linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] KVM fixes for Linux 4.16-rc4

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Date:   Fri, 2 Mar 2018 22:42:31 +0100
From:   Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] KVM fixes for Linux 4.16-rc4

Linus,

The following changes since commit d4858aaf6bd8a90e2dacc0dfec2077e334dcedbf:

  Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm (2018-02-26 09:28:35 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm tags/for-linus

for you to fetch changes up to b7e31be385584afe7f073130e8e570d53c95f7fe:

  KVM: x86: fix vcpu initialization with userspace lapic (2018-03-01 22:32:45 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
KVM fixes for v4.16-rc4

x86:
- fix NULL dereference when using userspace lapic
- optimize spectre v1 mitigations by allowing guests to use LFENCE
- make microcode revision configurable to prevent guests from
  unnecessarily blacklisting spectre v2 mitigation features

----------------------------------------------------------------
Radim Krčmář (1):
      KVM: x86: fix vcpu initialization with userspace lapic

Tom Lendacky (2):
      KVM: x86: Add a framework for supporting MSR-based features
      KVM: SVM: Add MSR-based feature support for serializing LFENCE

Wanpeng Li (2):
      KVM: X86: Introduce kvm_get_msr_feature()
      KVM: X86: Allow userspace to define the microcode version

 Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt |  40 ++++++++++-----
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h   |   3 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c              |  10 ++--
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c                |  44 ++++++++++++++--
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c                |   7 +++
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h          |   2 +
 7 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)