Re: [PATCH 11/15] KVM: VMX: Update vmcs.GUEST_CR3 only when the guest CR3 is dirty

From: Lai Jiangshan
Date: Wed Dec 15 2021 - 11:43:12 EST




On 2021/12/16 00:31, Lai Jiangshan wrote:


What I missed is the case of "if (!enable_unrestricted_guest && !is_paging(vcpu))"
in vmx_load_mmu_pgd() which doesn't load GUEST_CR3 but clears dirty of VCPU_EXREG_CR3
(when after next run).

Oops.

What I missed is the case of "if (!enable_unrestricted_guest && !is_paging(vcpu))"
in vmx_load_mmu_pgd() which doesn't load GUEST_CR3 with the guest cr3 and
VCPU_EXREG_CR3 dirty bit is cleared after VMEXIT. When !PG -> PG, GUEST_CR3 is
still the ept_identity_map_addr, and VCPU_EXREG_CR3 dirty bit is not set, so
vmx_load_mmu_pgd() doesn't update GUEST_CR3.


So when CR0 !PG -> PG, VCPU_EXREG_CR3 dirty bit should be set.