* POWER: support for direct access to the POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller,
memory and performance optimizations.
* x86: support for accessing memory not backed by struct page, fixes and refactoring
* Generic: dirty page tracking improvements
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"ARM:
- support for SVE and Pointer Authentication in guests
- PMU improvements
POWER:
- support for direct access to the POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller
- memory and performance optimizations
x86:
- support for accessing memory not backed by struct page
- fixes and refactoring
Generic:
- dirty page tracking improvements"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (155 commits)
kvm: fix compilation on aarch64
Revert "KVM: nVMX: Expose RDPMC-exiting only when guest supports PMU"
kvm: x86: Fix L1TF mitigation for shadow MMU
KVM: nVMX: Disable intercept for FS/GS base MSRs in vmcs02 when possible
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Remove useless checks in 'release' method of KVM device
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: Fix spelling mistake "acessing" -> "accessing"
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make sure to load LPID for radix VCPUs
kvm: nVMX: Set nested_run_pending in vmx_set_nested_state after checks complete
tests: kvm: Add tests for KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE
KVM: nVMX: KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE - Tear down old EVMCS state before setting new state
tests: kvm: Add tests for KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS and KVM_CAP_MAX_CPU_ID
tests: kvm: Add tests to .gitignore
KVM: Introduce KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2
KVM: Fix kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect off-by-(minus-)one
KVM: Fix the bitmap range to copy during clear dirty
KVM: arm64: Fix ptrauth ID register masking logic
KVM: x86: use direct accessors for RIP and RSP
KVM: VMX: Use accessors for GPRs outside of dedicated caching logic
KVM: x86: Omit caching logic for always-available GPRs
kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not
...
The RDPMC-exiting control is dependent on the existence of the RDPMC
instruction itself, i.e. is not tied to the "Architectural Performance
Monitoring" feature. For all intents and purposes, the control exists
on all CPUs with VMX support since RDPMC also exists on all VCPUs with
VMX supported. Per Intel's SDM:
The RDPMC instruction was introduced into the IA-32 Architecture in
the Pentium Pro processor and the Pentium processor with MMX technology.
The earlier Pentium processors have performance-monitoring counters, but
they must be read with the RDMSR instruction.
Because RDPMC-exiting always exists, KVM requires the control and refuses
to load if it's not available. As a result, hiding the PMU from a guest
breaks nested virtualization if the guest attemts to use KVM.
While it's not explicitly stated in the RDPMC pseudocode, the VM-Exit
check for RDPMC-exiting follows standard fault vs. VM-Exit prioritization
for privileged instructions, e.g. occurs after the CPL/CR0.PE/CR4.PCE
checks, but before the counter referenced in ECX is checked for validity.
In other words, the original KVM behavior of injecting a #GP was correct,
and the KVM unit test needs to be adjusted accordingly, e.g. eat the #GP
when the unit test guest (L3 in this case) executes RDPMC without
RDPMC-exiting set in the unit test host (L2).
This reverts commit e51bfdb687.
Fixes: e51bfdb687 ("KVM: nVMX: Expose RDPMC-exiting only when guest supports PMU")
Reported-by: David Hill <hilld@binarystorm.net>
Cc: Saar Amar <saaramar@microsoft.com>
Cc: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Currently KVM sets 5 most significant bits of physical address bits
reported by CPUID (boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits) for nonpresent or
reserved bits SPTE to mitigate L1TF attack from guest when using shadow
MMU. However for some particular Intel CPUs the physical address bits
of internal cache is greater than physical address bits reported by
CPUID.
Use the kernel's existing boot_cpu_data.x86_cache_bits to determine the
five most significant bits. Doing so improves KVM's L1TF mitigation in
the unlikely scenario that system RAM overlaps the high order bits of
the "real" physical address space as reported by CPUID. This aligns with
the kernel's warnings regarding L1TF mitigation, e.g. in the above
scenario the kernel won't warn the user about lack of L1TF mitigation
if x86_cache_bits is greater than x86_phys_bits.
