From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
To: "Sean Christopherson" <seanjc@google.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Alexander Graf" <agraf@suse.de>,
"Joerg Roedel" <joro@8bytes.org>, "Avi Kivity" <avi@redhat.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
"David Hildenbrand" <david@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 4/6] KVM: x86: nSVM: Cache g_pat in vmcb_ctrl_area_cached
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 12:11:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251107201151.3303170-5-jmattson@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251107201151.3303170-1-jmattson@google.com>
Add a g_pat field to the vmcb_ctrl_area_cached struct for caching the
VMCB12 g_pat at emulated VMRUN. This is a preliminary step to allow
for proper validation and handling of the VMCB12 g_pat when nested
paging is enabled in VMCB12.
Fixes: 3d6368ef580a ("KVM: SVM: Add VMRUN handler")
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 6 ++++++
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 51a89d6aa29f..6e48572e2bd7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -984,6 +984,12 @@ int nested_svm_vmrun(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
nested_copy_vmcb_control_to_cache(svm, &vmcb12->control);
nested_copy_vmcb_save_to_cache(svm, &vmcb12->save);
+ /*
+ * To facilitate independent validation of the cached state
+ * save area and the cached control area, we cache the vmcb12
+ * g_pat with the cached controls.
+ */
+ svm->nested.ctl.g_pat = vmcb12->save.g_pat;
if (!nested_vmcb_check_save(vcpu) ||
!nested_vmcb_check_controls(vcpu)) {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
index e4b04f435b3d..c91e20aa3ec2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ struct vmcb_ctrl_area_cached {
u64 virt_ext;
u32 clean;
u64 bus_lock_rip;
+ u64 g_pat;
union {
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HYPERV) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM_HYPERV)
struct hv_vmcb_enlightenments hv_enlightenments;
--
2.51.2.1041.gc1ab5b90ca-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-07 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-07 20:11 [RFC PATCH 0/6] KVM: x86: nSVM: Improve virtualization of VMCB12 G_PAT Jim Mattson
2025-11-07 20:11 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] KVM: x86: nSVM: Shuffle guest PAT and PAT MSR in svm_set_nested_state() Jim Mattson
2025-11-07 20:11 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] KVM: x86: nSVM: Redirect PAT MSR accesses to gPAT when NPT is enabled in vmcb12 Jim Mattson
2025-11-07 20:11 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] KVM: x86: nSVM: Copy current vmcb02 g_pat to vmcb12 g_pat on #VMEXIT Jim Mattson
2025-11-07 20:11 ` Jim Mattson [this message]
2025-11-07 20:11 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] KVM: x86: nSVM: Add validity check for the VMCB12 g_pat Jim Mattson
2025-11-07 20:11 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] KVM: x86: nSVM: Use cached VMCB12 g_pat in VMCB02 when using NPT Jim Mattson
2025-11-17 20:56 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] KVM: x86: nSVM: Improve virtualization of VMCB12 G_PAT Yosry Ahmed
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