From: Jim Mattson jmattson@google.com
The potential performance advantages of a vmcs02 pool have never been realized. To simplify the code, eliminate the pool. Instead, a single vmcs02 is allocated per VCPU when the VCPU enters VMX operation.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # prereq for Spectre mitigation Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson jmattson@google.com Signed-off-by: Mark Kanda mark.kanda@oracle.com Reviewed-by: Ameya More ameya.more@oracle.com Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář rkrcmar@redhat.com --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 146 +++++++++-------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index c829d89e2e63..ad6a883b7a32 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -185,7 +185,6 @@ module_param(ple_window_max, int, S_IRUGO); extern const ulong vmx_return;
#define NR_AUTOLOAD_MSRS 8 -#define VMCS02_POOL_SIZE 1
struct vmcs { u32 revision_id; @@ -226,7 +225,7 @@ struct shared_msr_entry { * stored in guest memory specified by VMPTRLD, but is opaque to the guest, * which must access it using VMREAD/VMWRITE/VMCLEAR instructions. * More than one of these structures may exist, if L1 runs multiple L2 guests. - * nested_vmx_run() will use the data here to build a vmcs02: a VMCS for the + * nested_vmx_run() will use the data here to build the vmcs02: a VMCS for the * underlying hardware which will be used to run L2. * This structure is packed to ensure that its layout is identical across * machines (necessary for live migration). @@ -409,13 +408,6 @@ struct __packed vmcs12 { */ #define VMCS12_SIZE 0x1000
-/* Used to remember the last vmcs02 used for some recently used vmcs12s */ -struct vmcs02_list { - struct list_head list; - gpa_t vmptr; - struct loaded_vmcs vmcs02; -}; - /* * The nested_vmx structure is part of vcpu_vmx, and holds information we need * for correct emulation of VMX (i.e., nested VMX) on this vcpu. @@ -440,15 +432,15 @@ struct nested_vmx { */ bool sync_shadow_vmcs;
- /* vmcs02_list cache of VMCSs recently used to run L2 guests */ - struct list_head vmcs02_pool; - int vmcs02_num; bool change_vmcs01_virtual_x2apic_mode; /* L2 must run next, and mustn't decide to exit to L1. */ bool nested_run_pending; + + struct loaded_vmcs vmcs02; + /* - * Guest pages referred to in vmcs02 with host-physical pointers, so - * we must keep them pinned while L2 runs. + * Guest pages referred to in the vmcs02 with host-physical + * pointers, so we must keep them pinned while L2 runs. */ struct page *apic_access_page; struct page *virtual_apic_page; @@ -6973,94 +6965,6 @@ static int handle_monitor(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) return handle_nop(vcpu); }
-/* - * To run an L2 guest, we need a vmcs02 based on the L1-specified vmcs12. - * We could reuse a single VMCS for all the L2 guests, but we also want the - * option to allocate a separate vmcs02 for each separate loaded vmcs12 - this - * allows keeping them loaded on the processor, and in the future will allow - * optimizations where prepare_vmcs02 doesn't need to set all the fields on - * every entry if they never change. - * So we keep, in vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool, a cache of size VMCS02_POOL_SIZE - * (>=0) with a vmcs02 for each recently loaded vmcs12s, most recent first. - * - * The following functions allocate and free a vmcs02 in this pool. - */ - -/* Get a VMCS from the pool to use as vmcs02 for the current vmcs12. */ -static struct loaded_vmcs *nested_get_current_vmcs02(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) -{ - struct vmcs02_list *item; - list_for_each_entry(item, &vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool, list) - if (item->vmptr == vmx->nested.current_vmptr) { - list_move(&item->list, &vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool); - return &item->vmcs02; - } - - if (vmx->nested.vmcs02_num >= max(VMCS02_POOL_SIZE, 1)) { - /* Recycle the least recently used VMCS. */ - item = list_last_entry(&vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool, - struct vmcs02_list, list); - item->vmptr = vmx->nested.current_vmptr; - list_move(&item->list, &vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool); - return &item->vmcs02; - } - - /* Create a new VMCS */ - item = kzalloc(sizeof(struct vmcs02_list), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!item) - return NULL; - item->vmcs02.vmcs = alloc_vmcs(); - item->vmcs02.shadow_vmcs = NULL; - if (!item->vmcs02.vmcs) { - kfree(item); - return NULL; - } - loaded_vmcs_init(&item->vmcs02); - item->vmptr = vmx->nested.current_vmptr; - list_add(&(item->list), &(vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool)); - vmx->nested.vmcs02_num++; - return &item->vmcs02; -} - -/* Free and remove from pool a vmcs02 saved for a vmcs12 (if there is one) */ -static void nested_free_vmcs02(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx, gpa_t vmptr) -{ - struct vmcs02_list *item; - list_for_each_entry(item, &vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool, list) - if (item->vmptr == vmptr) { - free_loaded_vmcs(&item->vmcs02); - list_del(&item->list); - kfree(item); - vmx->nested.vmcs02_num--; - return; - } -} - -/* - * Free all VMCSs saved for this vcpu, except the one pointed by - * vmx->loaded_vmcs. We must be running L1, so vmx->loaded_vmcs - * must be &vmx->vmcs01. - */ -static void nested_free_all_saved_vmcss(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) -{ - struct vmcs02_list *item, *n; - - WARN_ON(vmx->loaded_vmcs != &vmx->vmcs01); - list_for_each_entry_safe(item, n, &vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool, list) { - /* - * Something will leak if the above WARN triggers. Better than - * a use-after-free. - */ - if (vmx->loaded_vmcs == &item->vmcs02) - continue; - - free_loaded_vmcs(&item->vmcs02); - list_del(&item->list); - kfree(item); - vmx->nested.vmcs02_num--; - } -} - /* * The following 3 functions, nested_vmx_succeed()/failValid()/failInvalid(), * set the success or error code of an emulated VMX instruction, as specified @@ -7242,6 +7146,12 @@ static int enter_vmx_operation(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu); struct vmcs *shadow_vmcs;
+ vmx->nested.vmcs02.vmcs = alloc_vmcs(); + vmx->nested.vmcs02.shadow_vmcs = NULL; + if (!vmx->nested.vmcs02.vmcs) + goto out_vmcs02; + loaded_vmcs_init(&vmx->nested.vmcs02); + if (cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap()) { vmx->nested.msr_bitmap = (unsigned long *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL); @@ -7264,9 +7174,6 @@ static int enter_vmx_operation(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs = shadow_vmcs; }
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&(vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool)); - vmx->nested.vmcs02_num = 0; - hrtimer_init(&vmx->nested.preemption_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED); vmx->nested.preemption_timer.function = vmx_preemption_timer_fn; @@ -7281,6 +7188,9 @@ static int enter_vmx_operation(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) free_page((unsigned long)vmx->nested.msr_bitmap);
out_msr_bitmap: + free_loaded_vmcs(&vmx->nested.vmcs02); + +out_vmcs02: return -ENOMEM; }
@@ -7434,7 +7344,7 @@ static void free_nested(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs = NULL; } kfree(vmx->nested.cached_vmcs12); - /* Unpin physical memory we referred to in current vmcs02 */ + /* Unpin physical memory we referred to in the vmcs02 */ if (vmx->nested.apic_access_page) { kvm_release_page_dirty(vmx->nested.apic_access_page); vmx->nested.apic_access_page = NULL; @@ -7450,7 +7360,7 @@ static void free_nested(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) vmx->nested.pi_desc = NULL; }
- nested_free_all_saved_vmcss(vmx); + free_loaded_vmcs(&vmx->nested.vmcs02); }
/* Emulate the VMXOFF instruction */ @@ -7493,8 +7403,6 @@ static int handle_vmclear(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) vmptr + offsetof(struct vmcs12, launch_state), &zero, sizeof(zero));
- nested_free_vmcs02(vmx, vmptr); - nested_vmx_succeed(vcpu); return kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu); } @@ -8406,10 +8314,11 @@ static bool nested_vmx_exit_reflected(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 exit_reason)
/* * The host physical addresses of some pages of guest memory - * are loaded into VMCS02 (e.g. L1's Virtual APIC Page). The CPU - * may write to these pages via their host physical address while - * L2 is running, bypassing any address-translation-based dirty - * tracking (e.g. EPT write protection). + * are loaded into the vmcs02 (e.g. vmcs12's Virtual APIC + * Page). The CPU may write to these pages via their host + * physical address while L2 is running, bypassing any + * address-translation-based dirty tracking (e.g. EPT write + * protection). * * Mark them dirty on every exit from L2 to prevent them from * getting out of sync with dirty tracking. @@ -10903,20 +10812,15 @@ static int enter_vmx_non_root_mode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool from_vmentry) { struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu); struct vmcs12 *vmcs12 = get_vmcs12(vcpu); - struct loaded_vmcs *vmcs02; u32 msr_entry_idx; u32 exit_qual;
- vmcs02 = nested_get_current_vmcs02(vmx); - if (!vmcs02) - return -ENOMEM; - enter_guest_mode(vcpu);
if (!(vmcs12->vm_entry_controls & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_DEBUG_CONTROLS)) vmx->nested.vmcs01_debugctl = vmcs_read64(GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL);
- vmx_switch_vmcs(vcpu, vmcs02); + vmx_switch_vmcs(vcpu, &vmx->nested.vmcs02); vmx_segment_cache_clear(vmx);
if (prepare_vmcs02(vcpu, vmcs12, from_vmentry, &exit_qual)) { @@ -11534,10 +11438,6 @@ static void nested_vmx_vmexit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 exit_reason, vm_exit_controls_reset_shadow(vmx); vmx_segment_cache_clear(vmx);
- /* if no vmcs02 cache requested, remove the one we used */ - if (VMCS02_POOL_SIZE == 0) - nested_free_vmcs02(vmx, vmx->nested.current_vmptr); - /* Update any VMCS fields that might have changed while L2 ran */ vmcs_write32(VM_EXIT_MSR_LOAD_COUNT, vmx->msr_autoload.nr); vmcs_write32(VM_ENTRY_MSR_LOAD_COUNT, vmx->msr_autoload.nr);