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KVM x86 misc changes for 6.17 - Prevert the host's DEBUGCTL.FREEZE_IN_SMM (Intel only) when running the guest. Failure to honor FREEZE_IN_SMM can bleed host state into the guest. - Explicitly check vmcs12.GUEST_DEBUGCTL on nested VM-Enter (Intel only) to prevent L1 from running L2 with features that KVM doesn't support, e.g. BTF. - Intercept SPEC_CTRL on AMD if the MSR shouldn't exist according to the vCPU's CPUID model. - Rework the MSR interception code so that the SVM and VMX APIs are more or less identical. - Recalculate all MSR intercepts from the "source" on MSR filter changes, and drop the dedicated "shadow" bitmaps (and their awful "max" size defines). - WARN and reject loading kvm-amd.ko instead of panicking the kernel if the nested SVM MSRPM offsets tracker can't handle an MSR. - Advertise support for LKGS (Load Kernel GS base), a new instruction that's loosely related to FRED, but is supported and enumerated independently. - Fix a user-triggerable WARN that syzkaller found by stuffing INIT_RECEIVED, a.k.a. WFS, and then putting the vCPU into VMX Root Mode (post-VMXON). Use the same approach KVM uses for dealing with "impossible" emulation when running a !URG guest, and simply wait until KVM_RUN to detect that the vCPU has architecturally impossible state. - Add KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_APERFMPERF to allow disabling interception of APERF/MPERF reads, so that a "properly" configured VM can "virtualize" APERF/MPERF (with many caveats). - Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ if vCPUs have been created, as changing the "default" frequency is unsupported for VMs with a "secure" TSC, and there's no known use case for changing the default frequency for other VM types.
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.