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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2024-11-24T00:00:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2024-11-24T00:00:50Z</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The biggest change here is eliminating the awful idea that KVM had of
  essentially guessing which pfns are refcounted pages.

  The reason to do so was that KVM needs to map both non-refcounted
  pages (for example BARs of VFIO devices) and VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXMEDMAP
  VMAs that contain refcounted pages.

  However, the result was security issues in the past, and more recently
  the inability to map VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory that _is_ backed by
  struct page but is not refcounted. In particular this broke virtio-gpu
  blob resources (which directly map host graphics buffers into the
  guest as "vram" for the virtio-gpu device) with the amdgpu driver,
  because amdgpu allocates non-compound higher order pages and the tail
  pages could not be mapped into KVM.

  This requires adjusting all uses of struct page in the
  per-architecture code, to always work on the pfn whenever possible.
  The large series that did this, from David Stevens and Sean
  Christopherson, also cleaned up substantially the set of functions
  that provided arch code with the pfn for a host virtual addresses.

  The previous maze of twisty little passages, all different, is
  replaced by five functions (__gfn_to_page, __kvm_faultin_pfn, the
  non-__ versions of these two, and kvm_prefetch_pages) saving almost
  200 lines of code.

  ARM:

   - Support for stage-1 permission indirection (FEAT_S1PIE) and
     permission overlays (FEAT_S1POE), including nested virt + the
     emulated page table walker

   - Introduce PSCI SYSTEM_OFF2 support to KVM + client driver. This
     call was introduced in PSCIv1.3 as a mechanism to request
     hibernation, similar to the S4 state in ACPI

   - Explicitly trap + hide FEAT_MPAM (QoS controls) from KVM guests. As
     part of it, introduce trivial initialization of the host's MPAM
     context so KVM can use the corresponding traps

   - PMU support under nested virtualization, honoring the guest
     hypervisor's trap configuration and event filtering when running a
     nested guest

   - Fixes to vgic ITS serialization where stale device/interrupt table
     entries are not zeroed when the mapping is invalidated by the VM

   - Avoid emulated MMIO completion if userspace has requested
     synchronous external abort injection

   - Various fixes and cleanups affecting pKVM, vCPU initialization, and
     selftests

  LoongArch:

   - Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel.

   - Add in-kernel interrupt controller emulation.

   - Add support for virtualization extensions to the eiointc irqchip.

  PPC:

   - Drop lingering and utterly obsolete references to PPC970 KVM, which
     was removed 10 years ago.

   - Fix incorrect documentation references to non-existing ioctls

  RISC-V:

   - Accelerate KVM RISC-V when running as a guest

   - Perf support to collect KVM guest statistics from host side

  s390:

   - New selftests: more ucontrol selftests and CPU model sanity checks

   - Support for the gen17 CPU model

   - List registers supported by KVM_GET/SET_ONE_REG in the
     documentation

  x86:

   - Cleanup KVM's handling of Accessed and Dirty bits to dedup code,
     improve documentation, harden against unexpected changes.

     Even if the hardware A/D tracking is disabled, it is possible to
     use the hardware-defined A/D bits to track if a PFN is Accessed
     and/or Dirty, and that removes a lot of special cases.

   - Elide TLB flushes when aging secondary PTEs, as has been done in
     x86's primary MMU for over 10 years.

   - Recover huge pages in-place in the TDP MMU when dirty page logging
     is toggled off, instead of zapping them and waiting until the page
     is re-accessed to create a huge mapping. This reduces vCPU jitter.

   - Batch TLB flushes when dirty page logging is toggled off. This
     reduces the time it takes to disable dirty logging by ~3x.

   - Remove the shrinker that was (poorly) attempting to reclaim shadow
     page tables in low-memory situations.

   - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of writes to
     MSR_IA32_APICBASE.

   - Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest

   - Quirk KVM's misguided behavior of initialized certain feature MSRs
     to their maximum supported feature set, which can result in KVM
     creating invalid vCPU state. E.g. initializing PERF_CAPABILITIES to
     a non-zero value results in the vCPU having invalid state if
     userspace hides PDCM from the guest, which in turn can lead to
     save/restore failures.

   - Fix KVM's handling of non-canonical checks for vCPUs that support
     LA57 to better follow the "architecture", in quotes because the
     actual behavior is poorly documented. E.g. most MSR writes and
     descriptor table loads ignore CR4.LA57 and operate purely on
     whether the CPU supports LA57.

