Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: nSVM: Advertise support for flush-by-ASID

Maxim Levitsky
2023-11-20T11:42:29Z

On Wed, 2023-10-18 at 12:41 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Advertise support for FLUSHBYASID when nested SVM is enabled, as KVM can
> always emulate flushing TLB entries for a vmcb12 ASID, e.g. by running L2
> with a new, fresh ASID in vmcb02. Some modern hypervisors, e.g. VMWare
> Workstation 17, require FLUSHBYASID support and will refuse to run if it's
> not present.
>
> Punt on proper support, as "Honor L1's request to flush an ASID on nested
> VMRUN" is one of the TODO items in the (incomplete) list of issues that
> need to be addressed in order for KVM to NOT do a full TLB flush on every
> nested SVM transition (see nested_svm_transition_tlb_flush()).
>
> Reported-by: Stefan Sterz <s.sterz@proxmox.com>
> Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b9915c9c-4cf6-051a-2d91-44cc6380f455%40proxmox.com
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> index 1785de7dc98b..9cf7eef161ff 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> @@ -5083,6 +5083,7 @@ static __init void svm_set_cpu_caps(void)
> if (nested) {
> kvm_cpu_cap_set(X86_FEATURE_SVM);
> kvm_cpu_cap_set(X86_FEATURE_VMCBCLEAN);
> + kvm_cpu_cap_set(X86_FEATURE_FLUSHBYASID);
>
> if (nrips)
> kvm_cpu_cap_set(X86_FEATURE_NRIPS);

Nitpick: if you think that this is worth it,
maybe we can add a comment here on why we can 'support' the flushbyasid feature?
in addition to the commit message.

Other than that:

Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky