Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"Arm:
- Add support for tracing in the standalone EL2 hypervisor code,
which should help both debugging and performance analysis. This
uses the new infrastructure for 'remote' trace buffers that can be
exposed by non-kernel entities such as firmware, and which came
through the tracing tree
- Add support for GICv5 Per Processor Interrupts (PPIs), as the
starting point for supporting the new GIC architecture in KVM
- Finally add support for pKVM protected guests, where pages are
unmapped from the host as they are faulted into the guest and can
be shared back from the guest using pKVM hypercalls. Protected
guests are created using a new machine type identifier. As the
elusive guestmem has not yet delivered on its promises, anonymous
memory is also supported
This is only a first step towards full isolation from the host; for
example, the CPU register state and DMA accesses are not yet
isolated. Because this does not really yet bring fully what it
promises, it is hidden behind CONFIG_ARM_PKVM_GUEST +
'kvm-arm.mode=protected', and also triggers TAINT_USER when a VM is
created. Caveat emptor
- Rework the dreaded user_mem_abort() function to make it more
maintainable, reducing the amount of state being exposed to the
various helpers and rendering a substantial amount of state
immutable
- Expand the Stage-2 page table dumper to support NV shadow page
tables on a per-VM basis
- Tidy up the pKVM PSCI proxy code to be slightly less hard to
follow
- Fix both SPE and TRBE in non-VHE configurations so that they do not
generate spurious, out of context table walks that ultimately lead
to very bad HW lockups
- A small set of patches fixing the Stage-2 MMU freeing in error
cases
- Tighten-up accepted SMC immediate value to be only #0 for host
SMCCC calls
- The usual cleanups and other selftest churn
LoongArch:
- Use CSR_CRMD_PLV for kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel()
- Add DMSINTC irqchip in kernel support
RISC-V:
- Fix steal time shared memory alignment checks
- Fix vector context allocation leak
- Fix array out-of-bounds in pmu_ctr_read() and pmu_fw_ctr_read_hi()
- Fix double-free of sdata in kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area()
- Fix integer overflow in kvm_pmu_validate_counter_mask()
- Fix shift-out-of-bounds in make_xfence_request()
- Fix lost write protection on huge pages during dirty logging
- Split huge pages during fault handling for dirty logging
- Skip CSR restore if VCPU is reloaded on the same core
- Implement kvm_arch_has_default_irqchip() for KVM selftests
- Factored-out ISA checks into separate sources
- Added hideleg to struct kvm_vcpu_config
- Factored-out VCPU config into separate sources
- Support configuration of per-VM HGATP mode from KVM user space
s390:
- Support for ESA (31-bit) guests inside nested hypervisors
- Remove restriction on memslot alignment, which is not needed
anymore with the new gmap code
- Fix LPSW/E to update the bear (which of course is the breaking
event address register)
x86:
- Shut up various UBSAN warnings on reading module parameter before
they were initialized
- Don't zero-allocate page tables that are used for splitting
hugepages in the TDP MMU, as KVM is guaranteed to set all SPTEs in
the page table and thus write all bytes
- As an optimization, bail early when trying to unsync 4KiB mappings
if the target gfn can just be mapped with a 2MiB hugepage
x86 generic:
- Copy single-chunk MMIO write values into struct kvm_vcpu (more
precisely struct kvm_mmio_fragment) to fix use-after-free stack
bugs where KVM would dereference stack pointer after an exit to
userspace
- Clean up and comment the emulated MMIO code to try to make it
easier to maintain (not necessarily "easy", but "easier")
- Move VMXON+VMXOFF and EFER.SVME toggling out of KVM (not *all* of
VMX and SVM enabling) as it is needed for trusted I/O
- Advertise support for AVX512 Bit Matrix Multiply (BMM) instructions
- Immediately fail the build if a required #define is missing in one
of KVM's headers that is included multiple times
- Reject SET_GUEST_DEBUG with -EBUSY if there's an already injected
exception, mostly to prevent syzkaller from abusing the uAPI to
trigger WARNs, but also because it can help prevent userspace from
unintentionally crashing the VM
- Exempt SMM from CPUID faulting on Intel, as per the spec
- Misc hardening and cleanup changes
x86 (AMD):
- Fix and optimize IRQ window inhibit handling for AVIC; make it
per-vCPU so that KVM doesn't prematurely re-enable AVIC if multiple
vCPUs have to-be-injected IRQs
- Clean up and optimize the OSVW handling, avoiding a bug in which
KVM would overwrite state when enabling virtualization on multiple
CPUs in parallel. This should not be a problem because OSVW should
usually be the same for all CPUs
- Drop a WARN in KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION where KVM complains
about a "too large" size based purely on user input
- Clean up and harden the pinning code for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION
- Disallow synchronizing a VMSA of an already-launched/encrypted
vCPU, as doing so for an SNP guest will crash the host due to an
RMP violation page fault
- Overhaul KVM's APIs for detecting SEV+ guests so that VM-scoped
queries are required to hold kvm->lock, and enforce it by lockdep.
Fix various bugs where sev_guest() was not ensured to be stable for
the whole duration of a function or ioctl
- Convert a pile of kvm->lock SEV code to guard()
- Play nicer with userspace that does not enable
KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD, for which KVM needs to set CR2 and DR6
as a response to ioctls such as KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS (even if the
payload would end up in EXITINFO2 rather than CR2, for example).
