Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: SEV-ES: Don't intercept MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR for SEV-ES guests

From: Gupta, Pankaj
Date: Tue Apr 16 2024 - 04:49:44 EST


On 4/16/2024 7:03 AM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
Currently, LBR Virtualization is dynamically enabled and disabled for
a vcpu by intercepting writes to MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR. This helps by
avoiding unnecessary save/restore of LBR MSRs when nobody is using it
in the guest. However, SEV-ES guest mandates LBR Virtualization to be
_always_ ON[1] and thus this dynamic toggling doesn't work for SEV-ES
guest, in fact it results into fatal error:

SEV-ES guest on Zen3, kvm-amd.ko loaded with lbrv=1

[guest ~]# wrmsr 0x1d9 0x4
KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0xffffffff
EAX=00000004 EBX=00000000 ECX=000001d9 EDX=00000000
...

Fix this by never intercepting MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR for SEV-ES guests.
No additional save/restore logic is required since MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR
is of swap type A.

[1]: AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Pub. 40332, Rev. 4.07 - June
2023, Vol 2, 15.35.2 Enabling SEV-ES.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=304653

Fixes: 376c6d285017 ("KVM: SVM: Provide support for SEV-ES vCPU creation/loading")
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@xxxxxxx>

---
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326081143.715-1-ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx
v1->v2:
- Add MSR swap type detail in the patch description. No code changes.

arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index a8ce5226b3b5..ef932a7ff9bd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -3073,6 +3073,7 @@ static void sev_es_init_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
/* Clear intercepts on selected MSRs */
set_msr_interception(vcpu, svm->msrpm, MSR_EFER, 1, 1);
set_msr_interception(vcpu, svm->msrpm, MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, 1, 1);
+ set_msr_interception(vcpu, svm->msrpm, MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, 1, 1);
set_msr_interception(vcpu, svm->msrpm, MSR_IA32_LASTBRANCHFROMIP, 1, 1);
set_msr_interception(vcpu, svm->msrpm, MSR_IA32_LASTBRANCHTOIP, 1, 1);
set_msr_interception(vcpu, svm->msrpm, MSR_IA32_LASTINTFROMIP, 1, 1);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index e90b429c84f1..5a82135ae84e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ static const struct svm_direct_access_msrs {
{ .index = MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, .always = false },
{ .index = MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD, .always = false },
{ .index = MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD, .always = false },
+ { .index = MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, .always = false },
{ .index = MSR_IA32_LASTBRANCHFROMIP, .always = false },
{ .index = MSR_IA32_LASTBRANCHTOIP, .always = false },
{ .index = MSR_IA32_LASTINTFROMIP, .always = false },
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
index 8ef95139cd24..7a1b60bcebff 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
#define IOPM_SIZE PAGE_SIZE * 3
#define MSRPM_SIZE PAGE_SIZE * 2
-#define MAX_DIRECT_ACCESS_MSRS 47
+#define MAX_DIRECT_ACCESS_MSRS 48
#define MSRPM_OFFSETS 32
extern u32 msrpm_offsets[MSRPM_OFFSETS] __read_mostly;
extern bool npt_enabled;