Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU
From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Jan 31 2018 - 12:37:17 EST
On 30/01/2018 11:23, Radim KrÄmÃÅ wrote:
> 2018-01-27 09:50+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
>> Place the MSR bitmap in struct loaded_vmcs, and update it in place
>> every time the x2apic or APICv state can change. This is rare and
>> the loop can handle 64 MSRs per iteration, in a similar fashion as
>> nested_vmx_prepare_msr_bitmap.
>>
>> This prepares for choosing, on a per-VM basis, whether to intercept
>> the SPEC_CTRL and PRED_CMD MSRs.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> @@ -10022,7 +10043,7 @@ static inline bool nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>> int msr;
>> struct page *page;
>> unsigned long *msr_bitmap_l1;
>> - unsigned long *msr_bitmap_l0 = to_vmx(vcpu)->nested.msr_bitmap;
>> + unsigned long *msr_bitmap_l0 = to_vmx(vcpu)->nested.vmcs02.msr_bitmap;
>
> The physical address of the nested msr_bitmap is never loaded into vmcs.
>
> The resolution you provided had extra hunk in prepare_vmcs02_full():
>
> + vmcs_write64(MSR_BITMAP, __pa(vmx->nested.vmcs02.msr_bitmap));
>
> I have queued that as:
>
> + if (cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap())
> + vmcs_write64(MSR_BITMAP, __pa(vmx->nested.vmcs02.msr_bitmap));
Hmm you're right, it should be in prepare_vmcs02() here (4.15-based),
and then moved to prepare_vmcs02_full() as part of the conflict resolution.
I'll send a v3.
Paolo