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-07-10Documentation: KVM: Fix unexpected unindent warningBinbin Wu
Add proper indentations to bullet list item to resolve the warning: "Bullet list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent." Closes:https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250623162110.6e2f4241@canb.auug.org.au Fixes: 4580dbef5ce0 ("KVM: TDX: Exit to userspace for SetupEventNotifyInterrupt") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250701012536.1281367-1-binbin.wu@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-07-09KVM: x86: Provide a capability to disable APERF/MPERF read interceptsJim Mattson
Allow a guest to read the physical IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF MSRs without interception. The IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF MSRs are not virtualized. Writes are not handled at all. The MSR values are not zeroed on vCPU creation, saved on suspend, or restored on resume. No accommodation is made for processor migration or for sharing a logical processor with other tasks. No adjustments are made for non-unit TSC multipliers. The MSRs do not account for time the same way as the comparable PMU events, whether the PMU is virtualized by the traditional emulation method or the new mediated pass-through approach. Nonetheless, in a properly constrained environment, this capability can be combined with a guest CPUID table that advertises support for CPUID.6:ECX.APERFMPERF[bit 0] to induce a Linux guest to report the effective physical CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo. Moreover, there is no performance cost for this capability. Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250530185239.2335185-3-jmattson@google.com Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250626001225.744268-3-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-07-07KVM: arm64: Expose new KVM cap for cacheable PFNMAPAnkit Agrawal
Introduce a new KVM capability to expose to the userspace whether cacheable mapping of PFNMAP is supported. The ability to safely do the cacheable mapping of PFNMAP is contingent on S2FWB and ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC. S2FWB allows KVM to avoid flushing the D cache, ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC allows KVM to avoid flushing the icache and turns icache_inval_pou() into a NOP. The cap would be false if those requirements are missing and is checked by making use of kvm_arch_supports_cacheable_pfnmap. This capability would allow userspace to discover the support. It could for instance be used by userspace to prevent live-migration across FWB and non-FWB hosts. CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> CC: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> CC: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> CC: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ankit Agrawal <ankita@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250705071717.5062-7-ankita@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
2025-06-25Documentation: KVM: Fix unexpected unindent warningsBinbin Wu
Add proper indentations to bullet list items to resolve the warning: "Bullet list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent." Closes:https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250623162110.6e2f4241@canb.auug.org.au/ Fixes: cf207eac06f6 ("KVM: TDX: Handle TDG.VP.VMCALL<GetQuote>") Fixes: 25e8b1dd4883 ("KVM: TDX: Exit to userspace for GetTdVmCallInfo") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250625014829.82289-1-binbin.wu@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-06-20KVM: TDX: Report supported optional TDVMCALLs in TDX capabilitiesPaolo Bonzini
Allow userspace to advertise TDG.VP.VMCALL subfunctions that the kernel also supports. For each output register of GetTdVmCallInfo's leaf 1, add two fields to KVM_TDX_CAPABILITIES: one for kernel-supported TDVMCALLs (userspace can set those blindly) and one for user-supported TDVMCALLs (userspace can set those if it knows how to handle them). Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-06-20KVM: TDX: Exit to userspace for SetupEventNotifyInterruptPaolo Bonzini
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-06-20KVM: TDX: Exit to userspace for GetTdVmCallInfoBinbin Wu
Exit to userspace for TDG.VP.VMCALL<GetTdVmCallInfo> via KVM_EXIT_TDX, to allow userspace to provide information about the support of TDVMCALLs when r12 is 1 for the TDVMCALLs beyond the GHCI base API. GHCI spec defines the GHCI base TDVMCALLs: <GetTdVmCallInfo>, <MapGPA>, <ReportFatalError>, <Instruction.CPUID>, <#VE.RequestMMIO>, <Instruction.HLT>, <Instruction.IO>, <Instruction.RDMSR> and <Instruction.WRMSR>. They must be supported by VMM to support TDX guests. For GetTdVmCallInfo - When leaf (r12) to enumerate TDVMCALL functionality is set to 0, successful execution indicates all GHCI base TDVMCALLs listed above are supported. Update the KVM TDX document with the set of the GHCI base APIs. - When leaf (r12) to enumerate TDVMCALL functionality is set to 1, it indicates the TDX guest is querying the supported TDVMCALLs beyond the GHCI base TDVMCALLs. Exit to userspace to let userspace set the TDVMCALL sub-function bit(s) accordingly to the leaf outputs. KVM could set the TDVMCALL bit(s) supported by itself when the TDVMCALLs don't need support from userspace after returning from userspace and before entering guest. Currently, no such TDVMCALLs implemented, KVM just sets the values returned from userspace. Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com> [Adjust userspace API. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-06-20KVM: TDX: Handle TDG.VP.VMCALL<GetQuote>Binbin Wu
