PPC: Bugfixes
x86:
* Support for mapping DAX areas with large nested page table entries.
* Cleanups and bugfixes here too. A particularly important one is
a fix for FPU load when the thread has TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD. There is
also a race condition which could be used in guest userspace to exploit
the guest kernel, for which the embargo expired today.
* Fast path for IPI delivery vmexits, shaving about 200 clock cycles
from IPI latency.
* Protect against "Spectre-v1/L1TF" (bring data in the cache via
speculative out of bound accesses, use L1TF on the sibling hyperthread
to read it), which unfortunately is an even bigger whack-a-mole game
than SpectreV1.
Sean continues his mission to rewrite KVM. In addition to a sizable
number of x86 patches, this time he contributed a pretty large refactoring
of vCPU creation that affects all architectures but should not have any
visible effect.
s390 will come next week together with some more x86 patches.