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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-11-24 01:00:50 +0100
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parentKVM: x86: Break CONFIG_KVM_X86's direct dependency on KVM_INTEL || KVM_AMD (diff)
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "The biggest change here is eliminating the awful idea that KVM had of essentially guessing which pfns are refcounted pages. The reason to do so was that KVM needs to map both non-refcounted pages (for example BARs of VFIO devices) and VM_PFNMAP/VM_MIXMEDMAP VMAs that contain refcounted pages. However, the result was security issues in the past, and more recently the inability to map VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory that _is_ backed by struct page but is not refcounted. In particular this broke virtio-gpu blob resources (which directly map host graphics buffers into the guest as "vram" for the virtio-gpu device) with the amdgpu driver, because amdgpu allocates non-compound higher order pages and the tail pages could not be mapped into KVM. This requires adjusting all uses of struct page in the per-architecture code, to always work on the pfn whenever possible. The large series that did this, from David Stevens and Sean Christopherson, also cleaned up substantially the set of functions that provided arch code with the pfn for a host virtual addresses. The previous maze of twisty little passages, all different, is replaced by five functions (__gfn_to_page, __kvm_faultin_pfn, the non-__ versions of these two, and kvm_prefetch_pages) saving almost 200 lines of code. ARM: - Support for stage-1 permission indirection (FEAT_S1PIE) and permission overlays (FEAT_S1POE), including nested virt + the emulated page table walker - Introduce PSCI SYSTEM_OFF2 support to KVM + client driver. This call was introduced in PSCIv1.3 as a mechanism to request hibernation, similar to the S4 state in ACPI - Explicitly trap + hide FEAT_MPAM (QoS controls) from KVM guests. As part of it, introduce trivial initialization of the host's MPAM context so KVM can use the corresponding traps - PMU support under nested virtualization, honoring the guest hypervisor's trap configuration and event filtering when running a nested guest - Fixes to vgic ITS serialization where stale device/interrupt table entries are not zeroed when the mapping is invalidated by the VM - Avoid emulated MMIO completion if userspace has requested synchronous external abort injection - Various fixes and cleanups affecting pKVM, vCPU initialization, and selftests LoongArch: - Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel. - Add in-kernel interrupt controller emulation. - Add support for virtualization extensions to the eiointc irqchip. PPC: - Drop lingering and utterly obsolete references to PPC970 KVM, which was removed 10 years ago. - Fix incorrect documentation references to non-existing ioctls RISC-V: - Accelerate KVM RISC-V when running as a guest - Perf support to collect KVM guest statistics from host side s390: - New selftests: more ucontrol selftests and CPU model sanity checks - Support for the gen17 CPU model - List registers supported by KVM_GET/SET_ONE_REG in the documentation x86: - Cleanup KVM's handling of Accessed and Dirty bits to dedup code, improve documentation, harden against unexpected changes. Even if the hardware A/D tracking is disabled, it is possible to use the hardware-defined A/D bits to track if a PFN is Accessed and/or Dirty, and that removes a lot of special cases. - Elide TLB flushes when aging secondary PTEs, as has been done in x86's primary MMU for over 10 years. - Recover huge pages in-place in the TDP MMU when dirty page logging is toggled off, instead of zapping them and waiting until the page is re-accessed to create a huge mapping. This reduces vCPU jitter. - Batch TLB flushes when dirty page logging is toggled off. This reduces the time it takes to disable dirty logging by ~3x. - Remove the shrinker that was (poorly) attempting to reclaim shadow page tables in low-memory situations. - Clean up and optimize KVM's handling of writes to MSR_IA32_APICBASE. - Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest - Quirk KVM's misguided behavior of initialized certain feature MSRs to their maximum supported feature set, which can result in KVM creating invalid vCPU state. E.g. initializing PERF_CAPABILITIES to a non-zero value results in the vCPU having invalid state if userspace hides PDCM from the guest, which in turn can lead to save/restore failures. - Fix KVM's handling of non-canonical checks for vCPUs that support LA57 to better follow the "architecture", in quotes because the actual behavior is poorly documented. E.g. most MSR writes and descriptor table loads ignore CR4.LA57 and operate purely on whether the CPU supports LA57. - Bypass the register cache when querying CPL from kvm_sched_out(), as filling the cache from IRQ context is generally unsafe; harden the cache accessors to try to prevent similar issues from occuring in the future. The issue that triggered this change was already fixed in 6.12, but was still kinda latent. - Advertise AMD_IBPB_RET to