Also initialize shadow_nonpresent_or_rsvd_mask explicitly to make it
consistent with other 'shadow_{xxx}_mask', and opportunistically add a
WARN once if KVM's L1TF mitigation cannot be applied on a system that
is marked as being susceptible to L1TF.
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
If L1 is using an MSR bitmap, unconditionally merge the MSR bitmaps from
L0 and L1 for MSR_{KERNEL,}_{FS,GS}_BASE. KVM unconditionally exposes
MSRs L1. If KVM is also running in L1 then it's highly likely L1 is
also exposing the MSRs to L2, i.e. KVM doesn't need to intercept L2
accesses.
Based on code from Jintack Lim.
Cc: Jintack Lim <jintack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
- Fix recent regression causing kernels built with CONFIG_PM
unset to crash on systems that support the Performance and
Energy Bias Hint (EPB) by avoiding to compile the EPB-related
code depending on CONFIG_PM when it is unset (Rafael Wysocki).
- Clean up the transition notifier invocation code in the cpufreq
core and change some users of cpufreq transition notifiers
accordingly (Viresh Kumar).
- Change MAINTAINERS to cover the schedutil governor as part of
cpufreq (Viresh Kumar).
- Simplify cpufreq_init_policy() to avoid redundant computations
(Yue Hu).
- Add explanatory comment to the cpufreq core (Rafael Wysocki).
- Introduce a new flag, GENPD_FLAG_RPM_ALWAYS_ON, to the generic
power domains (genpd) framework along with the first user of it
(Leonard Crestez).
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Merge tag 'pm-5.2-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These fix a recent regression causing kernels built with CONFIG_PM
unset to crash on systems that support the Performance and Energy Bias
Hint (EPB), clean up the cpufreq core and some users of transition
notifiers and introduce a new power domain flag into the generic power
domains framework (genpd).
Specifics:
- Fix recent regression causing kernels built with CONFIG_PM unset to
crash on systems that support the Performance and Energy Bias Hint
(EPB) by avoiding to compile the EPB-related code depending on
CONFIG_PM when it is unset (Rafael Wysocki).
- Clean up the transition notifier invocation code in the cpufreq
core and change some users of cpufreq transition notifiers
accordingly (Viresh Kumar).
- Change MAINTAINERS to cover the schedutil governor as part of
cpufreq (Viresh Kumar).
- Simplify cpufreq_init_policy() to avoid redundant computations (Yue
Hu).
- Add explanatory comment to the cpufreq core (Rafael Wysocki).
- Introduce a new flag, GENPD_FLAG_RPM_ALWAYS_ON, to the generic
power domains (genpd) framework along with the first user of it
(Leonard Crestez)"
* tag 'pm-5.2-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
soc: imx: gpc: Use GENPD_FLAG_RPM_ALWAYS_ON for ERR009619
PM / Domains: Add GENPD_FLAG_RPM_ALWAYS_ON flag
cpufreq: Update MAINTAINERS to include schedutil governor
cpufreq: Don't find governor for setpolicy drivers in cpufreq_init_policy()
cpufreq: Explain the kobject_put() in cpufreq_policy_alloc()
cpufreq: Call transition notifier only once for each policy
x86: intel_epb: Take CONFIG_PM into account
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few misc things and hotfixes
- ocfs2
- almost all of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (139 commits)
kernel/memremap.c: remove the unused device_private_entry_fault() export
mm: delete find_get_entries_tag
mm/huge_memory.c: make __thp_get_unmapped_area static
mm/mprotect.c: fix compilation warning because of unused 'mm' variable
mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for wait_on_page_writeback()
mm/vmscan: simplify trace_reclaim_flags and trace_shrink_flags
mm/Kconfig: update "Memory Model" help text
mm/vmscan.c: don't disable irq again when count pgrefill for memcg
mm: memblock: make keeping memblock memory opt-in rather than opt-out
hugetlbfs: always use address space in inode for resv_map pointer
mm/z3fold.c: support page migration
mm/z3fold.c: add structure for buddy handles
mm/z3fold.c: improve compression by extending search
mm/z3fold.c: introduce helper functions
mm/page_alloc.c: remove unnecessary parameter in rmqueue_pcplist
mm/hmm: add ARCH_HAS_HMM_MIRROR ARCH_HAS_HMM_DEVICE Kconfig
mm/vmscan.c: simplify shrink_inactive_list()
fs/sync.c: sync_file_range(2) may use WB_SYNC_ALL writeback
xen/privcmd-buf.c: convert to use vm_map_pages_zero()
xen/gntdev.c: convert to use vm_map_pages()
...
