From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>,
Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 04/10] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to update PML controls on-demand if L2 is active
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 15:19:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251205231913.441872-5-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251205231913.441872-1-seanjc@google.com>
If KVM toggles "CPU dirty logging", a.k.a. Page-Modification Logging (PML),
while L2 is active, temporarily load vmcs01 and immediately update the
relevant controls instead of deferring the update until the next nested
VM-Exit. For PML, deferring the update is relatively straightforward, but
for several APICv related updates, deferring updates creates ordering and
state consistency problems, e.g. KVM at-large thinks APICv is enabled, but
vmcs01 is still running with stale (and effectively unknown) state.
Convert PML first precisely because it's the simplest case to handle: if
something is broken with the vmcs01 <=> vmcs02 dance, then hopefully bugs
will bisect here.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 5 -----
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h | 1 -
3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 6137e5307d0f..920a925bb46f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -5152,11 +5152,6 @@ void __nested_vmx_vmexit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 vm_exit_reason,
vmx_set_virtual_apic_mode(vcpu);
}
- if (vmx->nested.update_vmcs01_cpu_dirty_logging) {
- vmx->nested.update_vmcs01_cpu_dirty_logging = false;
- vmx_update_cpu_dirty_logging(vcpu);
- }
-
nested_put_vmcs12_pages(vcpu);
if (vmx->nested.reload_vmcs01_apic_access_page) {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 6b96f7aea20b..1420665fbb66 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -1594,6 +1594,41 @@ void vmx_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
vmx_prepare_switch_to_host(to_vmx(vcpu));
}
+static void vmx_switch_loaded_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
+ struct loaded_vmcs *vmcs)
+{
+ struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
+ int cpu;
+
+ cpu = get_cpu();
+ vmx->loaded_vmcs = vmcs;
+ vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(vcpu, cpu);
+ put_cpu();
+}
+
+static void vmx_load_vmcs01(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
+
+ if (!is_guest_mode(vcpu)) {
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(vmx->loaded_vmcs != &vmx->vmcs01);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(vmx->loaded_vmcs != &vmx->nested.vmcs02);
+ vmx_switch_loaded_vmcs(vcpu, &vmx->vmcs01);
+}
+
+static void vmx_put_vmcs01(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ if (!is_guest_mode(vcpu))
+ return;
+
+ vmx_switch_loaded_vmcs(vcpu, &to_vmx(vcpu)->nested.vmcs02);
+}
+DEFINE_GUARD(vmx_vmcs01, struct kvm_vcpu *,
+ vmx_load_vmcs01(_T), vmx_put_vmcs01(_T))
+
bool vmx_emulation_required(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
return emulate_invalid_guest_state && !vmx_guest_state_valid(vcpu);
@@ -8267,10 +8302,7 @@ void vmx_update_cpu_dirty_logging(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!enable_pml))
return;
- if (is_guest_mode(vcpu)) {
- vmx->nested.update_vmcs01_cpu_dirty_logging = true;
- return;
- }
+ guard(vmx_vmcs01)(vcpu);
/*
* Note, nr_memslots_dirty_logging can be changed concurrent with this
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
index bc3ed3145d7e..b44eda6225f4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
@@ -133,7 +133,6 @@ struct nested_vmx {
bool change_vmcs01_virtual_apic_mode;
bool reload_vmcs01_apic_access_page;
- bool update_vmcs01_cpu_dirty_logging;
bool update_vmcs01_apicv_status;
bool update_vmcs01_hwapic_isr;
--
2.52.0.223.gf5cc29aaa4-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-05 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-05 23:19 [PATCH v3 00/10] KVM: VMX: Fix APICv activation bugs Sean Christopherson
2025-12-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] KVM: VMX: Update SVI during runtime APICv activation Sean Christopherson
2025-12-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] KVM: nVMX: Immediately refresh APICv controls as needed on nested VM-Exit Sean Christopherson
2025-12-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] KVM: selftests: Add a test to verify APICv updates (while L2 is active) Sean Christopherson
2025-12-12 3:24 ` Chao Gao
2025-12-12 18:01 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-12-05 23:19 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2025-12-24 7:53 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to update PML controls on-demand if L2 is active Chao Gao
2025-12-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to update TPR threshold " Sean Christopherson
2025-12-25 6:38 ` Chao Gao
2025-12-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to update SVI " Sean Christopherson
2025-12-25 8:30 ` Chao Gao
2025-12-30 21:03 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-12-31 2:17 ` Chao Gao
2025-12-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to refresh APICv controls " Sean Christopherson
2025-12-26 1:45 ` Chao Gao
2025-12-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to update APIC page " Sean Christopherson
2025-12-26 2:01 ` Chao Gao
2025-12-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to set virtual APICv mode " Sean Christopherson
2025-12-26 5:16 ` Chao Gao
2025-12-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] KVM: x86: Update APICv ISR (a.k.a. SVI) as part of kvm_apic_update_apicv() Sean Christopherson
2025-12-26 5:16 ` Chao Gao
2025-12-10 0:25 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] KVM: VMX: Fix APICv activation bugs Sean Christopherson
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