userspace, and fix a related bug where KVM over-advertises SPEC_CTRL when trying to support cross-vendor VMs. - Minor cleanups - Switch hugepage recovery thread to use vhost_task. These kthreads can consume significant amounts of CPU time on behalf of a VM or in response to how the VM behaves (for example how it accesses its memory); therefore KVM tried to place the thread in the VM's cgroups and charge the CPU time consumed by that work to the VM's container. However the kthreads did not process SIGSTOP/SIGCONT, and therefore cgroups which had KVM instances inside could not complete freezing. Fix this by replacing the kthread with a PF_USER_WORKER thread, via the vhost_task abstraction. Another 100+ lines removed, with generally better behavior too like having these threads properly parented in the process tree. - Revert a workaround for an old CPU erratum (Nehalem/Westmere) that didn't really work; there was really nothing to work around anyway: the broken patch was meant to fix nested virtualization, but the PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR is virtualized and therefore unaffected by the erratum. - Fix 6.12 regression where CONFIG_KVM will be built as a module even if asked to be builtin, as long as neither KVM_INTEL nor KVM_AMD is 'y'. x86 selftests: - x86 selftests can now use AVX. Documentation: - Use rST internal links - Reorganize the introduction to the API document Generic: - Protect vcpu->pid accesses outside of vcpu->mutex with a rwlock instead of RCU, so that running a vCPU on a different task doesn't encounter long due to having to wait for all CPUs become quiescent. In general both reads and writes are rare, but userspace that supports confidential computing is introducing the use of "helper" vCPUs that may jump from one host processor to another. Those will be very happy to trigger a synchronize_rcu(), and the effect on performance is quite the disaster" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (298 commits) KVM: x86: Break CONFIG_KVM_X86's direct dependency on KVM_INTEL || KVM_AMD KVM: x86: add back X86_LOCAL_APIC dependency Revert "KVM: VMX: Move LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL errata handling out of setup_vmcs_config()" KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task KVM: x86: expose MSR_PLATFORM_INFO as a feature MSR x86: KVM: Advertise CPUIDs for new instructions in Clearwater Forest Documentation: KVM: fix malformed table irqchip/loongson-eiointc: Add virt extension support LoongArch: KVM: Add irqfd support LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC user mode read and write functions LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC read and write functions LoongArch: KVM: Add PCHPIC device support LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC user mode read and write functions LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC read and write functions LoongArch: KVM: Add EIOINTC device support LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI user mode read and write function LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI read and write function LoongArch: KVM: Add IPI device support LoongArch: KVM: Add iocsr and mmio bus simulation in kernel KVM: arm64: Pass on SVE mapping failures ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst190
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst80
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/errata.rst12
3 files changed, 169 insertions, 113 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index edc070c6e19b..454c2aaa155e 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -7,8 +7,19 @@ The Definitive KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) API Documentation
1. General description
======================
-The kvm API is a set of ioctls that are issued to control various aspects
-of a virtual machine. The ioctls belong to the following classes:
+The kvm API is centered around different kinds of file descriptors
+and ioctls that can be issued to these file descriptors. An initial
+open("/dev/kvm") obtains a handle to the kvm subsystem; this handle
+can be used to issue system ioctls. A KVM_CREATE_VM ioctl on this
+handle will create a VM file descriptor which can be used to issue VM
+ioctls. A KVM_CREATE_VCPU or KVM_CREATE_DEVICE ioctl on a VM fd will
+create a virtual cpu or device and return a file descriptor pointing to
+the new resource.
+
+In other words, the kvm API is a set of ioctls that are issued to
+different kinds of file descriptor in order to control various aspects of
+a virtual machine. Depending on the file descriptor that accepts them,
+ioctls belong to the following classes:
- System ioctls: These query and set global attributes which affect the
whole kvm subsystem. In addition a system ioctl is used to create
@@ -35,18 +46,19 @@ of a virtual machine. The ioctls belong to the following classes:
device ioctls must be issued from the same process (address space) that
was used to create the VM.
-2. File descriptors
-===================
+While most ioctls are specific to one kind of file descriptor, in some
+cases the same ioctl can belong to more than one class.
