Re: [PATCH v2 21/22] KVM: MMU: mmio page fault support

Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-23T03:19:26Z

Marcelo,

Thanks for your review!

On 06/23/2011 05:59 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

>> static int is_large_pte(u64 pte)
>> @@ -2123,6 +2158,9 @@ static int set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
>> u64 spte, entry = *sptep;
>> int ret = 0;
>>
>> + if (set_mmio_spte(sptep, gfn, pfn, pte_access))
>> + return 0;
>> +
>
>
> Should zap all mmio sptes when creating new memory slots (current qemu
> never exhibits that pattern, but its not an unsupported scenario).
> Easier to zap all mmu in that case.
>

OK, will do it in the next version.

> For shadow you need to remove mmio sptes on invlpg and all mmio sptes
> under CR3 (mmu_sync_roots), other than clearing the gva/gpa variables.
>

Oh, kvm_mmu_pte_write and invlpg do not zap mmio spte, i will
fix these, thanks for your point it out.

For mmu_sync_roots, we properly do it in FNAME(sync_page) in this patch:

static bool sync_mmio_spte(u64 *sptep, gfn_t gfn, unsigned access,
int *nr_present)
{
if (unlikely(is_mmio_spte(*sptep))) {
if (gfn != get_mmio_spte_gfn(*sptep)) {
mmu_spte_clear_no_track(sptep);
return true;
}

(*nr_present)++;
mark_mmio_spte(sptep, gfn, access);
return true;
}

return false;
}

> Otherwise you can move the mmio info from an mmio spte back to
> mmio_gva/mmio_gfn after a TLB flush, without rereading the guest
> pagetable.
>

We do not read the guest page table when mmio page fault occurred,
we just do it as you say:
- Firstly, walk the shadow page table to get the mmio spte
- Then, cache the mmio spte info to mmio_gva/mmio_gfn

I missed your meaning?

>> +{
>> + struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator iterator;
>> + u64 spte, ret = 0ull;
>> +
>> + walk_shadow_page_lockless_begin(vcpu);
>> + for_each_shadow_entry_lockless(vcpu, addr, iterator, spte) {
>> + if (iterator.level == 1) {
>> + ret = spte;
>> + break;
>> + }
>
> Have you verified it is safe to walk sptes with parallel modifications
> to them? Other than shadow page deletion which is in theory covered by
> RCU. It would be good to have all cases written down.
>

Um, i think it is safe, when spte is being write, we can get the old spte
or the new spte, both cases are ok for us: it is just like the page structure
cache on the real machine, the cpu can fetch the old spte even if the page
structure is changed by other cpus.

>> +
>> + if (!is_shadow_present_pte(spte))
>> + break;
>> + }
>> + walk_shadow_page_lockless_end(vcpu);
>> +
>> + return ret;
>> +}
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * If it is a real mmio page fault, return 1 and emulat the instruction
>> + * directly, return 0 if it needs page fault path to fix it, -1 is
>> + * returned if bug is detected.
>> + */
>> +int handle_mmio_page_fault_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 addr, bool direct)
>> +{
>> + u64 spte;
>> +
>> + if (quickly_check_mmio_pf(vcpu, addr, direct))
>> + return 1;
>> +
>> + spte = walk_shadow_page_get_mmio_spte(vcpu, addr);
>> +
>> + if (is_mmio_spte(spte)) {
>> + gfn_t gfn = get_mmio_spte_gfn(spte);
>> + unsigned access = get_mmio_spte_access(spte);
>> +
>> + if (direct)
>> + addr = 0;
>> + vcpu_cache_mmio_info(vcpu, addr, gfn, access);
>> + return 1;
>> + }
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * It's ok if the gva is remapped by other cpus on shadow guest,
>> + * it's a BUG if the gfn is not a mmio page.
>> + */
>
> If the gva is remapped there should be no mmio page fault in the first
> place.
>

For example, as follow case:

VCPU 0 VCPU 1
gva is mapped to a mmio region
access gva
remap gva to other page
emulate mmio access by kvm
(*the point we are discussing*)
flush all tlb

In theory, it can happen.

>> + if (direct && is_shadow_present_pte(spte))
>> + return -1;
>
> An spte does not have to contain the present bit to generate a valid EPT
> misconfiguration (and an spte dump is still required in that case).
> Use !is_mmio_spte() instead.
>

We can not use !is_mmio_spte() here, since the shadow page can be zapped anytime,
for example:

sp.spt[i] = mmio-spte

VCPU 0 VCPU 1
Access sp.spte[i], ept misconfig is occurred
delete sp
(if the number of shadow page is out of the limit
or page shrink is required, and other events...)

Walk shadow page out of the lock and get the
non-present spte
(*the point we are discussing*)

So, the bug we can detect is: it is the mmio access but the spte is point to the normal
page.

>
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * If the page table is zapped by other cpus, let the page
>> + * fault path to fix it.
>> + */
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>
> I don't understand when would this happen, can you please explain?
>

The case is above :-)