Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] KVM:VMX: Define CET VMCS fields and bits

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 08/03/19 16:50, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:15:15AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 04/03/19 19:56, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 04:19:34PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>> On 28/01/19 11:33, Yang Weijiang wrote:
>>>>>> There is no code in this series to pass these fields to and from
>>>>>> userspace, and also to save/restore U_CET, INT_SSP_TAB, PL0_SSP and
>>>>>> PL3_SSP across context switches.
>>>>>>
>>>>> The kernel consumes these MSRs, please see kernel CET patch:
>>>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/fancy/2018/11/20/225
>>>>
>>>> Still, even if the kernel saves these fields across context switch in
>>>> XSAVE areas, KVM must support accesses to the MSRs from userspace, for
>>>> example in order to perform live migration.
>>>>
>>>> For example, when reading/writing these in kvm_set_msr or
>>>> kvm_get_msr_common, you would have to do a read/write from the host
>>>> MSRs.  You also have to put kvm_load_guest_fpu/kvm_put_guest_fpu calls
>>>> in __msr_io.
>>>
>>> Paolo, can you elaborate on why KVM would read the host MSRs?  Wouldn't
>>> kvm_{get,set}_msr() pull the values from the VMCS when necessary?
>>
>> Not all MSRs are in the VMCS; IA32_U_CET and IA32_PL*_SSP are not.
> 
> Ah, "host MSRs" confused me.  I though you meant the host's version of
> the MSRs, but you're saying do an XRSTORS to load the guest's FPU state
> and then {RD,WR}MSR to pull the guest's value from hardware.

Yes, that's what Weijang's patches are already doing in the next version.

Paolo