Only set CR2 and DR6 when consumption of the payload is imminent,
but on the other hand force delivery of the payload in all paths
where userspace retrieves CR2 or DR6
- Use vcpu->arch.cr2 when updating vmcb12's CR2 on nested #VMEXIT
instead of vmcb02->save.cr2. The value is out of sync after a
save/restore or after a #PF is injected into L2
- Fix a class of nSVM bugs where some fields written by the CPU are
not synchronized from vmcb02 to cached vmcb12 after VMRUN, and so
are not up-to-date when saved by KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE
- Fix a class of bugs where the ordering between KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE
and KVM_SET_{S}REGS could cause vmcb02 to be incorrectly
initialized after save+restore
- Add a variety of missing nSVM consistency checks
- Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly update VMCB fields
on nested #VMEXIT
- Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly synthesize #UD or
#GP for SVM-related instructions
- Add support for save+restore of virtualized LBRs (on SVM)
- Refactor various helpers and macros to improve clarity and
(hopefully) make the code easier to maintain
- Aggressively sanitize fields when copying from vmcb12, to guard
against unintentionally allowing L1 to utilize yet-to-be-defined
features
- Fix several bugs where KVM botched rAX legality checks when
emulating SVM instructions. There are remaining issues in that KVM
doesn't handle size prefix overrides for 64-bit guests
- Fail emulation of VMRUN/VMLOAD/VMSAVE if mapping vmcb12 fails
instead of somewhat arbitrarily synthesizing #GP (i.e. don't double
down on AMD's architectural but sketchy behavior of generating #GP
for "unsupported" addresses)
- Cache all used vmcb12 fields to further harden against TOCTOU bugs
x86 (Intel):
- Drop obsolete branch hint prefixes from the VMX instruction macros
- Use ASM_INPUT_RM() in __vmcs_writel() to coerce clang into using a
register input when appropriate
- Code cleanups
guest_memfd:
- Don't mark guest_memfd folios as accessed, as guest_memfd doesn't
support reclaim, the memory is unevictable, and there is no storage
to write back to
LoongArch selftests:
- Add KVM PMU test cases
s390 selftests:
- Enable more memory selftests
x86 selftests:
- Add support for Hygon CPUs in KVM selftests
- Fix a bug in the MSR test where it would get false failures on
AMD/Hygon CPUs with exactly one of RDPID or RDTSCP
- Add an MADV_COLLAPSE testcase for guest_memfd as a regression test
for a bug where the kernel would attempt to collapse guest_memfd
folios against KVM's will"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (373 commits)
KVM: x86: use inlines instead of macros for is_sev_*guest
x86/virt: Treat SVM as unsupported when running as an SEV+ guest
KVM: SEV: Goto an existing error label if charging misc_cg for an ASID fails
KVM: SVM: Move lock-protected allocation of SEV ASID into a separate helper
KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_handle_guest_req()
KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_unregister_region()
KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_ioctl()
KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_launch_update()
KVM: SEV: Assert that kvm->lock is held when querying SEV+ support
KVM: SEV: Document that checking for SEV+ guests when reclaiming memory is "safe"
KVM: SEV: Hide "struct kvm_sev_info" behind CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y
KVM: SEV: WARN on unhandled VM type when initializing VM
KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add PMU overflow interrupt test
KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add basic PMU event counting test
KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add cpucfg read/write helpers
LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC inject msi to vCPU
LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC device support
LoongArch: KVM: Make vcpu_is_preempted() as a macro rather than function
LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_GSTAT save and restore in context switch
LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_EENTRY save and restore in context switch
...
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett)
Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce
stack usage and is an improvement.
- "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song)
Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields
some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.
- "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav)
File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code
- "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan
Chen)
Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap
- "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport)
Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn
- "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu
Han)
A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code
- "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang)
Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by
prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently
- "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu)
Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based
metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data
structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel
- "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas
Ballasi and Steven Rostedt)
Enhance vmscan's tracepointing
- "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and
VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas)
Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of
a generic implementation
- "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin)
Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area
- "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman)
Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec",
which became folio_batch three years ago
- "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl
Shutsemau)
Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail
pages encode their relationship to the head page
- "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer
filters" (SeongJae Park)
Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less
efficient when core layer filters are used
- "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park)
Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
min_nr_regions user-settable parameter
- "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka)
The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code
simplifications and cleanups ensued
- "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand)
A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly
simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of
zapping functions
- "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang)
Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one
benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64
- "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner)
memcg cleanup and robustness improvements
- "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith)
Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0
pages when reporting free memory.
- "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to
a bitmap
- "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae
Park)
Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core
- "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement"
(SeongJae Park)
An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the
addr_unit parameter handling
- "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons
overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park)
Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core
- "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and
documentation" (SeongJae Park)
A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON
- "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David
Hildenbrand)
Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code
movement was required.
- "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and
improvements in the zram code
- "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms"
(SeongJae Park)
Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning
algorithms that users can select
- "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao)
Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with
reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged
- "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
code
- "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for
modules" (SeongJae Park)
Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable
- "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache)
Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged
mTHP support
- "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand)
Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code
- "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup
CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand)
Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support
- "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang)
Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool
- "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh
Law and SeongJae Park)
Fix a few potential DAMON bugs
- "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo
Stoakes)
Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type
to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma
code.
- "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace
the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and
security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of
mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers
- "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around
vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed.
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration
mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock
mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable()
mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd()
mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio()
mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm
mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks
mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call
mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()
mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc
mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge()
mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA
mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]()
uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info
drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare
mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers
...
Pull vfs buffer_head updates from Christian Brauner:
"This cleans up the mess that has accumulated over the years in
metadata buffer_head tracking for inodes.
It moves the tracking into dedicated structure in filesystem-private
part of the inode (so that we don't use private_list, private_data,
and private_lock in struct address_space), and also moves couple other
users of private_data and private_list so these are removed from
struct address_space saving 3 longs in struct inode for 99% of inodes"
* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.bh.metadata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (42 commits)
fs: Drop i_private_list from address_space
fs: Drop mapping_metadata_bhs from address space
ext4: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
minix: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
udf: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
fat: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
bfs: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
affs: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
fs: Provide functions for handling mapping_metadata_bhs directly
fs: Switch inode_has_buffers() to take mapping_metadata_bhs
fs: Make bhs point to mapping_metadata_bhs
fs: Move metadata bhs tracking to a separate struct
fs: Fold fsync_buffers_list() into sync_mapping_buffers()
fs: Drop osync_buffers_list()
kvm: Use private inode list instead of i_private_list
fs: Remove i_private_data
aio: Stop using i_private_data and i_private_lock
hugetlbfs: Stop using i_private_data
fs: Stop using i_private_data for metadata bh tracking
...
KVM x86 VMXON and EFER.SVME extraction for 7.1
Move _only_ VMXON+VMXOFF and EFER.SVME toggling out of KVM (versus all of VMX
and SVM enabling) out of KVM and into the core kernel so that non-KVM TDX
enabling, e.g. for trusted I/O, can make SEAMCALLs without needing to ensure
KVM is fully loaded.
TIO isn't a hypervisor, and isn't trying to be a hypervisor. Specifically, TIO
should _never_ have it's own VMCSes (that are visible to the host; the
TDX-Module has it's own VMCSes to do SEAMCALL/SEAMRET), and so there is simply
no reason to move that functionality out of KVM.
With that out of the way, dealing with VMXON/VMXOFF and EFER.SVME is a fairly
simple refcounting game.
KVM x86 misc changes for 7.1
- Advertise support for AVX512 Bit Matrix Multiply (BMM) when it's present in
hardware (no additional emulation/virtualization required).
- Immediately fail the build if a required #define is missing in one of KVM's
headers that is included multiple times.
- Reject SET_GUEST_DEBUG with -EBUSY if there's an already injected exception,
mostly to prevent syzkaller from abusing the uAPI to trigger WARNs, but also
because it can help prevent userspace from unintentionally crashing the VM.
- Exempt SMM from CPUID faulting on Intel, as per the spec.
- Misc hardening and cleanup changes.
KVM guest_memfd changes for 7.1
Don't mark guest_memfd folios as accessed, as guest_memfd doesn't support
reclaim, the memory is unevictable, and there is no storage to write back to.
KVM generic changes for 7.0
- Remove a subtle pseudo-overlay of kvm_stats_desc, which, aside from being
unnecessary and confusing, triggered compiler warnings due to
-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end.
- Document that vcpu->mutex is take outside of kvm->slots_lock and
kvm->slots_arch_lock, which is intentional and desirable despite being
rather unintuitive.
Add '__read_mostly' to the halt polling parameters (halt_poll_ns,
halt_poll_ns_grow, halt_poll_ns_grow_start, halt_poll_ns_shrink) since
they are frequently read in hot paths (e.g., vCPU halt handling) but only
occasionally updated via sysfs. This improves cache locality on SMP
systems.
