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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
using nl80211 interface instead.
- Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
- Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
- Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
- onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
- Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
- Amlogic gxl MDIO mux
- WiFi:
- RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)
- CAN:
- Renesas R-Car V4H
Drivers:
- Bluetooth:
- Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, igc):
- support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
- Intel (100G, ice):
- use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
- multi-buffer XDP support
- extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
- implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
- TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
- more efficient crypto key management method
- multi-port eswitch support
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add DCB IEEE support
- support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
- Freescale/NXP (enetc):
- support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
- improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
- support MAC Merge layer
- Other NICs:
- sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
- ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
- bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
- r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
- cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
- cpts: support pulse-per-second output
- ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
- usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
- r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
- amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
- virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
- virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
- tsnep: XDP support
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
- add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
- Microchip (sparx5):
- separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
the implicit rules always active
- add support for egress DSCP rewrite
- IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
- IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
etc.)
- ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
- support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
8.6.5.1)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- add MAB (port auth) offload support
- enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
- NXP (ocelot):
- support MAC Merge layer
- support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
- Microchip:
- lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
- lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
- lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
- lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
- ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- other:
- qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
- rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
- STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
BIOS to the firmware.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- IPQ5018 support
- Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
- channel 177 support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- per-PHY LED support
- mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
- switch to using page pool allocator
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- support new version of Bluetooth co-existance
- Mobile:
- rmnet: support TX aggregation"
* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-diag.rst | 119 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv-boot.rst | 84 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv-dump.rst | 64 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv.rst | 116 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/index.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..44ec9ab14 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +==================== +KVM for s390 systems +==================== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + s390-diag + s390-pv + s390-pv-boot + s390-pv-dump diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-diag.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-diag.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ca85f030e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-diag.rst @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============================= +The s390 DIAGNOSE call on KVM +============================= + +KVM on s390 supports the DIAGNOSE call for making hypercalls, both for +native hypercalls and for selected hypercalls found on other s390 +hypervisors. + +Note that bits are numbered as by the usual s390 convention (most significant +bit on the left). + + +General remarks +--------------- + +DIAGNOSE calls by the guest cause a mandatory intercept. This implies +all supported DIAGNOSE calls need to be handled by either KVM or its +userspace. + +All DIAGNOSE calls supported by KVM use the RS-a format:: + + -------------------------------------- + | '83' | R1 | R3 | B2 | D2 | + -------------------------------------- + 0 8 12 16 20 31 + +The second-operand address (obtained by the base/displacement calculation) +is not used to address data. Instead, bits 48-63 of this address specify +the function code, and bits 0-47 are ignored. + +The supported DIAGNOSE function codes vary by the userspace used. For +DIAGNOSE function codes not specific to KVM, please refer to the +documentation for the s390 hypervisors defining them. + + +DIAGNOSE function code 'X'500' - KVM virtio functions +----------------------------------------------------- + +If the function code specifies 0x500, various virtio-related functions +are performed. + +General register 1 contains the virtio subfunction code. Supported +virtio subfunctions depend on KVM's userspace. Generally, userspace +provides either s390-virtio (subcodes 0-2) or virtio-ccw (subcode 3). + +Upon completion of the DIAGNOSE instruction, general register 2 contains +the function's return code, which is either a return code or a subcode +specific value. + +Subcode 0 - s390-virtio notification and early console printk + Handled by userspace. + +Subcode 1 - s390-virtio reset + Handled by userspace. + +Subcode 2 - s390-virtio set status + Handled by userspace. + +Subcode 3 - virtio-ccw notification + Handled by either userspace or KVM (ioeventfd case). + + General register 2 contains a subchannel-identification word denoting + the subchannel of the virtio-ccw proxy device to be notified. + + General register 3 contains the number of the virtqueue to be notified. + + General register 