x86:
* KVM currently invalidates the entirety of the page tables, not just
those for the memslot being touched, when a memslot is moved or deleted.
The former does not have particularly noticeable overhead, but Intel's
TDX will require the guest to re-accept private pages if they are
dropped from the secure EPT, which is a non starter. Actually,
the only reason why this is not already being done is a bug which
was never fully investigated and caused VM instability with assigned
GeForce GPUs, so allow userspace to opt into the new behavior.
* Advertise AVX10.1 to userspace (effectively prep work for the "real" AVX10
functionality that is on the horizon).
* Rework common MSR handling code to suppress errors on userspace accesses to
unsupported-but-advertised MSRs. This will allow removing (almost?) all of
KVM's exemptions for userspace access to MSRs that shouldn't exist based on
the vCPU model (the actual cleanup is non-trivial future work).
* Rework KVM's handling of x2APIC ICR, again, because AMD (x2AVIC) splits the
64-bit value into the legacy ICR and ICR2 storage, whereas Intel (APICv)
stores the entire 64-bit value at the ICR offset.
* Fix a bug where KVM would fail to exit to userspace if one was triggered by
a fastpath exit handler.
* Add fastpath handling of HLT VM-Exit to expedite re-entering the guest when
there's already a pending wake event at the time of the exit.
* Fix a WARN caused by RSM entering a nested guest from SMM with invalid guest
state, by forcing the vCPU out of guest mode prior to signalling SHUTDOWN
(the SHUTDOWN hits the VM altogether, not the nested guest)
* Overhaul the "unprotect and retry" logic to more precisely identify cases
where retrying is actually helpful, and to harden all retry paths against
putting the guest into an infinite retry loop.
* Add support for yielding, e.g. to honor NEED_RESCHED, when zapping rmaps in
the shadow MMU.
* Refactor pieces of the shadow MMU related to aging SPTEs in prepartion for
adding multi generation LRU support in KVM.
* Don't stuff the RSB after VM-Exit when RETPOLINE=y and AutoIBRS is enabled,
i.e. when the CPU has already flushed the RSB.
* Trace the per-CPU host save area as a VMCB pointer to improve readability
and cleanup the retrieval of the SEV-ES host save area.
* Remove unnecessary accounting of temporary nested VMCB related allocations.
* Set FINAL/PAGE in the page fault error code for EPT violations if and only
if the GVA is valid. If the GVA is NOT valid, there is no guest-side page
table walk and so stuffing paging related metadata is nonsensical.
* Fix a bug where KVM would incorrectly synthesize a nested VM-Exit instead of
emulating posted interrupt delivery to L2.
* Add a lockdep assertion to detect unsafe accesses of vmcs12 structures.
* Harden eVMCS loading against an impossible NULL pointer deref (really truly
should be impossible).
* Minor SGX fix and a cleanup.
* Misc cleanups
Generic:
* Register KVM's cpuhp and syscore callbacks when enabling virtualization in
hardware, as the sole purpose of said callbacks is to disable and re-enable
virtualization as needed.
* Enable virtualization when KVM is loaded, not right before the first VM
is created. Together with the previous change, this simplifies a
lot the logic of the callbacks, because their very existence implies
virtualization is enabled.
* Fix a bug that results in KVM prematurely exiting to userspace for coalesced
MMIO/PIO in many cases, clean up the related code, and add a testcase.
* Fix a bug in kvm_clear_guest() where it would trigger a buffer overflow _if_
the gpa+len crosses a page boundary, which thankfully is guaranteed to not
happen in the current code base. Add WARNs in more helpers that read/write
guest memory to detect similar bugs.
Selftests:
* Fix a goof that caused some Hyper-V tests to be skipped when run on bare
metal, i.e. NOT in a VM.
* Add a regression test for KVM's handling of SHUTDOWN for an SEV-ES guest.
* Explicitly include one-off assets in .gitignore. Past Sean was completely
wrong about not being able to detect missing .gitignore entries.
* Verify userspace single-stepping works when KVM happens to handle a VM-Exit
in its fastpath.
* Misc cleanups
Documentation: KVM: fix warning in "make htmldocs"
The warning
Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst:31: ERROR: Unexpected indentation.
is caused by incorrectly treating a line as the continuation of a paragraph,
rather than as the first line in a bullet list.
Fixed: 44d174596260 ("KVM: Use dedicated mutex to protect kvm_usage_count to avoid deadlock")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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