[PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Skip IBPB when switching between vmcs01 and vmcs02

[Sean Christopherson]

Skip the Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier that is triggered on a VMCS
switch when running with spectre_v2_user=on/auto if the switch is
between two VMCSes in the same guest, i.e. between vmcs01 and vmcs02.
The IBPB is intended to prevent one guest from attacking another, which
is unnecessary in the nested case as it's the same guest from KVM's
perspective.

This all but eliminates the overhead observed for nested VMX transitions
when running with CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y and spectre_v2_user=on/auto, which
can be significant, e.g. roughly 3x on current systems.

Reported-by: Alexander Graf <graf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KarimAllah Raslan <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 15d45071523d ("KVM/x86: Add IBPB support")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c    | 12 ++++++++----
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h    |  3 ++-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 2c36f3f53108..1a02bdfeeb2b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static void vmx_switch_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct loaded_vmcs *vmcs)
 	cpu = get_cpu();
 	prev = vmx->loaded_vmcs;
 	vmx->loaded_vmcs = vmcs;
-	vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(vcpu, cpu);
+	vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(vcpu, cpu, prev);
 	vmx_sync_vmcs_host_state(vmx, prev);
 	put_cpu();
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 3ab6ca6062ce..818dd8ba5e9f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -1311,10 +1311,12 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_pi_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
 		pi_set_on(pi_desc);
 }
 
-void vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
+void vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu,
+			struct loaded_vmcs *buddy)
 {
 	struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
 	bool already_loaded = vmx->loaded_vmcs->cpu == cpu;
+	struct vmcs *prev;
 
 	if (!already_loaded) {
 		loaded_vmcs_clear(vmx->loaded_vmcs);
@@ -1333,10 +1335,12 @@ void vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
 		local_irq_enable();
 	}
 
-	if (per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu) != vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs) {
+	prev = per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu);
+	if (prev != vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs) {
 		per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu) = vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs;
 		vmcs_load(vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs);
-		indirect_branch_prediction_barrier();
+		if (!buddy || buddy->vmcs != prev)
+			indirect_branch_prediction_barrier();
 	}
 
 	if (!already_loaded) {
@@ -1377,7 +1381,7 @@ void vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
 {
 	struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
 
-	vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(vcpu, cpu);
+	vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(vcpu, cpu, NULL);
 
 	vmx_vcpu_pi_load(vcpu, cpu);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
index b5e773267abe..d3d48acc6bd9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
@@ -320,7 +320,8 @@ struct kvm_vmx {
 };
 
 bool nested_vmx_allowed(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
-void vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu);
+void vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu,
+			struct loaded_vmcs *buddy);
 void vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu);
 int allocate_vpid(void);
 void free_vpid(int vpid);
-- 
2.26.0