4 contains a 64bit identifier for KVM usage (the + kvm_io_bus cookie). If general register 4 does not contain a valid + identifier, it is ignored. + + After completion of the DIAGNOSE call, general register 2 may contain + a 64bit identifier (in the kvm_io_bus cookie case), or a negative + error value, if an internal error occurred. + + See also the virtio standard for a discussion of this hypercall. + + +DIAGNOSE function code 'X'501 - KVM breakpoint +---------------------------------------------- + +If the function code specifies 0x501, breakpoint functions may be performed. +This function code is handled by userspace. + +This diagnose function code has no subfunctions and uses no parameters. + + +DIAGNOSE function code 'X'9C - Voluntary Time Slice Yield +--------------------------------------------------------- + +General register 1 contains the target CPU address. + +In a guest of a hypervisor like LPAR, KVM or z/VM using shared host CPUs, +DIAGNOSE with function code 0x9c may improve system performance by +yielding the host CPU on which the guest CPU is running to be assigned +to another guest CPU, preferably the logical CPU containing the specified +target CPU. + + +DIAG 'X'9C forwarding ++++++++++++++++++++++ + +The guest may send a DIAGNOSE 0x9c in order to yield to a certain +other vcpu. An example is a Linux guest that tries to yield to the vcpu +that is currently holding a spinlock, but not running. + +However, on the host the real cpu backing the vcpu may itself not be +running. +Forwarding the DIAGNOSE 0x9c initially sent by the guest to yield to +the backing cpu will hopefully cause that cpu, and thus subsequently +the guest's vcpu, to be scheduled. + + +diag9c_forwarding_hz + KVM kernel parameter allowing to specify the maximum number of DIAGNOSE + 0x9c forwarding per second in the purpose of avoiding a DIAGNOSE 0x9c + forwarding storm. + A value of 0 turns the forwarding off. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv-boot.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv-boot.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..96c48480a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv-boot.rst @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +====================================== +s390 (IBM Z) Boot/IPL of Protected VMs +====================================== + +Summary +------- +The memory of Protected Virtual Machines (PVMs) is not accessible to +I/O or the hypervisor. In those cases where the hypervisor needs to +access the memory of a PVM, that memory must be made accessible. +Memory made accessible to the hypervisor will be encrypted. See +Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv.rst for details." + +On IPL (boot) a small plaintext bootloader is started, which provides +information about the encrypted components and necessary metadata to +KVM to decrypt the protected virtual machine. + +Based on this data, KVM will make the protected virtual machine known +to the Ultravisor (UV) and instruct it to secure the memory of the +PVM, decrypt the components and verify the data and address list +hashes, to ensure integrity. Afterwards KVM can run the PVM via the +SIE instruction which the UV will intercept and execute on KVM's +behalf. + +As the guest image is just like an opaque kernel image that does the +switch into PV mode itself, the user can load encrypted guest +executables and data via every available method (network, dasd, scsi, +direct kernel, ...) without the need to change the boot process. + + +Diag308 +------- +This diagnose instruction is the basic mechanism to handle IPL and +related operations for virtual machines. The VM can set and retrieve +IPL information blocks, that specify the IPL method/devices and +request VM memory and subsystem resets, as well as IPLs. + +For PVMs this concept has been extended with new subcodes: + +Subcode 8: Set an IPL Information Block of type 5 (information block +for PVMs) +Subcode 9: Store the saved block in guest memory +Subcode 10: Move into Protected Virtualization mode + +The new PV load-device-specific-parameters field specifies all data +that is necessary to move into PV mode. + +* PV Header origin +* PV Header length +* List of Components composed of + * AES-XTS Tweak prefix + * Origin + * Size + +The PV header contains the keys and hashes, which the UV will use to +decrypt and verify the PV, as well as control flags and a start PSW. + +The components are for instance an encrypted kernel, kernel parameters +and initrd. The components are decrypted by the UV. + +After the initial import of the encrypted data, all defined pages will +contain the guest content. All non-specified pages will start out as +zero pages on first access. + + +When running in protected virtualization mode, some subcodes will result in +exceptions or return error codes. + +Subcodes 4 and 7, which specify operations that do not clear the guest +memory, will result in specification exceptions. This is because the +UV will clear all memory when a secure VM is removed, and therefore +non-clearing IPL subcodes are not allowed. + +Subcodes 8, 9, 10 will result in specification exceptions. +Re-IPL into a protected mode is only possible via a detour into non +protected mode. + +Keys +---- +Every CEC will have a unique public key to enable tooling to build +encrypted images. +See `s390-tools <https://github.com/ibm-s390-linux/s390-tools/>`_ +for the tooling. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv-dump.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv-dump.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e542f0604 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv-dump.rst @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=========================================== +s390 (IBM Z) Protected Virtualization dumps +=========================================== + +Summary +------- + +Dumping a VM is an essential tool for debugging problems inside +it. This is especially true when a protected VM runs into trouble as +there's no way to access its memory and registers from the outside +while it's running. + +However when dumping a protected VM we need to maintain its +confidentiality until the dump is in the hands of the VM owner who +should be the only one capable of analysing it. + +The confidentiality of the VM dump is ensured by the Ultravisor who +provides an interface to KVM over which encrypted CPU and memory data +can be requested. The encryption is based on the Customer +Communication Key which is the key that's used to encrypt VM data in a +way that the customer is able to decrypt. + + +Dump process +------------ + +A dump is done in 3 steps: + +**Initiation** + +This step initializes the dump process, generates cryptographic seeds +and extracts dump keys with which the VM dump data will be encrypted. + +**Data gathering** + +Currently there are two types of data that can be gathered from a VM: +the memory