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2026-03-11Merge tag 'kvm-x86-generic-7.0-rc3' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into ↵Paolo Bonzini
HEAD 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.
2026-02-28KVM: remove CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIERPaolo Bonzini
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>
2026-02-21treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar typesKees Cook
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>
2026-02-11Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-7.0-1' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD - gmap rewrite: completely new memory management for kvm/s390 - vSIE improvement - maintainership change for s390 vfio-pci - small quality of life improvement for protected guests
2026-02-11Merge tag 'kvm-x86-pmu-6.20' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
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% | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2026-02-11Merge tag 'kvm-x86-apic-6.20' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
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.
2026-02-10KVM: s390: Use guest address to mark guest page dirtyClaudio Imbrenda
Stop using the userspace address to mark the guest page dirty. mark_page_dirty() expects a guest frame number, but was being passed a host virtual frame number. When slot == NULL, mark_page_dirty_in_slot() does nothing and does not complain. This means that in some circumstances the dirtiness of the guest page might have been lost. Fix by adding two fields in struct kvm_s390_adapter_int to keep the guest addressses, and use those for mark_page_dirty(). Fixes: f65470661f36 ("KVM: s390/interrupt: do not pin adapter interrupt pages") Reviewed-by: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Schlameuss <schlameuss@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
2026-01-15KVM: guest_memfd: GUP source pages prior to populating guest memoryMichael Roth
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>
2026-01-15KVM: guest_memfd: Remove partial hugepage handling from kvm_gmem_populate()Michael Roth
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>
2026-01-08KVM: x86: Mark vmcs12 pages as dirty if and only if they're mappedSean Christopherson
Mark vmcs12 pages as dirty (in KVM's dirty log bitmap) if and only if the page is mapped, i.e. if the page is actually "active" in vmcs02. For some pages, KVM simply disables the associated VMCS control if the vmcs12 page is unreachable, i.e. it's possible for nested VM-Enter to succeed with a "bad" vmcs12 page. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121223444.355422-3-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08KVM: Add a simplified wrapper for registering perf callbacksSean Christopherson
Add a parameter-less API for registering perf callbacks in anticipation of introducing another x86-only parameter for handling mediated PMU PMIs. No functional change intended. Acked-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com> Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-15-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08KVM: Remove subtle "struct kvm_stats_desc" pseudo-overlaySean Christopherson
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>
2025-11-05KVM: Rename kvm_arch_vcpu_async_ioctl() to kvm_arch_vcpu_unlocked_ioctl()Sean Christopherson
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>
2025-11-05KVM: Make support for kvm_arch_vcpu_async_ioctl() mandatorySean Christopherson
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>
2025-10-18Merge tag 'kvm-x86-fixes-6.18-rc2' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEADPaolo Bonzini
KVM x86 fixes for 6.18: - Expand the KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY selftest to add a regression test for the bug fixed by commit 3ccbf6f47098 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Return -EAGAIN if userspace deletes/moves memslot during prefault") - Don't try to get PMU capabbilities from perf when running a CPU with hybrid CPUs/PMUs, as perf will rightly WARN. - Rework KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP (newly introduced in 6.18) into a more generic KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS - Add a guest_memfd INIT_SHARED flag and require userspace to explicitly set said flag to initialize memory as SHARED, irrespective of MMAP. The behavior merged in 6.18 is that enabling mmap() implicitly initializes memory as SHARED, which would result in an ABI collision for x86 CoCo VMs as their memory is currently always initialized PRIVATE. - Allow mmap() on guest_memfd for x86 CoCo VMs, i.e. on VMs with private memory, to enable testing such setups, i.e. to hopefully flush out any other lurking ABI issues before 6.18 is officially released. - Add testcases to the guest_memfd selftest to cover guest_memfd without MMAP, and host userspace accesses to mmap()'d private memory.
