From: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>
To: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, <seanjc@google.com>, <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>, <bp@alien8.de>,
<joao.m.martins@oracle.com>, <nikunj@amd.com>,
<kai.huang@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 0/7] KVM: SVM: Add Page Modification Logging (PML) support
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 06:32:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260407063245.2755579-1-nikunj@amd.com> (raw)
This series implements Page Modification Logging (PML) for guests on AMD
processors, 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:
v6:
* Collect RoBs
* Rebase on latest kvm/master
* Dropped SEV PML selftest (Kai Huang)
* Added guard(svm_vmcb01) helpers to temporarily switch to vmcb01
* Use guard(svm_vmcb01) to ensure vmcb01 is targeted during PML updates when L2
is active, similar to VMX. Dropped patch moving nested CPU dirty logging to
common code; upstream now updates vmcs01 on-demand via temporary VMCS switch
instead of deferring updates.
v5: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260105063622.894410-1-nikunj@amd.com/
* Rebased on latest kvm/next
* Use EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL (Kai Huang)
* Use cpu_dirty_log_size instead of enable_pml for PML checks, with this patch
moving enable_pml to common code is not needed (Kai Huang)
* Added SEV PML self test
Nikunj A Dadhania (7):
KVM: x86: Carve out PML flush routine
KVM: x86: Move PML page to common vcpu arch structure
KVM: VMX: Use cpu_dirty_log_size instead of enable_pml for PML checks
x86/cpufeatures: Add Page modification logging
KVM: SVM: Use BIT_ULL for 64-bit nested_ctl bit definitions
KVM: nSVM: Add helpers to temporarily switch to vmcb01
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 | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 3 +
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 50 ++++--------
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h | 7 --
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 31 +++++++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 8 ++
13 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
base-commit: df83746075778958954aa0460cca55f4b3fc9c02
--
2.48.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-07 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-07 6:32 Nikunj A Dadhania [this message]
2026-04-07 6:32 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] KVM: x86: Carve out PML flush routine Nikunj A Dadhania
2026-04-07 6:32 ` [PATCH v6 2/7] KVM: x86: Move PML page to common vcpu arch structure Nikunj A Dadhania
2026-04-07 6:32 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] KVM: VMX: Use cpu_dirty_log_size instead of enable_pml for PML checks Nikunj A Dadhania
2026-04-07 6:32 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] x86/cpufeatures: Add Page modification logging Nikunj A Dadhania
2026-04-07 6:32 ` [PATCH v6 5/7] KVM: SVM: Use BIT_ULL for 64-bit nested_ctl bit definitions Nikunj A Dadhania
2026-04-07 6:32 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] KVM: nSVM: Add helpers to temporarily switch to vmcb01 Nikunj A Dadhania
2026-04-07 6:32 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] KVM: SVM: Add Page modification logging support Nikunj A Dadhania
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