and the vcpu state. + +The vcpu state contains all the important registers, general, floating +point, vector, control and tod/timers of a vcpu. The vcpu dump can +contain incomplete data if a vcpu is dumped while an instruction is +emulated with help of the hypervisor. This is indicated by a flag bit +in the dump data. For the same reason it is very important to not only +write out the encrypted vcpu state, but also the unencrypted state +from the hypervisor. + +The memory state is further divided into the encrypted memory and its +metadata comprised of the encryption tweaks and status flags. The +encrypted memory can simply be read once it has been exported. The +time of the export does not matter as no re-encryption is +needed. Memory that has been swapped out and hence was exported can be +read from the swap and written to the dump target without need for any +special actions. + +The tweaks / status flags for the exported pages need to be requested +from the Ultravisor. + +**Finalization** + +The finalization step will provide the data needed to be able to +decrypt the vcpu and memory data and end the dump process. When this +step completes successfully a new dump initiation can be started. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8e41a3b63 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-pv.rst @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +========================================= +s390 (IBM Z) Ultravisor and Protected VMs +========================================= + +Summary +------- +Protected virtual machines (PVM) are KVM VMs that do not allow KVM to +access VM state like guest memory or guest registers. Instead, the +PVMs are mostly managed by a new entity called Ultravisor (UV). The UV +provides an API that can be used by PVMs and KVM to request management +actions. + +Each guest starts in non-protected mode and then may make a request to +transition into protected mode. On transition, KVM registers the guest +and its VCPUs with the Ultravisor and prepares everything for running +it. + +The Ultravisor will secure and decrypt the guest's boot memory +(i.e. kernel/initrd). It will safeguard state changes like VCPU +starts/stops and injected interrupts while the guest is running. + +As access to the guest's state, such as the SIE state description, is +normally needed to be able to run a VM, some changes have been made in +the behavior of the SIE instruction. A new format 4 state description +has been introduced, where some fields have different meanings for a +PVM. SIE exits are minimized as much as possible to improve speed and +reduce exposed guest state. + + +Interrupt injection +------------------- +Interrupt injection is safeguarded by the Ultravisor. As KVM doesn't +have access to the VCPUs' lowcores, injection is handled via the +format 4 state description. + +Machine check, external, IO and restart interruptions each can be +injected on SIE entry via a bit in the interrupt injection control +field (offset 0x54). If the guest cpu is not enabled for the interrupt +at the time of injection, a validity interception is recognized. The +format 4 state description contains fields in the interception data +block where data associated with the interrupt can be transported. + +Program and Service Call exceptions have another layer of +safeguarding; they can only be injected for instructions that have +been intercepted into KVM. The exceptions need to be a valid outcome +of an instruction emulation by KVM, e.g. we can never inject a +addressing exception as they are reported by SIE since KVM has no +access to the guest memory. + + +Mask notification interceptions +------------------------------- +KVM cannot intercept lctl(g) and lpsw(e) anymore in order to be +notified when a PVM enables a certain class of interrupt. As a +replacement, two new interception codes have been introduced: One +indicating that the contents of CRs 0, 6, or 14 have been changed, +indicating different interruption subclasses; and one indicating that +PSW bit 13 has been changed, indicating that a machine check +intervention was requested and those are now enabled. + +Instruction emulation +--------------------- +With the format 4 state description for PVMs, the SIE instruction already +interprets more instructions than it does with format 2. It is not able +to interpret every instruction, but needs to hand some tasks to KVM; +therefore, the SIE and the ultravisor safeguard emulation inputs and outputs. + +The control structures associated with SIE provide the Secure +Instruction Data Area (SIDA), the Interception Parameters (IP) and the +Secure Interception General Register Save Area. Guest GRs and most of +the instruction data, such as I/O data structures, are filtered. +Instruction data is copied to and from the SIDA when needed. Guest +GRs are put into / retrieved from the Secure Interception General +Register Save Area. + +Only GR values needed to emulate an instruction will be copied into this +save area and the real register numbers will be hidden. + +The Interception Parameters state description field still contains +the bytes of the instruction text, but with pre-set register values +instead of the actual ones. I.e. each instruction always uses the same +instruction text, in order not to leak guest instruction text. +This also implies that the register content that a guest had in r<n> +may be in r<m> from the hypervisor's point of view. + +The Secure Instruction Data Area contains instruction storage +data. Instruction data, i.e. data being referenced by an instruction +like the SCCB for sclp, is moved via the SIDA. When an instruction is +intercepted, the SIE will only allow data and program interrupts for +this instruction to be moved to the guest via the two data areas +discussed before. Other data is either ignored or results in validity +interceptions. + + +Instruction emulation interceptions +----------------------------------- +There are two types of SIE secure instruction intercepts: the normal +and the notification type. Normal secure instruction intercepts will +make the guest pending for instruction completion of the intercepted +instruction type, i.e. on SIE entry it is attempted to complete +emulation of the instruction with the data provided by KVM. That might +be a program exception or instruction completion. + +The notification type intercepts inform KVM about guest environment +changes due to guest instruction interpretation. Such an interception +is recognized, for example, for the store prefix instruction to provide +the new lowcore location. On SIE reentry, any KVM data in the data areas +is ignored and execution continues as if the guest instruction had +completed. For that reason KVM is not allowed to inject a program +interrupt. + +Links +----- +`KVM Forum 2019 presentation <https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/kvmforum2019/3b/ibm_protected_vms_s390x.pdf>`_ |