When Enlightened VMCS is in use, it is valid to do VMCLEAR and,
according to TLFS, this should "transition an enlightened VMCS from the
active to the non-active state". It is, however, wrong to assume that
it is only valid to do VMCLEAR for the eVMCS which is currently active
on the vCPU performing VMCLEAR.
Currently, the logic in handle_vmclear() is broken: in case, there is no
active eVMCS on the vCPU doing VMCLEAR we treat the argument as a 'normal'
VMCS and kvm_vcpu_write_guest() to the 'launch_state' field irreversibly
corrupts the memory area.
So, in case the VMCLEAR argument is not the current active eVMCS on the
vCPU, how can we know if the area it is pointing to is a normal or an
enlightened VMCS?
Thanks to the bug in Hyper-V (see commit 72aeb60c52 ("KVM: nVMX: Verify
eVMCS revision id match supported eVMCS version on eVMCS VMPTRLD")) we can
not, the revision can't be used to distinguish between them. So let's
assume it is always enlightened in case enlightened vmentry is enabled in
the assist page. Also, check if vmx->nested.enlightened_vmcs_enabled to
minimize the impact for 'unenlightened' workloads.
Fixes: b8bbab928f ("KVM: nVMX: implement enlightened VMPTRLD and VMCLEAR")
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Apparently, Windows doesn't maintain clean fields data after it does
VMCLEAR for an enlightened VMCS so we can only use it on VMRESUME.
The issue went unnoticed because currently we do nested_release_evmcs()
in handle_vmclear() and the consecutive enlightened VMPTRLD invalidates
clean fields when a new eVMCS is mapped but we're going to change the
logic.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This allows userspace to know which MSRs are supported by the hypervisor.
Unfortunately userspace must resort to tricks for everything except
MSR_IA32_VMX_VMFUNC (which was just added in the previous patch).
One possibility is to use the feature control MSR, which is tied to nested
VMX as well and is present on all KVM versions that support feature MSRs.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Allow userspace to set a custom value for the VMFUNC controls MSR, as long
as the capabilities it advertises do not exceed those of the host.
Fixes: 27c42a1bb ("KVM: nVMX: Enable VMFUNC for the L1 hypervisor", 2017-08-03)
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Some secondary controls are automatically enabled/disabled based on the CPUID
values that are set for the guest. However, they are still available at a
global level and therefore should be present when KVM_GET_MSRS is sent to
/dev/kvm.
Fixes: 1389309c81 ("KVM: nVMX: expose VMX capabilities for nested hypervisors to userspace", 2018-02-26)
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The function kvm_create_lapic() attempts to allocate the apic structure
and sets a pointer to it in the virtual processor structure. However, if
get_zeroed_page() failed, the function frees the apic chunk, but forgets
to set the pointer in the vcpu to NULL. It's not a security issue since
there isn't a use of that pointer if kvm_create_lapic() returns error,
but it's more accurate that way.
Signed-off-by: Saar Amar <saaramar@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Raise #GP when guest read/write IA32_XSS, but the CPUID bits
say that it shouldn't exist.
Fixes: 203000993d (kvm: vmx: add MSR logic for XSAVES)
Reported-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Tao Xu <tao3.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The VMX_PREEMPTION_TIMER flag may be toggled frequently, though not
*very* frequently. Since it does not affect KVM's dirty logic, e.g.
the preemption timer value is loaded from vmcs12 even if vmcs12 is
"clean", there is no need to mark vmcs12 dirty when L1 writes pin
controls, and shadowing the field achieves that.
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
VMWRITEs to the major VMCS controls, pin controls included, are
deceptively expensive. CPUs with VMCS caching (Westmere and later) also
optimize away consistency checks on VM-Entry, i.e. skip consistency
checks if the relevant fields have not changed since the last successful
VM-Entry (of the cached VMCS). Because uops are a precious commodity,
uCode's dirty VMCS field tracking isn't as precise as software would
prefer. Notably, writing any of the major VMCS fields effectively marks
the entire VMCS dirty, i.e. causes the next VM-Entry to perform all
consistency checks, which consumes several hundred cycles.
As it pertains to KVM, toggling PIN_BASED_VMX_PREEMPTION_TIMER more than
doubles the latency of the next VM-Entry (and again when/if the flag is
toggled back). In a non-nested scenario, running a "standard" guest
with the preemption timer enabled, toggling the timer flag is uncommon
but not rare, e.g. roughly 1 in 10 entries. Disabling the preemption
timer can change these numbers due to its use for "immediate exits",
even when explicitly disabled by userspace.