2025-10-10KVM: guest_memfd: Allow mmap() on guest_memfd for x86 VMs with private memorySean Christopherson
Allow mmap() on guest_memfd instances for x86 VMs with private memory as the need to track private vs. shared state in the guest_memfd instance is only pertinent to INIT_SHARED. Doing mmap() on private memory isn't terrible useful (yet!), but it's now possible, and will be desirable when guest_memfd gains support for other VMA-based syscalls, e.g. mbind() to set NUMA policy. Lift the restriction now, before MMAP support is officially released, so that KVM doesn't need to add another capability to enumerate support for mmap() on private memory. Fixes: 3d3a04fad25a ("KVM: Allow and advertise support for host mmap() on guest_memfd files") Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Tested-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251003232606.4070510-6-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-10-07Merge tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251006' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu: - Unify guest entry code for KVM and MSHV (Sean Christopherson) - Switch Hyper-V MSI domain to use msi_create_parent_irq_domain() (Nam Cao) - Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS and limit the semantics of CONFIG_HYPERV (Mukesh Rathor) - Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs (Vitaly Kuznetsov) - Deprecate hyperv_fb in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver (Prasanna Kumar T S M) - Miscellaneous enhancements, fixes and cleanups (Abhishek Tiwari, Alok Tiwari, Nuno Das Neves, Wei Liu, Roman Kisel, Michael Kelley) * tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251006' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux: hyperv: Remove the spurious null directive line MAINTAINERS: Mark hyperv_fb driver Obsolete fbdev/hyperv_fb: deprecate this in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver Drivers: hv: Make CONFIG_HYPERV bool Drivers: hv: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS option Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix typos in vmbus_drv.c Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix sysfs output format for ring buffer index Drivers: hv: vmbus: Clean up sscanf format specifier in target_cpu_store() x86/hyperv: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain() mshv: Use common "entry virt" APIs to do work in root before running guest entry: Rename "kvm" entry code assets to "virt" to genericize APIs entry/kvm: KVM: Move KVM details related to signal/-EINTR into KVM proper mshv: Handle NEED_RESCHED_LAZY before transferring to guest x86/hyperv: Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs Drivers: hv: Simplify data structures for VMBus channel close message Drivers: hv: util: Cosmetic changes for hv_utils_transport.c mshv: Add support for a new parent partition configuration clocksource: hyper-v: Skip unnecessary checks for the root partition hyperv: Add missing field to hv_output_map_device_interrupt
2025-09-30entry: Rename "kvm" entry code assets to "virt" to genericize APIsSean Christopherson
Rename the "kvm" entry code files and Kconfigs to use generic "virt" nomenclature so that the code can be reused by other hypervisors (or rather, their root/dom0 partition drivers), without incorrectly suggesting the code somehow relies on and/or involves KVM. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
2025-09-30entry/kvm: KVM: Move KVM details related to signal/-EINTR into KVM properSean Christopherson
Move KVM's morphing of pending signals into userspace exits into KVM proper, and drop the @vcpu param from xfer_to_guest_mode_handle_work(). How KVM responds to -EINTR is a detail that really belongs in KVM itself, and invoking kvm_handle_signal_exit() from kernel code creates an inverted module dependency. E.g. attempting to move kvm_handle_signal_exit() into kvm_main.c would generate an linker error when building kvm.ko as a module. Dropping KVM details will also converting the KVM "entry" code into a more generic virtualization framework so that it can be used when running as a Hyper-V root partition. Lastly, eliminating usage of "struct kvm_vcpu" outside of KVM is also nice to have for KVM x86 developers, as keeping the details of kvm_vcpu purely within KVM allows changing the layout of the structure without having to boot into a new kernel, e.g. allows rebuilding and reloading kvm.ko with a modified kvm_vcpu structure as part of debug/development. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
2025-09-30Merge tag 'kvmarm-6.18' of ↵Paolo Bonzini
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD KVM/arm64 updates for 6.18 - Add support for FF-A 1.2 as the secure memory conduit for pKVM, allowing more registers to be used as part of the message payload. - Change the way pKVM allocates its VM handles, making sure that the privileged hypervisor is never tricked into using uninitialised data. - Speed up MMIO range registration by avoiding unnecessary RCU synchronisation, which results in VMs starting much quicker. - Add the dump of the instruction stream when panic-ing in the EL2 payload, just like the rest of the kernel has always done. This will hopefully help debugging non-VHE setups. - Add 52bit PA support to the stage-1 page-table walker, and make use of it to populate the fault level reported to the guest on failing to translate a stage-1 walk. - Add NV support to the GICv3-on-GICv5 emulation code, ensuring feature parity for guests, irrespective of the host platform. - Fix some really ugly architecture problems when dealing with debug in a nested VM. This has some bad performance impacts, but is at least correct. - Add enough infrastructure to be able to disable EL2 features and give effective values to the EL2 control registers. This then allows a bunch of features to be turned off, which helps cross-host migration. - Large rework of the selftest infrastructure to allow most tests to transparently run at EL2. This is the first step towards enabling NV testing. - Various fixes and improvements all over the map, including one BE fix, just in time for the removal of the feature.
