From: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, babu.moger@amd.com
Subject: [PATCH] x86/svm: work around Virtual VMLOAD/VMSAVE bug on Naples and Rome
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 13:34:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260514113424.4136527-1-imammedo@redhat.com> (raw)
AMD Family 17h models 0x00-0x0f (Naples/Zen+) and 0x30-0x3f (Rome/Zen2)
have a hardware bug where Virtual VMLOAD/VMSAVE causes spurious VMEXITs
on VMLOAD/VMSAVE even with intercepts disabled, when the VMCB physical
address as seen by L1 falls in [0x78000000, 0x80000000) range.
Reserve this range on affected CPUs so the page allocator would never
alocate the VMCB there.
Given that it's relative old CPUs + nested env + only performance
impact, it's not worth fixing on KVM side (which could involve
messing with allocator or reallocating VMCB, until it's not
in affected range). Hence a quirk here, to prevent tests
failures where we can't do anything about them.
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
---
there is not official EOL dates on both, but using a newer
generation(s) release dates it appears that both are effectively
discontinued for ~3-5 yeas
---
x86/svm.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/x86/svm.c b/x86/svm.c
index a85da905..706ff2ef 100644
--- a/x86/svm.c
+++ b/x86/svm.c
@@ -334,6 +334,21 @@ static void setup_npt(void)
__setup_mmu_range(pml4e, 0, size, X86_MMU_MAP_USER);
}
+#define VLS_BUG_START 0x78000000ULL
+#define VLS_BUG_END 0x80000000ULL
+
+static bool has_vls_bug(void)
+{
+ u32 sig = cpuid(1).a;
+ u32 fam = x86_family(sig);
+ u32 model = x86_model(sig);
+
+ if (fam != 0x17)
+ return false;
+
+ return model <= 0x0f || (model >= 0x30 && model <= 0x3f);
+}
+
static void setup_svm(void)
{
void *hsave = alloc_page();
@@ -413,6 +428,13 @@ int run_svm_tests(int ac, char **av, struct svm_test *svm_tests)
return report_summary();
}
+ if (has_vls_bug()) {
+ phys_addr_t addr;
+
+ for (addr = VLS_BUG_START; addr < VLS_BUG_END; addr += PAGE_SIZE)
+ reserve_pages(addr, 1);
+ }
+
setup_svm();
vmcb = alloc_page();
--
2.43.0
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