+
+The KVM API grew over time. For this reason, KVM defines many constants
+of the form ``KVM_CAP_*``, each corresponding to a set of functionality
+provided by one or more ioctls. Availability of these "capabilities" can
+be checked with :ref:`KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION <KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION>`. Some
+capabilities also need to be enabled for VMs or VCPUs where their
+functionality is desired (see :ref:`cap_enable` and :ref:`cap_enable_vm`).
-The kvm API is centered around file descriptors. An initial
-open("/dev/kvm") obtains a handle to the kvm subsystem; this handle
-can be used to issue system ioctls. A KVM_CREATE_VM ioctl on this
-handle will create a VM file descriptor which can be used to issue VM
-ioctls. A KVM_CREATE_VCPU or KVM_CREATE_DEVICE ioctl on a VM fd will
-create a virtual cpu or device and return a file descriptor pointing to
-the new resource. Finally, ioctls on a vcpu or device fd can be used
-to control the vcpu or device. For vcpus, this includes the important
-task of actually running guest code.
+
+2. Restrictions
+===============
In general file descriptors can be migrated among processes by means
of fork() and the SCM_RIGHTS facility of unix domain socket. These
@@ -96,12 +108,9 @@ description:
Capability:
which KVM extension provides this ioctl. Can be 'basic',
which means that is will be provided by any kernel that supports
- API version 12 (see section 4.1), a KVM_CAP_xyz constant, which
- means availability needs to be checked with KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION
- (see section 4.4), or 'none' which means that while not all kernels
- support this ioctl, there's no capability bit to check its
- availability: for kernels that don't support the ioctl,
- the ioctl returns -ENOTTY.
+ API version 12 (see :ref:`KVM_GET_API_VERSION <KVM_GET_API_VERSION>`),
+ or a KVM_CAP_xyz constant that can be checked with
+ :ref:`KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION <KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION>`.
Architectures:
which instruction set architectures provide this ioctl.
@@ -118,6 +127,8 @@ description:
are not detailed, but errors with specific meanings are.
+.. _KVM_GET_API_VERSION:
+
4.1 KVM_GET_API_VERSION
-----------------------
@@ -246,6 +257,8 @@ This list also varies by kvm version and host processor, but does not change
otherwise.
+.. _KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION:
+
4.4 KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION
-----------------------
@@ -288,7 +301,7 @@ the VCPU file descriptor can be mmap-ed, including:
- if KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING is available, a number of pages at
KVM_DIRTY_LOG_PAGE_OFFSET * PAGE_SIZE. For more information on
- KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING, see section 8.3.
+ KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING, see :ref:`KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING`.
4.7 KVM_CREATE_VCPU
@@ -338,8 +351,8 @@ KVM_S390_SIE_PAGE_OFFSET in order to obtain a memory map of the virtual
cpu's hardware control block.
-4.8 KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG (vm ioctl)
---------------------------------
+4.8 KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG
+---------------------
:Capability: basic
:Architectures: all
@@ -1298,7 +1311,7 @@ See KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS for the data structure.
:Capability: KVM_CAP_DEBUGREGS
:Architectures: x86
-:Type: vm ioctl
+:Type: vcpu ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_debugregs (out)
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -1320,7 +1333,7 @@ Reads debug registers from the vcpu.
:Capability: KVM_CAP_DEBUGREGS
:Architectures: x86
-:Type: vm ioctl
+:Type: vcpu ioctl
:Parameters: struct kvm_debugregs (in)
:Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
@@ -1429,6 +1442,8 @@ because of a quirk in the virtualization implementation (see the internals
documentation when it pops into existence).
+.. _KVM_ENABLE_CAP:
+
4.37 KVM_ENABLE_CAP
-------------------
@@ -2116,8 +2131,8 @@ TLB, prior to calling KVM_RUN on the associated vcpu.
The "bitmap" field is the userspace address of an array. This array
consists of a number of bits, equal to the total number of TLB entries as
-determined by the last successful call to KVM_CONFIG_TLB, rounded up to the
-nearest multiple of 64.
+determined by the last successful call to ``KVM_ENABLE_CAP(KVM_CAP_SW_TLB)``,
+rounded up to the nearest multiple of 64.
Each bit corresponds to one TLB entry, ordered the same as in the shared TLB
array.
@@ -2170,42 +2185,6 @@ userspace update the TCE table directly which is useful in some
circumstances.
-4.63 KVM_ALLOCATE_RMA
----------------------
-
-:Capability: KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA
-:Architectures: powerpc
-:Type: vm ioctl
-:Parameters: struct kvm_allocate_rma (out)
-:Returns: file descriptor for mapping the allocated RMA
-
-This allocates a Real Mode Area (RMA) from the pool allocated at boot
-time by the kernel. An RMA is a physically-contiguous, aligned region
-of memory used on older POWER processors to provide the memory which
-will be accessed by real-mode (MMU off) accesses in a KVM guest.
-POWER processors support a set of sizes for the RMA that usually
-includes 64MB, 128MB, 256MB and some larger powers of two.
-
-::
-
- /* for KVM_ALLOCATE_RMA */
- struct kvm_allocate_rma {
- __u64 rma_size;
- };
-
-The return value is a file descriptor which can be passed to mmap(2)
-to map the allocated RMA into userspace. The mapped area can then be
-passed to the KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION ioctl to establish it as the
-RMA for a virtual machine. The size of the RMA in bytes (which is
-fixed at host kernel boot time) is returned in the rma_size field of
-the argument structure.
-
-The KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA capability is 1 or 2 if the KVM_ALLOCATE_RMA ioctl
-is supported; 2 if the processor requires all virtual machines to have
-an RMA, or 1 if the processor can use an RMA but doesn't require it,
-because it supports the Virtual RMA (VRMA) facility.
-
-
4.64 KVM_NMI
------------
@@ -2602,7 +2581,7 @@ Specifically:
======================= ========= ===== =======================================
.. [1] These encodings are not accepted for SVE-enabled vcpus. See
- KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT.
+ :ref:`KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT`.
The equivalent register content can be accessed via bits [127:0] of
the corresponding SVE Zn registers instead for vcpus that have SVE
@@ -3593,6 +3572,27 @@ Errors:
This ioctl returns the guest registers that are supported for the
KVM_GET_ONE_REG/KVM_SET_ONE_REG calls.
+Note that s390 does not support KVM_GET_REG_LIST for historical reasons
+(read: nobody cared). The set of registers in kernels 4.x and newer is:
+
+- KVM_REG_S390_TODPR
+
+- KVM_REG_S390_EPOCHDIFF
+
+- KVM_REG_S390_CPU_TIMER
+
+- KVM_REG_S390_CLOCK_COMP
+
+- KVM_REG_S390_PFTOKEN
+
+- KVM_REG_S390_PFCOMPARE
+
+- KVM_REG_S390_PFSELECT
+
+- KVM_REG_S390_PP
+
+- KVM_REG_S390_GBEA
+
4.85 KVM_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR (deprecated)
-----------------------------------------
@@ -4956,8 +4956,8 @@ Coalesced pio is based on coalesced mmio. There is little difference
between coalesced mmio and pio except that coalesced pio records accesses
to I/O ports.
-4.117 KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG (vm ioctl)
-------------------------------------
+4.117 KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG
+-------------------------
:Capability: KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2
:Architectures: x86, arm64, mips
@@ -5093,8 +5093,8 @@ Recognised values for feature:
Finalizes the configuration of the specified vcpu feature.
The vcpu must already have been initialised, enabling the affected feature, by
-means of a successful KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT call with the appropriate flag set in
-features[].
+means of a successful :ref:`KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT <KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT>` call with the
+appropriate flag set in features[].
For affected vcpu features, this is a mandatory step that must be performed
before the vcpu is fully usable.
@@ -5266,7 +5266,7 @@ the cpu reset definition in the POP (Principles Of Operation).
4.123 KVM_S390_INITIAL_RESET
----------------------------
-:Capability: none
+:Capability: basic
:Architectures: s390
:Type: vcpu ioctl
:Parameters: none
@@ -6205,7 +6205,7 @@ applied.
.. _KVM_ARM_GET_REG_WRITABLE_MASKS:
4.139 KVM_ARM_GET_REG_WRITABLE_MASKS
--------------------------------------------
+------------------------------------
:Capability: KVM_CAP_ARM_SUPPORTED_REG_MASK_RANGES
:Architectures: arm64
@@ -6443,6 +6443,8 @@ the capability to be present.
`flags` must currently be zero.
+.. _kvm_run:
+
5. The kvm_run structure
========================
@@ -6855,6 +6857,10 @@ the first `ndata` items (possibly zero) of the data array are valid.
the guest issued a SYSTEM_RESET2 call according to v1.1 of the PSCI
specification.