2025-09-15KVM: Avoid synchronize_srcu() in kvm_io_bus_register_dev()Keir Fraser
Device MMIO registration may happen quite frequently during VM boot, and the SRCU synchronization each time has a measurable effect on VM startup time. In our experiments it can account for around 25% of a VM's startup time. Replace the synchronization with a deferred free of the old kvm_io_bus structure. Tested-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com> Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keirf@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2025-09-15KVM: Implement barriers before accessing kvm->buses[] on SRCU read pathsKeir Fraser
This ensures that, if a VCPU has "observed" that an IO registration has occurred, the instruction currently being trapped or emulated will also observe the IO registration. At the same time, enforce that kvm_get_bus() is used only on the update side, ensuring that a long-term reference cannot be obtained by an SRCU reader. Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keirf@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
2025-08-27KVM: guest_memfd: Track guest_memfd mmap support in memslotFuad Tabba
Add a new internal flag, KVM_MEMSLOT_GMEM_ONLY, to the top half of memslot->flags (which makes it strictly for KVM's internal use). This flag tracks when a guest_memfd-backed memory slot supports host userspace mmap operations, which implies that all memory, not just private memory for CoCo VMs, is consumed through guest_memfd: "gmem only". This optimization avoids repeatedly checking the underlying guest_memfd file for mmap support, which would otherwise require taking and releasing a reference on the file for each check. By caching this information directly in the memslot, we reduce overhead and simplify the logic involved in handling guest_memfd-backed pages for host mappings. Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20250729225455.670324-12-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-08-27KVM: guest_memfd: Add plumbing to host to map guest_memfd pagesFuad Tabba
Introduce the core infrastructure to enable host userspace to mmap() guest_memfd-backed memory. This is needed for several evolving KVM use cases: * Non-CoCo VM backing: Allows VMMs like Firecracker to run guests entirely backed by guest_memfd, even for non-CoCo VMs [1]. This provides a unified memory management model and simplifies guest memory handling. * Direct map removal for enhanced security: This is an important step for direct map removal of guest memory [2]. By allowing host userspace to fault in guest_memfd pages directly, we can avoid maintaining host kernel direct maps of guest memory. This provides additional hardening against Spectre-like transient execution attacks by removing a potential attack surface within the kernel. * Future guest_memfd features: This also lays the groundwork for future enhancements to guest_memfd, such as supporting huge pages and enabling in-place sharing of guest memory with the host for CoCo platforms that permit it [3]. Enable the basic mmap and fault handling logic within guest_memfd, but hold off on allow userspace to actually do mmap() until the architecture support is also in place. [1] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/tree/feature/secret-hiding [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/cc1bb8e9bc3e1ab637700a4d3defeec95b55060a.camel@amazon.com [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c1c9591d-218a-495c-957b-ba356c8f8e09@redhat.com/T/#u Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Co-developed-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20250729225455.670324-11-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-08-27KVM: x86: Enable KVM_GUEST_MEMFD for all 64-bit buildsFuad Tabba
Enable KVM_GUEST_MEMFD for all KVM x86 64-bit builds, i.e. for "default" VM types when running on 64-bit KVM. This will allow using guest_memfd to back non-private memory for all VM shapes, by supporting mmap() on guest_memfd. Opportunistically clean up various conditionals that become tautologies once x86 selects KVM_GUEST_MEMFD more broadly. Specifically, because SW protected VMs, SEV, and TDX are all 64-bit only, private memory no longer needs to take explicit dependencies on KVM_GUEST_MEMFD, because it is effectively a prerequisite. Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20250729225455.670324-10-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-08-27KVM: Fix comment that refers to kvm uapi header pathFuad Tabba
The comment that points to the path where the user-visible memslot flags are refers to an outdated path and has a typo. Update the comment to refer to the correct path. Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20250729225455.670324-9-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-08-27KVM: Fix comments that refer to slots_lockFuad Tabba
Fix comments so that they refer to slots_lock instead of slots_locks (remove trailing s). Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20250729225455.670324-8-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-08-27KVM: Rename kvm_slot_can_be_private() to kvm_slot_has_gmem()Fuad Tabba
Rename kvm_slot_can_be_private() to kvm_slot_has_gmem() to improve clarity and accurately reflect its purpose. The function kvm_slot_can_be_private() was previously used to check if a given kvm_memory_slot is backed by guest_memfd. However, its name implied that the memory in such a slot was exclusively "private". As guest_memfd support expands to include non-private memory (e.g., shared host mappings), it's important to remove this association. The new name, kvm_slot_has_gmem(), states that the slot is backed by guest_memfd without making assumptions about the memory's privacy attributes. Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20250729225455.670324-7-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-08-27KVM: Rename CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_PRIVATE_MEM to CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_GMEM_POPULATEFuad Tabba
The original name was vague regarding its functionality. This Kconfig option specifically enables and gates the kvm_gmem_populate() function, which is responsible for populating a GPA range with guest data. The new name, HAVE_KVM_ARCH_GMEM_POPULATE, describes the purpose of the option: to enable arch-specific guest_memfd population mechanisms. It also follows the same pattern as the other HAVE_KVM_ARCH_* configuration options. This improves clarity for developers and ensures the name accurately reflects the functionality it controls, especially as guest_memfd support expands beyond purely "private" memory scenarios. Temporarily keep KVM_GENERIC_PRIVATE_MEM as an x86-only config so as to minimize churn, and to hopefully make it easier to see what features require HAVE_KVM_ARCH_GMEM_POPULATE. On that note, omit GMEM_POPULATE for KVM_X86_SW_PROTECTED_VM, as regular ol' memset() suffices for software-protected VMs. As for KVM_GENERIC_PRIVATE_MEM, a future change will select KVM_GUEST_MEMFD for all 64-bit KVM builds, at which point the intermediate config will become obsolete and can/will be dropped. Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20250729225455.670324-6-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-08-27KVM: Rename CONFIG_KVM_PRIVATE_MEM to CONFIG_KVM_GUEST_MEMFDFuad Tabba
Rename the Kconfig option CONFIG_KVM_PRIVATE_MEM to CONFIG_KVM_GUEST_MEMFD. The original name implied that the feature only supported "private" memory. However, CONFIG_KVM_PRIVATE_MEM enables guest_memfd in general, which is not exclusively for private memory. Subsequent patches in this series will add guest_memfd support for non-CoCo VMs, whose memory is not private. Renaming the Kconfig option to CONFIG_KVM_GUEST_MEMFD more accurately reflects its broader scope as the main Kconfig option for all guest_memfd-backed memory. This provides clearer semantics for the option and avoids confusion as new features are introduced. Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20250729225455.670324-2-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-06-25VFIO: KVM: x86: Drop kvm_arch_{start,end}_assignment()Sean Christopherson
Drop kvm_arch_{start,end}_assignment() and all associated code now that KVM x86 no longer consumes assigned_device_count. Tracking whether or not a VFIO-assigned device is formally associated with a VM is fundamentally flawed, as such an association is optional for general usage, i.e. is prone to false negatives. E.g. prior to commit 2edd9cb79fb3 ("kvm: detect assigned device via irqbypass manager"), device passthrough via VFIO would fail to enable IRQ bypass if userspace omitted the formal VFIO<=>KVM binding. And device drivers that *need* the VFIO<=>KVM connection, e.g. KVM-GT, shouldn't be relying on generic x86 tracking infrastructure. Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250523011756.3243624-6-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-06-23KVM: Fold kvm_arch_irqfd_route_changed() into kvm_arch_update_irqfd_routing()Sean Christopherson
Fold kvm_arch_irqfd_route_changed() into kvm_arch_update_irqfd_routing(). Calling arch code to know whether or not to call arch code is absurd. Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611224604.313496-35-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-06-23KVM: Don't WARN if updating IRQ bypass route failsSean Christopherson
