- 02 Jul, 2019 8 commits
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Wanpeng Li authored
Expose PV_SCHED_YIELD feature bit to guest, the guest can check this feature bit before using paravirtualized sched yield. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Wanpeng Li authored
The target vCPUs are in runnable state after vcpu_kick and suitable as a yield target. This patch implements the sched yield hypercall. 17% performance increasement of ebizzy benchmark can be observed in an over-subscribe environment. (w/ kvm-pv-tlb disabled, testing TLB flush call-function IPI-many since call-function is not easy to be trigged by userspace workload). Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Wanpeng Li authored
When sending a call-function IPI-many to vCPUs, yield if any of the IPI target vCPUs was preempted, we just select the first preempted target vCPU which we found since the state of target vCPUs can change underneath and to avoid race conditions. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vitaly Kuznetsov authored
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 72aeb60c ("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: b8bbab92 ("KVM: nVMX: implement enlightened VMPTRLD and VMCLEAR") Signed-off-by:
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vitaly Kuznetsov authored
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:
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Paolo Bonzini authored
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 authored
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: 27c42a1b ("KVM: nVMX: Enable VMFUNC for the L1 hypervisor", 2017-08-03) Reviewed-by:
Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paolo Bonzini authored
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: 1389309c ("KVM: nVMX: expose VMX capabilities for nested hypervisors to userspace", 2018-02-26) Reviewed-by:
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- 20 Jun, 2019 2 commits
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Saar Amar authored
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:
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Wanpeng Li authored
Raise #GP when guest read/write IA32_XSS, but the CPUID bits say that it shouldn't exist. Fixes: 20300099 (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:
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- 18 Jun, 2019 30 commits
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Paolo Bonzini authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
... now that it is fully redundant with the pin controls shadow. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
... now that the shadow copies are per-VMCS. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
... 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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
... to pave the way for shadowing all (five) major VMCS control fields without massive amounts of error prone copy+paste+modify. Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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: d02fcf50 ("kvm: vmx: Allow disabling virtual NMI support") Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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: -
Paolo Bonzini authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
L1 is responsible for dirtying GUEST_GRP1 if it writes GUEST_BNDCFGS. Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
... 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: 69090810 ("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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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: -
Paolo Bonzini authored
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: -
Sean Christopherson authored
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: 09abe320 ("KVM: nVMX: split pieces of prepare_vmcs02() to prepare_vmcs02_early()") Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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: 0b665d30 ("KVM: vmx: Inject #UD for SGX ENCLS instruction in guest") Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
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: 62cf9bd8 ("KVM: nVMX: Fix emulation of VM_ENTRY_LOAD_BNDCFGS") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Sean Christopherson authored
The behavior of WRMSR is in no way dependent on whether or not KVM consumes the value. Fixes: 4566654b ("KVM: vmx: Inject #GP on invalid PAT CR") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paolo Bonzini authored
These function do not prepare the entire state of the vmcs02, only the rarely needed parts. Rename them to make this clearer. Reviewed-by:
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