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* [PATCH v6 0/7] KVM: SVM: Add Page Modification Logging (PML) support
@ 2026-04-07  6:32 Nikunj A Dadhania
  2026-04-07  6:32 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] KVM: x86: Carve out PML flush routine Nikunj A Dadhania
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From: Nikunj A Dadhania @ 2026-04-07  6:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm, seanjc, pbonzini
  Cc: thomas.lendacky, bp, joao.m.martins, nikunj, kai.huang

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


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