To facilitate additional options to get_user_pages_fast() change the
singular write parameter to be gup_flags.
This patch does not change any functionality. New functionality will
follow in subsequent patches.
Some of the get_user_pages_fast() call sites were unchanged because they
already passed FOLL_WRITE or 0 for the write parameter.
NOTE: It was suggested to change the ordering of the get_user_pages_fast()
arguments to ensure that callers were converted. This breaks the current
GUP call site convention of having the returned pages be the final
parameter. So the suggestion was rejected.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190328084422.29911-4-ira.weiny@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190317183438.2057-4-ira.weiny@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull x86 MDS mitigations from Thomas Gleixner:
"Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) is a hardware vulnerability
which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is
available in various CPU internal buffers. This new set of misfeatures
has the following CVEs assigned:
CVE-2018-12126 MSBDS Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling
CVE-2018-12130 MFBDS Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling
CVE-2018-12127 MLPDS Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling
CVE-2019-11091 MDSUM Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory
MDS attacks target microarchitectural buffers which speculatively
forward data under certain conditions. Disclosure gadgets can expose
this data via cache side channels.
Contrary to other speculation based vulnerabilities the MDS
vulnerability does not allow the attacker to control the memory target
address. As a consequence the attacks are purely sampling based, but
as demonstrated with the TLBleed attack samples can be postprocessed
successfully.
The mitigation is to flush the microarchitectural buffers on return to
user space and before entering a VM. It's bolted on the VERW
instruction and requires a microcode update. As some of the attacks
exploit data structures shared between hyperthreads, full protection
requires to disable hyperthreading. The kernel does not do that by
default to avoid breaking unattended updates.
The mitigation set comes with documentation for administrators and a
deeper technical view"
* 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
x86/speculation/mds: Fix documentation typo
Documentation: Correct the possible MDS sysfs values
x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentation
x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDS
x86/speculation/mds: Print SMT vulnerable on MSBDS with mitigations off
x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment
x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message
x86/speculation: Move arch_smt_update() call to after mitigation decisions
x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline option
Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation
Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory
x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV
x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS
x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS
x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry
x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active
x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user
x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers()
x86/kvm: Expose X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR to guests
x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY
...
Currently, the notifiers are called once for each CPU of the policy->cpus
cpumask. It would be more optimal if the notifier can be called only
once and all the relevant information be provided to it. Out of the 23
drivers that register for the transition notifiers today, only 4 of them
do per-cpu updates and the callback for the rest can be called only once
for the policy without any impact.
This would also avoid multiple function calls to the notifier callbacks
and reduce multiple iterations of notifier core's code (which does
locking as well).
This patch adds pointer to the cpufreq policy to the struct
cpufreq_freqs, so the notifier callback has all the information
available to it with a single call. The five drivers which perform
per-cpu updates are updated to use the cpufreq policy. The freqs->cpu
field is redundant now and is removed.
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> (sparc)
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
nested_run_pending=1 implies we have successfully entered guest mode.
Move setting from external state in vmx_set_nested_state() until after
all other checks are complete.
Based on a patch by Aaron Lewis.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Move call to nested_enable_evmcs until after free_nested() is complete.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Orr <marcorr@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'pidfd-v5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner:
"This patchset makes it possible to retrieve pidfds at process creation
time by introducing the new flag CLONE_PIDFD to the clone() system
call. Linus originally suggested to implement this as a new flag to
clone() instead of making it a separate system call.
After a thorough review from Oleg CLONE_PIDFD returns pidfds in the
parent_tidptr argument. This means we can give back the associated pid
and the pidfd at the same time. Access to process metadata information
thus becomes rather trivial.
As has been agreed, CLONE_PIDFD creates file descriptors based on
anonymous inodes similar to the new mount api. They are made
unconditional by this patchset as they are now needed by core kernel
code (vfs, pidfd) even more than they already were before (timerfd,
signalfd, io_uring, epoll etc.). The core patchset is rather small.
The bulky looking changelist is caused by David's very simple changes
to Kconfig to make anon inodes unconditional.
A pidfd comes with additional information in fdinfo if the kernel
supports procfs. The fdinfo file contains the pid of the process in
the callers pid namespace in the same format as the procfs status
file, i.e. "Pid:\t%d".
To remove worries about missing metadata access this patchset comes
with a sample/test program that illustrates how a combination of
CLONE_PIDFD and pidfd_send_signal() can be used to gain race-free
access to process metadata through /proc/<pid>.
Further work based on this patchset has been done by Joel. His work
makes pidfds pollable. It finished too late for this merge window. I
would prefer to have it sitting in linux-next for a while and send it
for inclusion during the 5.3 merge window"
* tag 'pidfd-v5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
samples: show race-free pidfd metadata access
signal: support CLONE_PIDFD with pidfd_send_signal
clone: add CLONE_PIDFD
Make anon_inodes unconditional
Pull x86 FPU state handling updates from Borislav Petkov:
"This contains work started by Rik van Riel and brought to fruition by
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior with the main goal to optimize when to load
FPU registers: only when returning to userspace and not on every
context switch (while the task remains in the kernel).
In addition, this optimization makes kernel_fpu_begin() cheaper by
requiring registers saving only on the first invocation and skipping
that in following ones.
What is more, this series cleans up and streamlines many aspects of
the already complex FPU code, hopefully making it more palatable for
future improvements and simplifications.
Finally, there's a __user annotations fix from Jann Horn"
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (29 commits)
x86/fpu: Fault-in user stack if copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() fails
x86/pkeys: Add PKRU value to init_fpstate
x86/fpu: Restore regs in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() in order to use the fastpath
x86/fpu: Add a fastpath to copy_fpstate_to_sigframe()
x86/fpu: Add a fastpath to __fpu__restore_sig()
x86/fpu: Defer FPU state load until return to userspace
x86/fpu: Merge the two code paths in __fpu__restore_sig()
x86/fpu: Restore from kernel memory on the 64-bit path too
x86/fpu: Inline copy_user_to_fpregs_zeroing()
x86/fpu: Update xstate's PKRU value on write_pkru()
x86/fpu: Prepare copy_fpstate_to_sigframe() for TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD
x86/fpu: Always store the registers in copy_fpstate_to_sigframe()
x86/entry: Add TIF_NEED_FPU_LOAD
x86/fpu: Eager switch PKRU state
x86/pkeys: Don't check if PKRU is zero before writing it
x86/fpu: Only write PKRU if it is different from current
x86/pkeys: Provide *pkru() helpers
x86/fpu: Use a feature number instead of mask in two more helpers
x86/fpu: Make __raw_xsave_addr() use a feature number instead of mask
x86/fpu: Add an __fpregs_load_activate() internal helper
...
The size checks in vmx_nested_state are wrong because the calculations
are made based on the size of a pointer to a struct kvm_nested_state
rather than the size of a struct kvm_nested_state.
Reported-by: Felix Wilhelm <fwilhelm@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Drew Schmitt <dasch@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Orr <marcorr@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Fixes: 8fcc4b5923
Cc: stable@ver.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use specific inline functions for RIP and RSP instead of
going through kvm_register_read and kvm_register_write,
which are quite a mouthful. kvm_rsp_read and kvm_rsp_write
did not exist, so add them.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
... now that there is no overhead when using dedicated accessors.
