linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] tools headers UAPI: Sync KVM's vmx.h with the kernel to pick SEAMCALL exit reason

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Message-ID: <aRYevQjcXNCYVJRV@x1>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:09:01 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
	James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] tools headers UAPI: Sync KVM's vmx.h with the kernel to
 pick SEAMCALL exit reason

tldr; Just FYI, I'm carrying this on the perf tools tree.

Full explanation:

There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers
directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel
hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we
adopted the current model.

See further details at:

 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/include/uapi/README

To pick the changes in:

  9d7dfb95da2cb5c1 ("KVM: VMX: Inject #UD if guest tries to execute SEAMCALL or TDCALL")

The 'perf kvm-stat' tool uses the exit reasons that are included in the
VMX_EXIT_REASONS define, this new SEAMCALL isn't included there (TDCALL
is), so shouldn't be causing any change in behaviour, this patch ends up
being just addressess the following perf build warning:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h

Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.

Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h
index 9792e329343e8715..1baa86dfe029329a 100644
--- a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h
+++ b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
 #define EXIT_REASON_TPAUSE              68
 #define EXIT_REASON_BUS_LOCK            74
 #define EXIT_REASON_NOTIFY              75
+#define EXIT_REASON_SEAMCALL            76
 #define EXIT_REASON_TDCALL              77
 #define EXIT_REASON_MSR_READ_IMM        84
 #define EXIT_REASON_MSR_WRITE_IMM       85
-- 
2.51.1