Nested virtualization in particular is painful, as the timer flag is set
for the majority of VM-Enters, but prepare_vmcs02() initializes vmcs02's
pin controls to *clear* the flag since its the timer's final state isn't
known until vmx_vcpu_run(). I.e. the majority of nested VM-Enters end
up unnecessarily writing pin controls *twice*.
Rather than toggle the timer flag in pin controls, set the timer value
itself to the largest allowed value to put it into a "soft disabled"
state, and ignore any spurious preemption timer exits.
Sadly, the timer is a 32-bit value and so theoretically it can fire
before the head death of the universe, i.e. spurious exits are possible.
But because KVM does *not* save the timer value on VM-Exit and because
the timer runs at a slower rate than the TSC, the maximuma timer value
is still sufficiently large for KVM's purposes. E.g. on a modern CPU
with a timer that runs at 1/32 the frequency of a 2.4ghz constant-rate
TSC, the timer will fire after ~55 seconds of *uninterrupted* guest
execution. In other words, spurious VM-Exits are effectively only
possible if the host is completely tickless on the logical CPU, the
guest is not using the preemption timer, and the guest is not generating
VM-Exits for any other reason.
To be safe from bad/weird hardware, disable the preemption timer if its
maximum delay is less than ten seconds. Ten seconds is mostly arbitrary
and was selected in no small part because it's a nice round number.
For simplicity and paranoia, fall back to __kvm_request_immediate_exit()
if the preemption timer is disabled by KVM or userspace. Previously
KVM continued to use the preemption timer to force immediate exits even
when the timer was disabled by userspace. Now that KVM leaves the timer
running instead of truly disabling it, allow userspace to kill it
entirely in the unlikely event the timer (or KVM) malfunctions.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
... now that it is fully redundant with the pin controls shadow.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
KVM dynamically toggles SECONDARY_EXEC_DESC to intercept (a subset of)
instructions that are subject to User-Mode Instruction Prevention, i.e.
VMCS.SECONDARY_EXEC_DESC == CR4.UMIP when emulating UMIP. Preset the
VMCS control when preparing vmcs02 to avoid unnecessarily VMWRITEs,
e.g. KVM will clear VMCS.SECONDARY_EXEC_DESC in prepare_vmcs02_early()
and then set it in vmx_set_cr4().
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
KVM dynamically toggles the CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS execution control
for nested guests based on whether or not both L0 and L1 want to pass
through the same MSRs to L2. Preserve the last used value from vmcs02
so as to avoid multiple VMWRITEs to (re)set/(re)clear the bit on nested
VM-Entry.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Or: Don't re-initialize vmcs02's controls on every nested VM-Entry.
VMWRITEs to the major VMCS controls are deceptively expensive. Intel
CPUs with VMCS caching (Westmere and later) also optimize away
consistency checks on VM-Entry, i.e. skip consistency checks if the
relevant fields have not changed since the last successful VM-Entry (of
the cached VMCS). Because uops are a precious commodity, uCode's dirty
VMCS field tracking isn't as precise as software would prefer. Notably,
writing any of the major VMCS fields effectively marks the entire VMCS
dirty, i.e. causes the next VM-Entry to perform all consistency checks,
which consumes several hundred cycles.
Zero out the controls' shadow copies during VMCS allocation and use the
optimized setter when "initializing" controls. While this technically
affects both non-nested and nested virtualization, nested virtualization
is the primary beneficiary as avoid VMWRITEs when prepare vmcs02 allows
hardware to optimizie away consistency checks.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
... now that the shadow copies are per-VMCS.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
... to pave the way for not preserving the shadow copies across switches
between vmcs01 and vmcs02, and eventually to avoid VMWRITEs to vmcs02
when the desired value is unchanged across nested VM-Enters.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Prepare to shadow all major control fields on a per-VMCS basis, which
allows KVM to avoid costly VMWRITEs when switching between vmcs01 and
vmcs02.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Prepare to shadow all major control fields on a per-VMCS basis, which
allows KVM to avoid VMREADs when switching between vmcs01 and vmcs02,
and more importantly can eliminate costly VMWRITEs to controls when
preparing vmcs02.
Shadowing exec controls also saves a VMREAD when opening virtual
INTR/NMI windows, yay...
