kernel.git/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt, branch linux-4.16.y

arm/arm64: KVM: Add PSCI version selection API

2018-05-01T19:47:30Z

commit 85bd0ba1ff9875798fad94218b627ea9f768f3c3 upstream. Although we've implemented PSCI 0.1, 0.2 and 1.0, we expose either 0.1 or 1.0 to a guest, defaulting to the latest version of the PSCI implementation that is compatible with the requested version. This is no different from doing a firmware upgrade on KVM. But in order to give a chance to hypothetical badly implemented guests that would have a fit by discovering something other than PSCI 0.2, let's provide a new API that allows userspace to pick one particular version of the API. This is implemented as a new class of "firmware" registers, where we expose the PSCI version. This allows the PSCI version to be save/restored as part of a guest migration, and also set to any supported version if the guest requires it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.16 Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KVM: x86: Add a framework for supporting MSR-based features

2018-03-01T18:00:28Z

Provide a new KVM capability that allows bits within MSRs to be recognized as features. Two new ioctls are added to the /dev/kvm ioctl routine to retrieve the list of these MSRs and then retrieve their values. A kvm_x86_ops callback is used to determine support for the listed MSR-based features. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini [Tweaked documentation. - Radim] Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář

Merge tag 'kvm-ppc-next-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc

2018-02-01T15:13:07Z

PPC KVM update for 4.16 - Allow HPT guests to run on a radix host on POWER9 v2.2 CPUs without requiring the complex thread synchronization that earlier CPU versions required. - A series from Ben Herrenschmidt to improve the handling of escalation interrupts with the XIVE interrupt controller. - Provide for the decrementer register to be copied across on migration. - Various minor cleanups and bugfixes.

Merge branch 'x86/hyperv' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-02-01T14:04:17Z

Topic branch for stable KVM clockource under Hyper-V. Thanks to Christoffer Dall for resolving the ARM conflict.

KVM: PPC: Book3S: Provide information about hardware/firmware CVE workarounds

2018-01-19T04:17:01Z

This adds a new ioctl, KVM_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, that gives userspace information about the underlying machine's level of vulnerability to the recently announced vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754, and whether the machine provides instructions to assist software to work around the vulnerabilities. The ioctl returns two u64 words describing characteristics of the CPU and required software behaviour respectively, plus two mask words which indicate which bits have been filled in by the kernel, for extensibility. The bit definitions are the same as for the new H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS hypercall. There is also a new capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_GET_CPU_CHAR, which indicates whether the new ioctl is available. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Merge branch 'sev-v9-p2' of https://github.com/codomania/kvm

2018-01-16T15:35:32Z

This part of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) patch series focuses on KVM changes required to create and manage SEV guests. SEV is an extension to the AMD-V architecture which supports running encrypted virtual machine (VMs) under the control of a hypervisor. Encrypted VMs have their pages (code and data) secured such that only the guest itself has access to unencrypted version. Each encrypted VM is associated with a unique encryption key; if its data is accessed to a different entity using a different key the encrypted guest's data will be incorrectly decrypted, leading to unintelligible data. This security model ensures that hypervisor will no longer able to inspect or alter any guest code or data. The key management of this feature is handled by a separate processor known as the AMD Secure Processor (AMD-SP) which is present on AMD SOCs. The SEV Key Management Specification (see below) provides a set of commands which can be used by hypervisor to load virtual machine keys through the AMD-SP driver. The patch series adds a new ioctl in KVM driver (KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP). The ioctl will be used by qemu to issue SEV guest-specific commands defined in Key Management Specification. The following links provide additional details: AMD Memory Encryption white paper: http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2013/12/AMD_Memory_Encryption_Whitepaper_v7-Public.pdf AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual: http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/24593.pdf SME is section 7.10 SEV is section 15.34 SEV Key Management: http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/55766_SEV-KM API_Specification.pdf KVM Forum Presentation: http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/7/74/02x08A-Thomas_Lendacky-AMDs_Virtualizatoin_Memory_Encryption_Technology.pdf SEV Guest BIOS support: SEV support has been add to EDKII/OVMF BIOS https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Enable migration of decrementer register

2018-01-16T00:54:45Z

This adds a register identifier for use with the one_reg interface to allow the decrementer expiry time to be read and written by userspace. The decrementer expiry time is in guest timebase units and is equal to the sum of the decrementer and the guest timebase. (The expiry time is used rather than the decrementer value itself because the expiry time is not constantly changing, though the decrementer value is, while the guest vcpu is not running.) Without this, a guest vcpu migrated to a new host will see its decrementer set to some random value. On POWER8 and earlier, the decrementer is 32 bits wide and counts down at 512MHz, so the guest vcpu will potentially see no decrementer interrupts for up to about 4 seconds, which will lead to a stall. With POWER9, the decrementer is now 56 bits side, so the stall can be much longer (up to 2.23 years) and more noticeable. To help work around the problem in cases where userspace has not been updated to migrate the decrementer expiry time, we now set the default decrementer expiry at vcpu creation time to the current time rather than the maximum possible value. This should mean an immediate decrementer interrupt when a migrated vcpu starts running. In cases where the decrementer is 32 bits wide and more than 4 seconds elapse between the creation of the vcpu and when it first runs, the decrementer would have wrapped around to positive values and there may still be a stall - but this is no worse than the current situation. In the large-decrementer case, we are sure to get an immediate decrementer interrupt (assuming the time from vcpu creation to first run is less than 2.23 years) and we thus avoid a very long stall. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

KVM: s390: mark irq_state.flags as non-usable

2017-12-06T08:18:43Z

Old kernels did not check for zero in the irq_state.flags field and old QEMUs did not zero the flag/reserved fields when calling KVM_S390_*_IRQ_STATE. Let's add comments to prevent future uses of these fields. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger

KVM: Introduce KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_{UN,}REG_REGION ioctl

2017-12-04T16:57:26Z

If hardware supports memory encryption then KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION and KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_UNREG_REGION ioctl's can be used by userspace to register/unregister the guest memory regions which may contain the encrypted data (e.g guest RAM, PCI BAR, SMRAM etc). Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: "Radim Krčmář" Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Tom Lendacky Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Improvements-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov

KVM: Introduce KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP ioctl

2017-12-04T16:57:26Z

If the hardware supports memory encryption then the KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP ioctl can be used by qemu to issue a platform specific memory encryption commands. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: "Radim Krčmář" Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Tom Lendacky Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov