From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>,
Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>,
"Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 6/7] KVM: VMX: switch to RESTORE_GUEST_SPEC_CTRL_BODY
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:58:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260427105848.44865-7-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260427105848.44865-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>
This has exactly the same expansion, so there is no change.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S | 31 ++++---------------------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S
index 38915ca16b05..7dd9bac0e454 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S
@@ -101,35 +101,12 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(__vmx_vcpu_run)
/* Reload @vmx, _ASM_ARG1 may be modified by vmx_update_host_rsp(). */
mov WORD_SIZE(%_ASM_SP), %_ASM_DI
- ALTERNATIVE "jmp .Lspec_ctrl_done", "", X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL
-
/*
- * SPEC_CTRL handling: if the guest's SPEC_CTRL value differs from the
- * host's, write the MSR.
- *
- * IMPORTANT: To avoid RSB underflow attacks and any other nastiness,
- * there must not be any returns or indirect branches between this code
- * and vmentry.
+ * Unlike AMD there's no V_SPEC_CTRL here, so do not leave the body
+ * out of line. Clobbers RAX, RCX, RDX, RSI.
*/
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
- mov VMX_spec_ctrl(%rdi), %rdx
- cmp PER_CPU_VAR(x86_spec_ctrl_current), %rdx
- je .Lspec_ctrl_done
- movl %edx, %eax
- shr $32, %rdx
-#else
- mov VMX_spec_ctrl(%edi), %eax
- mov PER_CPU_VAR(x86_spec_ctrl_current), %ecx
- xor %eax, %ecx
- mov VMX_spec_ctrl + 4(%edi), %edx
- mov PER_CPU_VAR(x86_spec_ctrl_current + 4), %esi
- xor %edx, %esi
- or %esi, %ecx
- je .Lspec_ctrl_done
-#endif
- mov $MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, %ecx
- wrmsr
-
+ ALTERNATIVE "jmp .Lspec_ctrl_done", "", X86_FEATURE_MSR_SPEC_CTRL
+ RESTORE_GUEST_SPEC_CTRL_BODY VMX_spec_ctrl(%_ASM_DI), .Lspec_ctrl_done
.Lspec_ctrl_done:
/*
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-27 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-27 10:58 [PATCH v2 0/7] KVM: VMX/SVM: use the same SPEC_CTRL assembly code Paolo Bonzini
2026-04-27 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] KVM: VMX: remove regs argument of __vmx_vcpu_run Paolo Bonzini
2026-04-27 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] KVM: VMX: more cleanups to __vmx_vcpu_run Paolo Bonzini
2026-04-27 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] KVM: SVM: prepare for making SPEC_CTRL switch common with VMX Paolo Bonzini
2026-04-27 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] KVM: SVM: adopt the same VMX_RUN_* flags as VMX Paolo Bonzini
2026-04-27 17:51 ` Chang S. Bae
2026-04-27 18:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2026-04-27 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] KVM: SVM: extract RESTORE_*_SPEC_CTRL_BODY out of svm/vmenter.S Paolo Bonzini
2026-04-27 10:58 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2026-04-27 10:58 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] KVM: VMX: replace vmx_spec_ctrl_restore_host with RESTORE_HOST_SPEC_CTRL_BODY Paolo Bonzini
2026-04-27 17:51 ` Chang S. Bae
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