   - Bypass the register cache when querying CPL from kvm_sched_out(),
     as filling the cache from IRQ context is generally unsafe; harden
     the cache accessors to try to prevent similar issues from occuring
     in the future. The issue that triggered this change was already
     fixed in 6.12, but was still kinda latent.

   - Advertise AMD_IBPB_RET to userspace, and fix a related bug where
     KVM over-advertises SPEC_CTRL when trying to support cross-vendor
     VMs.

   - Minor cleanups

   - Switch hugepage recovery thread to use vhost_task.

     These kthreads can consume significant amounts of CPU time on
     behalf of a VM or in response to how the VM behaves (for example
     how it accesses its memory); therefore KVM tried to place the
     thread in the VM's cgroups and charge the CPU time consumed by that
     work to the VM's container.

     However the kthreads did not process SIGSTOP/SIGCONT, and therefore
     cgroups which had KVM instances inside could not complete freezing.

     Fix this by replacing the kthread with a PF_USER_WORKER thread, via
     the vhost_task abstraction. Another 100+ lines removed, with
     generally better behavior too like having these threads properly
     parented in the process tree.

   - Revert a workaround for an old CPU erratum (Nehalem/Westmere) that
     didn't really work; there was really nothing to work around anyway:
     the broken patch was meant to fix nested virtualization, but the
     PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR is virtualized and therefore unaffected by the
     erratum.

   - Fix 6.12 regression where CONFIG_KVM will be built as a module even
     if asked to be builtin, as long as neither KVM_INTEL nor KVM_AMD is
     'y'.

  x86 selftests:

   - x86 selftests can now use AVX.

  Documentation:

   - Use rST internal links

   - Reorganize the introduction to the API document

  Generic:

   - Protect vcpu-&gt;pid accesses outside of vcpu-&gt;mutex with a rwlock
     instead of RCU, so that running a vCPU on a different task doesn't
     encounter long due to having to wait for all CPUs become quiescent.

     In general both reads and writes are rare, but userspace that
     supports confidential computing is introducing the use of "helper"
     vCPUs that may jump from one host processor to another. Those will
     be very happy to trigger a synchronize_rcu(), and the effect on
     performance is quite the disaster"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (298 commits)
  KVM: x86: Break CONFIG_KVM_X86's direct dependency on KVM_INTEL || KVM_AMD
  KVM: x86: add back X86_LOCAL_APIC dependency
  Revert "KVM: VMX: Move LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL errata handling out of setup_vmcs_config()"
  KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task
  KVM: x86: expose MSR_PLATFORM_INFO as a feature MSR
  x86: KVM: Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest
  Documentation: KVM: fix malformed table
  irqchip/loongson-eiointc: Add virt extension support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add irqfd support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC user mode read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC user mode read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC read and write functions
  LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI user mode read and write function
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI read and write function
  LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI device support
  LoongArch: KVM: Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel
  KVM: arm64: Pass on SVE mapping failures
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T00:35:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-20T00:35:06Z</published>
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather large update for timekeeping and timers:

   - The final step to get rid of auto-rearming posix-timers

     posix-timers are currently auto-rearmed by the kernel when the
     signal of the timer is ignored so that the timer signal can be
     delivered once the corresponding signal is unignored.

     This requires to throttle the timer to prevent a DoS by small
     intervals and keeps the system pointlessly out of low power states
     for no value. This is a long standing non-trivial problem due to
     the lock order of posix-timer lock and the sighand lock along with
     life time issues as the timer and the sigqueue have different life
     time rules.

     Cure this by:

       - Embedding the sigqueue into the timer struct to have the same
         life time rules. Aside of that this also avoids the lookup of
         the timer in the signal delivery and rearm path as it's just a
         always valid container_of() now.

       - Queuing ignored timer signals onto a seperate ignored list.

       - Moving queued timer signals onto the ignored list when the
         signal is switched to SIG_IGN before it could be delivered.

       - Walking the ignored list when SIG_IGN is lifted and requeue the
         signals to the actual signal lists. This allows the signal
         delivery code to rearm the timer.

     This also required to consolidate the signal delivery rules so they
     are consistent across all situations. With that all self test
     scenarios finally succeed.

   - Core infrastructure for VFS multigrain timestamping

     This is required to allow the kernel to use coarse grained time
     stamps by default and switch to fine grained time stamps when inode
     attributes are actively observed via getattr().

