Re: [RESEND PATCH v10 06/10] vmx: spp: Set up SPP paging table at vmentry/vmexit

From: Yang Weijiang
Date: Mon Jan 13 2020 - 01:45:58 EST


On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:55:37AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 02:13:15PM +0800, Yang Weijiang wrote:
> > If write to subpage is not allowed, EPT violation generates
> > and it's handled in fast_page_fault().
> >
> > In current implementation, SPPT setup is only handled in handle_spp()
> > vmexit handler, it's triggered when SPP bit is set in EPT leaf
> > entry while SPPT entries are not ready.
> >
> > A SPP specific bit(11) is added to exit_qualification and a new
> > exit reason(66) is introduced for SPP.
>
> ...
>
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > index 6f92b40d798c..c41791ebee65 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > @@ -6372,6 +6427,8 @@ unsigned long kvm_mmu_calculate_default_mmu_pages(struct kvm *kvm)
> > return nr_mmu_pages;
> > }
> >
> > +#include "spp.c"
> > +
>
> Unless there is a *very* good reason for these shenanigans, spp.c needs
> to built via the Makefile like any other source. If this is justified
> for whatever reason, then that justification needs to be very clearly
> stated in the changelog.

Yes, it looks odd. When extracted the SPP code from mmu.c, I found a lot
of functions in mmu.c should be exposed so that spp.c can see them, I
took them as unnecessary modification to mmu.c, so just add the spp.c file back
to mmu.c, if you suggest change it with a seperate object file, I'll do it.

>
> In general, the code organization of this entire series likely needs to
> be overhauled. There are gobs exports which are either completely
> unnecessary or completely backswards.
>
> E.g. exporting VMX-only functions from spp.c, which presumably are only
> callbed by VMX.
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmx_spp_flush_sppt);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmx_spp_init);
>
> Exporting ioctl helpers from the same file, which are presumably called
> only from x86.c.
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vm_ioctl_get_subpages);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_vm_ioctl_set_subpages);

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll go over the patches and or-organize them.