Use the recently added tracepoint for logging nested VM-Enter failures
instead of spamming the kernel log when hardware detects a consistency
check failure. Take the opportunity to print the name of the error code
instead of dumping the raw hex number, but limit the symbol table to
error codes that can reasonably be encountered by KVM.
Add an equivalent tracepoint in nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw(), e.g. so
that tracing of "invalid control field" errors isn't suppressed when
nested early checks are enabled.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Debugging a failed VM-Enter is often like searching for a needle in a
haystack, e.g. there are over 80 consistency checks that funnel into
the "invalid control field" error code. One way to expedite debug is
to run the buggy code as an L1 guest under KVM (and pray that the
failing check is detected by KVM). However, extracting useful debug
information out of L0 KVM requires attaching a debugger to KVM and/or
modifying the source, e.g. to log which check is failing.
Make life a little less painful for VMM developers and add a tracepoint
for failed VM-Enter consistency checks. Ideally the tracepoint would
capture both what check failed and precisely why it failed, but logging
why a checked failed is difficult to do in a generic tracepoint without
resorting to invasive techniques, e.g. generating a custom string on
failure. That being said, for the vast majority of VM-Enter failures
the most difficult step is figuring out exactly what to look at, e.g.
figuring out which bit was incorrectly set in a control field is usually
not too painful once the guilty field as been identified.
To reach a happy medium between precision and ease of use, simply log
the code that detected a failed check, using a macro to execute the
check and log the trace event on failure. This approach enables tracing
arbitrary code, e.g. it's not limited to function calls or specific
formats of checks, and the changes to the existing code are minimally
invasive. A macro with a two-character name is desirable as usage of
the macro doesn't result in overly long lines or confusing alignment,
while still retaining some amount of readability. I.e. a one-character
name is a little too terse, and a three-character name results in the
contents being passed to the macro aligning with an indented line when
the macro is used an in if-statement, e.g.:
if (VCC(nested_vmx_check_long_line_one(...) &&
nested_vmx_check_long_line_two(...)))
return -EINVAL;
And that is the story of how the CC(), a.k.a. Consistency Check, macro
got its name.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Refactor the top-level MSR accessors to take/return the index and value
directly instead of requiring the caller to dump them into a msr_data
struct.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Letting this pend may cause nested_get_vmcs12_pages to run against an
invalid state, corrupting the effective vmcs of L1.
This was triggerable in QEMU after a guest corruption in L2, followed by
a L1 reset.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7f7f1ba33c ("KVM: x86: do not load vmcs12 pages while still in SMM")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
If a KVM guest is reset while running a nested guest, free_nested will
disable the shadow VMCS execution control in the vmcs01. However,
on the next KVM_RUN vmx_vcpu_run would nevertheless try to sync
the VMCS12 to the shadow VMCS which has since been freed.
This causes a vmptrld of a NULL pointer on my machime, but Jan reports
the host to hang altogether. Let's see how much this trivial patch fixes.
Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
As reported by Maxime at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204175:
In vmx/nested.c::get_vmx_mem_address(), when the guest runs in long mode,
the base address of the memory operand is computed with a simple:
*ret = s.base + off;
This is incorrect, the base applies only to FS and GS, not to the others.
Because of that, if the guest uses a VMX instruction based on DS and has
a DS.base that is non-zero, KVM wrongfully adds the base to the
resulting address.
Reported-by: Maxime Villard <max@m00nbsd.net>
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>
* support for chained PMU counters in guests
* improved SError handling
* handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291
* allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated
* standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s
* fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit
* selftests ckleanups
x86:
* PMU event {white,black}listing
* ability for the guest to disable host-side interrupt polling
* fixes for enlightened VMCS (Hyper-V pv nested virtualization),
* new hypercall to yield to IPI target
* support for passing cstate MSRs through to the guest
* lots of cleanups and optimizations
Generic:
* Some txt->rST conversions for the documentation
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"ARM:
- support for chained PMU counters in guests
- improved SError handling
- handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291
- allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated
- standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s
- fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit
- selftests ckleanups
x86:
- PMU event {white,black}listing
- ability for the guest to disable host-side interrupt polling
- fixes for enlightened VMCS (Hyper-V pv nested virtualization),
- new hypercall to yield to IPI target
- support for passing cstate MSRs through to the guest
- lots of cleanups and optimizations
Generic:
- Some txt->rST conversions for the documentation"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (128 commits)
Documentation: virtual: Add toctree hooks
Documentation: kvm: Convert cpuid.txt to .rst
Documentation: virtual: Convert paravirt_ops.txt to .rst
KVM: x86: Unconditionally enable irqs in guest context
KVM: x86: PMU Event Filter
kvm: x86: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings
KVM: Properly check if "page" is valid in kvm_vcpu_unmap
KVM: arm/arm64: Initialise host's MPIDRs by reading the actual register
KVM: LAPIC: Retry tune per-vCPU timer_advance_ns if adaptive tuning goes insane
kvm: LAPIC: write down valid APIC registers
KVM: arm64: Migrate _elx sysreg accessors to msr_s/mrs_s
KVM: doc: Add API documentation on the KVM_REG_ARM_WORKAROUNDS register
KVM: arm/arm64: Add save/restore support for firmware workaround state
arm64: KVM: Propagate full Spectre v2 workaround state to KVM guests
KVM: arm/arm64: Support chained PMU counters
KVM: arm/arm64: Remove pmc->bitmask
KVM: arm/arm64: Re-create event when setting counter value
KVM: arm/arm64: Extract duplicated code to own function
KVM: arm/arm64: Rename kvm_pmu_{enable/disable}_counter functions
KVM: LAPIC: ARBPRI is a reserved register for x2APIC
...