     These changes have been provided to the VFS tree as well, so that
     the VFS specific infrastructure could be built on top.

   - Cleanup and consolidation of the sleep() infrastructure

       - Move all sleep and timeout functions into one file

       - Rework udelay() and ndelay() into proper documented inline
         functions and replace the hardcoded magic numbers by proper
         defines.

       - Rework the fsleep() implementation to take the reality of the
         timer wheel granularity on different HZ values into account.
         Right now the boundaries are hard coded time ranges which fail
         to provide the requested accuracy on different HZ settings.

       - Update documentation for all sleep/timeout related functions
         and fix up stale documentation links all over the place

       - Fixup a few usage sites

   - Rework of timekeeping and adjtimex(2) to prepare for multiple PTP
     clocks

     A system can have multiple PTP clocks which are participating in
     seperate and independent PTP clock domains. So far the kernel only
     considers the PTP clock which is based on CLOCK TAI relevant as
     that's the clock which drives the timekeeping adjustments via the
     various user space daemons through adjtimex(2).

     The non TAI based clock domains are accessible via the file
     descriptor based posix clocks, but their usability is very limited.
     They can't be accessed fast as they always go all the way out to
     the hardware and they cannot be utilized in the kernel itself.

     As Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) gains traction it is required to
     provide fast user and kernel space access to these clocks.

     The approach taken is to utilize the timekeeping and adjtimex(2)
     infrastructure to provide this access in a similar way how the
     kernel provides access to clock MONOTONIC, REALTIME etc.

     Instead of creating a duplicated infrastructure this rework
     converts timekeeping and adjtimex(2) into generic functionality
     which operates on pointers to data structures instead of using
     static variables.

     This allows to provide time accessors and adjtimex(2) functionality
     for the independent PTP clocks in a subsequent step.

   - Consolidate hrtimer initialization

     hrtimers are set up by initializing the data structure and then
     seperately setting the callback function for historical reasons.

     That's an extra unnecessary step and makes Rust support less
     straight forward than it should be.

     Provide a new set of hrtimer_setup*() functions and convert the
     core code and a few usage sites of the less frequently used
     interfaces over.

     The bulk of the htimer_init() to hrtimer_setup() conversion is
     already prepared and scheduled for the next merge window.

   - Drivers:

       - Ensure that the global timekeeping clocksource is utilizing the
         cluster 0 timer on MIPS multi-cluster systems.

         Otherwise CPUs on different clusters use their cluster specific
         clocksource which is not guaranteed to be synchronized with
         other clusters.

       - Mostly boring cleanups, fixes, improvements and code movement"

* tag 'timers-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (140 commits)
  posix-timers: Fix spurious warning on double enqueue versus do_exit()
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
  clocksource/drivers/gpx: Remove redundant casts
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix child node refcount handling
  dt-bindings: timer: actions,owl-timer: convert to YAML
  clocksource/drivers/ralink: Add Ralink System Tick Counter driver
  clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Always use cluster 0 counter as clocksource
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Don't fail probe if int not found
  clocksource/drivers:sp804: Make user selectable
  clocksource/drivers/dw_apb: Remove unused dw_apb_clockevent functions
  hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_on_stack()
  alarmtimer: Switch to use hrtimer_setup() and hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  io_uring: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  sched/idle: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_on_stack()
  hrtimers: Delete hrtimer_init_sleeper_on_stack()
  wait: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  timers: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  net: pktgen: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  futex: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  fs/aio: Switch to use hrtimer_setup_sleeper_on_stack()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Break CONFIG_KVM_X86's direct dependency on KVM_INTEL || KVM_AMD</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T00:34:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T17:20:02Z</published>
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Rework CONFIG_KVM_X86's dependency to only check if KVM_INTEL or KVM_AMD
is selected, i.e. not 'n'.  Having KVM_X86 depend directly on the vendor
modules results in KVM_X86 being set to 'm' if at least one of KVM_INTEL
or KVM_AMD is enabled, but neither is 'y', regardless of the value of KVM
itself.

The documentation for def_tristate doesn't explicitly state that this is
the intended behavior, but it does clearly state that the "if" section is
parsed as a dependency, i.e. the behavior is consistent with how tristate
dependencies are handled in general.

  Optionally dependencies for this default value can be added with "if".

Fixes: ea4290d77bda ("KVM: x86: leave kvm.ko out of the build if no vendor module is requested")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20241118172002.1633824-3-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: add back X86_LOCAL_APIC dependency</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T00:34:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T17:20:01Z</published>
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Enabling KVM now causes a build failure on x86-32 if X86_LOCAL_APIC
is disabled:

arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c: In function 'svm_emergency_disable_virtualization_cpu':
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c:597:9: error: 'kvm_rebooting' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'kvm_irq_routing'?
  597 |         kvm_rebooting = true;
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |         kvm_irq_routing
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c:597:9: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[6]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:221: arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.o] Error 1
In file included from include/linux/rculist.h:11,
                 from include/linux/hashtable.h:14,
                 from arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c:18:
arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c: In function 'avic_pi_update_irte':
arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c:909:38: error: 'struct kvm' has no member named 'irq_routing'
  909 |         irq_rt = srcu_dereference(kvm-&gt;irq_routing, &amp;kvm-&gt;irq_srcu);
      |                                      ^~
include/linux/rcupdate.h:538:17: note: in definition of macro '__rcu_dereference_check'
  538 |         typeof(*p) *local = (typeof(*p) *__force)READ_ONCE(p); \

Move the dependency to the same place as before.

Fixes: ea4290d77bda ("KVM: x86: leave kvm.ko out of the build if no vendor module is requested")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202410060426.e9Xsnkvi-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
[sean: add Cc to stable, tweak shortlog scope]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20241118172002.1633824-2-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "KVM: VMX: Move LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL errata handling out of setup_vmcs_config()"</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T00:34:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-19T01:14:33Z</published>
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Revert back to clearing VM_{ENTRY,EXIT}_LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL in KVM's
golden VMCS config, as applying the workaround during vCPU creation is
pointless and broken.  KVM *unconditionally* clears the controls in the
values returned by vmx_vmentry_ctrl() and vmx_vmexit_ctrl(), as KVM loads
PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL if and only if its necessary to do so.  E.g. if KVM wants
to run the guest with the same PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL as the host, then there's
no need to re-load the MSR on entry and exit.

Even worse, the buggy commit failed to apply the erratum where it's
actually needed, add_atomic_switch_msr().  As a result, KVM completely
ignores the erratum for all intents and purposes, i.e. uses the flawed
VMCS controls to load PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL.

To top things off, the patch was intended to be dropped, as the premise
of an L1 VMM being able to pivot on FMS is flawed, and KVM can (and now
does) fully emulate the controls in software.  Simply revert the commit,
as all upstream supported kernels that have the buggy commit should also
have commit f4c93d1a0e71 ("KVM: nVMX: Always emulate PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL
VM-Entry/VM-Exit controls"), i.e. the (likely theoretical) live migration
concern is a complete non-issue.

Opportunistically drop the manual "kvm: " scope from the warning about
the erratum, as KVM now uses pr_fmt() to provide the correct scope (v6.1
kernels and earlier don't, but the erratum only applies to CPUs that are
15+ years old; it's not worth a separate patch).

This reverts commit 9d78d6fb186bc4aff41b5d6c4726b76649d3cb53.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YtnZmCutdd5tpUmz@google.com
Fixes: 9d78d6fb186b ("KVM: VMX: Move LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL errata handling out of setup_vmcs_config()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Maxim Levitsky &lt;mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20241119011433.1797921-1-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-11-18T20:24:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T20:24:06Z</published>
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Pull 'struct fd' class updates from Al Viro:
 "The bulk of struct fd memory safety stuff

  Making sure that struct fd instances are destroyed in the same scope
  where they'd been created, getting rid of reassignments and passing
  them by reference, converting to CLASS(fd{,_pos,_raw}).

  We are getting very close to having the memory safety of that stuff
  trivial to verify"

