We will never need more guest_msrs than there are indices in
vmx_msr_index. Thus, at present, the guest_msrs array will not exceed
168 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The L1 hypervisor may include the IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER MSR in the
vmcs12 MSR VM-exit MSR-store area as a way of determining the highest
TSC value that might have been observed by L2 prior to VM-exit. The
current implementation does not capture a very tight bound on this
value. To tighten the bound, add the IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER MSR to the
vmcs02 VM-exit MSR-store area whenever it appears in the vmcs12 VM-exit
MSR-store area. When L0 processes the vmcs12 VM-exit MSR-store area
during the emulation of an L2->L1 VM-exit, special-case the
IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER MSR, using the value stored in the vmcs02
VM-exit MSR-store area to derive the value to be stored in the vmcs12
VM-exit MSR-store area.
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Rename NR_AUTOLOAD_MSRS to NR_LOADSTORE_MSRS. This needs to be done
due to the addition of the MSR-autostore area that will be added in a
future patch. After that the name AUTOLOAD will no longer make sense.
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When L1 don't use TPR-Shadow to run L2, L0 configures vmcs02 without
TPR-Shadow and install intercepts on CR8 access (load and store).
If L1 do not intercept L2 CR8 access, L0 intercepts on those accesses
will emulate load/store on L1's LAPIC TPR. If in this case L2 lowers
TPR such that there is now an injectable interrupt to L1,
apic_update_ppr() will request a KVM_REQ_EVENT which will trigger a call
to update_cr8_intercept() to update TPR-Threshold to highest pending IRR
priority.
However, this update to TPR-Threshold is done while active vmcs is
vmcs02 instead of vmcs01. Thus, when later at some point L0 will
emulate an exit from L2 to L1, L1 will still run with high
TPR-Threshold. This will result in every VMEntry to L1 to immediately
exit on TPR_BELOW_THRESHOLD and continue to do so infinitely until
some condition will cause KVM_REQ_EVENT to be set.
(Note that TPR_BELOW_THRESHOLD exit handler do not set KVM_REQ_EVENT
until apic_update_ppr() will notice a new injectable interrupt for PPR)
To fix this issue, change update_cr8_intercept() such that if L2 lowers
L1's TPR in a way that requires to lower L1's TPR-Threshold, save update
to TPR-Threshold and apply it to vmcs01 when L0 emulates an exit from
L2 to L1.
Reviewed-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Streamline the PID.PIR check and change its call sites to use
the newly added helper.
Suggested-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When vCPU enters block phase, pi_pre_block() inserts vCPU to a per pCPU
linked list of all vCPUs that are blocked on this pCPU. Afterwards, it
changes PID.NV to POSTED_INTR_WAKEUP_VECTOR which its handler
(wakeup_handler()) is responsible to kick (unblock) any vCPU on that
linked list that now has pending posted interrupts.
While vCPU is blocked (in kvm_vcpu_block()), it may be preempted which
will cause vmx_vcpu_pi_put() to set PID.SN. If later the vCPU will be
scheduled to run on a different pCPU, vmx_vcpu_pi_load() will clear
PID.SN but will also *overwrite PID.NDST to this different pCPU*.
Instead of keeping it with original pCPU which vCPU had entered block
phase on.
This results in an issue because when a posted interrupt is delivered, as
the wakeup_handler() will be executed and fail to find blocked vCPU on
its per pCPU linked list of all vCPUs that are blocked on this pCPU.
Which is due to the vCPU being placed on a *different* per pCPU
linked list i.e. the original pCPU in which it entered block phase.
The regression is introduced by commit c112b5f502 ("KVM: x86:
Recompute PID.ON when clearing PID.SN"). Therefore, partially revert
it and reintroduce the condition in vmx_vcpu_pi_load() responsible for
avoiding changing PID.NDST when loading a blocked vCPU.
Fixes: c112b5f502 ("KVM: x86: Recompute PID.ON when clearing PID.SN")
Tested-by: Nathan Ni <nathan.ni@oracle.com>
Co-developed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
UMWAIT and TPAUSE instructions use 32bit IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL at MSR index
E1H to determines the maximum time in TSC-quanta that the processor can
reside in either C0.1 or C0.2.
This patch emulates MSR IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL in guest and differentiate
IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL between host and guest. The variable
mwait_control_cached in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/umwait.c caches the MSR value,
so this patch uses it to avoid frequently rdmsr of IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL.