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Prepare to shadow all major control fields on a per-VMCS basis, which
allows KVM to avoid costly VMWRITEs when switching between vmcs01 and
vmcs02.
Shadowing pin controls also allows a future patch to remove the per-VMCS
'hv_timer_armed' flag, as the shadow copy is a superset of said flag.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
... to pave the way for shadowing all (five) major VMCS control fields
without massive amounts of error prone copy+paste+modify.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
KVM provides a module parameter to allow disabling virtual NMI support
to simplify testing (hardware *without* virtual NMI support is hard to
come by but it does have users). When preparing vmcs02, use the accessor
for pin controls to ensure that the module param is respected for nested
guests.
Opportunistically swap the order of applying L0's and L1's pin controls
to better align with other controls and to prepare for a future patche
that will ignore L1's, but not L0's, preemption timer flag.
Fixes: d02fcf5077 ("kvm: vmx: Allow disabling virtual NMI support")
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Per Intel's SDM:
... the logical processor uses PAE paging if CR0.PG=1, CR4.PAE=1 and
IA32_EFER.LME=0. A VM entry to a guest that uses PAE paging loads the
PDPTEs into internal, non-architectural registers based on the setting
of the "enable EPT" VM-execution control.
and:
[GUEST_PDPTR] values are saved into the four PDPTE fields as follows:
- If the "enable EPT" VM-execution control is 0 or the logical
processor was not using PAE paging at the time of the VM exit,
the values saved are undefined.
In other words, if EPT is disabled or the guest isn't using PAE paging,
then the PDPTRS aren't consumed by hardware on VM-Entry and are loaded
with junk on VM-Exit. From a nesting perspective, all of the above hold
true, i.e. KVM can effectively ignore the VMCS PDPTRs. E.g. KVM already
loads the PDPTRs from memory when nested EPT is disabled (see
nested_vmx_load_cr3()).
Because KVM intercepts setting CR4.PAE, there is no danger of consuming
a stale value or crushing L1's VMWRITEs regardless of whether L1
intercepts CR4.PAE. The vmcs12's values are unchanged up until the
VM-Exit where L2 sets CR4.PAE, i.e. L0 will see the new PAE state on the
subsequent VM-Entry and propagate the PDPTRs from vmcs12 to vmcs02.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Checking for 32-bit PAE is quite common around code that fiddles with
the PDPTRs. Add a function to compress all checks into a single
invocation.
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
L1 is responsible for dirtying GUEST_GRP1 if it writes GUEST_BNDCFGS.
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
KVM unconditionally intercepts WRMSR to MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR. In the
unlikely event that L1 allows L2 to write L1's MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, but
but saves L2's value on VM-Exit, update vmcs12 during L2's WRMSR so as
to eliminate the need to VMREAD the value from vmcs02 on nested VM-Exit.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
For L2, KVM always intercepts WRMSR to SYSENTER MSRs. Update vmcs12 in
the WRMSR handler so that they don't need to be (re)read from vmcs02 on
every nested VM-Exit.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
As alluded to by the TODO comment, KVM unconditionally intercepts writes
to the PAT MSR. In the unlikely event that L1 allows L2 to write L1's
PAT directly but saves L2's PAT on VM-Exit, update vmcs12 when L2 writes
the PAT. This eliminates the need to VMREAD the value from vmcs02 on
VM-Exit as vmcs12 is already up to date in all situations.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
If nested_get_vmcs12_pages() fails to map L1's APIC_ACCESS_ADDR into
L2, then it disables SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES in vmcs02.
In other words, the APIC_ACCESS_ADDR in vmcs02 is guaranteed to be
written with the correct value before being consumed by hardware, drop
the unneessary VMWRITE.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The VIRTUAL_APIC_PAGE_ADDR in vmcs02 is guaranteed to be updated before
it is consumed by hardware, either in nested_vmx_enter_non_root_mode()
or via the KVM_REQ_GET_VMCS12_PAGES callback. Avoid an extra VMWRITE
and only stuff a bad value into vmcs02 when mapping vmcs12's address
fails. This also eliminates the need for extra comments to connect the
dots between prepare_vmcs02_early() and nested_get_vmcs12_pages().
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
... as a malicious userspace can run a toy guest to generate invalid
virtual-APIC page addresses in L1, i.e. flood the kernel log with error
messages.
