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From: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@intel.com>
To: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: "Yang Weijiang" <weijiang.yang@intel.com>,
	"kvm list" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Sean Christopherson" <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/7] KVM: VMX: Load Guest CET via VMCS when CET is enabled in Guest
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 09:30:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191010013027.GA1196@local-michael-cet-test.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALMp9eS+_riWYK=Zvk330YST4G_q_GfN2LfGXWz85aVnyXmsOg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 04:08:50PM -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 11:41 PM Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 11:54:26AM -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 7:17 PM Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@intel.com> wrote:
> > > > +       if (cet_on)
> > > > +               vmcs_set_bits(VM_ENTRY_CONTROLS,
> > > > +                             VM_ENTRY_LOAD_GUEST_CET_STATE);
> > >
> > > Have we ensured that this VM-entry control is supported on the platform?
> > >
> > If all the checks pass, is it enought to ensure the control bit supported?
> 
> I don't think so. The only way to check to see if a VM-entry control
> is supported is to check the relevant VMX capability MSR.
>
It's a bit odd, there's no relevant CET bit in VMX cap. MSR, so I have
to check like this.

> BTW, what about the corresponding VM-exit control?
The kernel supervisor mode CET is not implemented yet, so I don't load host CET
states on VM-exit, in future, I'll add it.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-10  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-27  2:19 [PATCH v7 0/7] Introduce support for Guest CET feature Yang Weijiang
2019-09-27  2:19 ` [PATCH v7 1/7] KVM: CPUID: Fix IA32_XSS support in CPUID(0xd,i) enumeration Yang Weijiang
2019-10-02 17:26   ` Jim Mattson
2019-10-08  8:30     ` Yang Weijiang
2019-10-17 19:46     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18  1:28       ` Yang Weijiang
2019-10-22 19:46         ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-23  1:16           ` Yang Weijiang
2019-09-27  2:19 ` [PATCH v7 2/7] kvm: vmx: Define CET VMCS fields and CPUID flags Yang Weijiang
2019-10-02 18:04   ` Jim Mattson
2019-10-09  5:56     ` Yang Weijiang
2019-09-27  2:19 ` [PATCH v7 3/7] KVM: VMX: Pass through CET related MSRs to Guest Yang Weijiang
2019-10-02 18:18   ` Jim Mattson
2019-10-09  6:15     ` Yang Weijiang
2019-10-10 19:04       ` Jim Mattson
2019-10-11  1:51         ` Yang Weijiang
2019-10-17 20:04       ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18  1:31         ` Yang Weijiang
2019-09-27  2:19 ` [PATCH v7 4/7] KVM: VMX: Load Guest CET via VMCS when CET is enabled in Guest Yang Weijiang
2019-10-02 18:54   ` Jim Mattson
2019-10-09  6:43     ` Yang Weijiang
2019-10-09 23:08       ` Jim Mattson
2019-10-10  1:30         ` Yang Weijiang [this message]
2019-10-10 23:44           ` Jim Mattson
2019-10-11  1:43             ` Yang Weijiang
2019-09-27  2:19 ` [PATCH v7 5/7] kvm: x86: Add CET CR4 bit and XSS support Yang Weijiang
2019-10-02 19:05   ` Jim Mattson
2019-10-17 19:56     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18  1:58       ` Yang Weijiang
2019-10-22 20:13         ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-23  1:19           ` Yang Weijiang
2019-09-27  2:19 ` [PATCH v7 6/7] KVM: x86: Load Guest fpu state when accessing MSRs managed by XSAVES Yang Weijiang
2019-10-02 19:56   ` Jim Mattson
2019-10-09  6:46     ` Yang Weijiang
2019-09-27  2:19 ` [PATCH v7 7/7] KVM: x86: Add user-space access interface for CET MSRs Yang Weijiang
2019-10-02 20:57   ` Jim Mattson
2019-10-09  6:56     ` Yang Weijiang
2019-10-17 19:58     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18  1:32       ` Yang Weijiang
2019-10-02 22:40 ` [PATCH v7 0/7] Introduce support for Guest CET feature Jim Mattson
2019-10-03 13:01   ` Yang Weijiang
2019-10-03 16:33     ` Jim Mattson
2019-10-08  8:50       ` Yang Weijiang

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