Opportunistically remove a bogus "FIXME" in handle_rdmsr() regarding
the upper 32 bits of RAX and RDX. Zeroing the upper 32 bits is
architecturally correct as 32-bit writes in 64-bit mode unconditionally
clear the upper 32 bits.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Except for RSP and RIP, which are held in VMX's VMCS, GPRs are always
treated "available and dirtly" on both VMX and SVM, i.e. are
unconditionally loaded/saved immediately before/after VM-Enter/VM-Exit.
Eliminating the unnecessary caching code reduces the size of KVM by a
non-trivial amount, much of which comes from the most common code paths.
E.g. on x86_64, kvm_emulate_cpuid() is reduced from 342 to 182 bytes and
kvm_emulate_hypercall() from 1362 to 1143, with the total size of KVM
dropping by ~1000 bytes. With CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y, the numbers are even
more pronounced, e.g.: 353->182, 1418->1172 and well over 2000 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
pfn_valid check is not sufficient because it only checks if a page has a struct
page or not, if "mem=" was passed to the kernel some valid pages won't have a
struct page. This means that if guests were assigned valid memory that lies
after the mem= boundary it will be passed uncached to the guest no matter what
the guest caching attributes are for this memory.
Introduce a new function e820__mapped_raw_any which is equivalent to
e820__mapped_any but uses the original e820 unmodified and use it to
identify real *RAM*.
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use page_address_valid in a few more locations that is already checking for
a page aligned address that does not cross the maximum physical address.
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use kvm_vcpu_map for accessing the enlightened VMCS since using
kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory that has
a "struct page".
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use kvm_vcpu_map for accessing the shadow VMCS since using
kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory that has
a "struct page".
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzessutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use the new mapping API for mapping guest memory to avoid depending on
"struct page".
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use kvm_vcpu_map in emulator_cmpxchg_emulated since using
kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory that has
a "struct page".
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <kjonrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the posted interrupt descriptor table since
using kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory
that has a "struct page".
One additional semantic change is that the virtual host mapping lifecycle
has changed a bit. It now has the same lifetime of the pinning of the
interrupt descriptor table page on the host side.
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the virtual APIC page since using
kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory that has
a "struct page".
One additional semantic change is that the virtual host mapping lifecycle
has changed a bit. It now has the same lifetime of the pinning of the
virtual APIC page on the host side.
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the L1 MSR bitmap since using
kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory that has
a "struct page".
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use kvm_vcpu_map to the map the VMCS12 from guest memory because
kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory that has
a "struct page".
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
cmpxchg_gpte() calls get_user_pages_fast() to retrieve the number of
pages and the respective struct page to map in the kernel virtual
address space.
This doesn't work if get_user_pages_fast() is invoked with a userspace
virtual address that's backed by PFNs outside of kernel reach (e.g., when
limiting the kernel memory with mem= in the command line and using
/dev/mem to map memory).
If get_user_pages_fast() fails, look up the VMA that back the userspace
virtual address, compute the PFN and the physical address, and map it in
the kernel virtual address space with memremap().
Signed-off-by: Filippo Sironi <sironi@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Update the PML table without mapping and unmapping the page. This also
avoids using kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page(..) which assumes that there is a "struct
page" for guest memory.
As a side-effect of using kvm_write_guest_page the page is also properly
marked as dirty.
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Read the data directly from guest memory instead of the map->read->unmap
sequence. This also avoids using kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() which
assumes that there is a "struct page" for guest memory.
Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The hardware configuration register has some useful bits which can be
used by guests. Implement McStatusWrEn which can be used by guests when
injecting MCEs with the in-kernel mce-inject module.
For that, we need to set bit 18 - McStatusWrEn - first, before writing
the MCi_STATUS registers (otherwise we #GP).
Add the required machinery to do so.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The capabilities header depends on asm/vmx.h but doesn't explicitly
include said file. This currently doesn't cause problems as all users
of capbilities.h first include asm/vmx.h, but the issue often results in
build errors if someone starts moving things around the VMX files.
Fixes: 3077c19108 ("KVM: VMX: Move capabilities structs and helpers to dedicated file")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Smatch complains about this:
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:5730 dump_vmcs()
warn: KERN_* level not at start of string
The code should be using pr_cont() instead of pr_err().
