- 20 Feb, 2019 21 commits
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Paolo Bonzini authored
VMX is only accessible in protected mode, remove a confusing check that causes the conditional to lack a final "else" branch. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
Regarding segments with a limit==0xffffffff, the SDM officially states: When the effective limit is FFFFFFFFH (4 GBytes), these accesses may or may not cause the indicated exceptions. Behavior is implementation-specific and may vary from one execution to another. In practice, all CPUs that support VMX ignore limit checks for "flat segments", i.e. an expand-up data or code segment with base=0 and limit=0xffffffff. This is subtly different than wrapping the effective address calculation based on the address size, as the flat segment behavior also applies to accesses that would wrap the 4g boundary, e.g. a 4-byte access starting at 0xffffffff will access linear addresses 0xffffffff, 0x0, 0x1 and 0x2. Fixes: f9eb4af6 ("KVM: nVMX: VMX instructions: add checks for #GP/#SS exceptions") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
The address size of an instruction affects the effective address, not the virtual/linear address. The final address may still be truncated, e.g. to 32-bits outside of long mode, but that happens irrespective of the address size, e.g. a 32-bit address size can yield a 64-bit virtual address when using FS/GS with a non-zero base. Fixes: 064aea77 ("KVM: nVMX: Decoding memory operands of VMX instructions") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
The VMCS.EXIT_QUALIFCATION field reports the displacements of memory operands for various instructions, including VMX instructions, as a naturally sized unsigned value, but masks the value by the addr size, e.g. given a ModRM encoded as -0x28(%ebp), the -0x28 displacement is reported as 0xffffffd8 for a 32-bit address size. Despite some weird wording regarding sign extension, the SDM explicitly states that bits beyond the instructions address size are undefined: In all cases, bits of this field beyond the instructionâ€
™ s address size are undefined. Failure to sign extend the displacement results in KVM incorrectly treating a negative displacement as a large positive displacement when the address size of the VMX instruction is smaller than KVM's native size, e.g. a 32-bit address size on a 64-bit KVM. The very original decoding, added by commit 064aea77 ("KVM: nVMX: Decoding memory operands of VMX instructions"), sort of modeled sign extension by truncating the final virtual/linear address for a 32-bit address size. I.e. it messed up the effective address but made it work by adjusting the final address. When segmentation checks were added, the truncation logic was kept as-is and no sign extension logic was introduced. In other words, it kept calculating the wrong effective address while mostly generating the correct virtual/linear address. As the effective address is what's used in the segment limit checks, this results in KVM incorreclty injecting #GP/#SS faults due to non-existent segment violations when a nested VMM uses negative displacements with an address size smaller than KVM's native address size. Using the -0x28(%ebp) example, an EBP value of 0x1000 will result in KVM using 0x100000fd8 as the effective address when checking for a segment limit violation. This causes a 100% failure rate when running a 32-bit KVM build as L1 on top of a 64-bit KVM L0. Fixes: f9eb4af6 ("KVM: nVMX: VMX instructions: add checks for #GP/#SS exceptions") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> -
Suthikulpanit, Suravee authored
The function svm_refresh_apicv_exec_ctrl() always returning prematurely as kvm_vcpu_apicv_active() always return false when calling from the function arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:kvm_vcpu_deactivate_apicv(). This is because the apicv_active is set to false just before calling refresh_apicv_exec_ctrl(). Also, we need to mark VMCB_AVIC bit as dirty instead of VMCB_INTR. So, fix svm_refresh_apicv_exec_ctrl() to properly deactivate AVIC. Fixes: 67034bb9 ('KVM: SVM: Add irqchip_split() checks before enabling AVIC') Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Paolo Bonzini authored
Currently apicv_active can be true even if in-kernel LAPIC emulation is disabled. Avoid this by properly initializing it in kvm_arch_vcpu_init, and then do not do anything to deactivate APICv when it is actually not used (Currently APICv is only deactivated by SynIC code that in turn is only reachable when in-kernel LAPIC is in use. However, it is cleaner if kvm_vcpu_deactivate_apicv avoids relying on this. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Suthikulpanit, Suravee authored
