This is the second version of a series that lets us run VMware Workstation on Linux on top of KVM.
The most significant change in this series is the introduction of CONFIG_KVM_VMWARE which is, in general, a nice cleanup for various bits of VMware compatibility code that have been scattered around KVM. (first patch) The rest of the series builds upon the VMware platform to implement features that are needed to run VMware guests without any modifications on top of KVM: - ability to turn on the VMware backdoor at runtime on a per-vm basis (used to be a kernel boot argument only) - support for VMware hypercalls - VMware products have a huge collection of hypercalls, all of which are handled in userspace, - support for handling legacy VMware backdoor in L0 in nested configs - in cases where we have WS running a Windows VBS guest, the L0 would be KVM, L1 Hyper-V so by default VMware Tools backdoor calls endup in Hyper-V which can not handle them, so introduce a cap to let L0 handle those. The final change in the series is a kselftest of the VMware hypercall functionality. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net> Cc: Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: x...@kernel.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Zack Rusin <zack.ru...@broadcom.com> Cc: Doug Covelli <doug.cove...@broadcom.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <sh...@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au> Cc: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamah...@intel.com> Cc: k...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kselft...@vger.kernel.org Zack Rusin (5): KVM: x86: Centralize KVM's VMware code KVM: x86: Allow enabling of the vmware backdoor via a cap KVM: x86: Add support for VMware guest specific hypercalls KVM: x86: Add support for legacy VMware backdoors in nested setups KVM: selftests: x86: Add a test for KVM_CAP_X86_VMWARE_HYPERCALL Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 86 +++++++- MAINTAINERS | 9 + arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 13 ++ arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig | 16 ++ arch/x86/kvm/Makefile | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 11 +- arch/x86/kvm/kvm_vmware.c | 85 ++++++++ arch/x86/kvm/kvm_vmware.h | 189 ++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c | 39 +--- arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h | 4 - arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 6 + arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 10 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 6 + arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 5 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 74 +++---- arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 2 - include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 27 +++ tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 3 + tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm | 1 + .../selftests/kvm/x86/vmware_hypercall_test.c | 121 +++++++++++ 20 files changed, 614 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/x86/kvm/kvm_vmware.c create mode 100644 arch/x86/kvm/kvm_vmware.h create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/vmware_hypercall_test.c -- 2.48.1