+ - for arm64, data[0] is set to KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_SHUTDOWN_FLAG_PSCI_OFF2
+ if the guest issued a SYSTEM_OFF2 call according to v1.3 of the PSCI
+ specification.
+
- for RISC-V, data[0] is set to the value of the second argument of the
``sbi_system_reset`` call.
@@ -6888,6 +6894,12 @@ either:
- Deny the guest request to suspend the VM. See ARM DEN0022D.b 5.19.2
"Caller responsibilities" for possible return values.
+Hibernation using the PSCI SYSTEM_OFF2 call is enabled when PSCI v1.3
+is enabled. If a guest invokes the PSCI SYSTEM_OFF2 function, KVM will
+exit to userspace with the KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_SHUTDOWN event type and with
+data[0] set to KVM_SYSTEM_EVENT_SHUTDOWN_FLAG_PSCI_OFF2. The only
+supported hibernate type for the SYSTEM_OFF2 function is HIBERNATE_OFF.
+
::
/* KVM_EXIT_IOAPIC_EOI */
@@ -7162,11 +7174,15 @@ primary storage for certain register types. Therefore, the kernel may use the
values in kvm_run even if the corresponding bit in kvm_dirty_regs is not set.
+.. _cap_enable:
+
6. Capabilities that can be enabled on vCPUs
============================================
There are certain capabilities that change the behavior of the virtual CPU or
-the virtual machine when enabled. To enable them, please see section 4.37.
+the virtual machine when enabled. To enable them, please see
+:ref:`KVM_ENABLE_CAP`.
+
Below you can find a list of capabilities and what their effect on the vCPU or
the virtual machine is when enabling them.
@@ -7375,7 +7391,7 @@ KVM API and also from the guest.
sets are supported
(bitfields defined in arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h).
-As described above in the kvm_sync_regs struct info in section 5 (kvm_run):
+As described above in the kvm_sync_regs struct info in section :ref:`kvm_run`,
KVM_CAP_SYNC_REGS "allow[s] userspace to access certain guest registers
without having to call SET/GET_*REGS". This reduces overhead by eliminating
repeated ioctl calls for setting and/or getting register values. This is
@@ -7421,13 +7437,15 @@ Unused bitfields in the bitarrays must be set to zero.
This capability connects the vcpu to an in-kernel XIVE device.
+.. _cap_enable_vm:
+
7. Capabilities that can be enabled on VMs
==========================================
There are certain capabilities that change the behavior of the virtual
-machine when enabled. To enable them, please see section 4.37. Below
-you can find a list of capabilities and what their effect on the VM
-is when enabling them.
+machine when enabled. To enable them, please see section
+:ref:`KVM_ENABLE_CAP`. Below you can find a list of capabilities and
+what their effect on the VM is when enabling them.
The following information is provided along with the description:
@@ -8107,6 +8125,28 @@ KVM_X86_QUIRK_SLOT_ZAP_ALL By default, for KVM_X86_DEFAULT_VM VMs, KVM
or moved memslot isn't reachable, i.e KVM
_may_ invalidate only SPTEs related to the
memslot.
+
+KVM_X86_QUIRK_STUFF_FEATURE_MSRS By default, at vCPU creation, KVM sets the
+ vCPU's MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES (0x345),
+ MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES (0x10a),
+ MSR_PLATFORM_INFO (0xce), and all VMX MSRs
+ (0x480..0x492) to the maximal capabilities
+ supported by KVM. KVM also sets
+ MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV (0x8b) to an arbitrary
+ value (which is different for Intel vs.
+ AMD). Lastly, when guest CPUID is set (by
+ userspace), KVM modifies select VMX MSR
+ fields to force consistency between guest
+ CPUID and L2's effective ISA. When this
+ quirk is disabled, KVM zeroes the vCPU's MSR
+ values (with two exceptions, see below),
+ i.e. treats the feature MSRs like CPUID
+ leaves and gives userspace full control of
+ the vCPU model definition. This quirk does
+ not affect VMX MSRs CR0/CR4_FIXED1 (0x487
+ and 0x489), as KVM does now allow them to
+ be set by userspace (KVM sets them based on
+ guest CPUID, for safety purposes).
=================================== ============================================
7.32 KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID
@@ -8588,6 +8628,8 @@ guest according to the bits in the KVM_CPUID_FEATURES CPUID leaf
(0x40000001). Otherwise, a guest may use the paravirtual features
regardless of what has actually been exposed through the CPUID leaf.