Current SVM AVIC driver makes two incorrect assumptions: 1. APIC LDR register cannot be zero 2. APIC DFR for all vCPUs must be the same LDR=0 means the local APIC does not support logical destination mode. Therefore, the driver should mark any previously assigned logical APIC ID table entry as invalid, and return success. Also, DFR is specific to a particular local APIC, and can be different among all vCPUs (as observed on Windows 10). These incorrect assumptions cause Windows 10 and FreeBSD VMs to fail to boot with AVIC enabled. So, instead of flush the whole logical APIC ID table, handle DFR and LDR for each vCPU independently. Fixes: 18f40c53 ('svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC') Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reported-by: Julian Stecklina <jsteckli@amazon.de> Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along with memory for some number of elements for that array. For example: struct foo { int stuff; void *entry[]; }; instance = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL); Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now use the new struct_size() helper: instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL); This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Pavel Tatashin authored
VMs may show incorrect uptime and dmesg printk offsets on hypervisors with unstable clock. The problem is produced when VM is rebooted without exiting from qemu. The fix is to calculate clock offset not only for stable clock but for unstable clock as well, and use kvm_sched_clock_read() which substracts the offset for both clocks. This is safe, because pvclock_clocksource_read() does the right thing and makes sure that clock always goes forward, so once offset is calculated with unstable clock, we won't get new reads that are smaller than offset, and thus won't get negative results. Thank you Jon DeVree for helping to reproduce this issue. Fixes: 857baa87 ("sched/clock: Enable sched clock early") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
Move the clearing of the common registers (not 64-bit-only) to the start of the flow that clears registers holding guest state. This is purely a cosmetic change so that the label doesn't point at a blank line and a #define. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...now that the sub-routine follows standard calling conventions. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...to make it callable from C code. Note that because KVM chooses to be ultra paranoid about guest register values, all callee-save registers are still cleared after VM-Exit even though the host's values are now reloaded from the stack. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...to prepare for making the assembly sub-routine callable from C code. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...to prepare for making the sub-routine callable from C code. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...to prepare for making the sub-routine callable from C code. That means returning the result in RAX. Since RAX will be used to return the result, use it as the scratch register as well to make the code readable and to document that the scratch register is more or less arbitrary. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...now that the name is no longer usurped by a defunct helper function. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...now that the code is no longer tagged with STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD. Arguably, providing __vmx_vcpu_run() to break up vmx_vcpu_run() is valuable on its own, but the previous split was purposely made as small as possible to limit the effects STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD. In other words, the current split is now completely arbitrary and likely not the most logical. This also allows renaming ____vmx_vcpu_run() to __vmx_vcpu_run() in a future patch. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
As evidenced by the myriad patches leading up to this moment, using an inline asm blob for vCPU-run is nothing short of horrific. It's also been called "unholy", "an abomination" and likely a whole host of other names that would violate the Code of Conduct if recorded here and now. The code is relocated nearly verbatim, e.g. quotes, newlines, tabs and __stringify need to be dropped, but other than those cosmetic changes the only functional changees are to add the "call" and replace the final "jmp" with a "ret". Note that STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD is also dropped from __vmx_vcpu_run(). Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...in preparation for moving to a proper assembly sub-routnine. vCPU-run isn't a leaf function since it calls vmx_update_host_rsp() and vmx_vmenter(). And since we need to save/restore RBP anyways, unconditionally creating the frame costs a single MOV, i.e. don't bother keying off CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER or using FRAME_BEGIN, etc... Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...to prepare for moving the inline asm to a proper asm sub-routine. Eliminating the immediates allows a nearly verbatim move, e.g. quotes, newlines, tabs and __stringify need to be dropped, but other than those cosmetic changes the only function change will be to replace the final "jmp" with a "ret". Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
Declaring the VCPU_REGS_* as enums allows for more robust C code, but it prevents using the values in assembly files. Expliciting #define the indices in an asm-friendly file to prepare for VMX moving its transition code to a proper assembly file, but keep the enums for general usage. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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- 12 Feb, 2019 19 commits
