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<title>Add LITMUS^RT syscalls for ARM</title>
<updated>2015-08-09T10:21:18+00:00</updated>
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<name>Bjoern Brandenburg</name>
<email>bbb@mpi-sws.org</email>
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<published>2015-08-09T11:18:48+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-04-26T20:06:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-26T20:06:22+00:00</published>
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Pull second batch of KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "This mostly includes the PPC changes for 4.1, which this time cover
  Book3S HV only (debugging aids, minor performance improvements and
  some cleanups).  But there are also bug fixes and small cleanups for
  ARM, x86 and s390.

  The task_migration_notifier revert and real fix is still pending
  review, but I'll send it as soon as possible after -rc1"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (29 commits)
  KVM: arm/arm64: check IRQ number on userland injection
  KVM: arm: irqfd: fix value returned by kvm_irq_map_gsi
  KVM: VMX: Preserve host CR4.MCE value while in guest mode.
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use msgsnd for signalling threads on POWER8
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Translate kvmhv_commence_exit to C
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Streamline guest entry and exit
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use bitmap of active threads rather than count
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use decrementer to wake napping threads
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't wake thread with no vcpu on guest IPI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Get rid of vcore nap_count and n_woken
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Move vcore preemption point up into kvmppc_run_vcpu
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Minor cleanups
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify handling of VCPUs that need a VPA update
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Accumulate timing information for real-mode code
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Create debugfs file for each guest's HPT
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add ICP real mode counters
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Move virtual mode ICP functions to real-mode
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Convert ICS mutex lock to spin lock
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add guest-&gt;host real mode completion counters
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add helpers for lock/unlock hpte
  ...
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Pull second batch of KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "This mostly includes the PPC changes for 4.1, which this time cover
  Book3S HV only (debugging aids, minor performance improvements and
  some cleanups).  But there are also bug fixes and small cleanups for
  ARM, x86 and s390.

  The task_migration_notifier revert and real fix is still pending
  review, but I'll send it as soon as possible after -rc1"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (29 commits)
  KVM: arm/arm64: check IRQ number on userland injection
  KVM: arm: irqfd: fix value returned by kvm_irq_map_gsi
  KVM: VMX: Preserve host CR4.MCE value while in guest mode.
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use msgsnd for signalling threads on POWER8
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Translate kvmhv_commence_exit to C
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Streamline guest entry and exit
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use bitmap of active threads rather than count
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use decrementer to wake napping threads
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't wake thread with no vcpu on guest IPI
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Get rid of vcore nap_count and n_woken
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Move vcore preemption point up into kvmppc_run_vcpu
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Minor cleanups
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Simplify handling of VCPUs that need a VPA update
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Accumulate timing information for real-mode code
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Create debugfs file for each guest's HPT
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add ICP real mode counters
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Move virtual mode ICP functions to real-mode
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Convert ICS mutex lock to spin lock
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add guest-&gt;host real mode completion counters
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add helpers for lock/unlock hpte
  ...
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<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: check IRQ number on userland injection</title>
<updated>2015-04-22T14:42:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andre Przywara</name>
<email>andre.przywara@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-10T15:17:59+00:00</published>
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When userland injects a SPI via the KVM_IRQ_LINE ioctl we currently
only check it against a fixed limit, which historically is set
to 127. With the new dynamic IRQ allocation the effective limit may
actually be smaller (64).
So when now a malicious or buggy userland injects a SPI in that
range, we spill over on our VGIC bitmaps and bytemaps memory.
I could trigger a host kernel NULL pointer dereference with current
mainline by injecting some bogus IRQ number from a hacked kvmtool:
-----------------
....
DEBUG: kvm_vgic_inject_irq(kvm, cpu=0, irq=114, level=1)
DEBUG: vgic_update_irq_pending(kvm, cpu=0, irq=114, level=1)
DEBUG: IRQ #114 still in the game, writing to bytemap now...
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
pgd = ffffffc07652e000
[00000000] *pgd=00000000f658b003, *pud=00000000f658b003, *pmd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1053 Comm: lkvm-msi-irqinj Not tainted 4.0.0-rc7+ #3027
Hardware name: FVP Base (DT)
task: ffffffc0774e9680 ti: ffffffc0765a8000 task.ti: ffffffc0765a8000
PC is at kvm_vgic_inject_irq+0x234/0x310
LR is at kvm_vgic_inject_irq+0x30c/0x310
pc : [&lt;ffffffc0000ae0a8&gt;] lr : [&lt;ffffffc0000ae180&gt;] pstate: 80000145
.....

