[PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: x86: Add support for cmpxchg16b emulation
From: Sairaj Kodilkar
Date: Mon Jul 06 2026 - 03:23:28 EST
AMD and Intel both provides support for 128 bit cmpxchg operands using
cmpxchg8b/cmpxchg16b instructions (opcode 0FC7). However, kvm does not
support emulating cmpxchg16b (i.e when destination memory is 128 bit and
REX.W = 1) which causes emulation failure when QEMU guest performs a
cmpxchg16b on a memory region setup as a IO.
This failure is seen on the AMD IOMMU driver which writes 256-bit device
table entries with two 128-bit cmpxchg operations. For guests using
hardware-accelerated vIOMMU, QEMU traps device table accesses to set up
nested page tables (see [1]). Without 128-bit cmpxchg emulation, KVM
cannot handle these traps and DTE access emulation fails.
Hence extend cmpxchg8b to perform cmpxchg16b when the destination memory
is 128 bit.
[1] https://github.com/AMDESE/qemu-iommu/blob/wip/for_iommufd_hw_queue-v8_amd_viommu_20260106/hw/i386/amd_viommu.c#L517
Signed-off-by: Sairaj Kodilkar <sarunkod@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h | 6 +++++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 +++++-
3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
index c8e292e9a24d..9df55b3c5627 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -2188,24 +2188,36 @@ static int em_call_near_abs(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
return rc;
}
+#define em_cmpxchg8b_16b(__c, rbits, mbits)\
+do { \
+ u##mbits old = __c->dst.orig_val##mbits; \
+ \
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(rbits * 2 != mbits); \
+ \
+ if (((u##rbits) (old >> 0) != (u##rbits) reg_read(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RAX)) || \
+ ((u##rbits) (old >> rbits) != (u##rbits) reg_read(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RDX))) { \
+ *reg_write(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RAX) = (u##rbits) (old >> 0); \
+ *reg_write(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RDX) = (u##rbits) (old >> rbits); \
+ ctxt->eflags &= ~X86_EFLAGS_ZF; \
+ } else { \
+ ctxt->dst.val##mbits = ((u##mbits)reg_read(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RCX) << rbits) | \
+ (u##rbits) reg_read(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RBX); \
+ \
+ ctxt->eflags |= X86_EFLAGS_ZF; \
+ } \
+} while(0)
+
static int em_cmpxchg8b(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
{
- u64 old = ctxt->dst.orig_val64;
-
- if (ctxt->dst.bytes == 16)
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(8 + !!(ctxt->rex_bits & REX_W) * 8 != ctxt->dst.bytes))
return X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE;
- if (((u32) (old >> 0) != (u32) reg_read(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RAX)) ||
- ((u32) (old >> 32) != (u32) reg_read(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RDX))) {
- *reg_write(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RAX) = (u32) (old >> 0);
- *reg_write(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RDX) = (u32) (old >> 32);
- ctxt->eflags &= ~X86_EFLAGS_ZF;
- } else {
- ctxt->dst.val64 = ((u64)reg_read(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RCX) << 32) |
- (u32) reg_read(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RBX);
-
- ctxt->eflags |= X86_EFLAGS_ZF;
- }
+ if (!(ctxt->rex_bits & REX_W))
+ em_cmpxchg8b_16b(ctxt, 32, 64);
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ else
+ em_cmpxchg8b_16b(ctxt, 64, 128);
+#endif
return X86EMUL_CONTINUE;
}
@@ -5405,8 +5417,14 @@ int x86_emulate_insn(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, bool check_intercepts)
goto done;
}
}
- /* Copy full 64-bit value for CMPXCHG8B. */
- ctxt->dst.orig_val64 = ctxt->dst.val64;
+ /* Copy full 64/128-bit value for CMPXCHG8B. */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ if (ctxt->dst.bytes == 16)
+ ctxt->dst.orig_val128 = ctxt->dst.val128;
+ else
+#endif
+ ctxt->dst.orig_val64 = ctxt->dst.val64;
special_insn:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h b/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h
index fb3dab4b5a53..a51677217ada 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h
@@ -255,6 +255,9 @@ struct operand {
union {
unsigned long orig_val;
u64 orig_val64;
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ u128 orig_val128;
+#endif
};
union {
unsigned long *reg;
@@ -268,6 +271,9 @@ struct operand {
union {
unsigned long val;
u64 val64;
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ u128 val128;
+#endif
char valptr[sizeof(avx256_t)];
sse128_t vec_val;
avx256_t vec_val2;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 3fb64905d190..40c84f8c4912 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -8322,7 +8322,7 @@ static int emulator_cmpxchg_emulated(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
int r;
/* guests cmpxchg8b have to be emulated atomically */
- if (bytes > 8 || (bytes & (bytes - 1)))
+ if (bytes > 2 * sizeof(unsigned long) || (bytes & (bytes - 1)))
goto emul_write;
gpa = kvm_mmu_gva_to_gpa_write(vcpu, addr, NULL);
@@ -8362,6 +8362,11 @@ static int emulator_cmpxchg_emulated(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
case 8:
r = emulator_try_cmpxchg_user(u64, hva, old, new);
break;
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ case 16:
+ r = emulator_try_cmpxchg_user(u128, hva, old, new);
+ break;
+#endif
default:
BUG();
}
--
2.34.1