+.. _KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING:
+
8.29 KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING/KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL
----------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst
index 1bedd56e2fe3..c56d5f26c750 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst
@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ We dirty-log for gfn1, that means gfn2 is lost in dirty-bitmap.
For direct sp, we can easily avoid it since the spte of direct sp is fixed
to gfn. For indirect sp, we disabled fast page fault for simplicity.
-A solution for indirect sp could be to pin the gfn, for example via
-gfn_to_pfn_memslot_atomic, before the cmpxchg. After the pinning:
+A solution for indirect sp could be to pin the gfn before the cmpxchg. After
+the pinning:
- We have held the refcount of pfn; that means the pfn can not be freed and
be reused for another gfn.
@@ -147,49 +147,51 @@ Then, we can ensure the dirty bitmaps is correctly set for a gfn.
2) Dirty bit tracking
-In the origin code, the spte can be fast updated (non-atomically) if the
+In the original code, the spte can be fast updated (non-atomically) if the
spte is read-only and the Accessed bit has already been set since the
Accessed bit and Dirty bit can not be lost.
But it is not true after fast page fault since the spte can be marked
writable between reading spte and updating spte. Like below case:
-+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| At the beginning:: |
-| |
-| spte.W = 0 |
-| spte.Accessed = 1 |
-+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
-| CPU 0: | CPU 1: |
-+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
-| In mmu_spte_clear_track_bits():: | |
-| | |
-| old_spte = *spte; | |
-| | |
-| | |
-| /* 'if' condition is satisfied. */| |
-| if (old_spte.Accessed == 1 && | |
-| old_spte.W == 0) | |
-| spte = 0ull; | |
-+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
-| | on fast page fault path:: |
-| | |
-| | spte.W = 1 |
-| | |
-| | memory write on the spte:: |
-| | |
-| | spte.Dirty = 1 |
-+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
-| :: | |
-| | |
-| else | |
-| old_spte = xchg(spte, 0ull) | |
-| if (old_spte.Accessed == 1) | |
-| kvm_set_pfn_accessed(spte.pfn);| |
-| if (old_spte.Dirty == 1) | |
-| kvm_set_pfn_dirty(spte.pfn); | |
-| OOPS!!! | |
-+------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
++-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| At the beginning:: |
+| |
+| spte.W = 0 |
+| spte.Accessed = 1 |
++-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| CPU 0: | CPU 1: |
++-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| In mmu_spte_update():: | |
+| | |
+| old_spte = *spte; | |
+| | |
+| | |
+| /* 'if' condition is satisfied. */ | |
+| if (old_spte.Accessed == 1 && | |
+| old_spte.W == 0) | |
+| spte = new_spte; | |
++-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| | on fast page fault path:: |
+| | |
+| | spte.W = 1 |
+| | |
+| | memory write on the spte:: |
+| | |
+| | spte.Dirty = 1 |
++-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+| :: | |
+| | |
+| else | |
+| old_spte = xchg(spte, new_spte);| |
+| if (old_spte.Accessed && | |
+| !new_spte.Accessed) | |
+| flush = true; | |
+| if (old_spte.Dirty && | |
+| !new_spte.Dirty) | |
+| flush = true; | |
+| OOPS!!! | |
++-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
The Dirty bit is lost in this case.
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/errata.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/errata.rst
index 4116045a8744..37c79362a48f 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/errata.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/errata.rst
@@ -33,6 +33,18 @@ Note however that any software (e.g ``WIN87EM.DLL``) expecting these features
to be present likely predates these CPUID feature bits, and therefore
doesn't know to check for them anyway.
+``KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS`` issue
+-----------------------------
+
+Invalid KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS input with respect to error codes *may* result in
+failed VM-Entry on Intel CPUs. Pre-CET Intel CPUs require that exception
+injection through the VMCS correctly set the "error code valid" flag, e.g.
+require the flag be set when injecting a #GP, clear when injecting a #UD,
+clear when injecting a soft exception, etc. Intel CPUs that enumerate
+IA32_VMX_BASIC[56] as '1' relax VMX's consistency checks, and AMD CPUs have no
+restrictions whatsoever. KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS doesn't sanity check the vector
+versus "has_error_code", i.e. KVM's ABI follows AMD behavior.
+
Nested virtualization features
------------------------------