Conversely, mark 'allow_unsafe_mappings' and 'enable_virt_at_load' with
'__ro_after_init', as they are set only during module initialization via
kernel command line or early sysfs writes and remain constant thereafter.
This enhances security by preventing runtime modification and enables
compiler optimizations.
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260210062143.1739-1-lirongqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU is provided by KVM's MMU notifiers, which are now always
available. Move the definition from individual architectures to common
code.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
All architectures now use MMU notifier for KVM page table management.
Remove the Kconfig symbol and the code that is used when it is
disabled.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
KVM mediated PMU support for 6.20
Add support for mediated PMUs, where KVM gives the guest full ownership of PMU
hardware (contexted switched around the fastpath run loop) and allows direct
access to data MSRs and PMCs (restricted by the vPMU model), but intercepts
access to control registers, e.g. to enforce event filtering and to prevent the
guest from profiling sensitive host state.
To keep overall complexity reasonable, mediated PMU usage is all or nothing
for a given instance of KVM (controlled via module param). The Mediated PMU
is disabled default, partly to maintain backwards compatilibity for existing
setup, partly because there are tradeoffs when running with a mediated PMU that
may be non-starters for some use cases, e.g. the host loses the ability to
profile guests with mediated PMUs, the fastpath run loop is also a blind spot,
entry/exit transitions are more expensive, etc.
Versus the emulated PMU, where KVM is "just another perf user", the mediated
PMU delivers more accurate profiling and monitoring (no risk of contention and
thus dropped events), with significantly less overhead (fewer exits and faster
emulation/programming of event selectors) E.g. when running Specint-2017 on
a single-socket Sapphire Rapids with 56 cores and no-SMT, and using perf from
within the guest:
Perf command:
a. basic-sampling: perf record -F 1000 -e 6-instructions -a --overwrite
b. multiplex-sampling: perf record -F 1000 -e 10-instructions -a --overwrite
Guest performance overhead:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Test case | emulated vPMU | all passthrough | passthrough with |
| | | | event filters |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| basic-sampling | 33.62% | 4.24% | 6.21% |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| multiplex-sampling | 79.32% | 7.34% | 10.45% |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
KVM x86 APIC-ish changes for 6.20
- Fix a benign bug where KVM could use the wrong memslots (ignored SMM) when
creating a vCPU-specific mapping of guest memory.
- Clean up KVM's handling of marking mapped vCPU pages dirty.
- Drop a pile of *ancient* sanity checks hidden behind in KVM's unused
ASSERT() macro, most of which could be trivially triggered by the guest
and/or user, and all of which were useless.
- Fold "struct dest_map" into its sole user, "struct rtc_status", to make it
more obvious what the weird parameter is used for, and to allow burying the
RTC shenanigans behind CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC=y.
- Bury all of ioapic.h and KVM_IRQCHIP_KERNEL behind CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC=y.
- Add a regression test for recent APICv update fixes.
- Rework KVM's handling of VMCS updates while L2 is active to temporarily
switch to vmcs01 instead of deferring the update until the next nested
VM-Exit. The deferred updates approach directly contributed to several
bugs, was proving to be a maintenance burden due to the difficulty in
auditing the correctness of deferred updates, and was polluting
"struct nested_vmx" with a growing pile of booleans.
- Handle "hardware APIC ISR", a.k.a. SVI, updates in kvm_apic_update_apicv()
to consolidate the updates, and to co-locate SVI updates with the updates
for KVM's own cache of ISR information.
- Drop a dead function declaration.
KVM guest_memfd changes for 6.20
- Remove kvm_gmem_populate()'s preparation tracking and half-baked hugepage
handling, and instead rely on SNP (the only user of the tracking) to do its
own tracking via the RMP.
- Retroactively document and enforce (for SNP) that KVM_SEV_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE
and KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION require the source page to be 4KiB aligned, to
avoid non-trivial complexity for a non-existent usecase (and because
in-place conversion simply can't support unaligned sources).
- When populating guest_memfd memory, GUP the source page in common code and
pass the refcounted page to the vendor callback, instead of letting vendor
code do the heavy lifting. Doing so avoids a looming deadlock bug with
in-place due an AB-BA conflict betwee mmap_lock and guest_memfd's filemap
invalidate lock.
Currently the post-populate callbacks handle copying source pages into
private GPA ranges backed by guest_memfd, where kvm_gmem_populate()
acquires the filemap invalidate lock, then calls a post-populate
callback which may issue a get_user_pages() on the source pages prior to
copying them into the private GPA (e.g. TDX).
This will not be compatible with in-place conversion, where the
userspace page fault path will attempt to acquire the filemap invalidate
lock while holding the mm->mmap_lock, leading to a potential ABBA
deadlock.
Address this by hoisting the GUP above the filemap invalidate lock so
that these page faults path can be taken early, prior to acquiring the
filemap invalidate lock.
It's not currently clear whether this issue is reachable with the
current implementation of guest_memfd, which doesn't support in-place
conversion, however it does provide a consistent mechanism to provide
stable source/target PFNs to callbacks rather than punting to
vendor-specific code, which allows for more commonality across
architectures, which may be worthwhile even without in-place conversion.
As part of this change, also begin enforcing that the 'src' argument to
kvm_gmem_populate() must be page-aligned, as this greatly reduces the
complexity around how the post-populate callbacks are implemented, and
since no current in-tree users support using a non-page-aligned 'src'
argument.
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Tested-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Tested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Tested-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108214622.1084057-7-michael.roth@amd.com
[sean: avoid local "p" variable]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
guest_memfd currently uses the folio uptodate flag to track:
1) whether or not a page has been cleared before initial usage
2) whether or not the architecture hooks have been issued to put the
page in a private state as defined by the architecture
In practice, (2) is only actually being tracked for SEV-SNP VMs, and
there do not seem to be any plans/reasons that would suggest this will
change in the future, so this additional tracking/complexity is not
really providing any general benefit to guest_memfd users. On the other
hand, future plans around in-place conversion and hugepage support will
make the burden of tracking this information within guest_memfd even more
complex.
With in-place conversion and hugepage support, the plan is to use the
per-folio uptodate flag purely to track the initial clearing of folios,
whereas conversion operations could trigger multiple transitions between
'prepared' and 'unprepared' and thus need separate tracking. Since
preparation generally happens during fault time, i.e. on the "read-side"
of any VM-wide locks that might protect state tracked by guest_memfd,
supporting concurrent handling of page faults would likely require more
complex locking schemes if the "preparedness" state were tracked by
guest_memfd, i.e. if it needs to be updated as part of handling the fault.
Instead of keeping this current/future complexity within guest_memfd for
what is essentially just SEV-SNP, just drop the tracking for (2) and have
the arch-specific preparation hooks get triggered unconditionally on
every fault so the arch-specific hooks can check the preparation state
directly and decide whether or not a folio still needs additional
preparation. In the case of SEV-SNP, the preparation state is already
checked again via the preparation hooks to avoid double-preparation, so
nothing extra needs to be done to update the handling of things there.