Co-developed-by: Jingqi Liu <jingqi.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jingqi Liu <jingqi.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Xu <tao3.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The VMX ple_window is 32 bits wide, so logically it can overflow with
an int. The module parameter is declared as unsigned int which is
good, however the dynamic variable is not. Switching all the
ple_window references to use unsigned int.
The tracepoint changes will also affect SVM, but SVM is using an even
smaller width (16 bits) so it's always fine.
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Make it available to AMD hosts as well, just in case someone is trying
to use an Intel processor's CPUID setup.
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
We get a warning when build kernel W=1:
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6365:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘vmx_update_host_rsp’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
void vmx_update_host_rsp(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx, unsigned long host_rsp)
Add the missing declaration to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use kvm_vcpu_map for accessing the enlightened VMCS since using
kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory that has
a "struct page".
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the posted interrupt descriptor table since
using kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory
that has a "struct page".
One additional semantic change is that the virtual host mapping lifecycle
has changed a bit. It now has the same lifetime of the pinning of the
interrupt descriptor table page on the host side.
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the virtual APIC page since using
kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory that has
a "struct page".
One additional semantic change is that the virtual host mapping lifecycle
has changed a bit. It now has the same lifetime of the pinning of the
virtual APIC page on the host side.
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the L1 MSR bitmap since using
kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory that has
a "struct page".
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Since commits 668fffa3f8 ("kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guestsâ€)
and 4d5422cea3 ("KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable MWAIT interceptsâ€),
KVM was modified to allow an admin to configure certain guests to execute
MONITOR/MWAIT inside guest without being intercepted by host.
This is useful in case admin wishes to allocate a dedicated logical
processor for each vCPU thread. Thus, making it safe for guest to
completely control the power-state of the logical processor.
The ability to use this new KVM capability was introduced to QEMU by
commits 6f131f13e68d ("kvm: support -overcommit cpu-pm=on|offâ€) and
2266d4431132 ("i386/cpu: make -cpu host support monitor/mwaitâ€).
However, exposing MONITOR/MWAIT to a Linux guest may cause it's intel_idle
kernel module to execute c1e_promotion_disable() which will attempt to
RDMSR/WRMSR from/to MSR_IA32_POWER_CTL to manipulate the "C1E Enable"
bit. This behaviour was introduced by commit
32e9518005 ("intel_idle: export both C1 and C1Eâ€).
Becuase KVM doesn't emulate this MSR, running KVM with ignore_msrs=0
will cause the above guest behaviour to raise a #GP which will cause
guest to kernel panic.
Therefore, add support for nop emulation of MSR_IA32_POWER_CTL to
avoid #GP in guest in this scenario.
Future commits can optimise emulation further by reflecting guest
MSR changes to host MSR to provide guest with the ability to
fine-tune the dedicated logical processor power-state.
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
As mentioned in the comment, there are some special cases where we can simply
clear the TPR shadow bit from the CPU-based execution controls in the vmcs02.
Handle them so that we can remove some XFAILs from vmx.flat.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The CPUID flag ARCH_CAPABILITIES is unconditioinally exposed to host
userspace for all x86 hosts, i.e. KVM advertises ARCH_CAPABILITIES
regardless of hardware support under the pretense that KVM fully
emulates MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES. Unfortunately, only VMX hosts
handle accesses to MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES (despite KVM_GET_MSRS
also reporting MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES for all hosts).
Move the MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES handling to common x86 code so
that it's emulated on AMD hosts.
Fixes: 1eaafe91a0 ("kvm: x86: IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES is always supported")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
There are many KVM kernel memory allocations which are tied to the life of
the VM process and should be charged to the VM process's cgroup. If the
allocations aren't tied to the process, the OOM killer will not know
that killing the process will free the associated kernel memory.
Add __GFP_ACCOUNT flags to many of the allocations which are not yet being
charged to the VM process's cgroup.
Tested:
Ran all kvm-unit-tests on a 64 bit Haswell machine, the patch
introduced no new failures.
Ran a kernel memory accounting test which creates a VM to touch
memory and then checks that the kernel memory allocated for the
process is within certain bounds.
With this patch we account for much more of the vmalloc and slab memory
allocated for the VM.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Previously, 'commit f99e3daf94 ("KVM: x86: Add Intel PT
virtualization work mode")' work mode' offered framework
to support Intel PT virtualization. However, the patch has
some typos in vmx_vmentry_ctrl() and vmx_vmexit_ctrl(), e.g.
used wrong flags and wrong variable, which will cause the
VM entry failure later.
Fixes: 'commit f99e3daf94 ("KVM: x86: Add Intel PT virtualization work mode")'
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Some Posted-Interrupts from passthrough devices may be lost or
overwritten when the vCPU is in runnable state.
