From: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit 6cd88243c7e03845a450795e134b488fc2afb736 ]
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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- 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 49d814b2a341..a35f5e23fc2a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h @@ -642,6 +642,7 @@ 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; @@ -1271,6 +1272,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_stat { u64 nested_run; u64 directed_yield_attempted; u64 directed_yield_successful; + u64 preemption_reported; + u64 preemption_other; u64 guest_mode; };
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c index 26f2da1590ed..5b51156712f7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c @@ -4263,6 +4263,8 @@ 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 a236104fc743..359292767e17 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c @@ -6471,6 +6471,7 @@ 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 bd410926fda5..b2436796e03c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -277,6 +277,8 @@ const struct _kvm_stats_desc kvm_vcpu_stats_desc[] = { STATS_DESC_COUNTER(VCPU, nested_run), STATS_DESC_COUNTER(VCPU, directed_yield_attempted), STATS_DESC_COUNTER(VCPU, directed_yield_successful), + STATS_DESC_COUNTER(VCPU, preemption_reported), + STATS_DESC_COUNTER(VCPU, preemption_other), STATS_DESC_ICOUNTER(VCPU, guest_mode) };
@@ -4371,6 +4373,19 @@ 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;
@@ -9934,6 +9949,13 @@ 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 {