Fixes: 690908104e ("KVM: nVMX: allow tests to use bad virtual-APIC page address")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When switching between vmcs01 and vmcs02, there is no need to update
state tracking for values that aren't tied to any particular VMCS as
the per-vCPU values are already up-to-date (vmx_switch_vmcs() can only
be called when the vCPU is loaded).
Avoiding the update eliminates a RDMSR, and potentially a RDPKRU and
posted-interrupt update (cmpxchg64() and more).
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When switching between vmcs01 and vmcs02, KVM isn't actually switching
between guest and host. If guest state is already loaded (the likely,
if not guaranteed, case), keep the guest state loaded and manually swap
the loaded_cpu_state pointer after propagating saved host state to the
new vmcs0{1,2}.
Avoiding the switch between guest and host reduces the latency of
switching between vmcs01 and vmcs02 by several hundred cycles, and
reduces the roundtrip time of a nested VM by upwards of 1000 cycles.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
vmx->loaded_cpu_state can only be NULL or equal to vmx->loaded_vmcs,
so change it to a bool. Because the direction of the bool is
now the opposite of vmx->guest_msrs_dirty, change the direction of
vmx->guest_msrs_dirty so that they match.
Finally, do not imply that MSRs have to be reloaded when
vmx->guest_state_loaded is false; instead, set vmx->guest_msrs_ready
to false explicitly in vmx_prepare_switch_to_host.
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Emulation of GUEST_PML_INDEX for a nested VMM is a bit weird. Because
L0 flushes the PML on every VM-Exit, the value in vmcs02 at the time of
VM-Enter is a constant -1, regardless of what L1 thinks/wants.
Fixes: 09abe32002 ("KVM: nVMX: split pieces of prepare_vmcs02() to prepare_vmcs02_early()")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
KVM doesn't yet support SGX virtualization, i.e. writes a constant value
to ENCLS_EXITING_BITMAP so that it can intercept ENCLS and inject a #UD.
Fixes: 0b665d3040 ("KVM: vmx: Inject #UD for SGX ENCLS instruction in guest")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
If L1 does not set VM_ENTRY_LOAD_BNDCFGS, then L1's BNDCFGS value must
be propagated to vmcs02 since KVM always runs with VM_ENTRY_LOAD_BNDCFGS
when MPX is supported. Because the value effectively comes from vmcs01,
vmcs02 must be updated even if vmcs12 is clean.
Fixes: 62cf9bd811 ("KVM: nVMX: Fix emulation of VM_ENTRY_LOAD_BNDCFGS")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The behavior of WRMSR is in no way dependent on whether or not KVM
consumes the value.
Fixes: 4566654bb9 ("KVM: vmx: Inject #GP on invalid PAT CR")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
These function do not prepare the entire state of the vmcs02, only the
rarely needed parts. Rename them to make this clearer.
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Many guest fields are rarely read (or written) by VMMs, i.e. likely
aren't accessed between runs of a nested VMCS. Delay pulling rarely
accessed guest fields from vmcs02 until they are VMREAD or until vmcs12
is dirtied. The latter case is necessary because nested VM-Entry will
consume all manner of fields when vmcs12 is dirty, e.g. for consistency
checks.
Note, an alternative to synchronizing all guest fields on VMREAD would
be to read *only* the field being accessed, but switching VMCS pointers
is expensive and odds are good if one guest field is being accessed then
others will soon follow, or that vmcs12 will be dirtied due to a VMWRITE
(see above). And the full synchronization results in slightly cleaner
code.
Note, although GUEST_PDPTRs are relevant only for a 32-bit PAE guest,
they are accessed quite frequently for said guests, and a separate patch
is in flight to optimize away GUEST_PDTPR synchronziation for non-PAE
guests.
Skipping rarely accessed guest fields reduces the latency of a nested
VM-Exit by ~200 cycles.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
So that future optimizations related to shadowed fields don't need to
define their own switch statement.
Add a BUILD_BUG_ON() to ensure at least one of the types (RW vs RO) is
defined when including vmcs_shadow_fields.h (guess who keeps mistyping
SHADOW_FIELD_RO as SHADOW_FIELD_R0).