* tag 'pull-fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  deal with the last remaing boolean uses of fd_file()
  css_set_fork(): switch to CLASS(fd_raw, ...)
  memcg_write_event_control(): switch to CLASS(fd)
  assorted variants of irqfd setup: convert to CLASS(fd)
  do_pollfd(): convert to CLASS(fd)
  convert do_select()
  convert vfs_dedupe_file_range().
  convert cifs_ioctl_copychunk()
  convert media_request_get_by_fd()
  convert spu_run(2)
  switch spufs_calls_{get,put}() to CLASS() use
  convert cachestat(2)
  convert do_preadv()/do_pwritev()
  fdget(), more trivial conversions
  fdget(), trivial conversions
  privcmd_ioeventfd_assign(): don't open-code eventfd_ctx_fdget()
  o2hb_region_dev_store(): avoid goto around fdget()/fdput()
  introduce "fd_pos" class, convert fdget_pos() users to it.
  fdget_raw() users: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)
  convert vmsplice() to CLASS(fd)
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task</title>
<updated>2024-11-14T18:20:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-08T09:56:31Z</published>
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kvm_vm_create_worker_thread() is meant to be used for kthreads that
can consume significant amounts of CPU time on behalf of a VM or in
response to how the VM behaves (for example how it accesses its memory).
Therefore it wants to charge the CPU time consumed by that work to
the VM's container.

However, because of these threads, cgroups which have kvm instances
inside never complete freezing.  This can be trivially reproduced:

  root@test ~# mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test
  root@test ~# echo $$ &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs
  root@test ~# qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -enable-kvm

and in another terminal:

  root@test ~# echo 1 &gt; /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.freeze
  root@test ~# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.events
  populated 1
  frozen 0

The cgroup freezing happens in the signal delivery path but
kvm_nx_huge_page_recovery_worker, while joining non-root cgroups, never
calls into the signal delivery path and thus never gets frozen. Because
the cgroup freezer determines whether a given cgroup is frozen by
comparing the number of frozen threads to the total number of threads
in the cgroup, the cgroup never becomes frozen and users waiting for
the state transition may hang indefinitely.

Since the worker kthread is tied to a user process, it's better if
it behaves similarly to user tasks as much as possible, including
being able to send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT.  In fact, vhost_task is all
that kvm_vm_create_worker_thread() wanted to be and more: not only it
inherits the userspace process's cgroups, it has other niceties like
being parented properly in the process tree.  Use it instead of the
homegrown alternative.

Incidentally, the new code is also better behaved when you flip recovery
back and forth to disabled and back to enabled.  If your recovery period
is 1 minute, it will run the next recovery after 1 minute independent
of how many times you flipped the parameter.

(Commit message based on emails from Tejun).

Reported-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Luca Boccassi &lt;bluca@debian.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi &lt;bluca@debian.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>KVM: x86: expose MSR_PLATFORM_INFO as a feature MSR</title>
<updated>2024-11-13T19:40:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-13T11:39:45Z</published>
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For userspace that wants to disable KVM_X86_QUIRK_STUFF_FEATURE_MSRS, it
is useful to know what bits can be set to 1 in MSR_PLATFORM_INFO (apart
from the TSC ratio).  The right way to do that is via /dev/kvm's
feature MSR mechanism.

In fact, MSR_PLATFORM_INFO is already a feature MSR for the purpose of
blocking updates after the vCPU is run, but KVM_GET_MSRS did not return
a valid value for it.

Just like in a VM that leaves KVM_X86_QUIRK_STUFF_FEATURE_MSRS enabled,
the TSC ratio field is left to 0.  Only bit 31 is set.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>x86: KVM: Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest</title>
<updated>2024-11-13T19:40:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tao Su</name>
<email>tao1.su@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-05T05:48:25Z</published>
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Latest Intel platform Clearwater Forest has introduced new instructions
enumerated by CPUIDs of SHA512, SM3, SM4 and AVX-VNNI-INT16. Advertise
these CPUIDs to userspace so that guests can query them directly.

SHA512, SM3 and SM4 are on an expected-dense CPUID leaf and some other
bits on this leaf have kernel usages. Considering they have not truly
kernel usages, hide them in /proc/cpuinfo.

These new instructions only operate in xmm, ymm registers and have no new
VMX controls, so there is no additional host enabling required for guests
to use these instructions, i.e. advertising these CPUIDs to userspace is
safe.

Tested-by: Jiaan Lu &lt;jiaan.lu@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Xuelian Guo &lt;xuelian.guo@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tao Su &lt;tao1.su@linux.intel.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20241105054825.870939-1-tao1.su@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-docs-6.13' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2024-11-13T12:18:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-13T12:04:53Z</published>
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- Drop obsolete references to PPC970 KVM, which was removed 10 years ago.

- Fix incorrect references to non-existing ioctls

- List registers supported by KVM_GET/SET_ONE_REG on s390

- Use rST internal links

- Reorganize the introduction to the API document
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