linux/Documentation/virtual/kvm
Linus Torvalds 10dc374766 One of the largest releases for KVM... Hardly any generic improvement,
but lots of architecture-specific changes.
 
 * ARM:
 - VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
 - PMU support for guests
 - 32bit world switch rewritten in C
 - various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code.
 
 * PPC:
 - enabled KVM-VFIO integration ("VFIO device")
 - optimizations to speed up IPIs between vcpus
 - in-kernel handling of IOMMU hypercalls
 - support for dynamic DMA windows (DDW).
 
 * s390:
 - provide the floating point registers via sync regs;
 - separated instruction vs. data accesses
 - dirty log improvements for huge guests
 - bugfixes and documentation improvements.
 
 * x86:
 - Hyper-V VMBus hypercall userspace exit
 - alternative implementation of lowest-priority interrupts using vector
 hashing (for better VT-d posted interrupt support)
 - fixed guest debugging with nested virtualizations
 - improved interrupt tracking in the in-kernel IOAPIC
 - generic infrastructure for tracking writes to guest memory---currently
 its only use is to speedup the legacy shadow paging (pre-EPT) case, but
 in the future it will be used for virtual GPUs as well
 - much cleanup (LAPIC, kvmclock, MMU, PIT), including ubsan fixes.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "One of the largest releases for KVM...  Hardly any generic
  changes, but lots of architecture-specific updates.

  ARM:
   - VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
   - PMU support for guests
   - 32bit world switch rewritten in C
   - various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code.

  PPC:
   - enabled KVM-VFIO integration ("VFIO device")
   - optimizations to speed up IPIs between vcpus
   - in-kernel handling of IOMMU hypercalls
   - support for dynamic DMA windows (DDW).

  s390:
   - provide the floating point registers via sync regs;
   - separated instruction vs.  data accesses
   - dirty log improvements for huge guests
   - bugfixes and documentation improvements.

  x86:
   - Hyper-V VMBus hypercall userspace exit
   - alternative implementation of lowest-priority interrupts using
     vector hashing (for better VT-d posted interrupt support)
   - fixed guest debugging with nested virtualizations
   - improved interrupt tracking in the in-kernel IOAPIC
   - generic infrastructure for tracking writes to guest
     memory - currently its only use is to speedup the legacy shadow
     paging (pre-EPT) case, but in the future it will be used for
     virtual GPUs as well
   - much cleanup (LAPIC, kvmclock, MMU, PIT), including ubsan fixes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (217 commits)
  KVM: x86: remove eager_fpu field of struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX XSAVE features
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Reset LRs at boot time
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Do not save an LR known to be empty
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
  arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Avoid accessing ICH registers
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Make GICD_SGIR quicker to hit
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Reset LRs at boot time
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Do not save an LR known to be empty
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Move GICH_ELRSR saving to its own function
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Avoid accessing GICH registers
  KVM: s390: allocate only one DMA page per VM
  KVM: s390: enable STFLE interpretation only if enabled for the guest
  KVM: s390: wake up when the VCPU cpu timer expires
  KVM: s390: step the VCPU timer while in enabled wait
  KVM: s390: protect VCPU cpu timer with a seqcount
  KVM: s390: step VCPU cpu timer during kvm_run ioctl
  ...
2016-03-16 09:55:35 -07:00
..
arm arm/arm64: KVM: Add forwarded physical interrupts documentation 2015-10-22 23:01:43 +02:00
devices KVM/ARM updates for 4.6 2016-03-09 11:50:42 +01:00
00-INDEX Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
api.txt KVM/ARM updates for 4.6 2016-03-09 11:50:42 +01:00
cpuid.txt Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi 2013-09-24 19:12:16 +02:00
hypercalls.txt KVM: doc: Fix typo in doc/virtual/kvm 2013-12-31 17:24:54 -02:00
locking.txt KVM: Update Posted-Interrupts Descriptor when vCPU is blocked 2015-10-01 15:06:53 +02:00
mmu.txt One of the largest releases for KVM... Hardly any generic improvement, 2016-03-16 09:55:35 -07:00
msr.txt Documentation: virtual: kvm: correct one bit description in APF case 2014-11-03 12:07:27 +01:00
nested-vmx.txt
ppc-pv.txt Doc:kvm: Fix typo in Doc/virtual/kvm 2015-10-11 15:35:23 -06:00
review-checklist.txt
s390-diag.txt KVM: s390: add documentation for diag 501 2014-04-22 13:24:51 +02:00
timekeeping.txt KVM: doc: Fix typo in doc/virtual/kvm 2013-12-31 17:24:54 -02:00