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Nested virtualization involves copying data between many different types
of VMCSes, e.g. vmcs02, vmcs12, shadow VMCS and eVMCS. Rename a variety
of functions and flags to document both the source and destination of
each sync.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
... to make it more obvious that sync_vmcs12() is invoked on all nested
VM-Exits, e.g. hiding sync_vmcs12() in prepare_vmcs12() makes it appear
that guest state is NOT propagated to vmcs12 for a normal VM-Exit.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The vmcs12 fields offsets are constant and known at compile time. Store
the associated offset for each shadowed field to avoid the costly lookup
in vmcs_field_to_offset() when copying between vmcs12 and the shadow
VMCS. Avoiding the costly lookup reduces the latency of copying by
~100 cycles in each direction.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
VMMs frequently read the guest's CS and SS AR bytes to detect 64-bit
mode and CPL respectively, but effectively never write said fields once
the VM is initialized. Intercepting VMWRITEs for the two fields saves
~55 cycles in copy_shadow_to_vmcs12().
Because some Intel CPUs, e.g. Haswell, drop the reserved bits of the
guest access rights fields on VMWRITE, exposing the fields to L1 for
VMREAD but not VMWRITE leads to inconsistent behavior between L1 and L2.
On hardware that drops the bits, L1 will see the stripped down value due
to reading the value from hardware, while L2 will see the full original
value as stored by KVM. To avoid such an inconsistency, emulate the
behavior on all CPUS, but only for intercepted VMWRITEs so as to avoid
introducing pointless latency into copy_shadow_to_vmcs12(), e.g. if the
emulation were added to vmcs12_write_any().
Since the AR_BYTES emulation is done only for intercepted VMWRITE, if a
future patch (re)exposed AR_BYTES for both VMWRITE and VMREAD, then KVM
would end up with incosistent behavior on pre-Haswell hardware, e.g. KVM
would drop the reserved bits on intercepted VMWRITE, but direct VMWRITE
to the shadow VMCS would not drop the bits. Add a WARN in the shadow
field initialization to detect any attempt to expose an AR_BYTES field
without updating vmcs12_write_any().
Note, emulation of the AR_BYTES reserved bit behavior is based on a
patch[1] from Jim Mattson that applied the emulation to all writes to
vmcs12 so that live migration across different generations of hardware
would not introduce divergent behavior. But given that live migration
of nested state has already been enabled, that ship has sailed (not to
mention that no sane VMM will be affected by this behavior).
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10483321/
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Allowing L1 to VMWRITE read-only fields is only beneficial in a double
nesting scenario, e.g. no sane VMM will VMWRITE VM_EXIT_REASON in normal
non-nested operation. Intercepting RO fields means KVM doesn't need to
sync them from the shadow VMCS to vmcs12 when running L2. The obvious
downside is that L1 will VM-Exit more often when running L3, but it's
likely safe to assume most folks would happily sacrifice a bit of L3
performance, which may not even be noticeable in the grande scheme, to
improve L2 performance across the board.
Not intercepting fields tagged read-only also allows for additional
optimizations, e.g. marking GUEST_{CS,SS}_AR_BYTES as SHADOW_FIELD_RO
since those fields are rarely written by a VMMs, but read frequently.
When utilizing a shadow VMCS with asymmetric R/W and R/O bitmaps, fields
that cause VM-Exit on VMWRITE but not VMREAD need to be propagated to
the shadow VMCS during VMWRITE emulation, otherwise a subsequence VMREAD
from L1 will consume a stale value.
Note, KVM currently utilizes asymmetric bitmaps when "VMWRITE any field"
is not exposed to L1, but only so that it can reject the VMWRITE, i.e.
propagating the VMWRITE to the shadow VMCS is a new requirement, not a
bug fix.
Eliminating the copying of RO fields reduces the latency of nested
VM-Entry (copy_shadow_to_vmcs12()) by ~100 cycles (plus 40-50 cycles
if/when the AR_BYTES fields are exposed RO).
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Per commit 1b6269db3f ("KVM: VMX: Handle NMIs before enabling
interrupts and preemption"), NMIs are handled directly in vmx_vcpu_run()
to "make sure we handle NMI on the current cpu, and that we don't
service maskable interrupts before non-maskable ones". The other
exceptions handled by complete_atomic_exit(), e.g. async #PF and #MC,
have similar requirements, and are located there to avoid extra VMREADs
since VMX bins hardware exceptions and NMIs into a single exit reason.
Clean up the code and eliminate the vaguely named complete_atomic_exit()
by moving the interrupts-disabled exception and NMI handling into the
existing handle_external_intrs() callback, and rename the callback to
a more appropriate name. Rename VMexit handlers throughout so that the
atomic and non-atomic counterparts have similar names.
