Re: [GIT PULL] KVM: x86: SVM changes for 6.8

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On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 8:33 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A few minor fixes and cleanups, along with feature "enabling" for flush-by-ASID
> to play nice with newer versions of VMware Workstation that require it.
>
> The following changes since commit e9e60c82fe391d04db55a91c733df4a017c28b2f:
>
>   selftests/kvm: fix compilation on non-x86_64 platforms (2023-11-21 11:58:25 -0500)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
>   https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux.git tags/kvm-x86-svm-6.8
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 72046d0a077a8f70d4d1e5bdeed324c1a310da8c:
>
>   KVM: SVM: Don't intercept IRET when injecting NMI and vNMI is enabled (2023-11-30 12:51:22 -0800)

Pulled, thanks.

Paolo

> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> KVM SVM changes for 6.8:
>
>  - Revert a bogus, made-up nested SVM consistency check for TLB_CONTROL.
>
>  - Advertise flush-by-ASID support for nSVM unconditionally, as KVM always
>    flushes on nested transitions, i.e. always satisfies flush requests.  This
>    allows running bleeding edge versions of VMware Workstation on top of KVM.
>
>  - Sanity check that the CPU supports flush-by-ASID when enabling SEV support.
>
>  - Fix a benign NMI virtualization bug where KVM would unnecessarily intercept
>    IRET when manually injecting an NMI, e.g. when KVM pends an NMI and injects
>    a second, "simultaneous" NMI.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Sean Christopherson (4):
>       Revert "nSVM: Check for reserved encodings of TLB_CONTROL in nested VMCB"
>       KVM: nSVM: Advertise support for flush-by-ASID
>       KVM: SVM: Explicitly require FLUSHBYASID to enable SEV support
>       KVM: SVM: Don't intercept IRET when injecting NMI and vNMI is enabled
>
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 15 ---------------
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c    |  7 +++++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c    | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>






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