So this patch fixes this by checking the SPI number against the
actual limit. Also we remove the former legacy hard limit of
127 in the ioctl code.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.0, 3.19, 3.18
[maz: wrap KVM_ARM_IRQ_GIC_MAX with #ifndef __KERNEL__,
as suggested by Christopher Covington]
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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When userland injects a SPI via the KVM_IRQ_LINE ioctl we currently
only check it against a fixed limit, which historically is set
to 127. With the new dynamic IRQ allocation the effective limit may
actually be smaller (64).
So when now a malicious or buggy userland injects a SPI in that
range, we spill over on our VGIC bitmaps and bytemaps memory.
I could trigger a host kernel NULL pointer dereference with current
mainline by injecting some bogus IRQ number from a hacked kvmtool:
-----------------
....
DEBUG: kvm_vgic_inject_irq(kvm, cpu=0, irq=114, level=1)
DEBUG: vgic_update_irq_pending(kvm, cpu=0, irq=114, level=1)
DEBUG: IRQ #114 still in the game, writing to bytemap now...
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
pgd = ffffffc07652e000
[00000000] *pgd=00000000f658b003, *pud=00000000f658b003, *pmd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1053 Comm: lkvm-msi-irqinj Not tainted 4.0.0-rc7+ #3027
Hardware name: FVP Base (DT)
task: ffffffc0774e9680 ti: ffffffc0765a8000 task.ti: ffffffc0765a8000
PC is at kvm_vgic_inject_irq+0x234/0x310
LR is at kvm_vgic_inject_irq+0x30c/0x310
pc : [&lt;ffffffc0000ae0a8&gt;] lr : [&lt;ffffffc0000ae180&gt;] pstate: 80000145
.....

So this patch fixes this by checking the SPI number against the
actual limit. Also we remove the former legacy hard limit of
127 in the ioctl code.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.0, 3.19, 3.18
[maz: wrap KVM_ARM_IRQ_GIC_MAX with #ifndef __KERNEL__,
as suggested by Christopher Covington]
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T04:03:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T04:03:26+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Included in this update are both some long term fixes and some new
  features.

  Fixes:

   - An integer overflow in the calculation of ELF_ET_DYN_BASE.

   - Avoiding OOMs for high-order IOMMU allocations

   - SMP requires the data cache to be enabled for synchronisation
     primitives to work, so prevent the CPU_DCACHE_DISABLE option being
     visible on SMP builds.

   - A bug going back 10+ years in the noMMU ARM94* CPU support code,
     where it corrupts registers.  Found by folk getting Linux running
     on their cameras.

   - Versatile Express needs an errata workaround enabled for CPU
     hot-unplug to work.

  Features:

   - Clean up module linker by handling out of range relocations
     separately from relocation cases we don't handle.

   - Fix a long term bug in the pci_mmap_page_range() code, which we
     hope won't impact userspace (we hope there's no users of the
     existing broken interface.)

   - Don't map DMA coherent allocations when we don't have a MMU.

   - Drop experimental status for SMP_ON_UP.

   - Warn when DT doesn't specify ePAPR mandatory cache properties.

   - Add documentation concerning how we find the start of physical
     memory for AUTO_ZRELADDR kernels, detailing why we have chosen the
     mask and the implications of changing it.

   - Updates from Ard Biesheuvel to address some issues with large
     kernels (such as allyesconfig) failing to link.

   - Allow hibernation to work on modern (ARMv7) CPUs - this appears to
     have never worked in the past on these CPUs.

   - Enable IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL, which changes the /proc/interrupts output
     format (hopefully without userspace breaking...  let's hope that if
     it causes someone a problem, they tell us.)

   - Fix tegra-ahb DT offsets.

   - Rework ARM errata 643719 code (and ARMv7 flush_cache_louis()/
     flush_dcache_all()) code to be more efficient, and enable this
     errata workaround by default for ARMv7+SMP CPUs.  This complements
     the Versatile Express fix above.

   - Rework ARMv7 context code for errata 430973, so that only Cortex A8
     CPUs are impacted by the branch target buffer flush when this
     errata is enabled.  Also update the help text to indicate that all
     r1p* A8 CPUs are impacted.

   - Switch ARM to the generic show_mem() implementation, it conveys all
     the information which we were already reporting.