Fixes: 9d609649bb ("KVM: vmx: print more APICv fields in dump_vmcs")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Ten percent of nothin' is... let me do the math here. Nothin' into
nothin', carry the nothin'...
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Checking for a pending non-periodic interrupt in start_hv_timer() leads
to restart_apic_timer() making an unnecessary call to start_sw_timer()
due to start_hv_timer() returning false.
Alternatively, start_hv_timer() could return %true when there is a
pending non-periodic interrupt, but that approach is less intuitive,
i.e. would require a beefy comment to explain an otherwise simple check.
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Suggested-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Refactor kvm_x86_ops->set_hv_timer to use an explicit parameter for
stating that the timer has expired. Overloading the return value is
unnecessarily clever, e.g. can lead to confusion over the proper return
value from start_hv_timer() when r==1.
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Explicitly call cancel_hv_timer() instead of returning %false to coerce
restart_apic_timer() into canceling it by way of start_sw_timer().
Functionally, the existing code is correct in the sense that it doesn't
doing anything visibily wrong, e.g. generate spurious interrupts or miss
an interrupt. But it's extremely confusing and inefficient, e.g. there
are multiple extraneous calls to apic_timer_expired() that effectively
get dropped due to @timer_pending being %true.
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
...now that VMX's preemption timer, i.e. the hv_timer, also adjusts its
programmed time based on lapic_timer_advance_ns. Without the delay, a
guest can see a timer interrupt arrive before the requested time when
KVM is using the hv_timer to emulate the guest's interrupt.
Fixes: c5ce8235cf ("KVM: VMX: Optimize tscdeadline timer latency")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Since commits 668fffa3f8 ("kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guestsâ€)
and 4d5422cea3 ("KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable MWAIT interceptsâ€),
KVM was modified to allow an admin to configure certain guests to execute
MONITOR/MWAIT inside guest without being intercepted by host.
This is useful in case admin wishes to allocate a dedicated logical
processor for each vCPU thread. Thus, making it safe for guest to
completely control the power-state of the logical processor.
The ability to use this new KVM capability was introduced to QEMU by
commits 6f131f13e68d ("kvm: support -overcommit cpu-pm=on|offâ€) and
2266d4431132 ("i386/cpu: make -cpu host support monitor/mwaitâ€).
However, exposing MONITOR/MWAIT to a Linux guest may cause it's intel_idle
kernel module to execute c1e_promotion_disable() which will attempt to
RDMSR/WRMSR from/to MSR_IA32_POWER_CTL to manipulate the "C1E Enable"
bit. This behaviour was introduced by commit
32e9518005 ("intel_idle: export both C1 and C1Eâ€).
Becuase KVM doesn't emulate this MSR, running KVM with ignore_msrs=0
will cause the above guest behaviour to raise a #GP which will cause
guest to kernel panic.
Therefore, add support for nop emulation of MSR_IA32_POWER_CTL to
avoid #GP in guest in this scenario.
Future commits can optimise emulation further by reflecting guest
MSR changes to host MSR to provide guest with the ability to
fine-tune the dedicated logical processor power-state.
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Let guests clear the Intel PT ToPA PMI status (bit 55 of
MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL).
Signed-off-by: Luwei Kang <luwei.kang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Inject a PMI for KVM guest when Intel PT working
in Host-Guest mode and Guest ToPA entry memory buffer
was completely filled.
Signed-off-by: Luwei Kang <luwei.kang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Commit 47c42e6b41 ("KVM: x86: fix handling of role.cr4_pae and rename it
to 'gpte_size'") introduced a regression: 32-bit PAE guests stopped
working. The issue appears to be: when guest switches (enables) PAE we need
to re-initialize MMU context (set context->root_level, do
reset_rsvds_bits_mask(), ...) but init_kvm_tdp_mmu() doesn't do that
because we threw away is_pae(vcpu) flag from mmu role. Restore it to
kvm_mmu_extended_role (as we now don't need it in base role) to fix
the issue.