- Add support for chained PMU counters in guests
- Improve SError handling
- Handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291
- Allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated
- Standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s
- Fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit
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Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD
KVM/arm updates for 5.3
- Add support for chained PMU counters in guests
- Improve SError handling
- Handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291
- Allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated
- Standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s
- Fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit
According to section "Checks on Host Segment and Descriptor-Table
Registers" in Intel SDM vol 3C, the following checks are performed on
vmentry of nested guests:
- In the selector field for each of CS, SS, DS, ES, FS, GS and TR, the
RPL (bits 1:0) and the TI flag (bit 2) must be 0.
- The selector fields for CS and TR cannot be 0000H.
- The selector field for SS cannot be 0000H if the "host address-space
size" VM-exit control is 0.
- On processors that support Intel 64 architecture, the base-address
fields for FS, GS and TR must contain canonical addresses.
Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
KVM does not have 100% coverage of VMX consistency checks, i.e. some
checks that cause VM-Fail may only be detected by hardware during a
nested VM-Entry. In such a case, KVM must restore L1's state to the
pre-VM-Enter state as L2's state has already been loaded into KVM's
software model.
L1's CR3 and PDPTRs in particular are loaded from vmcs01.GUEST_*. But
when EPT is disabled, the associated fields hold KVM's shadow values,
not L1's "real" values. Fortunately, when EPT is disabled the PDPTRs
come from memory, i.e. are not cached in the VMCS. Which leaves CR3
as the sole anomaly.
A previously applied workaround to handle CR3 was to force nested early
checks if EPT is disabled:
commit 2b27924bb1 ("KVM: nVMX: always use early vmcs check when EPT
is disabled")
Forcing nested early checks is undesirable as doing so adds hundreds of
cycles to every nested VM-Entry. Rather than take this performance hit,
handle CR3 by overwriting vmcs01.GUEST_CR3 with L1's CR3 during nested
VM-Entry when EPT is disabled *and* nested early checks are disabled.
By stuffing vmcs01.GUEST_CR3, nested_vmx_restore_host_state() will
naturally restore the correct vcpu->arch.cr3 from vmcs01.GUEST_CR3.
These shenanigans work because nested_vmx_restore_host_state() does a
full kvm_mmu_reset_context(), i.e. unloads the current MMU, which
guarantees vmcs01.GUEST_CR3 will be rewritten with a new shadow CR3
prior to re-entering L1.
vcpu->arch.root_mmu.root_hpa is set to INVALID_PAGE via:
nested_vmx_restore_host_state() ->
kvm_mmu_reset_context() ->
kvm_mmu_unload() ->
kvm_mmu_free_roots()
kvm_mmu_unload() has WARN_ON(root_hpa != INVALID_PAGE), i.e. we can bank
on 'root_hpa == INVALID_PAGE' unless the implementation of
kvm_mmu_reset_context() is changed.
On the way into L1, VMCS.GUEST_CR3 is guaranteed to be written (on a
successful entry) via:
vcpu_enter_guest() ->
kvm_mmu_reload() ->
kvm_mmu_load() ->
kvm_mmu_load_cr3() ->
vmx_set_cr3()
Stuff vmcs01.GUEST_CR3 if and only if nested early checks are disabled
as a "late" VM-Fail should never happen win that case (KVM WARNs), and
the conditional write avoids the need to restore the correct GUEST_CR3
when nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw() fails.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20190607185534.24368-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Currently KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS is used to signal that eVMCS
capability is enabled on vCPU.