   - Prevent slow timer sources being used for udelay() - timers running
     at less than 1MHz are not useful for this, and can cause udelay()
     to return immediately, without any wait.  Using such a slow timer
     is silly.

   - VDSO support for 32-bit ARM, mainly for gettimeofday() using the
     ARM architected timer.

   - Perf support for Scorpion performance monitoring units"

vdso semantic conflict fixed up as per linux-next.

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (52 commits)
  ARM: update errata 430973 documentation to cover Cortex A8 r1p*
  ARM: ensure delay timer has sufficient accuracy for delays
  ARM: switch to use the generic show_mem() implementation
  ARM: proc-v7: avoid errata 430973 workaround for non-Cortex A8 CPUs
  ARM: enable ARM errata 643719 workaround by default
  ARM: cache-v7: optimise test for Cortex A9 r0pX devices
  ARM: cache-v7: optimise branches in v7_flush_cache_louis
  ARM: cache-v7: consolidate initialisation of cache level index
  ARM: cache-v7: shift CLIDR to extract appropriate field before masking
  ARM: cache-v7: use movw/movt instructions
  ARM: allow 16-bit instructions in ALT_UP()
  ARM: proc-arm94*.S: fix setup function
  ARM: vexpress: fix CPU hotplug with CT9x4 tile.
  ARM: 8276/1: Make CPU_DCACHE_DISABLE depend on !SMP
  ARM: 8335/1: Documentation: DT bindings: Tegra AHB: document the legacy base address
  ARM: 8334/1: amba: tegra-ahb: detect and correct bogus base address
  ARM: 8333/1: amba: tegra-ahb: fix register offsets in the macros
  ARM: 8339/1: Enable CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL
  ARM: 8338/1: kexec: Relax SMP validation to improve DT compatibility
  ARM: 8337/1: mm: Do not invoke OOM for higher order IOMMU DMA allocations
  ...
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "Included in this update are both some long term fixes and some new
  features.

  Fixes:

   - An integer overflow in the calculation of ELF_ET_DYN_BASE.

   - Avoiding OOMs for high-order IOMMU allocations

   - SMP requires the data cache to be enabled for synchronisation
     primitives to work, so prevent the CPU_DCACHE_DISABLE option being
     visible on SMP builds.

   - A bug going back 10+ years in the noMMU ARM94* CPU support code,
     where it corrupts registers.  Found by folk getting Linux running
     on their cameras.

   - Versatile Express needs an errata workaround enabled for CPU
     hot-unplug to work.

  Features:

   - Clean up module linker by handling out of range relocations
     separately from relocation cases we don't handle.

   - Fix a long term bug in the pci_mmap_page_range() code, which we
     hope won't impact userspace (we hope there's no users of the
     existing broken interface.)

   - Don't map DMA coherent allocations when we don't have a MMU.

   - Drop experimental status for SMP_ON_UP.

   - Warn when DT doesn't specify ePAPR mandatory cache properties.

   - Add documentation concerning how we find the start of physical
     memory for AUTO_ZRELADDR kernels, detailing why we have chosen the
     mask and the implications of changing it.

   - Updates from Ard Biesheuvel to address some issues with large
     kernels (such as allyesconfig) failing to link.

   - Allow hibernation to work on modern (ARMv7) CPUs - this appears to
     have never worked in the past on these CPUs.

   - Enable IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL, which changes the /proc/interrupts output
     format (hopefully without userspace breaking...  let's hope that if
     it causes someone a problem, they tell us.)

   - Fix tegra-ahb DT offsets.

   - Rework ARM errata 643719 code (and ARMv7 flush_cache_louis()/
     flush_dcache_all()) code to be more efficient, and enable this
     errata workaround by default for ARMv7+SMP CPUs.  This complements
     the Versatile Express fix above.

   - Rework ARMv7 context code for errata 430973, so that only Cortex A8
     CPUs are impacted by the branch target buffer flush when this
     errata is enabled.  Also update the help text to indicate that all
     r1p* A8 CPUs are impacted.

   - Switch ARM to the generic show_mem() implementation, it conveys all
     the information which we were already reporting.

   - Prevent slow timer sources being used for udelay() - timers running
     at less than 1MHz are not useful for this, and can cause udelay()
     to return immediately, without any wait.  Using such a slow timer
     is silly.

   - VDSO support for 32-bit ARM, mainly for gettimeofday() using the
     ARM architected timer.

   - Perf support for Scorpion performance monitoring units"

vdso semantic conflict fixed up as per linux-next.

