linux-stable/Documentation/virt/kvm
Paolo Bonzini e9a2bba476 KVM Xen and pfncache changes for 6.9:
- Rip out the half-baked support for using gfn_to_pfn caches to manage pages
    that are "mapped" into guests via physical addresses.
 
  - Add support for using gfn_to_pfn caches with only a host virtual address,
    i.e. to bypass the "gfn" stage of the cache.  The primary use case is
    overlay pages, where the guest may change the gfn used to reference the
    overlay page, but the backing hva+pfn remains the same.
 
  - Add an ioctl() to allow mapping Xen's shared_info page using an hva instead
    of a gpa, so that userspace doesn't need to reconfigure and invalidate the
    cache/mapping if the guest changes the gpa (but userspace keeps the resolved
    hva the same).
 
  - When possible, use a single host TSC value when computing the deadline for
    Xen timers in order to improve the accuracy of the timer emulation.
 
  - Inject pending upcall events when the vCPU software-enables its APIC to fix
    a bug where an upcall can be lost (and to follow Xen's behavior).
 
  - Fall back to the slow path instead of warning if "fast" IRQ delivery of Xen
    events fails, e.g. if the guest has aliased xAPIC IDs.
 
  - Extend gfn_to_pfn_cache's mutex to cover (de)activation (in addition to
    refresh), and drop a now-redundant acquisition of xen_lock (that was
    protecting the shared_info cache) to fix a deadlock due to recursively
    acquiring xen_lock.
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Merge tag 'kvm-x86-xen-6.9' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD

KVM Xen and pfncache changes for 6.9:

 - Rip out the half-baked support for using gfn_to_pfn caches to manage pages
   that are "mapped" into guests via physical addresses.

 - Add support for using gfn_to_pfn caches with only a host virtual address,
   i.e. to bypass the "gfn" stage of the cache.  The primary use case is
   overlay pages, where the guest may change the gfn used to reference the
   overlay page, but the backing hva+pfn remains the same.

 - Add an ioctl() to allow mapping Xen's shared_info page using an hva instead
   of a gpa, so that userspace doesn't need to reconfigure and invalidate the
   cache/mapping if the guest changes the gpa (but userspace keeps the resolved
   hva the same).

 - When possible, use a single host TSC value when computing the deadline for
   Xen timers in order to improve the accuracy of the timer emulation.

 - Inject pending upcall events when the vCPU software-enables its APIC to fix
   a bug where an upcall can be lost (and to follow Xen's behavior).

 - Fall back to the slow path instead of warning if "fast" IRQ delivery of Xen
   events fails, e.g. if the guest has aliased xAPIC IDs.

 - Extend gfn_to_pfn_cache's mutex to cover (de)activation (in addition to
   refresh), and drop a now-redundant acquisition of xen_lock (that was
   protecting the shared_info cache) to fix a deadlock due to recursively
   acquiring xen_lock.
2024-03-11 10:42:55 -04:00
..
arm KVM: arm64: Document vCPU feature selection UAPIs 2023-10-04 17:11:51 +00:00
devices KVM: arm64: Clarify the ordering requirements for vcpu/RD creation 2023-09-30 18:15:44 +00:00
s390 ARM: 2022-08-04 14:59:54 -07:00
x86 KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for tdp_mmu_page into kvm_mmu_page 2023-09-27 13:32:18 -07:00
api.rst KVM Xen and pfncache changes for 6.9: 2024-03-11 10:42:55 -04:00
halt-polling.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
index.rst KVM: Move halt-polling documentation into common directory 2022-12-02 13:20:30 -05:00
locking.rst KVM: x86/mmu: always take tdp_mmu_pages_lock 2023-12-01 07:52:08 -08:00
ppc-pv.rst Documentation: KVM: make corrections to ppc-pv.rst 2023-06-16 08:20:53 -06:00
review-checklist.rst docs: fix broken references for ReST files that moved around 2020-04-20 15:45:03 -06:00
vcpu-requests.rst Documentation: KVM: make corrections to vcpu-requests.rst 2023-06-16 08:20:53 -06:00