Don't bother WARNing if updating an IRTE route fails now that vendor code provides much more precise WARNs. The generic WARN doesn't provide enough information to actually debug the problem, and has obviously done nothing to surface the myriad bugs in KVM x86's implementation. Drop all of the associated return code plumbing that existed just so that common KVM could WARN. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611224604.313496-34-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-06-20KVM: Pass new routing entries and irqfd when updating IRTEsSean Christopherson
When updating IRTEs in response to a GSI routing or IRQ bypass change, pass the new/current routing information along with the associated irqfd. This will allow KVM x86 to harden, simplify, and deduplicate its code. Since adding/removing a bypass producer is now conveniently protected with irqfds.lock, i.e. can't run concurrently with kvm_irq_routing_update(), use the routing information cached in the irqfd instead of looking up the information in the current GSI routing tables. Opportunistically convert an existing printk() to pr_info() and put its string onto a single line (old code that strictly adhered to 80 chars). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611224604.313496-5-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-06-20KVM: x86: Add CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC to allow disabling in-kernel I/O APICSean Christopherson
Add a Kconfig to allow building KVM without support for emulating a I/O APIC, PIC, and PIT, which is desirable for deployments that effectively don't support a fully in-kernel IRQ chip, i.e. never expect any VMM to create an in-kernel I/O APIC. E.g. compiling out support eliminates a few thousand lines of guest-facing code and gives security folks warm fuzzies. As a bonus, wrapping relevant paths with CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC #ifdefs makes it much easier for readers to understand which bits and pieces exist specifically for fully in-kernel IRQ chips. Opportunistically convert all two in-kernel uses of __KVM_HAVE_IOAPIC to CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC, e.g. rather than add a second #ifdef to generate a stub for kvm_arch_post_irq_routing_update(). Acked-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611213557.294358-15-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-06-20KVM: x86: Hardcode the PIT IRQ source ID to '2'Sean Christopherson
Hardcode the PIT's source IRQ ID to '2' instead of "finding" that bit 2 is always the first available bit in irq_sources_bitmap. Bits 0 and 1 are set/reserved by kvm_arch_init_vm(), i.e. long before kvm_create_pit() can be invoked, and KVM allows at most one in-kernel PIT instance, i.e. it's impossible for the PIT to find a different free bit (there are no other users of kvm_request_irq_source_id(). Delete the now-defunct irq_sources_bitmap and all its associated code. Acked-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611213557.294358-11-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-06-20KVM: x86: Move kvm_{request,free}_irq_source_id() to i8254.c (PIT)Sean Christopherson
Move kvm_{request,free}_irq_source_id() to i8254.c, i.e. the dedicated PIT emulation file, in anticipation of removing them entirely in favor of hardcoding the PIT's "requested" source ID (the source ID can only ever be '2', and the request can never fail). No functional change intended. Acked-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611213557.294358-10-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-06-20KVM: x86: Trigger I/O APIC route rescan in kvm_arch_irq_routing_update()Sean Christopherson
Trigger the I/O APIC route rescan that's performed for a split IRQ chip after userspace updates IRQ routes in kvm_arch_irq_routing_update(), i.e. before dropping kvm->irq_lock. Calling kvm_make_all_cpus_request() under a mutex is perfectly safe, and the smp_wmb()+smp_mb__after_atomic() pair in __kvm_make_request()+kvm_check_request() ensures the new routing is visible to vCPUs prior to the request being visible to vCPUs. In all likelihood, commit b053b2aef25d ("KVM: x86: Add EOI exit bitmap inference") somewhat arbitrarily made the request outside of irq_lock to avoid holding irq_lock any longer than is strictly necessary. And then commit abdb080f7ac8 ("kvm/irqchip: kvm_arch_irq_routing_update renaming split") took the easy route of adding another arch hook instead of risking a functional change. Note, the call to synchronize_srcu_expedited() does NOT provide ordering guarantees with respect to vCPUs scanning the new routing; as above, the request infrastructure provides the necessary ordering. I.e. there's no need to wait for kvm_scan_ioapic_routes() to complete if it's actively running, because regardless of whether it grabs the old or new table, the vCPU will have another KVM_REQ_SCAN_IOAPIC pending, i.e. will rescan again and see the new mappings. Acked-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611213557.294358-2-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-05-28Merge branch 'kvm-lockdep-common' into HEADPaolo Bonzini
