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Linus Torvalds b9085bcbf5 Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features. 
Common: Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
 instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other architectures).
 This can improve latency up to 50% on some scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes
 or TCP_RR netperf tests).  This also has to be enabled manually for now,
 but the plan is to auto-tune this in the future.
 
 ARM/ARM64: the highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
 tracking
 
 s390: several optimizations and bugfixes.  Also a first: a feature
 exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
 it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)
 
 MIPS: Bugfixes.
 
 x86: Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
 Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested virtualization
 improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization), usual round of emulation
 fixes.  There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline
 timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually.
 
 Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you
 have already included his tree.
 
 ARM has other conflicts where functions are added in the same place
 by 3.19-rc and 3.20 patches.  These are not large though, and entirely
 within KVM.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features.

  Common:
     Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
     instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other
     architectures).  This can improve latency up to 50% on some
     scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests).  This
     also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to
     auto-tune this in the future.

  ARM/ARM64:
     The highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
     tracking

  s390:
     Several optimizations and bugfixes.  Also a first: a feature
     exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
     it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)

  MIPS:
     Bugfixes.

  x86:
     Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
     Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested
     virtualization improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization),
     usual round of emulation fixes.

     There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline
     timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually.

     Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you
     have already included his tree.

  Powerpc:
     Nothing yet.

     The KVM/PPC changes will come in through the PPC maintainers,
     because I haven't received them yet and I might end up being
     offline for some part of next week"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
  KVM: ia64: drop kvm.h from installed user headers
  KVM: x86: fix build with !CONFIG_SMP
  KVM: x86: emulate: correct page fault error code for NoWrite instructions
  KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390
  KVM: s390: add cpu model support
  KVM: s390: use facilities and cpu_id per KVM
  KVM: s390/CPACF: Choose crypto control block format
  s390/kernel: Update /proc/sysinfo file with Extended Name and UUID
  KVM: s390: reenable LPP facility
  KVM: s390: floating irqs: fix user triggerable endless loop
  kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter
  kvm: remove KVM_MMIO_SIZE
  KVM: MIPS: Don't leak FPU/DSP to guest
  KVM: MIPS: Disable HTW while in guest
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtual interrupt delivery
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested apic register virtualization
  KVM: nVMX: Make nested control MSRs per-cpu
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtualize x2apic mode
  KVM: nVMX: Prepare for using hardware MSR bitmap
  ...
2015-02-13 09:55:09 -08:00
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arm Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features. 2015-02-13 09:55:09 -08:00
async_pf.c mm: gup: kvm use get_user_pages_unlocked 2015-02-11 17:06:05 -08:00
async_pf.h KVM: Halt vcpu if page it tries to access is swapped out 2011-01-12 11:21:39 +02:00
coalesced_mmio.c KVM: return an error code in kvm_vm_ioctl_register_coalesced_mmio() 2014-01-30 11:56:09 +01:00
coalesced_mmio.h KVM: Make coalesced mmio use a device per zone 2011-09-25 19:17:57 +03:00
eventfd.c kvm: x86: move ioapic.c and irq_comm.c back to arch/x86/ 2014-11-21 18:02:37 +01:00
iodev.h KVM: remove in_range from io devices 2009-09-10 08:33:05 +03:00
irqchip.c KVM: Move irq notifier implementation into eventfd.c 2014-08-05 14:26:24 +02:00
Kconfig KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390 2015-02-09 12:44:14 +01:00
kvm_main.c Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features. 2015-02-13 09:55:09 -08:00
vfio.c kvm: vfio: fix unregister kvm_device_ops of vfio 2014-10-24 13:30:47 +02:00
vfio.h kvm: vfio: fix unregister kvm_device_ops of vfio 2014-10-24 13:30:47 +02:00