Reviewed-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Tested-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@amd.com>
Tested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108214622.1084057-4-michael.roth@amd.com
[sean: massage changelog]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
kvm_gmem_populate(), and the associated post-populate callbacks, have
some limited support for dealing with guests backed by hugepages by
passing the order information along to each post-populate callback and
iterating through the pages passed to kvm_gmem_populate() in
hugepage-chunks.
However, guest_memfd doesn't yet support hugepages, and in most cases
additional changes in the kvm_gmem_populate() path would also be needed
to actually allow for this functionality.
This makes the existing code unnecessarily complex, and makes changes
difficult to work through upstream due to theoretical impacts on
hugepage support that can't be considered properly without an actual
hugepage implementation to reference. So for now, remove what's there
so changes for things like in-place conversion can be
implemented/reviewed more efficiently.
Suggested-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Tested-by: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Tested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Tested-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108214622.1084057-3-michael.roth@amd.com
[sean: check for !IS_ERR() before checking folio_order()]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
When deassigning a KVM_IRQFD, don't clobber the irqfd's copy of the IRQ's
routing entry as doing so breaks kvm_arch_irq_bypass_del_producer() on x86
and arm64, which explicitly look for KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_MSI. Instead, to
handle a concurrent routing update, verify that the irqfd is still active
before consuming the routing information. As evidenced by the x86 and
arm64 bugs, and another bug in kvm_arch_update_irqfd_routing() (see below),
clobbering the entry type without notifying arch code is surprising and
error prone.
As a bonus, checking that the irqfd is active provides a convenient
location for documenting _why_ KVM must not consume the routing entry for
an irqfd that is in the process of being deassigned: once the irqfd is
deleted from the list (which happens *before* the eventfd is detached), it
will no longer receive updates via kvm_irq_routing_update(), and so KVM
could deliver an event using stale routing information (relative to
KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING returning to userspace).
As an even better bonus, explicitly checking for the irqfd being active
fixes a similar bug to the one the clobbering is trying to prevent: if an
irqfd is deactivated, and then its routing is changed,
kvm_irq_routing_update() won't invoke kvm_arch_update_irqfd_routing()
(because the irqfd isn't in the list). And so if the irqfd is in bypass
mode, IRQs will continue to be posted using the old routing information.
As for kvm_arch_irq_bypass_del_producer(), clobbering the routing type
results in KVM incorrectly keeping the IRQ in bypass mode, which is
especially problematic on AMD as KVM tracks IRQs that are being posted to
a vCPU in a list whose lifetime is tied to the irqfd.
Without the help of KASAN to detect use-after-free, the most common
sympton on AMD is a NULL pointer deref in amd_iommu_update_ga() due to
the memory for irqfd structure being re-allocated and zeroed, resulting
in irqfd->irq_bypass_data being NULL when read by
avic_update_iommu_vcpu_affinity():
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 40cf2b9067 P4D 40cf2b9067 PUD 408362a067 PMD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 40383 Comm: vfio_irq_test
Tainted: G U W O 6.19.0-smp--5dddc257e6b2-irqfd #31 NONE
Tainted: [U]=USER, [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE
Hardware name: Google, Inc. Arcadia_IT_80/Arcadia_IT_80, BIOS 34.78.2-0 09/05/2025
RIP: 0010:amd_iommu_update_ga+0x19/0xe0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
avic_update_iommu_vcpu_affinity+0x3d/0x90 [kvm_amd]
__avic_vcpu_load+0xf4/0x130 [kvm_amd]
kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x89/0x210 [kvm]
vcpu_load+0x30/0x40 [kvm]
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x45/0x620 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x571/0x6a0 [kvm]
__se_sys_ioctl+0x6d/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x9d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
RIP: 0033:0x46893b
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
If AVIC is inhibited when the irfd is deassigned, the bug will manifest as
list corruption, e.g. on the next irqfd assignment.
list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffff8d474d5cd588),
but was 0000000000000000. (next=ffff8d8658f86530).
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:31!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 128 UID: 0 PID: 80818 Comm: vfio_irq_test
Tainted: G U W O 6.19.0-smp--f19dc4d680ba-irqfd #28 NONE
Tainted: [U]=USER, [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE
Hardware name: Google, Inc. Arcadia_IT_80/Arcadia_IT_80, BIOS 34.78.2-0 09/05/2025
RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0x97/0xc0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
avic_pi_update_irte+0x28e/0x2b0 [kvm_amd]
kvm_pi_update_irte+0xbf/0x190 [kvm]
kvm_arch_irq_bypass_add_producer+0x72/0x90 [kvm]
irq_bypass_register_consumer+0xcd/0x170 [irqbypass]
kvm_irqfd+0x4c6/0x540 [kvm]
kvm_vm_ioctl+0x118/0x5d0 [kvm]
__se_sys_ioctl+0x6d/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x9d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
On Intel and arm64, the bug is less noisy, as the end result is that the
device keeps posting IRQs to the vCPU even after it's been deassigned.
Note, the worst of the breakage can be traced back to commit cb21073767
("KVM: Pass new routing entries and irqfd when updating IRTEs"), as before
that commit KVM would pull the routing information from the per-VM routing
table. But as above, similar bugs have existed since support for IRQ
bypass was added. E.g. if a routing change finished before irq_shutdown()
invoked kvm_arch_irq_bypass_del_producer(), VMX and SVM would see stale
routing information and potentially leave the irqfd in bypass mode.
Alternatively, x86 could be fixed by explicitly checking irq_bypass_vcpu
instead of irq_entry.type in kvm_arch_irq_bypass_del_producer(), and arm64
could be modified to utilize irq_bypass_vcpu in a similar manner. But (a)
that wouldn't fix the routing updates bug, and (b) fixing core code doesn't
preclude x86 (or arm64) from adding such code as a sanity check (spoiler
alert).
Fixes: f70c20aaf1 ("KVM: Add an arch specific hooks in 'struct kvm_kernel_irqfd'")
Fixes: cb21073767 ("KVM: Pass new routing entries and irqfd when updating IRTEs")
Fixes: a0d7e2fc61 ("KVM: arm64: vgic-v4: Only attempt vLPI mapping for actual MSIs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113174606.104978-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
When establishing a "host access map", lookup the gfn in the vCPU specific
memslots, as the intent is that the mapping will be established for the
current vCPU context. Specifically, using __kvm_vcpu_map() in x86's SMM
context should create mappings based on the SMM memslots, not the non-SMM
memslots.
Luckily, the bug is benign as x86 is the only architecture with multiple
memslot address spaces, and all of x86's usage is limited to non-SMM. The
calls in (or reachable by) {svm,vmx}_enter_smm() are made before
enter_smm() sets HF_SMM_MASK, and the calls in {svm,vmx}_leave_smm() are
made after emulator_leave_smm() clears HF_SMM_MASK.
Note, kvm_vcpu_unmap() uses the vCPU specific memslots, only the map() side
of things is broken.