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Sean Christopherson authored
...now that all other references to struct vcpu_vmx have been removed. Note that 'vmx' still needs to be passed into the asm blob in _ASM_ARG1 as it is consumed by vmx_update_host_rsp(). And similar to that code, use _ASM_ARG2 in the assembly code to prepare for moving to proper asm, while explicitly referencing the exact registers in the clobber list for clarity in the short term and to avoid additional precompiler games. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
A failed VM-Enter (obviously) didn't succeed, meaning the CPU never executed an instrunction in guest mode and so can't have changed the general purpose registers. In addition to saving some instructions in the VM-Fail case, this also provides a separate path entirely and thus an opportunity to propagate the fail condition to vmx->fail via register without introducing undue pain. Using a register, as opposed to directly referencing vmx->fail, eliminates the need to pass the offset of 'fail', which will simplify moving the code to proper assembly in future patches. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
Switching the ordering allows for an out-of-line path for VM-Fail that elides saving guest state but still shares the register clearing with the VM-Exit path. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...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>
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Sean Christopherson authored
Providing a helper function to update HOST_RSP is visibly easier to read, and more importantly (for the future) eliminates two arguments to the VM-Enter assembly blob. Reducing the number of arguments to the asm blob is for all intents and purposes a prerequisite to moving the code to a proper assembly routine. It's not truly mandatory, but it greatly simplifies the future code, and the cost of the extra CALL+RET is negligible in the grand scheme. Note that although _ASM_ARG[1-3] can be used in the inline asm itself, the intput/output constraints need to be manually defined. gcc will actually compile with _ASM_ARG[1-3] specified as constraints, but what it actually ends up doing with the bogus constraint is unknown. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...to eliminate its parameter and struct vcpu_vmx offset definition from the assembly blob. Accessing CR2 from C versus assembly doesn't change the likelihood of taking a page fault (and modifying CR2) while it's loaded with the guest's value, so long as we don't do anything silly between accessing CR2 and VM-Enter/VM-Exit. 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>
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Sean Christopherson authored
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>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...and provide an explicit name for the constraint. Naming the input constraint makes the code self-documenting and also avoids the fragility of numerically referring to constraints, e.g. %4 breaks badly whenever the constraints are modified. Explicitly using RDX was inherited from vCPU-run, i.e. completely arbitrary. Even vCPU-run doesn't truly need to explicitly use RDX, but doing so is more robust as vCPU-run needs tight control over its register usage. Note that while the naming "conflict" between host_rsp and HOST_RSP is slightly confusing, the former will be renamed slightly in a future patch, at which point HOST_RSP is absolutely what is desired. 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>
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Sean Christopherson authored
Temporarily propagating vmx->loaded_vmcs->launched to vmx->__launched is not functionally necessary, but rather was done historically to avoid passing both 'vmx' and 'loaded_vmcs' to the vCPU-run asm blob. Nested early checks inherited this behavior by virtue of copy+paste. A future patch will move HOST_RSP caching to be per-VMCS, i.e. store 'host_rsp' in loaded VMCS. Now that the reference to 'vmx->fail' is also gone from nested early checks, referencing 'loaded_vmcs' directly means we can drop the 'vmx' reference when introducing per-VMCS RSP caching. And it means __launched can be dropped from struct vcpu_vmx if/when vCPU-run receives similar treatment. Note the use of a named register constraint for 'loaded_vmcs'. Using RCX to hold 'vmx' was inherited from vCPU-run. In the vCPU-run case, the scratch register needs to be explicitly defined as it is crushed when loading guest state, i.e. deferring to the compiler would corrupt the pointer. Since nested early checks never loads guests state, it's a-ok to let the compiler pick any register. Naming the constraint avoids the fragility of referencing constraints via %1, %2, etc.., which breaks horribly when modifying constraints, and generally makes the asm blob more readable. 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>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...to take advantage of __GCC_ASM_FLAG_OUTPUTS__ when possible. Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