Handle TDVMCALL for GetQuote to generate a TD-Quote. GetQuote is a doorbell-like interface used by TDX guests to request VMM to generate a TD-Quote signed by a service hosting TD-Quoting Enclave operating on the host. A TDX guest passes a TD Report (TDREPORT_STRUCT) in a shared-memory area as parameter. Host VMM can access it and queue the operation for a service hosting TD-Quoting enclave. When completed, the Quote is returned via the same shared-memory area. KVM only checks the GPA from the TDX guest has the shared-bit set and drops the shared-bit before exiting to userspace to avoid bleeding the shared-bit into KVM's exit ABI. KVM forwards the request to userspace VMM (e.g. QEMU) and userspace VMM queues the operation asynchronously. KVM sets the return code according to the 'ret' field set by userspace to notify the TDX guest whether the request has been queued successfully or not. When the request has been queued successfully, the TDX guest can poll the status field in the shared-memory area to check whether the Quote generation is completed or not. When completed, the generated Quote is returned via the same buffer. Add KVM_EXIT_TDX as a new exit reason to userspace. Userspace is required to handle the KVM exit reason as the initial support for TDX, by reentering KVM to ensure that the TDVMCALL is complete. While at it, add a note that KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL also requires reentry with KVM_RUN. Signed-off-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Mikko Ylinen <mikko.ylinen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> [Adjust userspace API. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-06-05Merge tag 'uml-for-linux-6.16-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux Pull UML updates from Johannes Berg: "The only really new thing is the long-standing seccomp work (originally from 2021!). Wven if it still isn't enabled by default due to security concerns it can still be used e.g. for tests. - remove obsolete network transports - remove PCI IO port support - start adding seccomp-based process handling instead of ptrace" * tag 'uml-for-linux-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux: (29 commits) um: remove "extern" from implementation of sigchld_handler um: fix unused variable warning um: fix SECCOMP 32bit xstate register restore um: pass FD for memory operations when needed um: Add SECCOMP support detection and initialization um: Implement kernel side of SECCOMP based process handling um: Track userspace children dying in SECCOMP mode um: Add helper functions to get/set state for SECCOMP um: Add stub side of SECCOMP/futex based process handling um: Move faultinfo extraction into userspace routine um: vector: Use mac_pton() for MAC address parsing um: vector: Clean up and modernize log messages um: chan_kern: use raw spinlock for irqs_to_free_lock MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete file entry in TUN/TAP DRIVER um: Fix tgkill compile error on old host OSes um: stop using PCI port I/O um: Remove legacy network transport infrastructure um: vector: Eliminate the dependency on uml_net um: Remove obsolete legacy network transports um/asm: Replace "REP; NOP" with PAUSE mnemonic ...
2025-06-03Merge tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20250602' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu: - Support for Virtual Trust Level (VTL) on arm64 (Roman Kisel) - Fixes for Hyper-V UIO driver (Long Li) - Fixes for Hyper-V PCI driver (Michael Kelley) - Select CONFIG_SYSFB for Hyper-V guests (Michael Kelley) - Documentation updates for Hyper-V VMBus (Michael Kelley) - Enhance logging for hv_kvp_daemon (Shradha Gupta) * tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20250602' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux: (23 commits) Drivers: hv: Always select CONFIG_SYSFB for Hyper-V guests Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add comments about races with "channels" sysfs dir Documentation: hyperv: Update VMBus doc with new features and info PCI: hv: Remove unnecessary flex array in struct pci_packet Drivers: hv: Remove hv_alloc/free_* helpers Drivers: hv: Use kzalloc for panic page allocation uio_hv_generic: Align ring size to system page uio_hv_generic: Use correct size for interrupt and monitor pages Drivers: hv: Allocate interrupt and monitor pages aligned to system page boundary arch/x86: Provide the CPU number in the wakeup AP callback x86/hyperv: Fix APIC ID and VP index confusion in hv_snp_boot_ap() PCI: hv: Get vPCI MSI IRQ domain from DeviceTree ACPI: irq: Introduce acpi_get_gsi_dispatcher() Drivers: hv: vmbus: Introduce hv_get_vmbus_root_device() Drivers: hv: vmbus: Get the IRQ number from DeviceTree dt-bindings: microsoft,vmbus: Add interrupt and DMA coherence properties arm64, x86: hyperv: Report the VTL the system boots in arm64: hyperv: Initialize the Virtual Trust Level field Drivers: hv: Provide arch-neutral implementation of get_vtl() Drivers: hv: Enable VTL mode for arm64 ...