[PATCH 1/1] tools headers svm: Sync svm headers with the kernel sources

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Nov 03 2025 - 10:41:10 EST


tldr; Just FYI, I'm carrying this on the perf tools tree.

Full explanation:

There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers
directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel
hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we
adopted the current model.

See further details at:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/include/uapi/README

To pick the changes in:

b8c3c9f5d0505905 ("x86/apic: Initialize Secure AVIC APIC backing page")

That triggers:

CC /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/x86/util/kvm-stat.o
LD /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/x86/util/perf-util-in.o
LD /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/x86/perf-util-in.o
LD /tmp/build/perf-tools/arch/perf-util-in.o
LD /tmp/build/perf-tools/perf-util-in.o
AR /tmp/build/perf-tools/libperf-util.a
LINK /tmp/build/perf-tools/perf

But this time causes no changes in tooling results, as the introduced
SVM_VMGEXIT_SAVIC exit reason wasn't added to SVM_EXIT_REASONS, that is
used in kvm-stat.c.

And addresses this perf build warning:

Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h

Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.

Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h
index 9c640a521a67006d..650e3256ea7d7339 100644
--- a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h
+++ b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@
#define SVM_VMGEXIT_AP_CREATE 1
#define SVM_VMGEXIT_AP_DESTROY 2
#define SVM_VMGEXIT_SNP_RUN_VMPL 0x80000018
+#define SVM_VMGEXIT_SAVIC 0x8000001a
+#define SVM_VMGEXIT_SAVIC_REGISTER_GPA 0
+#define SVM_VMGEXIT_SAVIC_UNREGISTER_GPA 1
+#define SVM_VMGEXIT_SAVIC_SELF_GPA ~0ULL
#define SVM_VMGEXIT_HV_FEATURES 0x8000fffd
#define SVM_VMGEXIT_TERM_REQUEST 0x8000fffe
#define SVM_VMGEXIT_TERM_REASON(reason_set, reason_code) \
--
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