Fixes: 357a18ad23 ("KVM: Kill kvm_map_gfn() / kvm_unmap_gfn() and gfn_to_pfn_cache")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121223444.355422-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Remove KVM's internal pseudo-overlay of kvm_stats_desc, which subtly
aliases the flexible name[] in the uAPI definition with a fixed-size array
of the same name. The unusual embedded structure results in compiler
warnings due to -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end, and also necessitates an
extra level of dereferencing in KVM. To avoid the "overlay", define the
uAPI structure to have a fixed-size name when building for the kernel.
Opportunistically clean up the indentation for the stats macros, and
replace spaces with tabs.
No functional change intended.
Reported-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aPfNKRpLfhmhYqfP@kspp
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
[..]
Acked-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Reviewed-by: Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251205232655.445294-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
KVM fixes for 6.19-rc1
- Add a missing "break" to fix param parsing in the rseq selftest.
- Apply runtime updates to the _current_ CPUID when userspace is setting
CPUID, e.g. as part of vCPU hotplug, to fix a false positive and to avoid
dropping the pending update.
- Disallow toggling KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD on an existing memslot, as it's not
supported by KVM and leads to a use-after-free due to KVM failing to unbind
the memslot from the previously-associated guest_memfd instance.
- Harden against similar KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD goofs, and prepare for supporting
flags-only changes on KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD memlslots, e.g. for dirty logging.
- Set exit_code[63:32] to -1 (all 0xffs) when synthesizing a nested
SVM_EXIT_ERR (a.k.a. VMEXIT_INVALID) #VMEXIT, as VMEXIT_INVALID is defined
as -1ull (a 64-bit value).
- Update SVI when activating APICv to fix a bug where a post-activation EOI
for an in-service IRQ would effective be lost due to SVI being stale.
- Immediately refresh APICv controls (if necessary) on a nested VM-Exit
instead of deferring the update via KVM_REQ_APICV_UPDATE, as the request is
effectively ignored because KVM thinks the vCPU already has the correct
APICv settings.
Wire up system vector 0xf5 for handling PMIs (i.e. interrupts delivered
through the LVTPC) while running KVM guests with a mediated PMU. Perf
currently delivers all PMIs as NMIs, e.g. so that events that trigger while
IRQs are disabled aren't delayed and generate useless records, but due to
the multiplexing of NMIs throughout the system, correctly identifying NMIs
for a mediated PMU is practically infeasible.
To (greatly) simplify identifying guest mediated PMU PMIs, perf will
switch the CPU's LVTPC between PERF_GUEST_MEDIATED_PMI_VECTOR and NMI when
guest PMU context is loaded/put. I.e. PMIs that are generated by the CPU
while the guest is active will be identified purely based on the IRQ
vector.
Route the vector through perf, e.g. as opposed to letting KVM attach a
handler directly a la posted interrupt notification vectors, as perf owns
the LVTPC and thus is the rightful owner of PERF_GUEST_MEDIATED_PMI_VECTOR.
Functionally, having KVM directly own the vector would be fine (both KVM
and perf will be completely aware of when a mediated PMU is active), but
would lead to an undesirable split in ownership: perf would be responsible
for installing the vector, but not handling the resulting IRQs.
Add a new perf_guest_info_callbacks hook (and static call) to allow KVM to
register its handler with perf when running guests with mediated PMUs.
Note, because KVM always runs guests with host IRQs enabled, there is no
danger of a PMI being delayed from the guest's perspective due to using a
regular IRQ instead of an NMI.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-9-seanjc@google.com
Pull SoC driver updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"This is the first half of the driver changes:
- A treewide interface change to the "syscore" operations for power
management, as a preparation for future Tegra specific changes
- Reset controller updates with added drivers for LAN969x, eic770 and
RZ/G3S SoCs
- Protection of system controller registers on Renesas and Google
SoCs, to prevent trivially triggering a system crash from e.g.
debugfs access
- soc_device identification updates on Nvidia, Exynos and Mediatek
- debugfs support in the ST STM32 firewall driver
- Minor updates for SoC drivers on AMD/Xilinx, Renesas, Allwinner, TI
- Cleanups for memory controller support on Nvidia and Renesas"
* tag 'soc-drivers-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: (114 commits)
memory: tegra186-emc: Fix missing put_bpmp
Documentation: reset: Remove reset_controller_add_lookup()
reset: fix BIT macro reference
reset: rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug in probe
reset: th1520: Support reset controllers in more subsystems
reset: th1520: Prepare for supporting multiple controllers
dt-bindings: reset: thead,th1520-reset: Add controllers for more subsys
dt-bindings: reset: thead,th1520-reset: Remove non-VO-subsystem resets
reset: remove legacy reset lookup code
clk: davinci: psc: drop unused reset lookup
reset: rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Add support for RZ/G3S SoC
reset: rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Add support for USB PWRRDY
dt-bindings: reset: renesas,rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Document RZ/G3S support
reset: eswin: Add eic7700 reset driver
dt-bindings: reset: eswin: Documentation for eic7700 SoC
reset: sparx5: add LAN969x support
dt-bindings: reset: microchip: Add LAN969x support
soc: rockchip: grf: Add select correct PWM implementation on RK3368
soc/tegra: pmc: Add USB wake events for Tegra234
amba: tegra-ahb: Fix device leak on SMMU enable
...
