diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
index 5dadb4503ec9..bae52b845de0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
@@ -546,6 +546,27 @@ available:
     EPT can be disabled in the hypervisor via the 'kvm-intel.ept'
     parameter.
 
+3.4. Nested virtual machines
+""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+When nested virtualization is in use, three operating systems are involved:
+the bare metal hypervisor, the nested hypervisor and the nested virtual
+machine.  VMENTER operations from the nested hypervisor into the nested
+guest will always be processed by the bare metal hypervisor. If KVM is the
+bare metal hypervisor it wiil:
+
+ - Flush the L1D cache on every switch from the nested hypervisor to the
+   nested virtual machine, so that the nested hypervisor's secrets are not
+   exposed to the nested virtual machine;
+
+ - Flush the L1D cache on every switch from the nested virtual machine to
+   the nested hypervisor; this is a complex operation, and flushing the L1D
+   cache avoids that the bare metal hypervisor's secrets are exposed to the
+   nested virtual machine;
+
+ - Instruct the nested hypervisor to not perform any L1D cache flush. This
+   is an optimization to avoid double L1D flushing.
+
 
 .. _default_mitigations:
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 37749429afd9..acebb808c4b5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -1418,6 +1418,7 @@ int kvm_cpu_get_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *v);
 void kvm_vcpu_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool init_event);
 void kvm_vcpu_reload_apic_access_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 
+u64 kvm_get_arch_capabilities(void);
 void kvm_define_shared_msr(unsigned index, u32 msr);
 int kvm_set_shared_msr(unsigned index, u64 val, u64 mask);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 29d6eab6920e..58bba7a7572a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -6465,8 +6465,7 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_setup(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
 		++vmx->nmsrs;
 	}
 
-	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_CAPABILITIES))
-		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES, vmx->arch_capabilities);
+	vmx->arch_capabilities = kvm_get_arch_capabilities();
 
 	vm_exit_controls_init(vmx, vmcs_config.vmexit_ctrl);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 79c8ca2c2ad9..a5caa5e5480c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1103,11 +1103,35 @@ static u32 msr_based_features[] = {
 
 static unsigned int num_msr_based_features;
 
+u64 kvm_get_arch_capabilities(void)
+{
+	u64 data;
+
+	rdmsrl_safe(MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES, &data);
+
+	/*
+	 * If we're doing cache flushes (either "always" or "cond")
+	 * we will do one whenever the guest does a vmlaunch/vmresume.
+	 * If an outer hypervisor is doing the cache flush for us
+	 * (VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NESTED_VM), we can safely pass that
+	 * capability to the guest too, and if EPT is disabled we're not
+	 * vulnerable.  Overall, only VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NEVER will
+	 * require a nested hypervisor to do a flush of its own.
+	 */
+	if (l1tf_vmx_mitigation != VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NEVER)
+		data |= ARCH_CAP_SKIP_VMENTRY_L1DFLUSH;
+
+	return data;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_get_arch_capabilities);
+
 static int kvm_get_msr_feature(struct kvm_msr_entry *msr)
 {
 	switch (msr->index) {
-	case MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV:
 	case MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES:
+		msr->data = kvm_get_arch_capabilities();
+		break;
+	case MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV:
 		rdmsrl_safe(msr->index, &msr->data);
 		break;
 	default: