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From: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>
To: <seanjc@google.com>, <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	<santosh.shukla@amd.com>, <bp@alien8.de>,
	<joao.m.martins@oracle.com>, <nikunj@amd.com>,
	<kai.huang@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/5] KVM: SVM: Add Page Modification Logging (PML) support
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:10:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250925101052.1868431-1-nikunj@amd.com> (raw)

This series implements Page Modification Logging (PML) for guests, bringing
hardware-assisted dirty logging support. PML is designed to track guest
modified memory pages. PML enables the hypervisor to identify which pages in a
guest's memory have been modified since the last checkpoint or during live
migration.

The PML feature uses two new VMCB fields (PML_ADDR and PML_INDEX) and
generates a VMEXIT when the 4KB log buffer becomes full.

The feature is enabled by default when hardware support is detected and
can be disabled via the 'pml' module parameter.

Changelog:
v3:
* Update comments with nested details (Kai Huang)
* Added nested.update_vmcb01_cpu_dirty_logging to update L1 PML (Kai Huang)
* Added patch to use BIT_ULL() instead of BIT() for 64-bit nested_ctl

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250915085938.639049-1-nikunj@amd.com/
* Rebased on latest kvm/next
* Added patch to move pml_pg field from struct vcpu_vmx to struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  to share the PML page. (Kai Huang)
* Dropped the SNP safe allocation optimization patch, will submit it separately.
* Update commit message adding explicit mention that AMD PML follows VMX behavior
  (Kai Huang)
* Updated SNP erratum comment to include PML buffer alongside VMCB, VMSA, and
  AVIC pages. (Kai Huang)

RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20250825152009.3512-1-nikunj@amd.com/


Nikunj A Dadhania (5):
  KVM: x86: Carve out PML flush routine
  KVM: x86: Move PML page to common vcpu arch structure
  x86/cpufeatures: Add Page modification logging
  KVM: SVM: Use BIT_ULL for 64-bit nested_ctl bit definitions
  KVM: SVM: Add Page modification logging support

 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h    |   2 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h         |  12 ++--
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h    |   2 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c    |   1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c          |  13 +++-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c             |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c             | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h             |   5 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c             |  48 ++++----------
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h             |   7 --
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                 |  31 +++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.h                 |   7 ++
 13 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)


base-commit: a6ad54137af92535cfe32e19e5f3bc1bb7dbd383
-- 
2.48.1


             reply	other threads:[~2025-09-25 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-25 10:10 Nikunj A Dadhania [this message]
2025-09-25 10:10 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] KVM: x86: Carve out PML flush routine Nikunj A Dadhania
2025-09-25 10:10 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] KVM: x86: Move PML page to common vcpu arch structure Nikunj A Dadhania
2025-09-25 10:10 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] x86/cpufeatures: Add Page modification logging Nikunj A Dadhania
2025-09-25 10:10 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] KVM: SVM: Use BIT_ULL for 64-bit nested_ctl bit definitions Nikunj A Dadhania
2025-09-25 10:10 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] KVM: SVM: Add Page modification logging support Nikunj A Dadhania
2025-09-29  1:41   ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-29  8:52     ` Nikunj A. Dadhania
2025-09-29 10:30       ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-29 10:35         ` Nikunj A. Dadhania
2025-09-30  5:46     ` Nikunj A. Dadhania
2025-09-30  6:02       ` Huang, Kai

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