[PATCH v2 45/54] KVM: nVMX: Add nested virtualization support for passthrough PMU

Mingwei Zhang
2024-05-06T05:31:52Z

Add nested virtualization support for passthrough PMU by combining the MSR
interception bitmaps of vmcs01 and vmcs12. Readers may argue even without
this patch, nested virtualization works for passthrough PMU because L1 will
see Perfmon v2 and will have to use legacy vPMU implementation if it is
Linux. However, any assumption made on L1 may be invalid, e.g., L1 may not
even be Linux.

If both L0 and L1 pass through PMU MSRs, the correct behavior is to allow
MSR access from L2 directly touch HW MSRs, since both L0 and L1 passthrough
the access.

However, in current implementation, if without adding anything for nested,
KVM always set MSR interception bits in vmcs02. This leads to the fact that
L0 will emulate all MSR read/writes for L2, leading to errors, since the
current passthrough vPMU never implements set_msr() and get_msr() for any
counter access except counter accesses from the VMM side.

So fix the issue by setting up the correct MSR interception for PMU MSRs.

Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 52 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index d05ddf751491..558032663228 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -590,6 +590,55 @@ static inline void nested_vmx_set_intercept_for_msr(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx,
msr_bitmap_l0, msr);
}

+/* Pass PMU MSRs to nested VM if L0 and L1 are set to passthrough. */
+static void nested_vmx_set_passthru_pmu_intercept_for_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
+ unsigned long *msr_bitmap_l1,
+ unsigned long *msr_bitmap_l0)
+{
+ struct kvm_pmu *pmu = vcpu_to_pmu(vcpu);
+ struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < pmu->nr_arch_gp_counters; i++) {
+ nested_vmx_set_intercept_for_msr(vmx, msr_bitmap_l1,
+ msr_bitmap_l0,
+ MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL0 + i,
+ MSR_TYPE_RW);
+ nested_vmx_set_intercept_for_msr(vmx, msr_bitmap_l1,
+ msr_bitmap_l0,
+ MSR_IA32_PERFCTR0 + i,
+ MSR_TYPE_RW);
+ nested_vmx_set_intercept_for_msr(vmx, msr_bitmap_l1,
+ msr_bitmap_l0,
+ MSR_IA32_PMC0 + i,
+ MSR_TYPE_RW);
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < vcpu_to_pmu(vcpu)->nr_arch_fixed_counters; i++) {
+ nested_vmx_set_intercept_for_msr(vmx, msr_bitmap_l1,
+ msr_bitmap_l0,
+ MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0 + i,
+ MSR_TYPE_RW);
+ }
+ nested_vmx_set_intercept_for_msr(vmx, msr_bitmap_l1,
+ msr_bitmap_l0,
+ MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR_CTRL,
+ MSR_TYPE_RW);
+
+ nested_vmx_set_intercept_for_msr(vmx, msr_bitmap_l1,
+ msr_bitmap_l0,
+ MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS,
+ MSR_TYPE_RW);
+ nested_vmx_set_intercept_for_msr(vmx, msr_bitmap_l1,
+ msr_bitmap_l0,
+ MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL,
+ MSR_TYPE_RW);
+ nested_vmx_set_intercept_for_msr(vmx, msr_bitmap_l1,
+ msr_bitmap_l0,
+ MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL,
+ MSR_TYPE_RW);
+}
+
/*
* Merge L0's and L1's MSR bitmap, return false to indicate that
* we do not use the hardware.
@@ -691,6 +740,9 @@ static inline bool nested_vmx_prepare_msr_bitmap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
nested_vmx_set_intercept_for_msr(vmx, msr_bitmap_l1, msr_bitmap_l0,
MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD, MSR_TYPE_W);

+ if (is_passthrough_pmu_enabled(vcpu))
+ nested_vmx_set_passthru_pmu_intercept_for_msr(vcpu, msr_bitmap_l1, msr_bitmap_l0);
+
kvm_vcpu_unmap(vcpu, &vmx->nested.msr_bitmap_map, false);

vmx->nested.force_msr_bitmap_recalc = false;
--
2.45.0.rc1.225.g2a3ae87e7f-goog