linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] x86/bugs: KVM: L1TF and MMIO Stale Data cleanups

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Message-ID: <176375130260.290408.7905795529465965518.b4-ty@google.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:55:33 -0800
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, 
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, 
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>, Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] x86/bugs: KVM: L1TF and MMIO Stale Data cleanups

On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:37:37 -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Clean up KVM's handling of L1TF and MMIO Stale data, as the code has bit
> rotted a bit and is harder than it should be to understand, and has a few
> warts.
> 
> TL;DR:
> 
>  - Unify L1TF flushing under per-CPU variable
>  - Bury L1TF L1D flushing under CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS=y
>  - Move MMIO Stale Data into asm, and do VERW at most once per VM-Enter
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 misc, with fixups for Boris' feedback.

[1/9] KVM: VMX: Use on-stack copy of @flags in __vmx_vcpu_run()
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/844afc1af3a9
[2/9] x86/bugs: Use VM_CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS in VMX as well
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/aba7de6088be
[3/9] x86/bugs: Decouple ALTERNATIVE usage from VERW macro definition
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/afb99ffbd582
[4/9] x86/bugs: Use an x86 feature to track the MMIO Stale Data mitigation
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/f6106d41ec84
[5/9] KVM: VMX: Handle MMIO Stale Data in VM-Enter assembly via ALTERNATIVES_2
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/e6ff1d61de51
[6/9] x86/bugs: KVM: Move VM_CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS into SVM as SVM_CLEAR_CPU_BUFFERS
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/fc704b578976
[7/9] KVM: VMX: Bundle all L1 data cache flush mitigation code together
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/0abd9610d6c6
[8/9] KVM: VMX: Disable L1TF L1 data cache flush if CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS=n
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/05bd63959a9d
[9/9] KVM: x86: Unify L1TF flushing under per-CPU variable
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/38ee66cb1845

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