ARM:
- New page table code for both hypervisor and guest stage-2
- Introduction of a new EL2-private host context
- Allow EL2 to have its own private per-CPU variables
- Support of PMU event filtering
- Complete rework of the Spectre mitigation
PPC:
- Fix for running nested guests with in-kernel IRQ chip
- Fix race condition causing occasional host hard lockup
- Minor cleanups and bugfixes
x86:
- allow trapping unknown MSRs to userspace
- allow userspace to force #GP on specific MSRs
- INVPCID support on AMD
- nested AMD cleanup, on demand allocation of nested SVM state
- hide PV MSRs and hypercalls for features not enabled in CPUID
- new test for MSR_IA32_TSC writes from host and guest
- cleanups: MMU, CPUID, shared MSRs
- LAPIC latency optimizations ad bugfixes
For x86, also included in this pull request is a new alternative and
(in the future) more scalable implementation of extended page tables
that does not need a reverse map from guest physical addresses to
host physical addresses. For now it is disabled by default because
it is still lacking a few of the existing MMU's bells and whistles.
However it is a very solid piece of work and it is already available
for people to hammer on it.
kvm: x86/mmu: NX largepage recovery for TDP MMU
When KVM maps a largepage backed region at a lower level in order to
make it executable (i.e. NX large page shattering), it reduces the TLB
performance of that region. In order to avoid making this degradation
permanent, KVM must periodically reclaim shattered NX largepages by
zapping them and allowing them to be rebuilt in the page fault handler.
With this patch, the TDP MMU does not respect KVM's rate limiting on
reclaim. It traverses the entire TDP structure every time. This will be
addressed in a future patch.
Tested by running kvm-unit-tests and KVM selftests on an Intel Haswell
machine. This series introduced no new failures.
This series can be viewed in Gerrit at:
https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/virt/kvm/kvm/+/2538
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201014182700.2888246-21-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
3 files changed
