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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"4.11 is going to be a relatively large release for KVM, with a little
over 200 commits and noteworthy changes for most architectures.
ARM:
- GICv3 save/restore
- cache flushing fixes
- working MSI injection for GICv3 ITS
- physical timer emulation
MIPS:
- various improvements under the hood
- support for SMP guests
- a large rewrite of MMU emulation. KVM MIPS can now use MMU
notifiers to support copy-on-write, KSM, idle page tracking,
swapping, ballooning and everything else. KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM is
also supported, so that writes to some memory regions can be
treated as MMIO. The new MMU also paves the way for hardware
virtualization support.
PPC:
- support for POWER9 using the radix-tree MMU for host and guest
- resizable hashed page table
- bugfixes.
s390:
- expose more features to the guest
- more SIMD extensions
- instruction execution protection
- ESOP2
x86:
- improved hashing in the MMU
- faster PageLRU tracking for Intel CPUs without EPT A/D bits
- some refactoring of nested VMX entry/exit code, preparing for live
migration support of nested hypervisors
- expose yet another AVX512 CPUID bit
- host-to-guest PTP support
- refactoring of interrupt injection, with some optimizations thrown
in and some duct tape removed.
- remove lazy FPU handling
- optimizations of user-mode exits
- optimizations of vcpu_is_preempted() for KVM guests
generic:
- alternative signaling mechanism that doesn't pound on
tsk->sighand->siglock"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (195 commits)
x86/kvm: Provide optimized version of vcpu_is_preempted() for x86-64
x86/paravirt: Change vcp_is_preempted() arg type to long
KVM: VMX: use correct vmcs_read/write for guest segment selector/base
x86/kvm/vmx: Defer TR reload after VM exit
x86/asm/64: Drop __cacheline_aligned from struct x86_hw_tss
x86/kvm/vmx: Simplify segment_base()
x86/kvm/vmx: Get rid of segment_base() on 64-bit kernels
x86/kvm/vmx: Don't fetch the TSS base from the GDT
x86/asm: Define the kernel TSS limit in a macro
kvm: fix page struct leak in handle_vmon
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Disable HPT resizing on POWER9 for now
KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log()
KVM: Return an error code only as a constant in kvm_get_dirty_log_protect()
KVM: Return directly after a failed copy_from_user() in kvm_vm_compat_ioctl()
KVM: x86: remove code for lazy FPU handling
KVM: race-free exit from KVM_RUN without POSIX signals
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Turn "KVM guest htab" message into a debug message
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Ratelimit copy data failure error messages
KVM: Support vCPU-based gfn->hva cache
KVM: use separate generations for each address space
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