As indicated by vmx->nested.enlightened_vmcs_enabled.
This is quite bizarre as userspace VMM should make sure to expose
same vCPU with same CPUID values in both source and destination.
In case vCPU is exposed with eVMCS support on CPUID, it is also
expected to enable KVM_CAP_HYPERV_ENLIGHTENED_VMCS capability.
Therefore, KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS is redundant.
KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS is currently used on restore path
(vmx_set_nested_state()) only to enable eVMCS capability in KVM
and to signal need_vmcs12_sync such that on next VMEntry to guest
nested_sync_from_vmcs12() will be called to sync vmcs12 content
into eVMCS in guest memory.
However, because restore nested-state is rare enough, we could
have just modified vmx_set_nested_state() to always signal
need_vmcs12_sync.
From all the above, it seems that we could have just removed
the usage of KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS. However, in order to preserve
backwards migration compatibility, we cannot do that.
(vmx_get_nested_state() needs to signal flag when migrating from
new kernel to old kernel).
Returning KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS when just vCPU have eVMCS enabled
have a bad side-effect of userspace VMM having to send nested-state
from source to destination as part of migration stream. Even if
guest have never used eVMCS as it doesn't even run a nested
hypervisor workload. This requires destination userspace VMM and
KVM to support setting nested-state. Which make it more difficult
to migrate from new host to older host.
To avoid this, change KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS to signal eVMCS is
not only enabled but also active. i.e. Guest have made some
eVMCS active via an enlightened VMEntry. i.e. vmcs12 is copied
from eVMCS and therefore should be restored into eVMCS resident
in memory (by copy_vmcs12_to_enlightened()).
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Maran Wilson <maran.wilson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
As comment in code specifies, SMM temporarily disables VMX so we cannot
be in guest mode, nor can VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME be pending.
However, code currently assumes that these are the only flags that can be
set on kvm_state->flags. This is not true as KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS
can also be set on this field to signal that eVMCS should be enabled.
Therefore, fix code to check for guest-mode and pending VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME
explicitly.
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>
When L0 is executing handle_invept(), the TDP MMU is active. Emulating
an L1 INVEPT does require synchronizing the appropriate shadow EPT
root(s), but a call to kvm_mmu_sync_roots in this context won't do
that. Similarly, the hardware TLB and paging-structure-cache entries
associated with the appropriate shadow EPT root(s) must be flushed,
but requesting a TLB_FLUSH from this context won't do that either.
How did this ever work? KVM always does a sync_roots and TLB flush (in
the correct context) when transitioning from L1 to L2. That isn't the
best choice for nested VM performance, but it effectively papers over
the mistakes here.
Remove the unnecessary operations and leave a comment to try to do
better in the future.
Reported-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Fixes: bfd0a56b90 ("nEPT: Nested INVEPT")
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Cc: Xinhao Xu <xinhao.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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>
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>
Commit 332d079735 ("KVM: nVMX: KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE - Tear down old EVMCS
state before setting new state", 2019-05-02) broke evmcs_test because the
eVMCS setup must be performed even if there is no VMXON region defined,
as long as the eVMCS bit is set in the assist page.
While the simplest possible fix would be to add a check on
kvm_state->flags & KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS in the initial "if" that
covers kvm_state->hdr.vmx.vmxon_pa == -1ull, that is quite ugly.
Instead, this patch moves checks earlier in the function and
conditionalizes them on kvm_state->hdr.vmx.vmxon_pa, so that
vmx_set_nested_state always goes through vmx_leave_nested
and nested_enable_evmcs.
Fixes: 332d079735 ("KVM: nVMX: KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE - Tear down old EVMCS state before setting new state")
Cc: Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Improve the KVM_{GET,SET}_NESTED_STATE structs by detailing the format
of VMX nested state data in a struct.
In order to avoid changing the ioctl values of
KVM_{GET,SET}_NESTED_STATE, there is a need to preserve
sizeof(struct kvm_nested_state). This is done by defining the data
struct as "data.vmx[0]". It was the most elegant way I found to
preserve struct size while still keeping struct readable and easy to
maintain. It does have a misfortunate side-effect that now it has to be
accessed as "data.vmx[0]" rather than just "data.vmx".
Because we are already modifying these structs, I also modified the
following:
* Define the "format" field values as macros.
* Rename vmcs_pa to vmcs12_pa for better readability.
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
[Remove SVM stubs, add KVM_STATE_NESTED_VMX_VMCS12_SIZE. - Paolo]
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Sean Christopherson