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"ARM:
- Support for userspace handling of synchronous external aborts
(SEAs), allowing the VMM to potentially handle the abort in a
non-fatal manner
- Large rework of the VGIC's list register handling with the goal of
supporting more active/pending IRQs than available list registers
in hardware. In addition, the VGIC now supports EOImode==1 style
deactivations for IRQs which may occur on a separate vCPU than the
one that acked the IRQ
- Support for FEAT_XNX (user / privileged execute permissions) and
FEAT_HAF (hardware update to the Access Flag) in the software page
table walkers and shadow MMU
- Allow page table destruction to reschedule, fixing long
need_resched latencies observed when destroying a large VM
- Minor fixes to KVM and selftests
Loongarch:
- Get VM PMU capability from HW GCFG register
- Add AVEC basic support
- Use 64-bit register definition for EIOINTC
- Add KVM timer test cases for tools/selftests
RISC/V:
- SBI message passing (MPXY) support for KVM guest
- Give a new, more specific error subcode for the case when in-kernel
AIA virtualization fails to allocate IMSIC VS-file
- Support KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET, enabling dirty log gradually
in small chunks
- Fix guest page fault within HLV* instructions
- Flush VS-stage TLB after VCPU migration for Andes cores
s390:
- Always allocate ESCA (Extended System Control Area), instead of
starting with the basic SCA and converting to ESCA with the
addition of the 65th vCPU. The price is increased number of exits
(and worse performance) on z10 and earlier processor; ESCA was
introduced by z114/z196 in 2010
- VIRT_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK support
- Operation exception forwarding support
- Cleanups
x86:
- Skip the costly "zap all SPTEs" on an MMIO generation wrap if MMIO
SPTE caching is disabled, as there can't be any relevant SPTEs to
zap
- Relocate a misplaced export
- Fix an async #PF bug where KVM would clear the completion queue
when the guest transitioned in and out of paging mode, e.g. when
handling an SMI and then returning to paged mode via RSM
- Leave KVM's user-return notifier registered even when disabling
virtualization, as long as kvm.ko is loaded. On reboot/shutdown,
keeping the notifier registered is ok; the kernel does not use the
MSRs and the callback will run cleanly and restore host MSRs if the
CPU manages to return to userspace before the system goes down
- Use the checked version of {get,put}_user()
- Fix a long-lurking bug where KVM's lack of catch-up logic for
periodic APIC timers can result in a hard lockup in the host
- Revert the periodic kvmclock sync logic now that KVM doesn't use a
clocksource that's subject to NTP corrections
- Clean up KVM's handling of MMIO Stale Data and L1TF, and bury the
latter behind CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS
- Context switch XCR0, XSS, and PKRU outside of the entry/exit fast
path; the only reason they were handled in the fast path was to
paper of a bug in the core #MC code, and that has long since been
fixed
- Add emulator support for AVX MOV instructions, to play nice with
emulated devices whose guest drivers like to access PCI BARs with
large multi-byte instructions
x86 (AMD):
- Fix a few missing "VMCB dirty" bugs
- Fix the worst of KVM's lack of EFER.LMSLE emulation
- Add AVIC support for addressing 4k vCPUs in x2AVIC mode
- Fix incorrect handling of selective CR0 writes when checking
intercepts during emulation of L2 instructions
- Fix a currently-benign bug where KVM would clobber SPEC_CTRL[63:32]
on VMRUN and #VMEXIT
- Fix a bug where KVM corrupt the guest code stream when re-injecting
a soft interrupt if the guest patched the underlying code after the
VM-Exit, e.g. when Linux patches code with a temporary INT3
- Add KVM_X86_SNP_POLICY_BITS to advertise supported SNP policy bits
to userspace, and extend KVM "support" to all policy bits that
don't require any actual support from KVM
x86 (Intel):
- Use the root role from kvm_mmu_page to construct EPTPs instead of
the current vCPU state, partly as worthwhile cleanup, but mostly to
pave the way for tracking per-root TLB flushes, and elide EPT
flushes on pCPU migration if the root is clean from a previous
flush
- Add a few missing nested consistency checks
- Rip out support for doing "early" consistency checks via hardware
as the functionality hasn't been used in years and is no longer
useful in general; replace it with an off-by-default module param
to WARN if hardware fails a check that KVM does not perform
- Fix a currently-benign bug where KVM would drop the guest's
SPEC_CTRL[63:32] on VM-Enter
- Misc cleanups
- Overhaul the TDX code to address systemic races where KVM (acting
on behalf of userspace) could inadvertantly trigger lock contention
in the TDX-Module; KVM was either working around these in weird,
ugly ways, or was simply oblivious to them (though even Yan's
devilish selftests could only break individual VMs, not the host
kernel)
- Fix a bug where KVM could corrupt a vCPU's cpu_list when freeing a
TDX vCPU, if creating said vCPU failed partway through
- Fix a few sparse warnings (bad annotation, 0 != NULL)
- Use struct_size() to simplify copying TDX capabilities to userspace
- Fix a bug where TDX would effectively corrupt user-return MSR
values if the TDX Module rejects VP.ENTER and thus doesn't clobber
host MSRs as expected
Selftests:
- Fix a math goof in mmu_stress_test when running on a single-CPU
system/VM
- Forcefully override ARCH from x86_64 to x86 to play nice with
specifying ARCH=x86_64 on the command line
- Extend a bunch of nested VMX to validate nested SVM as well
- Add support for LA57 in the core VM_MODE_xxx macro, and add a test
to verify KVM can save/restore nested VMX state when L1 is using
5-level paging, but L2 is not
- Clean up the guest paging code in anticipation of sharing the core
logic for nested EPT and nested NPT
guest_memfd:
- Add NUMA mempolicy support for guest_memfd, and clean up a variety
of rough edges in guest_memfd along the way
- Define a CLASS to automatically handle get+put when grabbing a
guest_memfd from a memslot to make it harder to leak references
- Enhance KVM selftests to make it easer to develop and debug
selftests like those added for guest_memfd NUMA support, e.g. where
test and/or KVM bugs often result in hard-to-debug SIGBUS errors
- Misc cleanups
Generic:
- Use the recently-added WQ_PERCPU when creating the per-CPU
workqueue for irqfd cleanup
- Fix a goof in the dirty ring documentation
- Fix choice of target for directed yield across different calls to
kvm_vcpu_on_spin(); the function was always starting from the first
vCPU instead of continuing the round-robin search"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (260 commits)
KVM: arm64: at: Update AF on software walk only if VM has FEAT_HAFDBS
KVM: arm64: at: Use correct HA bit in TCR_EL2 when regime is EL2
KVM: arm64: Document KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_{UX,PX}
KVM: arm64: Fix spelling mistake "Unexpeced" -> "Unexpected"
KVM: arm64: Add break to default case in kvm_pgtable_stage2_pte_prot()
KVM: arm64: Add endian casting to kvm_swap_s[12]_desc()
KVM: arm64: Fix compilation when CONFIG_ARM64_USE_LSE_ATOMICS=n
KVM: arm64: selftests: Add test for AT emulation
KVM: arm64: nv: Expose hardware access flag management to NV guests
KVM: arm64: nv: Implement HW access flag management in stage-2 SW PTW
KVM: arm64: Implement HW access flag management in stage-1 SW PTW
KVM: arm64: Propagate PTW errors up to AT emulation
KVM: arm64: Add helper for swapping guest descriptor
KVM: arm64: nv: Use pgtable definitions in stage-2 walk
KVM: arm64: Handle endianness in read helper for emulated PTW
KVM: arm64: nv: Stop passing vCPU through void ptr in S2 PTW
KVM: arm64: Call helper for reading descriptors directly
KVM: arm64: nv: Advertise support for FEAT_XNX
KVM: arm64: Teach ptdump about FEAT_XNX permissions
KVM: s390: Use generic VIRT_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK functions
...
Unbind guest_memfd memslots if KVM commits a MOVE or FLAGS_ONLY memslot
change to harden against use-after-free, and to prepare for eventually
supporting dirty logging on guest_memfd memslots, at which point
FLAGS_ONLY changes will be expected/supported.
Add two separate WARNs, once to yell if a guest_memfd memslot is moved
(which KVM is never expected to allow/support), and again if the unbind()
is triggered, to help detect uAPI goofs prior to deliberately allowing
FLAGS_ONLY changes.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251202020334.1171351-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reject attempts to disable KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD on a memslot that was
initially created with a guest_memfd binding, as KVM doesn't support
toggling KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD on existing memslots. KVM prevents enabling
KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD, but doesn't prevent clearing the flag.
Failure to reject the new memslot results in a use-after-free due to KVM
not unbinding from the guest_memfd instance. Unbinding on a FLAGS_ONLY
change is easy enough, and can/will be done as a hardening measure (in
anticipation of KVM supporting dirty logging on guest_memfd at some point),
but fixing the use-after-free would only address the immediate symptom.
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kvm_gmem_release+0x362/0x400 [kvm]
Write of size 8 at addr ffff8881111ae908 by task repro/745
CPU: 7 UID: 1000 PID: 745 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.18.0-rc6-115d5de2eef3-next-kasan #3 NONE
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x51/0x60
print_report+0xcb/0x5c0
kasan_report+0xb4/0xe0
kvm_gmem_release+0x362/0x400 [kvm]
__fput+0x2fa/0x9d0
task_work_run+0x12c/0x200
do_exit+0x6ae/0x2100
do_group_exit+0xa8/0x230
__x64_sys_exit_group+0x3a/0x50
x64_sys_call+0x737/0x740
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x900
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
RIP: 0033:0x7f581f2eac31
</TASK>
Allocated by task 745 on cpu 6 at 9.746971s:
kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
kasan_save_track+0x13/0x50
__kasan_kmalloc+0x77/0x90
kvm_set_memory_region.part.0+0x652/0x1110 [kvm]
kvm_vm_ioctl+0x14b0/0x3290 [kvm]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x129/0x1a0
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x900
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
Freed by task 745 on cpu 6 at 9.747467s:
kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
kasan_save_track+0x13/0x50
__kasan_save_free_info+0x37/0x50
__kasan_slab_free+0x3b/0x60
kfree+0xf5/0x440
kvm_set_memslot+0x3c2/0x1160 [kvm]
kvm_set_memory_region.part.0+0x86a/0x1110 [kvm]
kvm_vm_ioctl+0x14b0/0x3290 [kvm]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x129/0x1a0
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x900
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Fixes: a7800aa80e ("KVM: Add KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD ioctl() for guest-specific backing memory")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251202020334.1171351-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Pull rseq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A large overhaul of the restartable sequences and CID management:
The recent enablement of RSEQ in glibc resulted in regressions which
are caused by the related overhead. It turned out that the decision to
invoke the exit to user work was not really a decision. More or less
each context switch caused that. There is a long list of small issues
which sums up nicely and results in a 3-4% regression in I/O
benchmarks.
The other detail which caused issues due to extra work in context
switch and task migration is the CID (memory context ID) management.
It also requires to use a task work to consolidate the CID space,
which is executed in the context of an arbitrary task and results in
sporadic uncontrolled exit latencies.
The rewrite addresses this by:
- Removing deprecated and long unsupported functionality
- Moving the related data into dedicated data structures which are
optimized for fast path processing.
- Caching values so actual decisions can be made
- Replacing the current implementation with a optimized inlined
variant.
- Separating fast and slow path for architectures which use the
generic entry code, so that only fault and error handling goes into
the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME handler.
- Rewriting the CID management so that it becomes mostly invisible in
the context switch path. That moves the work of switching modes
into the fork/exit path, which is a reasonable tradeoff. That work
is only required when a process creates more threads than the
cpuset it is allowed to run on or when enough threads exit after
that. An artificial thread pool benchmarks which triggers this did
not degrade, it actually improved significantly.
The main effect in migration heavy scenarios is that runqueue lock
held time and therefore contention goes down significantly"
* tag 'core-rseq-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
sched/mmcid: Switch over to the new mechanism
sched/mmcid: Implement deferred mode change
irqwork: Move data struct to a types header
sched/mmcid: Provide CID ownership mode fixup functions
sched/mmcid: Provide new scheduler CID mechanism
sched/mmcid: Introduce per task/CPU ownership infrastructure
sched/mmcid: Serialize sched_mm_cid_fork()/exit() with a mutex
sched/mmcid: Provide precomputed maximal value
sched/mmcid: Move initialization out of line
signal: Move MMCID exit out of sighand lock
sched/mmcid: Convert mm CID mask to a bitmap
cpumask: Cache num_possible_cpus()
sched/mmcid: Use cpumask_weighted_or()
cpumask: Introduce cpumask_weighted_or()
sched/mmcid: Prevent pointless work in mm_update_cpus_allowed()
sched/mmcid: Move scheduler code out of global header
sched: Fixup whitespace damage
sched/mmcid: Cacheline align MM CID storage
sched/mmcid: Use proper data structures
sched/mmcid: Revert the complex CID management
...
KVM TDX changes for 6.19:
- Overhaul the TDX code to address systemic races where KVM (acting on behalf
of userspace) could inadvertantly trigger lock contention in the TDX-Module,
which KVM was either working around in weird, ugly ways, or was simply
oblivious to (as proven by Yan tripping several KVM_BUG_ON()s with clever
selftests).
- Fix a bug where KVM could corrupt a vCPU's cpu_list when freeing a vCPU if
creating said vCPU failed partway through.
- Fix a few sparse warnings (bad annotation, 0 != NULL).
- Use struct_size() to simplify copying capabilities to userspace.
KVM guest_memfd changes for 6.19:
- Add NUMA mempolicy support for guest_memfd, and clean up a variety of
rough edges in guest_memfd along the way.
- Define a CLASS to automatically handle get+put when grabbing a guest_memfd
from a memslot to make it harder to leak references.
- Enhance KVM selftests to make it easer to develop and debug selftests like
those added for guest_memfd NUMA support, e.g. where test and/or KVM bugs
often result in hard-to-debug SIGBUS errors.
- Misc cleanups.
KVM generic changes for 6.19:
- Use the recently-added WQ_PERCPU when creating the per-CPU workqueue for
irqfd cleanup.
- Fix a goof in the dirty ring documentation.
In kvm_vcpu_on_spin(), the loop counter 'i' is incorrectly written to
last_boosted_vcpu instead of the actual vCPU index 'idx'. This causes
last_boosted_vcpu to store the loop iteration count rather than the
vCPU index, leading to incorrect round-robin behavior in subsequent
directed yield operations.
Fix this by using 'idx' instead of 'i' in the assignment.
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-ID: <20251110033232.12538-7-kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Several drivers can benefit from registering per-instance data along
with the syscore operations. To achieve this, move the modifiable fields
out of the syscore_ops structure and into a separate struct syscore that
can be registered with the framework. Add a void * driver data field for
drivers to store contextual data that will be passed to the syscore ops.
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Rename the "async" ioctl API to "unlocked" so that upcoming usage in x86's
TDX code doesn't result in a massive misnomer. To avoid having to retry
SEAMCALLs, TDX needs to acquire kvm->lock *and* all vcpu->mutex locks, and
acquiring all of those locks after/inside the current vCPU's mutex is a
non-starter. However, TDX also needs to acquire the vCPU's mutex and load
the vCPU, i.e. the handling is very much not async to the vCPU.
No functional change intended.
Acked-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030200951.3402865-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Implement kvm_arch_vcpu_async_ioctl() "natively" in x86 and arm64 instead
of relying on an #ifdef'd stub, and drop HAVE_KVM_VCPU_ASYNC_IOCTL in
anticipation of using the API on x86. Once x86 uses the API, providing a
stub for one architecture and having all other architectures opt-in
requires more code than simply implementing the API in the lone holdout.
Eliminating the Kconfig will also reduce churn if the API is renamed in
the future (spoiler alert).
No functional change intended.
