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KVM x86 misc changes for 6.10: - Advertise the max mappable GPA in the "guest MAXPHYADDR" CPUID field, which is unused by hardware, so that KVM can communicate its inability to map GPAs that set bits 51:48 due to lack of 5-level paging. Guest firmware is expected to use the information to safely remap BARs in the uppermost GPA space, i.e to avoid placing a BAR at a legal, but unmappable, GPA. - Use vfree() instead of kvfree() for allocations that always use vcalloc() or __vcalloc(). - Don't completely ignore same-value writes to immutable feature MSRs, as doing so results in KVM failing to reject accesses to MSR that aren't supposed to exist given the vCPU model and/or KVM configuration. - Don't mark APICv as being inhibited due to ABSENT if APICv is disabled KVM-wide to avoid confusing debuggers (KVM will never bother clearing the ABSENT inhibit, even if userspace enables in-kernel local APIC).
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.