Fixes: 47c42e6b41 ("KVM: x86: fix handling of role.cr4_pae and rename it to 'gpte_size'")
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
KVM's recent bug fix to update %rip after emulating I/O broke userspace
that relied on the previous behavior of incrementing %rip prior to
exiting to userspace. When running a Windows XP guest on AMD hardware,
Qemu may patch "OUT 0x7E" instructions in reaction to the OUT itself.
Because KVM's old behavior was to increment %rip before exiting to
userspace to handle the I/O, Qemu manually adjusted %rip to account for
the OUT instruction.
Arguably this is a userspace bug as KVM requires userspace to re-enter
the kernel to complete instruction emulation before taking any other
actions. That being said, this is a bit of a grey area and breaking
userspace that has worked for many years is bad.
Pre-increment %rip on OUT to port 0x7e before exiting to userspace to
hack around the issue.
Fixes: 45def77ebf ("KVM: x86: update %rip after emulating IO")
Reported-by: Simon Becherer <simon@becherer.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Iakov Karpov <srid@rkmail.ru>
Reported-by: Gabriele Balducci <balducci@units.it>
Reported-by: Antti Antinoja <reader@fennosys.fi>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The not-so-recent change to move VMX's VM-Exit handing to a dedicated
"function" unintentionally exposed KVM to a speculative attack from the
guest by executing a RET prior to stuffing the RSB. Make RSB stuffing
happen immediately after VM-Exit, before any unpaired returns.
Alternatively, the VM-Exit path could postpone full RSB stuffing until
its current location by stuffing the RSB only as needed, or by avoiding
returns in the VM-Exit path entirely, but both alternatives are beyond
ugly since vmx_vmexit() has multiple indirect callers (by way of
vmx_vmenter()). And putting the RSB stuffing immediately after VM-Exit
makes it much less likely to be re-broken in the future.
Note, the cost of PUSH/POP could be avoided in the normal flow by
pairing the PUSH RAX with the POP RAX in __vmx_vcpu_run() and adding an
a POP to nested_vmx_check_vmentry_hw(), but such a weird/subtle
dependency is likely to cause problems in the long run, and PUSH/POP
will take all of a few cycles, which is peanuts compared to the number
of cycles required to fill the RSB.
Fixes: 453eafbe65 ("KVM: VMX: Move VM-Enter + VM-Exit handling to non-inline sub-routines")
Reported-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Make the anon_inodes facility unconditional so that it can be used by core
VFS code and pidfd code.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[christian@brauner.io: adapt commit message to mention pidfds]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
To minimize the latency of timer interrupts as observed by the guest,
KVM adjusts the values it programs into the host timers to account for
the host's overhead of programming and handling the timer event. In
the event that the adjustments are too aggressive, i.e. the timer fires
earlier than the guest expects, KVM busy waits immediately prior to
entering the guest.
Currently, KVM manually converts the delay from nanoseconds to clock
cycles. But, the conversion is done in the guest's time domain, while
the delay occurs in the host's time domain. This is perfectly ok when
the guest and host are using the same TSC ratio, but if the guest is
using a different ratio then the delay may not be accurate and could
wait too little or too long.
When the guest is not using the host's ratio, convert the delay from
guest clock cycles to host nanoseconds and use ndelay() instead of
__delay() to provide more accurate timing. Because converting to
nanoseconds is relatively expensive, e.g. requires division and more
multiplication ops, continue using __delay() directly when guest and
host TSCs are running at the same ratio.
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3b8a5df6c4 ("KVM: LAPIC: Tune lapic_timer_advance_ns automatically")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The introduction of adaptive tuning of lapic timer advancement did not
allow for the scenario where userspace would want to disable adaptive
tuning but still employ timer advancement, e.g. for testing purposes or
to handle a use case where adaptive tuning is unable to settle on a
suitable time. This is epecially pertinent now that KVM places a hard
threshold on the maximum advancment time.