The SN (Suppress Notification) of PID (Posted Interrupt Descriptor) will
be set when the vCPU is preempted (vCPU in KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE state
but not running on physical CPU). If a posted interrupt coming at this
time, the irq remmaping facility will set the bit of PIR (Posted
Interrupt Requests) without ON (Outstanding Notification).
So this interrupt can't be sync to APIC virtualization register and
will not be handled by Guest because ON is zero.
Signed-off-by: Luwei Kang <luwei.kang@intel.com>
[Eliminate the pi_clear_sn fast path. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
...and remove struct vcpu_vmx's temporary __launched variable.
Eliminating __launched is a bonus, the real motivation is to get to the
point where the only reference to struct vcpu_vmx in the asm code is
to vcpu.arch.regs, which will simplify moving the blob to a proper asm
file. Note that also means this approach is deliberately different than
what is used in nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw().
Use BL as it is a callee-save register in both 32-bit and 64-bit ABIs,
i.e. it can't be modified by vmx_update_host_rsp(), to avoid having to
temporarily save/restore the launched flag.
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>
Currently, host_rsp is cached on a per-vCPU basis, i.e. it's stored in
struct vcpu_vmx. In non-nested usage the caching is for all intents
and purposes 100% effective, e.g. only the first VMLAUNCH needs to
synchronize VMCS.HOST_RSP since the call stack to vmx_vcpu_run() is
identical each and every time. But when running a nested guest, KVM
must invalidate the cache when switching the current VMCS as it can't
guarantee the new VMCS has the same HOST_RSP as the previous VMCS. In
other words, the cache loses almost all of its efficacy when running a
nested VM.
Move host_rsp to struct vmcs_host_state, which is per-VMCS, so that it
is cached on a per-VMCS basis and restores its 100% hit rate when
nested VMs are in play.
Note that the host_rsp cache for vmcs02 essentially "breaks" when
nested early checks are enabled as nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw() will
see a different RSP at the time of its VM-Enter. While it's possible
to avoid even that VMCS.HOST_RSP synchronization, e.g. by employing a
dedicated VM-Exit stack, there is little motivation for doing so as
the overhead of two VMWRITEs (~55 cycles) is dwarfed by the overhead
of the extra VMX transition (600+ cycles) and is a proverbial drop in
the ocean relative to the total cost of a nested transtion (10s of
thousands of cycles).
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>
Transitioning to/from a VMX guest requires KVM to manually save/load
the bulk of CPU state that the guest is allowed to direclty access,
e.g. XSAVE state, CR2, GPRs, etc... For obvious reasons, loading the
guest's GPR snapshot prior to VM-Enter and saving the snapshot after
VM-Exit is done via handcoded assembly. The assembly blob is written
as inline asm so that it can easily access KVM-defined structs that
are used to hold guest state, e.g. moving the blob to a standalone
assembly file would require generating defines for struct offsets.
The other relevant aspect of VMX transitions in KVM is the handling of
VM-Exits. KVM doesn't employ a separate VM-Exit handler per se, but
rather treats the VMX transition as a mega instruction (with many side
effects), i.e. sets the VMCS.HOST_RIP to a label immediately following
VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME. The label is then exposed to C code via a global
variable definition in the inline assembly.
Because of the global variable, KVM takes steps to (attempt to) ensure
only a single instance of the owning C function, e.g. vmx_vcpu_run, is
generated by the compiler. The earliest approach placed the inline
assembly in a separate noinline function[1]. Later, the assembly was
folded back into vmx_vcpu_run() and tagged with __noclone[2][3], which
is still used today.
After moving to __noclone, an edge case was encountered where GCC's
-ftracer optimization resulted in the inline assembly blob being
duplicated. This was "fixed" by explicitly disabling -ftracer in the
__noclone definition[4].
Recently, it was found that disabling -ftracer causes build warnings
for unsuspecting users of __noclone[5], and more importantly for KVM,
prevents the compiler for properly optimizing vmx_vcpu_run()[6]. And
perhaps most importantly of all, it was pointed out that there is no
way to prevent duplication of a function with 100% reliability[7],
i.e. more edge cases may be encountered in the future.
So to summarize, the only way to prevent the compiler from duplicating
the global variable definition is to move the variable out of inline
assembly, which has been suggested several times over[1][7][8].
Resolve the aforementioned issues by moving the VMLAUNCH+VRESUME and
VM-Exit "handler" to standalone assembly sub-routines. Moving only
the core VMX transition codes allows the struct indexing to remain as
inline assembly and also allows the sub-routines to be used by
nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw(). Reusing the sub-routines has a happy
side-effect of eliminating two VMWRITEs in the nested_early_check path
as there is no longer a need to dynamically change VMCS.HOST_RIP.