In addition to improving code readability, this also ensures the NMI
handler is run with the host's debug registers loaded in the unlikely
event that the user is debugging NMIs. Accuracy of the last_guest_tsc
field is also improved when handling NMIs (and #MCs) as the handler
will run after updating said field.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
[Naming cleanups. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
VMX can conditionally call kvm_{before,after}_interrupt() since KVM
always uses "ack interrupt on exit" and therefore explicitly handles
interrupts as opposed to blindly enabling irqs.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Although the kernel may use multiple IDTs, KVM should only ever see the
"real" IDT, e.g. the early init IDT is long gone by the time KVM runs
and the debug stack IDT is only used for small windows of time in very
specific flows.
Before commit a547c6db4d ("KVM: VMX: Enable acknowledge interupt on
vmexit"), the kernel's IDT base was consumed by KVM only when setting
constant VMCS state, i.e. to set VMCS.HOST_IDTR_BASE. Because constant
host state is done once per vCPU, there was ostensibly no need to cache
the kernel's IDT base.
When support for "ack interrupt on exit" was introduced, KVM added a
second consumer of the IDT base as handling already-acked interrupts
requires directly calling the interrupt handler, i.e. KVM uses the IDT
base to find the address of the handler. Because interrupts are a fast
path, KVM cached the IDT base to avoid having to VMREAD HOST_IDTR_BASE.
Presumably, the IDT base was cached on a per-vCPU basis simply because
the existing code grabbed the IDT base on a per-vCPU (VMCS) basis.
Note, all post-boot IDTs use the same handlers for external interrupts,
i.e. the "ack interrupt on exit" use of the IDT base would be unaffected
even if the cached IDT somehow did not match the current IDT. And as
for the original use case of setting VMCS.HOST_IDTR_BASE, if any of the
above analysis is wrong then KVM has had a bug since the beginning of
time since KVM has effectively been caching the IDT at vCPU creation
since commit a8b732ca01c ("[PATCH] kvm: userspace interface").
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Generic x86 code invokes the kvm_x86_ops external interrupt handler on
all VM-Exits regardless of the actual exit type. Use the already-cached
EXIT_REASON to determine if the VM-Exit was due to an interrupt, thus
avoiding an extra VMREAD (to query VM_EXIT_INTR_INFO) for all other
types of VM-Exit.
In addition to avoiding the extra VMREAD, checking the EXIT_REASON
instead of VM_EXIT_INTR_INFO makes it more obvious that
vmx_handle_external_intr() is called for all VM-Exits, e.g. someone
unfamiliar with the flow might wonder under what condition(s)
VM_EXIT_INTR_INFO does not contain a valid interrupt, which is
simply not possible since KVM always runs with "ack interrupt on exit".
WARN once if VM_EXIT_INTR_INFO doesn't contain a valid interrupt on
an EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT VM-Exit, as such a condition would indicate a
hardware bug.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The reason for skipping handling of NMI and #MC in handle_exception is
the same, namely they are handled earlier by vmx_complete_atomic_exit.
Calling the machine check handler (which just returns 1) is misleading,
don't do it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
A previous fix to prevent KVM from consuming stale VMCS state after a
failed VM-Entry inadvertantly blocked KVM's handling of machine checks
that occur during VM-Entry.
Per Intel's SDM, a #MC during VM-Entry is handled in one of three ways,
depending on when the #MC is recognoized. As it pertains to this bug
fix, the third case explicitly states EXIT_REASON_MCE_DURING_VMENTRY
is handled like any other VM-Exit during VM-Entry, i.e. sets bit 31 to
indicate the VM-Entry failed.
If a machine-check event occurs during a VM entry, one of the following occurs:
- The machine-check event is handled as if it occurred before the VM entry:
...
- The machine-check event is handled after VM entry completes:
...
- A VM-entry failure occurs as described in Section 26.7. The basic
exit reason is 41, for "VM-entry failure due to machine-check event".
Explicitly handle EXIT_REASON_MCE_DURING_VMENTRY as a one-off case in
vmx_vcpu_run() instead of binning it into vmx_complete_atomic_exit().
Doing so allows vmx_vcpu_run() to handle VMX_EXIT_REASONS_FAILED_VMENTRY
in a sane fashion and also simplifies vmx_complete_atomic_exit() since
VMCS.VM_EXIT_INTR_INFO is guaranteed to be fresh.
Fixes: b060ca3b2e ("kvm: vmx: Handle VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME failure properly")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