Introduce new mutex locking functions mutex_trylock_nest_lock() and mutex_lock_killable_nest_lock() and use them to clean up locking of all vCPUs for a VM. For x86, this removes some complex code that was used instead of lockdep's "nest_lock" feature. For ARM and RISC-V, this removes a lockdep warning when the VM is configured to have more than MAX_LOCK_DEPTH vCPUs, and removes a fair amount of duplicate code by sharing the logic across all architectures. Signed-off-by: Paolo BOnzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-05-27KVM: add kvm_lock_all_vcpus and kvm_trylock_all_vcpusMaxim Levitsky
In a few cases, usually in the initialization code, KVM locks all vCPUs of a VM to ensure that userspace doesn't do funny things while KVM performs an operation that affects the whole VM. Until now, all these operations were implemented using custom code, and all of them share the same problem: Lockdep can't cope with simultaneous locking of a large number of locks of the same class. However if these locks are taken while another lock is already held, which is luckily the case, it is possible to take advantage of little known _nest_lock feature of lockdep which allows in this case to have an unlimited number of locks of same class to be taken. To implement this, create two functions: kvm_lock_all_vcpus() and kvm_trylock_all_vcpus() Both functions are needed because some code that will be replaced in the subsequent patches, uses mutex_trylock, instead of regular mutex_lock. Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Message-ID: <20250512180407.659015-4-mlevitsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-04-24KVM: SVM: Fix SNP AP destroy race with VMRUNTom Lendacky
An AP destroy request for a target vCPU is typically followed by an RMPADJUST to remove the VMSA attribute from the page currently being used as the VMSA for the target vCPU. This can result in a vCPU that is about to VMRUN to exit with #VMEXIT_INVALID. This usually does not happen as APs are typically sitting in HLT when being destroyed and therefore the vCPU thread is not running at the time. However, if HLT is allowed inside the VM, then the vCPU could be about to VMRUN when the VMSA attribute is removed from the VMSA page, resulting in a #VMEXIT_INVALID when the vCPU actually issues the VMRUN and causing the guest to crash. An RMPADJUST against an in-use (already running) VMSA results in a #NPF for the vCPU issuing the RMPADJUST, so the VMSA attribute cannot be changed until the VMRUN for target vCPU exits. The Qemu command line option '-overcommit cpu-pm=on' is an example of allowing HLT inside the guest. Update the KVM_REQ_UPDATE_PROTECTED_GUEST_STATE event to include the KVM_REQUEST_WAIT flag. The kvm_vcpu_kick() function will not wait for requests to be honored, so create kvm_make_request_and_kick() that will add a new event request and honor the KVM_REQUEST_WAIT flag. This will ensure that the target vCPU sees the AP destroy request before returning to the initiating vCPU should the target vCPU be in guest mode. Fixes: e366f92ea99e ("KVM: SEV: Support SEV-SNP AP Creation NAE event") Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fe2c885bf35643dd224e91294edb6777d5df23a4.1743097196.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com [sean: add a comment explaining the use of smp_send_reschedule()] Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-04-07Merge branch 'kvm-tdx-initial' into HEADPaolo Bonzini
This large commit contains the initial support for TDX in KVM. All x86 parts enable the host-side hypercalls that KVM uses to talk to the TDX module, a software component that runs in a special CPU mode called SEAM (Secure Arbitration Mode). The series is in turn split into multiple sub-series, each with a separate merge commit: - Initialization: basic setup for using the TDX module from KVM, plus ioctls to create TDX VMs and vCPUs. - MMU: in TDX, private and shared halves of the address space are mapped by different EPT roots, and the private half is managed by the TDX module. Using the support that was added to the generic MMU code in 6.14, add support for TDX's secure page tables to the Intel side of KVM. Generic KVM code takes care of maintaining a