Rework the timer semantics to accept signed values, with a value of '-1'
being interpreted as "use adaptive tuning with KVM's internal default",
and any other value being used as an explicit advancement time, e.g. a
time of '0' effectively disables advancement.
Note, this does not completely restore the original behavior of
lapic_timer_advance_ns. Prior to tracking the advancement per vCPU,
which is necessary to support autotuning, userspace could adjust
lapic_timer_advance_ns for *running* vCPU. With per-vCPU tracking, the
module params are snapshotted at vCPU creation, i.e. applying a new
advancement effectively requires restarting a VM.
Dynamically updating a running vCPU is possible, e.g. a helper could be
added to retrieve the desired delay, choosing between the global module
param and the per-VCPU value depending on whether or not auto-tuning is
(globally) enabled, but introduces a great deal of complexity. The
wrapper itself is not complex, but understanding and documenting the
effects of dynamically toggling auto-tuning and/or adjusting the timer
advancement is nigh impossible since the behavior would be dependent on
KVM's implementation as well as compiler optimizations. In other words,
providing stable behavior would require extremely careful consideration
now and in the future.
Given that the expected use of a manually-tuned timer advancement is to
"tune once, run many", use the vastly simpler approach of recognizing
changes to the module params only when creating a new vCPU.
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3b8a5df6c4 ("KVM: LAPIC: Tune lapic_timer_advance_ns automatically")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Automatically adjusting the globally-shared timer advancement could
corrupt the timer, e.g. if multiple vCPUs are concurrently adjusting
the advancement value. That could be partially fixed by using a local
variable for the arithmetic, but it would still be susceptible to a
race when setting timer_advance_adjust_done.
And because virtual_tsc_khz and tsc_scaling_ratio are per-vCPU, the
correct calibration for a given vCPU may not apply to all vCPUs.
Furthermore, lapic_timer_advance_ns is marked __read_mostly, which is
effectively violated when finding a stable advancement takes an extended
amount of timer.
Opportunistically change the definition of lapic_timer_advance_ns to
a u32 so that it matches the style of struct kvm_timer. Explicitly
pass the param to kvm_create_lapic() so that it doesn't have to be
exposed to lapic.c, thus reducing the probability of unintentionally
using the global value instead of the per-vCPU value.
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3b8a5df6c4 ("KVM: LAPIC: Tune lapic_timer_advance_ns automatically")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To minimize the latency of timer interrupts as observed by the guest,
KVM adjusts the values it programs into the host timers to account for
the host's overhead of programming and handling the timer event. Now
that the timer advancement is automatically tuned during runtime, it's
effectively unbounded by default, e.g. if KVM is running as L1 the
advancement can measure in hundreds of milliseconds.
Disable timer advancement if adaptive tuning yields an advancement of
more than 5000ns, as large advancements can break reasonable assumptions
of the guest, e.g. that a timer configured to fire after 1ms won't
arrive on the next instruction. Although KVM busy waits to mitigate the
case of a timer event arriving too early, complications can arise when
shifting the interrupt too far, e.g. kvm-unit-test's vmx.interrupt test
will fail when its "host" exits on interrupts as KVM may inject the INTR
before the guest executes STI+HLT. Arguably the unit test is "broken"
in the sense that delaying a timer interrupt by 1ms doesn't technically
guarantee the interrupt will arrive after STI+HLT, but it's a reasonable
assumption that KVM should support.
Furthermore, an unbounded advancement also effectively unbounds the time
spent busy waiting, e.g. if the guest programs a timer with a very large
delay.
5000ns is a somewhat arbitrary threshold. When running on bare metal,
which is the intended use case, timer advancement is expected to be in
the general vicinity of 1000ns. 5000ns is high enough that false
positives are unlikely, while not being so high as to negatively affect
the host's performance/stability.
Note, a future patch will enable userspace to disable KVM's adaptive
tuning, which will allow priveleged userspace will to specifying an
advancement value in excess of this arbitrary threshold in order to
satisfy an abnormal use case.
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3b8a5df6c4 ("KVM: LAPIC: Tune lapic_timer_advance_ns automatically")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linus Torvalds