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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: nVMX: Do not generate #DF if #PF happens during exception delivery into L2
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:26:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5242E4A0.50301@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130925122144.GK1445@redhat.com>

Il 25/09/2013 14:21, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 02:08:09PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 25/09/2013 13:51, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
>>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 01:24:49PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>> Il 25/09/2013 11:51, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
>>>>> @@ -7773,6 +7787,9 @@ static void prepare_vmcs02(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vmcs12 *vmcs12)
>>>>>  	kvm_set_cr3(vcpu, vmcs12->guest_cr3);
>>>>>  	kvm_mmu_reset_context(vcpu);
>>>>>  
>>>>> +	if (!enable_ept)
>>>>> +		vcpu->arch.walk_mmu->inject_page_fault = vmx_inject_page_fault_nested;
>>>>> +
>>>>>  	/*
>>>>>  	 * L1 may access the L2's PDPTR, so save them to construct vmcs12
>>>>>  	 */
>>>>> @@ -8232,6 +8249,9 @@ static void load_vmcs12_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>>>>  	kvm_set_cr3(vcpu, vmcs12->host_cr3);
>>>>>  	kvm_mmu_reset_context(vcpu);
>>>>>  
>>>>> +	if (!enable_ept)
>>>>> +		vcpu->arch.walk_mmu->inject_page_fault = kvm_inject_page_fault;
>>>>
>>>> This is strictly speaking not needed, because kvm_mmu_reset_context
>>>> takes care of it.
>>>>
>>> Yeah, but better make it explicit, it does not hurt but make it more
>>> clear what is going on. Or at least add comment above
>>> kvm_mmu_reset_context() about this side effect.
>>
>> Yes, I agree the code is cleaner like you wrote it.
>>
>>>> But I wonder if it is cleaner to not touch the struct here, and instead
>>>> add a new member to kvm_x86_ops---used directly in init_kvm_softmmu like
>>>> kvm_x86_ops->set_cr3.  The new member can do something like
>>>>
>>>> 	if (is_guest_mode(vcpu)) {
>>>> 		struct vmcs12 *vmcs12 = get_vmcs12(vcpu);
>>>> 		if (vmcs12->exception_bitmap & (1u << PF_VECTOR)) {
>>>> 			nested_vmx_vmexit(vcpu);
>>>> 			return;
>>>> 		}
>>>> 	}
>>>>
>>>> 	kvm_inject_page_fault(vcpu, fault);
>>>
>>> I do not quite understand what you mean here. inject_page_fault() is
>>> called from the depth of page table walking. How the code will not to
>>> call new member in some circumstances?
>>
>> IIUC the new function is called if and only if is_guest_mode(vcpu) && 
>> !enable_ept.  So what I'm suggesting is something like this:
>>
> Ah I see, so you propose to check for guest mode and enable_ept in the
> function instead of switching to another function, but switching to
> another function is how code was designed to be.

You do not need to check enable_ept if I understand the code correctly,
because the new function is specifically called in init_kvm_softmmu,
i.e. not for nested_mmu and not for tdp_enabled.

I'm asking because I didn't find any other place that modifies function
pointers this way after kvm_mmu_reset_context.

> Nested NPT/EPT provide
> their own function too, but there is nothing that stops you from
> checking on what MMU you are now in the function itself.

The difference is that NPT/EPT use a completely different paging mode
for nested and non-nested (non-nested uses direct mapping, nested uses
shadow mapping).  Shadow paging is really the same thing for nested and
non-nested, you just have to do the injection the right way.

>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> @@ -735,6 +735,8 @@ struct kvm_x86_ops {
>>  	void (*adjust_tsc_offset)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, s64 adjustment, bool host);
>>  
>>  	void (*set_tdp_cr3)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr3);
>> +	void (*inject_softmmu_page_fault)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>> +					  struct x86_exception *fault);
>>  
>>  	void (*set_supported_cpuid)(u32 func, struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry);
>>  
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>> @@ -3805,7 +3805,7 @@ static int init_kvm_softmmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>  	vcpu->arch.walk_mmu->set_cr3           = kvm_x86_ops->set_cr3;
>>  	vcpu->arch.walk_mmu->get_cr3           = get_cr3;
>>  	vcpu->arch.walk_mmu->get_pdptr         = kvm_pdptr_read;
>> -	vcpu->arch.walk_mmu->inject_page_fault = kvm_inject_page_fault;
>> +	vcpu->arch.walk_mmu->inject_page_fault = kvm_x86_ops->inject_softmmu_page_fault;
>>  
>>  	return r;
>>  }
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> @@ -7499,6 +7499,20 @@ static void nested_ept_inject_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>  	vmcs12->guest_physical_address = fault->address;
>>  }
>>  
>> +static void vmx_inject_softmmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>> +		struct x86_exception *fault)
>> +{
>> +	if (is_guest_mode(vcpu)) {
> is_guest_mode(vcpu) && !enable_ept

You don't really need to check for enable_ept (perhaps
WARN_ON(enable_ept) instead) because the function is not used always,
only in init_kvm_softmmu.

> I described what I saw with VMX, I am not saying the same happens with
> SVM :) I just do not see why it should not and the non fatality of the
> BUG can explain why it was missed.

Interesting, I got something completely different.  The guest just got
stuck before even getting to the GRUB prompt.  I'm trying your patches
now...

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-25 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-25  9:51 [PATCH 0/4] Fix shadow-on-shadow nested VMX Gleb Natapov
2013-09-25  9:51 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: nVMX: Amend nested_run_pending logic Gleb Natapov
2013-09-25  9:51 ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: nVMX: Do not put exception that caused vmexit to IDT_VECTORING_INFO Gleb Natapov
2013-09-25  9:51 ` [PATCH 3/4] KVM: nVMX: Check all exceptions for intercept during delivery to L2 Gleb Natapov
2013-09-25 10:38   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-25 11:00     ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-25 11:25       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-25 11:52         ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-25 14:00   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-25 14:19     ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-25 14:22       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-25 16:31         ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-25  9:51 ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: nVMX: Do not generate #DF if #PF happens during exception delivery into L2 Gleb Natapov
2013-09-25 11:24   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-25 11:51     ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-25 12:08       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-25 12:21         ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-25 13:26           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-09-25 13:36             ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-25 13:53               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-26 15:10 ` [PATCH 0/4] Fix shadow-on-shadow nested VMX Paolo Bonzini

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