From: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 06/10] KVM: selftests: Drop HORRIFIC_L2_UCALL_CLOBBER_HACK
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 20:35:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260604203546.365658-7-yosry@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260604203546.365658-1-yosry@kernel.org>
Now that nVMX test codes preserves GPRs across nested VM-Exits
(specifically RBP, RDX, and RDI among others), drop the ucall-specific
hack to avoid clobbering these registers.
Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/ucall.c | 32 ++-------------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/ucall.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/ucall.c
index e7dd5791959ba..38050c60a0670 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/ucall.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/ucall.c
@@ -10,36 +10,8 @@
void ucall_arch_do_ucall(gva_t uc)
{
- /*
- * FIXME: Revert this hack (the entire commit that added it) once nVMX
- * preserves L2 GPRs across a nested VM-Exit. If a ucall from L2, e.g.
- * to do a GUEST_SYNC(), lands the vCPU in L1, any and all GPRs can be
- * clobbered by L1. Save and restore non-volatile GPRs (clobbering RBP
- * in particular is problematic) along with RDX and RDI (which are
- * inputs), and clobber volatile GPRs. *sigh*
- */
-#define HORRIFIC_L2_UCALL_CLOBBER_HACK \
- "rcx", "rsi", "r8", "r9", "r10", "r11"
-
- asm volatile("push %%rbp\n\t"
- "push %%r15\n\t"
- "push %%r14\n\t"
- "push %%r13\n\t"
- "push %%r12\n\t"
- "push %%rbx\n\t"
- "push %%rdx\n\t"
- "push %%rdi\n\t"
- "in %[port], %%al\n\t"
- "pop %%rdi\n\t"
- "pop %%rdx\n\t"
- "pop %%rbx\n\t"
- "pop %%r12\n\t"
- "pop %%r13\n\t"
- "pop %%r14\n\t"
- "pop %%r15\n\t"
- "pop %%rbp\n\t"
- : : [port] "d" (UCALL_PIO_PORT), "D" (uc) : "rax", "memory",
- HORRIFIC_L2_UCALL_CLOBBER_HACK);
+ asm volatile("in %[port], %%al"
+ : : [port] "d" (UCALL_PIO_PORT), "D" (uc) : "rax", "memory");
}
void *ucall_arch_get_ucall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
--
2.54.0.1032.g2f8565e1d1-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-04 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-04 20:35 [PATCH v2 00/10] KVM: selftests: Stress save+restore and #PF (ft. nested) Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 20:35 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] KVM: selftests: Move STR() and XSTR() definitions to test_util.h Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 20:35 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] KVM: selftests: Fix RAX and RFLAGS VMCB offsets when running L2 Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 20:35 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] KVM: selftests: Use an array for guest_regs (and fix offsets) Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 20:44 ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-04 20:49 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 21:37 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 20:35 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] KVM: selftests: Move GPR load/save definitions outside of nSVM code Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 20:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-04 20:35 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] KVM: selftests: Reuse GPR switching logic for nVMX Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 20:52 ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-04 20:35 ` Yosry Ahmed [this message]
2026-06-04 20:50 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] KVM: selftests: Drop HORRIFIC_L2_UCALL_CLOBBER_HACK sashiko-bot
2026-06-04 21:11 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 20:35 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] KVM: selftests: Add basic stress test for save+restore and #PF handling Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-05 16:31 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 20:35 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] KVM: selftests: Trigger save+restore randomly in the #PF stress test Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 20:49 ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-04 20:55 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 20:35 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] KVM: selftests: Support running stress save+restore and #PF test in L2 Yosry Ahmed
2026-06-04 20:35 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] KVM: selftests: Trigger L2->L1 exits stress save+restore and #PF test Yosry Ahmed
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