This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: VMX: Fix stale docs for kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kvm-vmx-fix-stale-docs-for-kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0ff29701ffad9a5d5a24344d8b09f3af7b96ffda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 19:30:05 +0000 Subject: KVM: VMX: Fix stale docs for kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0ff29701ffad9a5d5a24344d8b09f3af7b96ffda upstream. Update the documentation for kvm-intel's emulate_invalid_guest_state to rectify the description of KVM's default behavior, and to document that the behavior and thus parameter only applies to L1. Fixes: a27685c33acc ("KVM: VMX: Emulate invalid guest state by default") Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-Id: <20211207193006.120997-4-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1905,8 +1905,12 @@ Default is 1 (enabled) kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state= - [KVM,Intel] Enable emulation of invalid guest states - Default is 0 (disabled) + [KVM,Intel] Disable emulation of invalid guest state. + Ignored if kvm-intel.enable_unrestricted_guest=1, as + guest state is never invalid for unrestricted guests. + This param doesn't apply to nested guests (L2), as KVM + never emulates invalid L2 guest state. + Default is 1 (enabled) kvm-intel.flexpriority= [KVM,Intel] Disable FlexPriority feature (TPR shadow). Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/kvm-vmx-fix-stale-docs-for-kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state.patch