linux-stable/virt
Linus Torvalds 933425fb00 s390: A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time
handling.
 
 PPC: Mostly bug fixes.
 
 ARM: No big features, but many small fixes and prerequisites including:
 - a number of fixes for the arch-timer
 - introducing proper level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers
 - a series of patches to synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite for
   IRQ forwarding)
 - some tracepoint improvements
 - a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers
 - some more VGIC cleanups getting rid of redundant state
 
 x86: quite a few changes:
 
 - support for VT-d posted interrupts (i.e. PCI devices can inject
 interrupts directly into vCPUs).  This introduces a new component (in
 virt/lib/) that connects VFIO and KVM together.  The same infrastructure
 will be used for ARM interrupt forwarding as well.
 
 - more Hyper-V features, though the main one Hyper-V synthetic interrupt
 controller will have to wait for 4.5.  These will let KVM expose Hyper-V
 devices.
 
 - nested virtualization now supports VPID (same as PCID but for vCPUs)
 which makes it quite a bit faster
 
 - for future hardware that supports NVDIMM, there is support for clflushopt,
 clwb, pcommit
 
 - support for "split irqchip", i.e. LAPIC in kernel + IOAPIC/PIC/PIT in
 userspace, which reduces the attack surface of the hypervisor
 
 - obligatory smattering of SMM fixes
 
 - on the guest side, stable scheduler clock support was rewritten to not
 require help from the hypervisor.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "First batch of KVM changes for 4.4.

  s390:
     A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time handling.

  PPC:
     Mostly bug fixes.

  ARM:
     No big features, but many small fixes and prerequisites including:

      - a number of fixes for the arch-timer

      - introducing proper level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers

      - a series of patches to synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite
        for IRQ forwarding)

      - some tracepoint improvements

      - a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers

      - some more VGIC cleanups getting rid of redundant state

  x86:
     Quite a few changes:

      - support for VT-d posted interrupts (i.e. PCI devices can inject
        interrupts directly into vCPUs).  This introduces a new
        component (in virt/lib/) that connects VFIO and KVM together.
        The same infrastructure will be used for ARM interrupt
        forwarding as well.

      - more Hyper-V features, though the main one Hyper-V synthetic
        interrupt controller will have to wait for 4.5.  These will let
        KVM expose Hyper-V devices.

      - nested virtualization now supports VPID (same as PCID but for
        vCPUs) which makes it quite a bit faster

      - for future hardware that supports NVDIMM, there is support for
        clflushopt, clwb, pcommit

      - support for "split irqchip", i.e.  LAPIC in kernel +
        IOAPIC/PIC/PIT in userspace, which reduces the attack surface of
        the hypervisor

      - obligatory smattering of SMM fixes

      - on the guest side, stable scheduler clock support was rewritten
        to not require help from the hypervisor"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (123 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix commit which broke PML
  KVM: x86: obey KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED in kvm_set_cr0()
  KVM: x86: allow RSM from 64-bit mode
  KVM: VMX: fix SMEP and SMAP without EPT
  KVM: x86: move kvm_set_irq_inatomic to legacy device assignment
  KVM: device assignment: remove pointless #ifdefs
  KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic
  KVM: x86: zero apic_arb_prio on reset
  drivers/hv: share Hyper-V SynIC constants with userspace
  KVM: x86: handle SMBASE as physical address in RSM
  KVM: x86: add read_phys to x86_emulate_ops
  KVM: x86: removing unused variable
  KVM: don't pointlessly leave KVM_COMPAT=y in non-KVM configs
  KVM: arm/arm64: Merge vgic_set_lr() and vgic_sync_lr_elrsr()
  KVM: arm/arm64: Clean up vgic_retire_lr() and surroundings
  KVM: arm/arm64: Optimize away redundant LR tracking
  KVM: s390: use simple switch statement as multiplexer
  KVM: s390: drop useless newline in debugging data
  KVM: s390: SCA must not cross page boundaries
  KVM: arm: Do not indent the arguments of DECLARE_BITMAP
  ...
2015-11-05 16:26:26 -08:00
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kvm s390: A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time 2015-11-05 16:26:26 -08:00
lib virt: IRQ bypass manager 2015-10-01 15:06:43 +02:00
Makefile virt: Add virt directory to the top Makefile 2015-10-01 15:06:44 +02:00