mirror of the secure page tables so that they can be queried efficiently, and ensuring that changes are applied to both the mirror and the secure EPT. - vCPU enter/exit: implement the callbacks that handle the entry of a TDX vCPU (via the SEAMCALL TDH.VP.ENTER) and the corresponding save/restore of host state. - Userspace exits: introduce support for guest TDVMCALLs that KVM forwards to userspace. These correspond to the usual KVM_EXIT_* "heavyweight vmexits" but are triggered through a different mechanism, similar to VMGEXIT for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP. - Interrupt handling: support for virtual interrupt injection as well as handling VM-Exits that are caused by vectored events. Exclusive to TDX are machine-check SMIs, which the kernel already knows how to handle through the kernel machine check handler (commit 7911f145de5f, "x86/mce: Implement recovery for errors in TDX/SEAM non-root mode") - Loose ends: handling of the remaining exits from the TDX module, including EPT violation/misconfig and several TDVMCALL leaves that are handled in the kernel (CPUID, HLT, RDMSR/WRMSR, GetTdVmCallInfo); plus returning an error or ignoring operations that are not supported by TDX guests Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-04-04KVM: Allow building irqbypass.ko as as module when kvm.ko is a moduleSean Christopherson
Convert HAVE_KVM_IRQ_BYPASS into a tristate so that selecting IRQ_BYPASS_MANAGER follows KVM={m,y}, i.e. doesn't force irqbypass.ko to be built-in. Note, PPC allows building KVM as a module, but selects HAVE_KVM_IRQ_BYPASS from a boolean Kconfig, i.e. KVM PPC unnecessarily forces irqbpass.ko to be built-in. But that flaw is a longstanding PPC specific issue. Fixes: 61df71ee992d ("kvm: move "select IRQ_BYPASS_MANAGER" to common code") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20250315024623.2363994-1-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-03-20Merge branch 'kvm-nvmx-and-vm-teardown' into HEADPaolo Bonzini
The immediate issue being fixed here is a nVMX bug where KVM fails to detect that, after nested VM-Exit, L1 has a pending IRQ (or NMI). However, checking for a pending interrupt accesses the legacy PIC, and x86's kvm_arch_destroy_vm() currently frees the PIC before destroying vCPUs, i.e. checking for IRQs during the forced nested VM-Exit results in a NULL pointer deref; that's a prerequisite for the nVMX fix. The remaining patches attempt to bring a bit of sanity to x86's VM teardown code, which has accumulated a lot of cruft over the years. E.g. KVM currently unloads each vCPU's MMUs in a separate operation from destroying vCPUs, all because when guest SMP support was added, KVM had a kludgy MMU teardown flow that broke when a VM had more than one 1 vCPU. And that oddity lived on, for 18 years... Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-03-14KVM: x86: Move pv_unhalted check out of kvm_vcpu_has_events()Binbin Wu
Move pv_unhalted check out of kvm_vcpu_has_events(), check pv_unhalted explicitly when handling PV unhalt and expose kvm_vcpu_has_events(). kvm_vcpu_has_events() returns true if pv_unhalted is set, and pv_unhalted is only cleared on transitions to KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE. If the guest initiates a spurious wakeup, pv_unhalted could be left set in perpetuity. Currently, this is not problematic because kvm_vcpu_has_events() is only called when handling PV unhalt. However, if kvm_vcpu_has_events() is used for other purposes in the future, it could return the unexpected results. Export kvm_vcpu_has_events() for its usage in broader contexts. Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com> Message-ID: <20250222014225.897298-3-binbin.wu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-03-14KVM: VMX: Initialize TDX during KVM module loadKai Huang
Before KVM can use TDX to create and run TDX guests, TDX needs to be initialized from two perspectives: 1) TDX module must be initialized properly to a working state; 2) A per-cpu TDX initialization, a.k.a the TDH.SYS.LP.INIT SEAMCALL must be done on any logical cpu before it can run any other TDX SEAMCALLs. The TDX host core-kernel provides two functions to do the above two respectively: tdx_enable() and tdx_cpu_enable(). There are two options in terms of when to initialize TDX: initialize TDX at KVM module loading time, or when creating the first TDX guest. Choose to initialize TDX during KVM module loading time: Initializing TDX module is both memory and CPU time consuming: 1) the kernel needs to allocate a non-trivial size(~1/256) of system memory as metadata used by TDX module to track each TDX-usable memory page's status; 2) the TDX module needs to initialize