1c3bed8006
- Fix a mostly benign bug in the gfn_to_pfn_cache infrastructure where KVM
would allow userspace to refresh the cache with a bogus GPA. The bug has
existed for quite some time, but was exposed by a new sanity check added in
6.9 (to ensure a cache is either GPA-based or HVA-based).
- Drop an unused param from gfn_to_pfn_cache_invalidate_start() that got left
behind during a 6.9 cleanup.
- Disable support for virtualizing adaptive PEBS, as KVM's implementation is
architecturally broken and can leak host LBRs to the guest.
- Fix a bug where KVM neglects to set the enable bits for general purpose
counters in PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL when initializing the virtual PMU. Both Intel
and AMD architectures require the bits to be set at RESET in order for v2
PMUs to be backwards compatible with software that was written for v1 PMUs,
i.e. for software that will never manually set the global enables.
- Disable LBR virtualization on CPUs that don't support LBR callstacks, as
KVM unconditionally uses PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL_STACK when creating the
virtual LBR perf event, i.e. KVM will always fail to create LBR events on
such CPUs.
- Fix a math goof in x86's hugepage logic for KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES that
results in an array overflow (detected by KASAN).
- Fix a flaw in the max_guest_memory selftest that results in it exhausting
the supply of ucall structures when run with more than 256 vCPUs.
- Mark KVM_MEM_READONLY as supported for RISC-V in set_memory_region_test.
- Fix a bug where KVM incorrectly thinks a TDP MMU root is an indirect shadow
root due KVM unnecessarily clobbering root_role.direct when userspace sets
guest CPUID.
- Fix a dirty logging bug in the where KVM fails to write-protect TDP MMU
SPTEs used for L2 if Page-Modification Logging is enabled for L1 and the L1
hypervisor is NOT using EPT (if nEPT is enabled, KVM doesn't use the TDP MMU
to run L2). For simplicity, KVM always disables PML when running L2, but
the TDP MMU wasn't accounting for root-specific conditions that force write-
protect based dirty logging.
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Merge tag 'kvm-x86-fixes-6.9-rcN' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD
- Fix a mostly benign bug in the gfn_to_pfn_cache infrastructure where KVM
would allow userspace to refresh the cache with a bogus GPA. The bug has
existed for quite some time, but was exposed by a new sanity check added in
6.9 (to ensure a cache is either GPA-based or HVA-based).
- Drop an unused param from gfn_to_pfn_cache_invalidate_start() that got left
behind during a 6.9 cleanup.
- Disable support for virtualizing adaptive PEBS, as KVM's implementation is
architecturally broken and can leak host LBRs to the guest.
- Fix a bug where KVM neglects to set the enable bits for general purpose
counters in PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL when initializing the virtual PMU. Both Intel
and AMD architectures require the bits to be set at RESET in order for v2
PMUs to be backwards compatible with software that was written for v1 PMUs,
i.e. for software that will never manually set the global enables.
- Disable LBR virtualization on CPUs that don't support LBR callstacks, as
KVM unconditionally uses PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL_STACK when creating the
virtual LBR perf event, i.e. KVM will always fail to create LBR events on
such CPUs.
- Fix a math goof in x86's hugepage logic for KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES that
results in an array overflow (detected by KASAN).
- Fix a flaw in the max_guest_memory selftest that results in it exhausting
the supply of ucall structures when run with more than 256 vCPUs.
- Mark KVM_MEM_READONLY as supported for RISC-V in set_memory_region_test.
- Fix a bug where KVM incorrectly thinks a TDP MMU root is an indirect shadow
root due KVM unnecessarily clobbering root_role.direct when userspace sets
guest CPUID.
- Fix a dirty logging bug in the where KVM fails to write-protect TDP MMU
SPTEs used for L2 if Page-Modification Logging is enabled for L1 and the L1
hypervisor is NOT using EPT (if nEPT is enabled, KVM doesn't use the TDP MMU
to run L2). For simplicity, KVM always disables PML when running L2, but
the TDP MMU wasn't accounting for root-specific conditions that force write-
protect based dirty logging.
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.