Note that callers to vmx_vmenter() must account for the CALL modifying
RSP, e.g. must subtract op-size from RSP when synchronizing RSP with
VMCS.HOST_RSP and "restore" RSP prior to the CALL. There are no great
alternatives to fudging RSP. Saving RSP in vmx_enter() is difficult
because doing so requires a second register (VMWRITE does not provide
an immediate encoding for the VMCS field and KVM supports Hyper-V's
memory-based eVMCS ABI). The other more drastic alternative would be
to use eschew VMCS.HOST_RSP and manually save/load RSP using a per-cpu
variable (which can be encoded as e.g. gs:[imm]). But because a valid
stack is needed at the time of VM-Exit (NMIs aren't blocked and a user
could theoretically insert INT3/INT1ICEBRK at the VM-Exit handler), a
dedicated per-cpu VM-Exit stack would be required. A dedicated stack
isn't difficult to implement, but it would require at least one page
per CPU and knowledge of the stack in the dumpstack routines. And in
most cases there is essentially zero overhead in dynamically updating
VMCS.HOST_RSP, e.g. the VMWRITE can be avoided for all but the first
VMLAUNCH unless nested_early_check=1, which is not a fast path. In
other words, avoiding the VMCS.HOST_RSP by using a dedicated stack
would only make the code marginally less ugly while requiring at least
one page per CPU and forcing the kernel to be aware (and approve) of
the VM-Exit stack shenanigans.
[1] cea15c24ca39 ("KVM: Move KVM context switch into own function")
[2] a3b5ba49a8 ("KVM: VMX: add the __noclone attribute to vmx_vcpu_run")
[3] 104f226bfd ("KVM: VMX: Fold __vmx_vcpu_run() into vmx_vcpu_run()")
[4] 95272c2937 ("compiler-gcc: disable -ftracer for __noclone functions")
[5] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181218140105.ajuiglkpvstt3qxs@treble
[6] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8707981/#21817015
[7] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ri6y38lo23g.fsf@suse.cz
[8] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181218212042.GE25620@tassilo.jf.intel.com
Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To save performance overhead, disable intercept Intel PT MSRs
read/write when Intel PT is enabled in guest.
MSR_IA32_RTIT_CTL is an exception that will always be intercepted.
Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luwei Kang <luwei.kang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Load/Store Intel Processor Trace register in context switch.
MSR IA32_RTIT_CTL is loaded/stored automatically from VMCS.
In Host-Guest mode, we need load/resore PT MSRs only when PT
is enabled in guest.
Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luwei Kang <luwei.kang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Intel Processor Trace virtualization can be work in one
of 2 possible modes:
a. System-Wide mode (default):
When the host configures Intel PT to collect trace packets
of the entire system, it can leave the relevant VMX controls
clear to allow VMX-specific packets to provide information
across VMX transitions.
KVM guest will not aware this feature in this mode and both
host and KVM guest trace will output to host buffer.
b. Host-Guest mode:
Host can configure trace-packet generation while in
VMX non-root operation for guests and root operation
for native executing normally.
Intel PT will be exposed to KVM guest in this mode, and
the trace output to respective buffer of host and guest.
In this mode, tht status of PT will be saved and disabled
before VM-entry and restored after VM-exit if trace
a virtual machine.
Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luwei Kang <luwei.kang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Exposing only the function allows @nested, i.e. the module param, to be
statically defined in vmx.c, ensuring we aren't unnecessarily checking
said variable in the nested code. nested_vmx_allowed() is exposed due
to the need to verify nested support in vmx_{get,set}_nested_state().
The downside is that nested_vmx_allowed() likely won't be inlined in
vmx_{get,set}_nested_state(), but that should be a non-issue as they're
not a hot path. Keeping vmx_{get,set}_nested_state() in vmx.c isn't a
viable option as they need access to several nested-only functions.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
...as they're used directly by the nested code. This will allow
moving the bulk of the nested code out of vmx.c without concurrent
changes to vmx.h.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Exposed vmx_msr_index, vmx_return and host_efer via vmx.h so that the
nested code can be moved out of vmx.c.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
VMX has a few hundred lines of code just to wrap various VMX specific
instructions, e.g. VMWREAD, INVVPID, etc... Move them to a dedicated
header so it's easier to find/isolate the boilerplate.
With this change, more inlines can be moved from vmx.c to vmx.h.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
