Re: [PATCH 00/15] KVM: X86: Fix and clean up for register caches

[Lai Jiangshan]

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Lai

On 2021/11/8 20:43, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The patchset was started when I read the code of nested_svm_load_cr3()
> and found that it marks CR3 available other than dirty when changing
> vcpu->arch.cr3.  I thought its caller has ensured that vmcs.GUEST_CR3
> will be or already be set to @cr3 so that it doesn't need to be marked
> dirty.  And later I found that it is not true and it must be a bug in
> a rare case before I realized that all the code just (ab)uses
> vcpu->arch.regs_avail for VCPU_EXREG_CR3 and there is not such bug
> of using regs_avail here.
> (The above finding becomes a low meaning patch_15 rather than a fix)
>
> The unhappyness of the reading code made me do some cleanup for
> regs_avail and regs_dirty and kvm_register_xxx() functions in the hope
> that the code become clearer with less misunderstanding.
>
> Major focus was on VCPU_EXREG_CR3 and VCPU_EXREG_PDPTR.  They are
> ensured to be marked the correct tags (available or dirty), and the
> value is ensured to be synced to architecture before run if it is marked
> dirty.
>
> When cleaning VCPU_EXREG_PDPTR, I also checked if the corresponding
> cr0/cr4 pdptr bits are all intercepted when !tdp_enabled, and I think
> it is not clear enough, so X86_CR4_PDPTR_BITS is added as self-comments
> in the code.
>
> Lai Jiangshan (15):
>    KVM: X86: Ensure the dirty PDPTEs to be loaded
>    KVM: VMX: Mark VCPU_EXREG_PDPTR available in ept_save_pdptrs()
>    KVM: SVM: Always clear available of VCPU_EXREG_PDPTR in svm_vcpu_run()
>    KVM: VMX: Add and use X86_CR4_TLB_BITS when !enable_ept
>    KVM: VMX: Add and use X86_CR4_PDPTR_BITS when !enable_ept
>    KVM: X86: Move CR0 pdptr_bits into header file as X86_CR0_PDPTR_BITS
>    KVM: SVM: Remove outdate comment in svm_load_mmu_pgd()
>    KVM: SVM: Remove useless check in svm_load_mmu_pgd()
>    KVM: SVM: Remove the unneeded code to mark available for CR3
>    KVM: X86: Mark CR3 dirty when vcpu->arch.cr3 is changed
>    KVM: VMX: Update vmcs.GUEST_CR3 only when the guest CR3 is dirty
>    KVM: VMX: Reset the bits that are meaningful to be reset in
>      vmx_register_cache_reset()
>    KVM: SVM: Add and use svm_register_cache_reset()
>    KVM: X86: Remove kvm_register_clear_available()
>    KVM: nVMX: Always write vmcs.GUEST_CR3 during nested VM-Exit
>
>   arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h | 13 ++++++------
>   arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c     |  1 -
>   arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c        | 17 ++++++++--------
>   arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h        | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c     | 30 ++++++++++++++++++----------
>   arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c        | 12 +++++++-----
>   arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h        | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>   arch/x86/kvm/x86.c            | 13 ++++++------
>   8 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)