linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/6] KVM: nVMX: nested EPT improvements and A/D bits, RDRAND and RDSEED exits

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Date:   Wed,  8 Mar 2017 19:03:50 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     bdas@...hat.com, dmatlack@...gle.com
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] KVM: nVMX: nested EPT improvements and A/D bits, RDRAND and RDSEED exits

Patches 1-4 implement nested EPT A/D bits and GB pages.  As a side effect,
this fixes one vmx.flat failure on machines with EPT A/D bits.
It should be possible to implement PML on top of this with host
support for A/D bits only.

Patches 5-6 implement nested RDRAND and RDSEED exiting.

Tested relatively lightly, but I'm throwing this out early.

Paolo

Paolo Bonzini (6):
  KVM: nVMX: we support 1GB EPT pages
  KVM: VMX: cleanup check for invalid EPT violation
  kvm: x86: MMU support for EPT accessed/dirty bits
  kvm: nVMX: support EPT accessed/dirty bits
  KVM: VMX: add missing exit reasons
  KVM: nVMX: support RDRAND and RDSEED exiting

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  5 ++--
 arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h      |  2 ++
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h | 25 +++++++++++++------
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c              |  4 ++-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h              |  3 ++-
 arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h      | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c              | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 7 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)

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