Re: FSGSBASE causing panic on 5.9-rc1

[Tom Lendacky]

On 8/20/20 5:34 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 03:07:10PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 3:05 PM Sean Christopherson
> > <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 01:36:46PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > > > On Aug 20, 2020, at 1:15 PM, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On 8/20/20 3:07 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > > > > > On 8/20/20 12:05 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > > > > > > > I added a quick hack to save TSC_AUX to a new variable in the SVM
> > > > > > > > struct and then restore it right after VMEXIT (just after where GS is
> > > > > > > > restored in svm_vcpu_enter_exit()) and my guest is no longer crashing.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Sorry, I mean my host is no longer crashing.
> > > > > > Just to make sure I've got this:
> > > > > > 1. Older CPUs didn't have X86_FEATURE_RDPID
> > > > > > 2. FSGSBASE patches started using RDPID in the NMI entry path when
> > > > > >     supported *AND* FSGSBASE was enabled
> > > > > > 3. There was a latent SVM bug which did not restore the RDPID data
> > > > > >     before NMIs were reenabled after VMEXIT
> > > > > > 4. If an NMI comes in the window between VMEXIT and the
> > > > > >     wrmsr(TSC_AUX)... boom
> > > > >
> > > > > Right, which means that the setting of TSC_AUX to the guest value needs to be moved, too.
> > > >
> > > > Depending on how much of a perf hit this is, we could also skip using RDPID
> > > > in the paranoid path on SVM-capable CPUs.
> > >
> > > Doesn't this affect VMX as well?  KVM+VMX doesn't restore TSC_AUX until the
> > > kernel returns to userspace.  I don't see anything that prevents the NMI
> > > RDPID path from affecting Intel CPUs.
> > >
> > > Assuming that's the case, I would strongly prefer this be handled in the
> > > paranoid path.  NMIs are unblocked immediately on VMX VM-Exit, which means
> > > using the MSR load lists in the VMCS, and I hate those with a vengeance.
> > >
> > > Perf overhead on VMX would be 8-10% for VM-Exits that would normally stay
> > > in KVM's run loop, e.g. ~125 cycles for the WMRSR, ~1300-1500 cycles to
> > > handle the most common VM-Exits.  It'd be even higher overhead for the
> > > VMX preemption timer, which is handled without even enabling IRQs and is
> > > a hot path as it's used to emulate the TSC deadline timer for the guest.
> >
> > I'm fine with that -- let's get rid of RDPID unconditionally in the
> > paranoid path.  Want to send a patch that also adds as comment
> > explaining why we're not using RDPID?
>
> Sure, though I won't object if Tom beats me to the punch :-)

I can do it, but won't be able to get to it until sometime tomorrow.

Thanks,
Tom

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