Patch "kvm/fpu: Enable eager restore kvm FPU for MPX" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    kvm/fpu: Enable eager restore kvm FPU for MPX

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kvm-fpu-enable-eager-restore-kvm-fpu-for-mpx.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From c447e76b4cabb49ddae8e49c5758f031f35d55fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 04:41:25 +0800
Subject: kvm/fpu: Enable eager restore kvm FPU for MPX

From: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>

commit c447e76b4cabb49ddae8e49c5758f031f35d55fb upstream.

The MPX feature requires eager KVM FPU restore support. We have verified
that MPX cannot work correctly with the current lazy KVM FPU restore
mechanism. Eager KVM FPU restore should be enabled if the MPX feature is
exposed to VM.

Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>
[Also activate the FPU on AMD processors. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |    1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c            |    4 ++++
 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h            |    8 ++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              |   16 ++++++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
 	struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache mmu_page_header_cache;
 
 	struct fpu guest_fpu;
+	bool eager_fpu;
 	u64 xcr0;
 	u64 guest_supported_xcr0;
 	u32 guest_xstate_size;
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <asm/i387.h> /* For use_eager_fpu.  Ugh! */
+#include <asm/fpu-internal.h> /* For use_eager_fpu.  Ugh! */
 #include <asm/user.h>
 #include <asm/xsave.h>
 #include "cpuid.h"
@@ -95,6 +97,8 @@ int kvm_update_cpuid(struct kvm_vcpu *vc
 	if (best && (best->eax & (F(XSAVES) | F(XSAVEC))))
 		best->ebx = xstate_required_size(vcpu->arch.xcr0, true);
 
+	vcpu->arch.eager_fpu = guest_cpuid_has_mpx(vcpu);
+
 	/*
 	 * The existing code assumes virtual address is 48-bit in the canonical
 	 * address checks; exit if it is ever changed.
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h
@@ -111,4 +111,12 @@ static inline bool guest_cpuid_has_rtm(s
 	best = kvm_find_cpuid_entry(vcpu, 7, 0);
 	return best && (best->ebx & bit(X86_FEATURE_RTM));
 }
+
+static inline bool guest_cpuid_has_mpx(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+	struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *best;
+
+	best = kvm_find_cpuid_entry(vcpu, 7, 0);
+	return best && (best->ebx & bit(X86_FEATURE_MPX));
+}
 #endif
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -6996,7 +6996,9 @@ void kvm_put_guest_fpu(struct kvm_vcpu *
 	fpu_save_init(&vcpu->arch.guest_fpu);
 	__kernel_fpu_end();
 	++vcpu->stat.fpu_reload;
-	kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_DEACTIVATE_FPU, vcpu);
+	if (!vcpu->arch.eager_fpu)
+		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_DEACTIVATE_FPU, vcpu);
+
 	trace_kvm_fpu(0);
 }
 
@@ -7012,11 +7014,21 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_free(struct kvm_vcpu
 struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arch_vcpu_create(struct kvm *kvm,
 						unsigned int id)
 {
+	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
+
 	if (check_tsc_unstable() && atomic_read(&kvm->online_vcpus) != 0)
 		printk_once(KERN_WARNING
 		"kvm: SMP vm created on host with unstable TSC; "
 		"guest TSC will not be reliable\n");
-	return kvm_x86_ops->vcpu_create(kvm, id);
+
+	vcpu = kvm_x86_ops->vcpu_create(kvm, id);
+
+	/*
+	 * Activate fpu unconditionally in case the guest needs eager FPU.  It will be
+	 * deactivated soon if it doesn't.
+	 */
+	kvm_x86_ops->fpu_activate(vcpu);
+	return vcpu;
 }
 
 int kvm_arch_vcpu_setup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from liang.z.li@intel.com are

queue-4.0/kvm-fpu-enable-eager-restore-kvm-fpu-for-mpx.patch