this metadata, one entry for each TDX-usable memory page. Also, the kernel uses alloc_contig_pages() to allocate those metadata chunks, because they are large and need to be physically contiguous. alloc_contig_pages() can fail. If initializing TDX when creating the first TDX guest, then there's chance that KVM won't be able to run any TDX guests albeit KVM _declares_ to be able to support TDX. This isn't good for the user. On the other hand, initializing TDX at KVM module loading time can make sure KVM is providing a consistent view of whether KVM can support TDX to the user. Always only try to initialize TDX after VMX has been initialized. TDX is based on VMX, and if VMX fails to initialize then TDX is likely to be broken anyway. Also, in practice, supporting TDX will require part of VMX and common x86 infrastructure in working order, so TDX cannot be enabled alone w/o VMX support. There are two cases that can result in failure to initialize TDX: 1) TDX cannot be supported (e.g., because of TDX is not supported or enabled by hardware, or module is not loaded, or missing some dependency in KVM's configuration); 2) Any unexpected error during TDX bring-up. For the first case only mark TDX is disabled but still allow KVM module to be loaded. For the second case just fail to load the KVM module so that the user can be aware. Because TDX costs additional memory, don't enable TDX by default. Add a new module parameter 'enable_tdx' to allow the user to opt-in. Note, the name tdx_init() has already been taken by the early boot code. Use tdx_bringup() for initializing TDX (and tdx_cleanup() since KVM doesn't actually teardown TDX). They don't match vt_init()/vt_exit(), vmx_init()/vmx_exit() etc but it's not end of the world. Also, once initialized, the TDX module cannot be disabled and enabled again w/o the TDX module runtime update, which isn't supported by the kernel. After TDX is enabled, nothing needs to be done when KVM disables hardware virtualization, e.g., when offlining CPU, or during suspend/resume. TDX host core-kernel code internally tracks TDX status and can handle "multiple enabling" scenario. Similar to KVM_AMD_SEV, add a new KVM_INTEL_TDX Kconfig to guide KVM TDX code. Make it depend on INTEL_TDX_HOST but not replace INTEL_TDX_HOST because in the longer term there's a use case that requires making SEAMCALLs w/o KVM as mentioned by Dan [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/6723fc2070a96_60c3294dc@dwillia2-mobl3.amr.corp.intel.com.notmuch/ [1] Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Message-ID: <162f9dee05c729203b9ad6688db1ca2960b4b502.1731664295.git.kai.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-03-14KVM: Export hardware virtualization enabling/disabling functionsKai Huang
To support TDX, KVM will need to enable TDX during KVM module loading time. Enabling TDX requires enabling hardware virtualization first so that all online CPUs (and the new CPU going online) are in post-VMXON state. KVM by default enables hardware virtualization but that is done in kvm_init(), which must be the last step after all initialization is done thus is too late for enabling TDX. Export functions to enable/disable hardware virtualization so that TDX code can use them to handle hardware virtualization enabling before kvm_init(). Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Message-ID: <dfe17314c0d9978b7bc3b0833dff6f167fbd28f5.1731664295.git.kai.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-02-26KVM: Drop kvm_arch_sync_events() now that all implementations are nopsSean Christopherson
Remove kvm_arch_sync_events() now that x86 no longer uses it (no other arch has ever used it). No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Acked-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn> Message-ID: <20250224235542.2562848-8-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2025-02-14KVM: Allow lockless walk of SPTEs when handing aging mmu_notifier eventJames Houghton
It is possible to correctly do aging without taking the KVM MMU lock, or while taking it for read; add a Kconfig to let architectures do so. Architectures that select KVM_MMU_LOCKLESS_AGING are responsible for correctness. Suggested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250204004038.1680123-3-jthoughton@google.com [sean: massage shortlog+changelog, fix Kconfig goof and shorten name] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-02-04KVM: remove kvm_arch_post_init_vmPaolo Bonzini
The only statement in a kvm_arch_post_init_vm implementation can be moved into the x86 kvm_arch_init_vm. Do so and remove all traces from architecture-independent code. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>