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Linus Torvalds 3e10585335 Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "x86:

   - Support for userspace to emulate Xen hypercalls

   - Raise the maximum number of user memslots

   - Scalability improvements for the new MMU.

     Instead of the complex "fast page fault" logic that is used in
     mmu.c, tdp_mmu.c uses an rwlock so that page faults are concurrent,
     but the code that can run against page faults is limited. Right now
     only page faults take the lock for reading; in the future this will
     be extended to some cases of page table destruction. I hope to
     switch the default MMU around 5.12-rc3 (some testing was delayed
     due to Chinese New Year).

   - Cleanups for MAXPHYADDR checks

   - Use static calls for vendor-specific callbacks

   - On AMD, use VMLOAD/VMSAVE to save and restore host state

   - Stop using deprecated jump label APIs

   - Workaround for AMD erratum that made nested virtualization
     unreliable

   - Support for LBR emulation in the guest

   - Support for communicating bus lock vmexits to userspace

   - Add support for SEV attestation command

   - Miscellaneous cleanups

  PPC:

   - Support for second data watchpoint on POWER10

   - Remove some complex workarounds for buggy early versions of POWER9

   - Guest entry/exit fixes

  ARM64:

   - Make the nVHE EL2 object relocatable

   - Cleanups for concurrent translation faults hitting the same page

   - Support for the standard TRNG hypervisor call

   - A bunch of small PMU/Debug fixes

   - Simplification of the early init hypercall handling

  Non-KVM changes (with acks):

   - Detection of contended rwlocks (implemented only for qrwlocks,
     because KVM only needs it for x86)

   - Allow __DISABLE_EXPORTS from assembly code

   - Provide a saner follow_pfn replacements for modules"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (192 commits)
  KVM: x86/xen: Explicitly pad struct compat_vcpu_info to 64 bytes
  KVM: selftests: Don't bother mapping GVA for Xen shinfo test
  KVM: selftests: Fix hex vs. decimal snafu in Xen test
  KVM: selftests: Fix size of memslots created by Xen tests
  KVM: selftests: Ignore recently added Xen tests' build output
  KVM: selftests: Add missing header file needed by xAPIC IPI tests
  KVM: selftests: Add operand to vmsave/vmload/vmrun in svm.c
  KVM: SVM: Make symbol 'svm_gp_erratum_intercept' static
  locking/arch: Move qrwlock.h include after qspinlock.h
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix host radix SLB optimisation with hash guests
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Ensure radix guest has no SLB entries
  KVM: PPC: Don't always report hash MMU capability for P9 < DD2.2
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save and restore FSCR in the P9 path
  KVM: PPC: remove unneeded semicolon
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Use POWER9 SLBIA IH=6 variant to clear SLB
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: No need to clear radix host SLB before loading HPT guest
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix radix guest SLB side channel
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove support for running HPT guest on RPT host without mixed mode support
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Introduce new capability for 2nd DAWR
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add infrastructure to support 2nd DAWR
  ...
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