Unlike the primary vCPU-run flow, the nested early checks code doesn't actually want to propagate VM-Fail back to 'vmx'. Yay copy+paste. In additional to eliminating the need to clear vmx->fail before returning, using a local boolean also drops a reference to 'vmx' in the asm blob. Dropping the reference to 'vmx' will save a register in the long run as future patches will shift all pointer references from 'vmx' to 'vmx->loaded_vmcs'. Fixes: 52017608 ("KVM: nVMX: add option to perform early consistency checks via H/W") 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>
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Sean Christopherson authored
Using %1 to reference RCX, i.e. the 'vmx' pointer', is obtuse and fragile, e.g. it results in cryptic and infurating compile errors if the output constraints are touched by anything more than a gentle breeze. Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...as it doesn't technically actually do anything non-standard with the stack even though it modifies RSP in a weird way. E.g. RSP is loaded with VMCS.HOST_RSP if the VM-Enter gets far enough to trigger VM-Exit, but it's simply reloaded with the current value. Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
RAX is not touched by nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw(), directly or indirectly (e.g. vmx_vmenter()). Remove it from the clobber list. Fixes: 52017608 ("KVM: nVMX: add option to perform early consistency checks via H/W") Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
Per commit c2036300 ("KVM: VMX: Let gcc to choose which registers to save (x86_64)"), the only reason RDX is saved/loaded to/from the stack is because it was specified as an input, i.e. couldn't be marked as clobbered (ignoring the fact that "saving" it to a dummy output would indirectly mark it as clobbered). Now that RDX is no longer an input, clobber it. Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
Load RDX with the VMCS.HOST_RSP field encoding on-demand instead of delegating to the compiler via an input constraint. In addition to saving one whole MOV instruction, this allows RDX to be properly clobbered (in a future patch) instead of being saved/loaded to/from the stack. Despite nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw() having similar code, leave it alone, for now. In that case, RDX is unconditionally used and isn't clobbered, i.e. sending in HOST_RSP as an input is simpler. Note that because HOST_RSP is an enum and not a define, it must be redefined as an immediate instead of using __stringify(HOST_RSP). The naming "conflict" between host_rsp and HOST_RSP is slightly confusing, but the former will be removed in a future patch, at which point HOST_RSP is absolutely what is desired. Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
RSI is clobbered by the vCPU-run asm blob, but it's not marked as such, probably because GCC doesn't let you mark inputs as clobbered. "Save" RSI to a dummy output so that GCC recognizes it as being clobbered. Fixes: 773e8a04 ("x86/kvm: use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V") Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
In the vCPU-run asm blob, the guest's RCX is temporarily saved onto the stack after VM-Exit as the exit flow must first load a register with a pointer to the vCPU's save area in order to save the guest's registers. RCX is arbitrarily designated as the scratch register. Since the stack usage is to (1)save host, (2)save guest, (3)load host and (4)load guest, the code can't conform to the stack's natural FIFO semantics, i.e. it can't simply do PUSH/POP. Regardless of whether it is done for the host's value or guest's value, at some point the code needs to access the stack using a non-traditional method, e.g. MOV instead of POP. vCPU-run opts to create a placeholder on the stack for guest's RCX (by adjusting RSP) and saves RCX to its place immediately after VM-Exit (via MOV). In other words, the purpose of the first 'PUSH RCX' at the start of the vCPU-run asm blob is to adjust RSP down, i.e. there's no need to actually access memory. Use 'SUB $wordsize, RSP' instead of 'PUSH RCX' to make it more obvious that the intent is simply to create a gap on the stack for the guest's RCX. Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson authored
...except RSP, which is restored by hardware as part of VM-Exit. Paolo theorized that restoring registers from the stack after a VM-Exit in lieu of zeroing them could lead to speculative execution with the guest's values, e.g. if the stack accesses miss the L1 cache[1]. Zeroing XORs are dirt cheap, so just be ultra-paranoid. Note that the scratch register (currently RCX) used to save/restore the guest state is also zeroed as its host-defined value is loaded via the stack, just with a MOV instead of a POP. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10771539/#22441255 Fixes: 0cb5b306 ("kvm: vmx: Scrub hardware GPRs at VM-exit") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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