[PATCH v2 10/32] KVM: nSVM: Use dedicated array of MSRPM offsets to merge L0 and L1 bitmaps
From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Jun 10 2025 - 19:00:53 EST
Use a dedicated array of MSRPM offsets to merge L0 and L1 bitmaps, i.e. to
merge KVM's vmcb01 bitmap with L1's vmcb12 bitmap. This will eventually
allow for the removal of direct_access_msrs, as the only path where
tracking the offsets is truly justified is the merge for nested SVM, where
merging in chunks is an easy way to batch uaccess reads/writes.
Opportunistically omit the x2APIC MSRs from the merge-specific array
instead of filtering them out at runtime.
Note, disabling interception of DEBUGCTL, XSS, EFER, PAT, GHCB, and
TSC_AUX is mutually exclusive with nested virtualization, as KVM passes
through those MSRs only for SEV-ES guests, and KVM doesn't support nested
virtualization for SEV+ guests. Defer removing those MSRs to a future
cleanup in order to make this refactoring as benign as possible.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 4 ++
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 2 +
3 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 89a77f0f1cc8..666469e11602 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -184,6 +184,75 @@ void recalc_intercepts(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
}
}
+/*
+ * This array (and its actual size) holds the set of offsets (indexing by chunk
+ * size) to process when merging vmcb12's MSRPM with vmcb01's MSRPM. Note, the
+ * set of MSRs for which interception is disabled in vmcb01 is per-vCPU, e.g.
+ * based on CPUID features. This array only tracks MSRs that *might* be passed
+ * through to the guest.
+ *
+ * Hardcode the capacity of the array based on the maximum number of _offsets_.
+ * MSRs are batched together, so there are fewer offsets than MSRs.
+ */
+static int nested_svm_msrpm_merge_offsets[9] __ro_after_init;
+static int nested_svm_nr_msrpm_merge_offsets __ro_after_init;
+
+int __init nested_svm_init_msrpm_merge_offsets(void)
+{
+ static const u32 merge_msrs[] __initconst = {
+ MSR_STAR,
+ MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS,
+ MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP,
+ MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP,
+ #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ MSR_GS_BASE,
+ MSR_FS_BASE,
+ MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE,
+ MSR_LSTAR,
+ MSR_CSTAR,
+ MSR_SYSCALL_MASK,
+ #endif
+ MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL,
+ MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD,
+ MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD,
+ MSR_IA32_LASTBRANCHFROMIP,
+ MSR_IA32_LASTBRANCHTOIP,
+ MSR_IA32_LASTINTFROMIP,
+ MSR_IA32_LASTINTTOIP,
+
+ MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR,
+ MSR_IA32_XSS,
+ MSR_EFER,
+ MSR_IA32_CR_PAT,
+ MSR_AMD64_SEV_ES_GHCB,
+ MSR_TSC_AUX,
+ };
+ int i, j;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(merge_msrs); i++) {
+ u32 offset = svm_msrpm_offset(merge_msrs[i]);
+
+ if (WARN_ON(offset == MSR_INVALID))
+ return -EIO;
+
+ for (j = 0; j < nested_svm_nr_msrpm_merge_offsets; j++) {
+ if (nested_svm_msrpm_merge_offsets[j] == offset)
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (j < nested_svm_nr_msrpm_merge_offsets)
+ continue;
+
+ if (WARN_ON(j >= ARRAY_SIZE(nested_svm_msrpm_merge_offsets)))
+ return -EIO;
+
+ nested_svm_msrpm_merge_offsets[j] = offset;
+ nested_svm_nr_msrpm_merge_offsets++;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* Merge L0's (KVM) and L1's (Nested VMCB) MSR permission bitmaps. The function
* is optimized in that it only merges the parts where KVM MSR permission bitmap
@@ -216,19 +285,11 @@ static bool nested_svm_merge_msrpm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (!(vmcb12_is_intercept(&svm->nested.ctl, INTERCEPT_MSR_PROT)))
return true;
- for (i = 0; i < MSRPM_OFFSETS; i++) {
- u32 value, p;
+ for (i = 0; i < nested_svm_nr_msrpm_merge_offsets; i++) {
+ const int p = nested_svm_msrpm_merge_offsets[i];
+ u32 value;
u64 offset;
- if (msrpm_offsets[i] == 0xffffffff)
- break;
-
- p = msrpm_offsets[i];
-
- /* x2apic msrs are intercepted always for the nested guest */
- if (is_x2apic_msrpm_offset(p))
- continue;
-
offset = svm->nested.ctl.msrpm_base_pa + (p * 4);
if (kvm_vcpu_read_guest(vcpu, offset, &value, 4))
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index a683602cae22..1ee936b8a6d0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -5543,6 +5543,10 @@ static __init int svm_hardware_setup(void)
if (nested) {
pr_info("Nested Virtualization enabled\n");
kvm_enable_efer_bits(EFER_SVME | EFER_LMSLE);
+
+ r = nested_svm_init_msrpm_merge_offsets();
+ if (r)
+ return r;
}
/*
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
index 086a8c8aae86..9f750b2399e9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
@@ -682,6 +682,8 @@ static inline bool nested_exit_on_nmi(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
return vmcb12_is_intercept(&svm->nested.ctl, INTERCEPT_NMI);
}
+int __init nested_svm_init_msrpm_merge_offsets(void);
+
int enter_svm_guest_mode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
u64 vmcb_gpa, struct vmcb *vmcb12, bool from_vmrun);
void svm_leave_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
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