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (52 commits)
  ARM: update errata 430973 documentation to cover Cortex A8 r1p*
  ARM: ensure delay timer has sufficient accuracy for delays
  ARM: switch to use the generic show_mem() implementation
  ARM: proc-v7: avoid errata 430973 workaround for non-Cortex A8 CPUs
  ARM: enable ARM errata 643719 workaround by default
  ARM: cache-v7: optimise test for Cortex A9 r0pX devices
  ARM: cache-v7: optimise branches in v7_flush_cache_louis
  ARM: cache-v7: consolidate initialisation of cache level index
  ARM: cache-v7: shift CLIDR to extract appropriate field before masking
  ARM: cache-v7: use movw/movt instructions
  ARM: allow 16-bit instructions in ALT_UP()
  ARM: proc-arm94*.S: fix setup function
  ARM: vexpress: fix CPU hotplug with CT9x4 tile.
  ARM: 8276/1: Make CPU_DCACHE_DISABLE depend on !SMP
  ARM: 8335/1: Documentation: DT bindings: Tegra AHB: document the legacy base address
  ARM: 8334/1: amba: tegra-ahb: detect and correct bogus base address
  ARM: 8333/1: amba: tegra-ahb: fix register offsets in the macros
  ARM: 8339/1: Enable CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL
  ARM: 8338/1: kexec: Relax SMP validation to improve DT compatibility
  ARM: 8337/1: mm: Do not invoke OOM for higher order IOMMU DMA allocations
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 8329/1: miscellaneous vdso infrastructure, preparation</title>
<updated>2015-03-27T22:20:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathan_lynch@mentor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-25T18:13:16+00:00</published>
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Define the layout of the data structure shared between kernel and
userspace.

Track the vdso address in the mm_context; needed for communicating
AT_SYSINFO_EHDR to the ELF loader.

Add declarations for arm_install_vdso; implementation is in a
following patch.

Define AT_SYSINFO_EHDR, and, if CONFIG_VDSO=y, report the vdso shared
object address via the ELF auxiliary vector.

Note - this adds the AT_SYSINFO_EHDR in a new user-visible header
asm/auxvec.h; this is consistent with other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathan_lynch@mentor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Define the layout of the data structure shared between kernel and
userspace.

Track the vdso address in the mm_context; needed for communicating
AT_SYSINFO_EHDR to the ELF loader.

Add declarations for arm_install_vdso; implementation is in a
following patch.

Define AT_SYSINFO_EHDR, and, if CONFIG_VDSO=y, report the vdso shared
object address via the ELF auxiliary vector.

Note - this adds the AT_SYSINFO_EHDR in a new user-visible header
asm/auxvec.h; this is consistent with other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathan_lynch@mentor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: add irqfd support</title>
<updated>2015-03-12T14:15:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Auger</name>
<email>eric.auger@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-04T10:14:36+00:00</published>
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This patch enables irqfd on arm/arm64.

Both irqfd and resamplefd are supported. Injection is implemented
in vgic.c without routing.

This patch enables CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD and CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD.

KVM_CAP_IRQFD is now advertised. KVM_CAP_IRQFD_RESAMPLE capability
automatically is advertised as soon as CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD is set.

Irqfd injection is restricted to SPI. The rationale behind not
supporting PPI irqfd injection is that any device using a PPI would
be a private-to-the-CPU device (timer for instance), so its state
would have to be context-switched along with the VCPU and would
require in-kernel wiring anyhow. It is not a relevant use case for
irqfds.

Signed-off-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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This patch enables irqfd on arm/arm64.

Both irqfd and resamplefd are supported. Injection is implemented
in vgic.c without routing.

This patch enables CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD and CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD.

KVM_CAP_IRQFD is now advertised. KVM_CAP_IRQFD_RESAMPLE capability
automatically is advertised as soon as CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQFD is set.

Irqfd injection is restricted to SPI. The rationale behind not
supporting PPI irqfd injection is that any device using a PPI would
be a private-to-the-CPU device (timer for instance), so its state
would have to be context-switched along with the VCPU and would
require in-kernel wiring anyhow. It is not a relevant use case for
irqfds.

Signed-off-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T17:55:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-13T17:55:09+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features.

  Common:
     Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
     instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other
     architectures).  This can improve latency up to 50% on some
     scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests).  This
     also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to
     auto-tune this in the future.