Acked-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030200951.3402865-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
When unbinding a memslot from a guest_memfd instance, remove the bindings
even if the guest_memfd file is dying, i.e. even if its file refcount has
gone to zero. If the memslot is freed before the file is fully released,
nullifying the memslot side of the binding in kvm_gmem_release() will
write to freed memory, as detected by syzbot+KASAN:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kvm_gmem_release+0x176/0x440 virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c:353
Write of size 8 at addr ffff88807befa508 by task syz.0.17/6022
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6022 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
kvm_gmem_release+0x176/0x440 virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c:353
__fput+0x44c/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:468
task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:227
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe9/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:43
exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x2bd/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fbeeff8efc9
</TASK>
Allocated by task 6023:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:397 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:414
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:262 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3e2/0x700 mm/slub.c:5758
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
kvm_set_memory_region+0x747/0xb90 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:2104
kvm_vm_ioctl_set_memory_region+0x6f/0xd0 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:2154
kvm_vm_ioctl+0x957/0xc60 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5201
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Freed by task 6023:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2533 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6622 [inline]
kfree+0x19a/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6829
kvm_set_memory_region+0x9c4/0xb90 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:2130
kvm_vm_ioctl_set_memory_region+0x6f/0xd0 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:2154
kvm_vm_ioctl+0x957/0xc60 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5201
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Deliberately don't acquire filemap invalid lock when the file is dying as
the lifecycle of f_mapping is outside the purview of KVM. Dereferencing
the mapping is *probably* fine, but there's no need to invalidate anything
as memslot deletion is responsible for zapping SPTEs, and the only code
that can access the dying file is kvm_gmem_release(), whose core code is
mutually exclusive with unbinding.
Note, the mutual exclusivity is also what makes it safe to access the
bindings on a dying gmem instance. Unbinding either runs with slots_lock
held, or after the last reference to the owning "struct kvm" is put, and
kvm_gmem_release() nullifies the slot pointer under slots_lock, and puts
its reference to the VM after that is done.
Reported-by: syzbot+2479e53d0db9b32ae2aa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68fa7a22.a70a0220.3bf6c6.008b.GAE@google.com
Tested-by: syzbot+2479e53d0db9b32ae2aa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: a7800aa80e ("KVM: Add KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD ioctl() for guest-specific backing memory")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Reviewed-By: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104011205.3853541-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Hypervisors invoke resume_user_mode_work() before entering the guest, which
clears TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME. The @regs argument is NULL as there is no user
space context available to them, so the rseq notify handler skips
inspecting the critical section, but updates the CPU/MM CID values
unconditionally so that the eventual pending rseq event is not lost on the
way to user space.
This is a pointless exercise as the task might be rescheduled before
actually returning to user space and it creates unnecessary work in the
vcpu_run() loops.
It's way more efficient to ignore that invocation based on @regs == NULL
and let the hypervisors re-raise TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME after returning from the
vcpu_run() loop before returning from the ioctl().
This ensures that a pending RSEQ update is not lost and the IDs are updated
before returning to user space.
Once the RSEQ handling is decoupled from TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, this turns into
a NOOP.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084306.399495855@linutronix.de
Add a CLASS to handle getting and putting a guest_memfd file given a
memslot to reduce the amount of related boilerplate, and more importantly
to minimize the chances of forgetting to put the file (thankfully the bug
that prompted this didn't escape initial testing).
Define a CLASS instead of using __free(fput) as _free() comes with subtle
caveats related to FILO ordering (objects are freed in the order in which
they are declared), and the recommended solution/workaround (declare file
pointers exactly when they are initialized) is visually jarring relative
to KVM's (and the kernel's) overall strict adherence to not mixing
declarations and code. E.g. the use in kvm_gmem_populate() would be:
slot = gfn_to_memslot(kvm, start_gfn);
if (!kvm_slot_has_gmem(slot))
return -EINVAL;
struct file *file __free(fput) = kvm_gmem_get_file(slot;
if (!file)
return -EFAULT;
filemap_invalidate_lock(file->f_mapping);
Note, using CLASS() still declares variables in the middle of code, but
the syntactic sugar obfuscates the declaration, i.e. hides the anomaly to
a large extent.
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251007222356.348349-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Previously, guest-memfd allocations followed local NUMA node id in absence
of process mempolicy, resulting in arbitrary memory allocation.
Moreover, mbind() couldn't be used by the VMM as guest memory wasn't
mapped into userspace when allocation occurred.
Enable NUMA policy support by implementing vm_ops for guest-memfd mmap
operation. This allows the VMM to use mmap()+mbind() to set the desired
NUMA policy for a range of memory, and provides fine-grained control over
guest memory allocation across NUMA nodes.
Note, using mmap()+mbind() works even for PRIVATE memory, as mbind()
doesn't require the memory to be faulted in. However, get_mempolicy()
and other paths that require the userspace page tables to be populated
may return incorrect information for PRIVATE memory (though under the hood,
KVM+guest_memfd will still behave correctly).
Store the policy in the inode structure, gmem_inode, as a shared memory
policy, so that the policy is a property of the physical memory itself,
i.e. not bound to the VMA. In guest_memfd, KVM is the primary MMU and any
VMAs are secondary, i.e. using mbind() on a VMA to set policy is a means
to an end, e.g. to avoid having to add a file-based equivalent to mbind().
Similarly, retrieve the policy via mpol_shared_policy_lookup(), not
get_vma_policy(), even when allocating to fault in memory for userspace
mappings, so that the policy stored in gmem_inode is always the source of
true.
Apply policy changes only to future allocations, i.e. do not migrate
existing memory in the guest_memfd instance. This matches mbind(2)'s
default behavior, which affects only new allocations unless overridden
with MPOL_MF_MOVE/MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL flags (which are not supported by
guest_memfd as guest_memfd memory is unmovable).
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
Tested-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/e9d43abc-bcdb-4f9f-9ad7-5644f714de19@amd.com
[sean: fold in fixup (see Link above), massage changelog]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251016172853.52451-6-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Add a dedicated gmem_inode structure and a slab-allocated inode cache for
guest memory backing, similar to how shmem handles inodes.
This adds the necessary allocation/destruction functions and prepares
for upcoming guest_memfd NUMA policy support changes. Using a dedicated
structure will also allow for additional cleanups, e.g. to track flags in
gmem_inode instead of i_private.
Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
Tested-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
[sean: s/kvm_gmem_inode_info/gmem_inode, name init_once()]
Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Tested-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251016172853.52451-5-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
guest_memfd's inode represents memory the guest_memfd is
providing. guest_memfd's file represents a struct kvm's view of that
memory.
Using a custom inode allows customization of the inode teardown
process via callbacks. For example, ->evict_inode() allows
customization of the truncation process on file close, and
->destroy_inode() and ->free_inode() allow customization of the inode
freeing process.
Customizing the truncation process allows flexibility in management of
guest_memfd memory and customization of the inode freeing process
allows proper cleanup of memory metadata stored on the inode.
Memory metadata is more appropriately stored on the inode (as opposed
to the file), since the metadata is for the memory and is not unique
to a specific binding and struct kvm.
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
Tested-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
[sean: drop helpers, open code logic in __kvm_gmem_create()]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251016172853.52451-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
