From: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com
commit 6cd88243c7e03845a450795e134b488fc2afb736 upstream.
If a vCPU is outside guest mode and is scheduled out, it might be in the process of making a memory access. A problem occurs if another vCPU uses the PV TLB flush feature during the period when the vCPU is scheduled out, and a virtual address has already been translated but has not yet been accessed, because this is equivalent to using a stale TLB entry.
To avoid this, only report a vCPU as preempted if sure that the guest is at an instruction boundary. A rescheduling request will be delivered to the host physical CPU as an external interrupt, so for simplicity consider any vmexit *not* instruction boundary except for external interrupts.
It would in principle be okay to report the vCPU as preempted also if it is sleeping in kvm_vcpu_block(): a TLB flush IPI will incur the vmentry/vmexit overhead unnecessarily, and optimistic spinning is also unlikely to succeed. However, leave it for later because right now kvm_vcpu_check_block() is doing memory accesses. Even though the TLB flush issue only applies to virtual memory address, it's very much preferrable to be conservative.
Reported-by: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com [risbhat@amazon.com: Use VCPU_STAT to expose preemption_reported and preemption_other debugfs entries.] Signed-off-by: Rishabh Bhatnagar risbhat@amazon.com --- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +++ arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 2 ++ arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h index 2b35f8139f15..25b720304640 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h @@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch { u64 ia32_misc_enable_msr; u64 smbase; u64 smi_count; + bool at_instruction_boundary; bool tpr_access_reporting; bool xsaves_enabled; u64 ia32_xss; @@ -1061,6 +1062,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_stat { u64 req_event; u64 halt_poll_success_ns; u64 halt_poll_fail_ns; + u64 preemption_reported; + u64 preemption_other; };
struct x86_instruction_info; diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c index 442705517caf..f3b7a6a82b07 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c @@ -3991,6 +3991,8 @@ static int svm_check_intercept(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
static void svm_handle_exit_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) { + if (to_svm(vcpu)->vmcb->control.exit_code == SVM_EXIT_INTR) + vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary = true; }
static void svm_sched_in(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c index b33d0f283d4f..b8a6ab210c4e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c @@ -6496,6 +6496,7 @@ static void handle_external_interrupt_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) return;
handle_interrupt_nmi_irqoff(vcpu, gate_offset(desc)); + vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary = true; }
static void vmx_handle_exit_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 0df41be32314..75494b3c2d1e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ struct kvm_stats_debugfs_item debugfs_entries[] = { VCPU_STAT("l1d_flush", l1d_flush), VCPU_STAT("halt_poll_success_ns", halt_poll_success_ns), VCPU_STAT("halt_poll_fail_ns", halt_poll_fail_ns), + VCPU_STAT("preemption_reported", preemption_reported), + VCPU_STAT("preemption_other", preemption_other), VM_STAT("mmu_shadow_zapped", mmu_shadow_zapped), VM_STAT("mmu_pte_write", mmu_pte_write), VM_STAT("mmu_pde_zapped", mmu_pde_zapped), @@ -4088,6 +4090,19 @@ static void kvm_steal_time_set_preempted(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) struct kvm_memslots *slots; static const u8 preempted = KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED;
+ /* + * The vCPU can be marked preempted if and only if the VM-Exit was on + * an instruction boundary and will not trigger guest emulation of any + * kind (see vcpu_run). Vendor specific code controls (conservatively) + * when this is true, for example allowing the vCPU to be marked + * preempted if and only if the VM-Exit was due to a host interrupt. + */ + if (!vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary) { + vcpu->stat.preemption_other++; + return; + } + + vcpu->stat.preemption_reported++; if (!(vcpu->arch.st.msr_val & KVM_MSR_ENABLED)) return;
@@ -9300,6 +9315,13 @@ static int vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) vcpu->arch.l1tf_flush_l1d = true;
for (;;) { + /* + * If another guest vCPU requests a PV TLB flush in the middle + * of instruction emulation, the rest of the emulation could + * use a stale page translation. Assume that any code after + * this point can start executing an instruction. + */ + vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary = false; if (kvm_vcpu_running(vcpu)) { r = vcpu_enter_guest(vcpu); } else {