  ARM/ARM64:
     The highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
     tracking

  s390:
     Several optimizations and bugfixes.  Also a first: a feature
     exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
     it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)

  MIPS:
     Bugfixes.

  x86:
     Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
     Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested
     virtualization improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization),
     usual round of emulation fixes.

     There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline
     timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually.

     Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you
     have already included his tree.

  Powerpc:
     Nothing yet.

     The KVM/PPC changes will come in through the PPC maintainers,
     because I haven't received them yet and I might end up being
     offline for some part of next week"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
  KVM: ia64: drop kvm.h from installed user headers
  KVM: x86: fix build with !CONFIG_SMP
  KVM: x86: emulate: correct page fault error code for NoWrite instructions
  KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390
  KVM: s390: add cpu model support
  KVM: s390: use facilities and cpu_id per KVM
  KVM: s390/CPACF: Choose crypto control block format
  s390/kernel: Update /proc/sysinfo file with Extended Name and UUID
  KVM: s390: reenable LPP facility
  KVM: s390: floating irqs: fix user triggerable endless loop
  kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter
  kvm: remove KVM_MMIO_SIZE
  KVM: MIPS: Don't leak FPU/DSP to guest
  KVM: MIPS: Disable HTW while in guest
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtual interrupt delivery
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested apic register virtualization
  KVM: nVMX: Make nested control MSRs per-cpu
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtualize x2apic mode
  KVM: nVMX: Prepare for using hardware MSR bitmap
  ...
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Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features.

  Common:
     Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
     instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other
     architectures).  This can improve latency up to 50% on some
     scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests).  This
     also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to
     auto-tune this in the future.

  ARM/ARM64:
     The highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
     tracking

  s390:
     Several optimizations and bugfixes.  Also a first: a feature
     exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
     it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)

  MIPS:
     Bugfixes.

  x86:
     Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
     Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested
     virtualization improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization),
     usual round of emulation fixes.

     There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline
     timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually.

     Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you
     have already included his tree.

  Powerpc:
     Nothing yet.

     The KVM/PPC changes will come in through the PPC maintainers,
     because I haven't received them yet and I might end up being
     offline for some part of next week"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
  KVM: ia64: drop kvm.h from installed user headers
  KVM: x86: fix build with !CONFIG_SMP
  KVM: x86: emulate: correct page fault error code for NoWrite instructions
  KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390
  KVM: s390: add cpu model support
  KVM: s390: use facilities and cpu_id per KVM
  KVM: s390/CPACF: Choose crypto control block format
  s390/kernel: Update /proc/sysinfo file with Extended Name and UUID
  KVM: s390: reenable LPP facility
  KVM: s390: floating irqs: fix user triggerable endless loop
  kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter
  kvm: remove KVM_MMIO_SIZE
  KVM: MIPS: Don't leak FPU/DSP to guest
  KVM: MIPS: Disable HTW while in guest
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtual interrupt delivery
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested apic register virtualization
  KVM: nVMX: Make nested control MSRs per-cpu
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtualize x2apic mode
  KVM: nVMX: Prepare for using hardware MSR bitmap
  ...
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<title>KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: add init entry to VGIC KVM device</title>
<updated>2015-01-11T13:12:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Auger</name>
<email>eric.auger@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-15T17:43:33+00:00</published>
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Since the advent of VGIC dynamic initialization, this latter is
initialized quite late on the first vcpu run or "on-demand", when
injecting an IRQ or when the guest sets its registers.

This initialization could be initiated explicitly much earlier
by the users-space, as soon as it has provided the requested
dimensioning parameters.

This patch adds a new entry to the VGIC KVM device that allows
the user to manually request the VGIC init:
- a new KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL group is introduced.
- Its first attribute is KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT

The rationale behind introducing a group is to be able to add other
controls later on, if needed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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Since the advent of VGIC dynamic initialization, this latter is
initialized quite late on the first vcpu run or "on-demand", when
injecting an IRQ or when the guest sets its registers.

This initialization could be initiated explicitly much earlier
by the users-space, as soon as it has provided the requested
dimensioning parameters.

This patch adds a new entry to the VGIC KVM device that allows
the user to manually request the VGIC init:
- a new KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL group is introduced.
- Its first attribute is KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT

The rationale behind introducing a group is to be able to add other
controls later on, if needed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: wire up execveat syscall</title>
<updated>2015-01-07T20:31:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-18T19:43:36+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: enable bpf syscall</title>
<updated>2014-10-29T00:18:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-28T15:27:07+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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