I swear I would have sent it the same to Linus! The main cause for
this is that I was on vacation until two weeks ago and it took a while
to sort all the pending patches between 4.19 and 4.20, test them and
so on.
It's mostly small bugfixes and cleanups, mostly around x86 nested
virtualization. One important change, not related to nested
virtualization, is that the ability for the guest kernel to trap CPUID
instructions (in Linux that's the ARCH_SET_CPUID arch_prctl) is now
masked by default. This is because the feature is detected through an
MSR; a very bad idea that Intel seems to like more and more. Some
applications choke if the other fields of that MSR are not initialized
as on real hardware, hence we have to disable the whole MSR by default,
as was the case before Linux 4.12.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Paolo writes:
"It's mostly small bugfixes and cleanups, mostly around x86 nested
virtualization. One important change, not related to nested
virtualization, is that the ability for the guest kernel to trap
CPUID instructions (in Linux that's the ARCH_SET_CPUID arch_prctl) is
now masked by default. This is because the feature is detected
through an MSR; a very bad idea that Intel seems to like more and
more. Some applications choke if the other fields of that MSR are
not initialized as on real hardware, hence we have to disable the
whole MSR by default, as was the case before Linux 4.12."
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (23 commits)
KVM: nVMX: Fix bad cleanup on error of get/set nested state IOCTLs
kvm: selftests: Add platform_info_test
KVM: x86: Control guest reads of MSR_PLATFORM_INFO
KVM: x86: Turbo bits in MSR_PLATFORM_INFO
nVMX x86: Check VPID value on vmentry of L2 guests
nVMX x86: check posted-interrupt descriptor addresss on vmentry of L2
KVM: nVMX: Wake blocked vCPU in guest-mode if pending interrupt in virtual APICv
KVM: VMX: check nested state and CR4.VMXE against SMM
kvm: x86: make kvm_{load|put}_guest_fpu() static
x86/hyper-v: rename ipi_arg_{ex,non_ex} structures
KVM: VMX: use preemption timer to force immediate VMExit
KVM: VMX: modify preemption timer bit only when arming timer
KVM: VMX: immediately mark preemption timer expired only for zero value
KVM: SVM: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()
KVM/MMU: Fix comment in walk_shadow_page_lockless_end()
kvm: selftests: use -pthread instead of -lpthread
KVM: x86: don't reset root in kvm_mmu_setup()
kvm: mmu: Don't read PDPTEs when paging is not enabled
x86/kvm/lapic: always disable MMIO interface in x2APIC mode
KVM: s390: Make huge pages unavailable in ucontrol VMs
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