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From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
To: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
	Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: nv: Use FGT write trap of MDSCR_EL1 when available
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:51:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250924235150.617451-3-oliver.upton@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250924235150.617451-1-oliver.upton@linux.dev>

Marc reports that the performance of running an L3 guest has regressed
by 60% as a result of setting MDCR_EL2.TDA to hide bad architecture.
That's of course terrible for the single user of recursive NV ;-)

While there's nothing to be done on non-FGT systems, take advantage of
the precise write trap of MDSCR_EL1 and leave the rest of the debug
registers untrapped.

Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/config.c | 10 +++++++++-
 arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c |  9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/config.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/config.c
index b1cf7660efe1..24bb3f36e9d5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/config.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/config.c
@@ -1489,6 +1489,14 @@ static void __compute_hfgwtr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		*vcpu_fgt(vcpu, HFGWTR_EL2) |= HFGWTR_EL2_TCR_EL1;
 }
 
+static void __compute_hdfgwtr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+	__compute_fgt(vcpu, HDFGWTR_EL2);
+
+	if (is_hyp_ctxt(vcpu))
+		*vcpu_fgt(vcpu, HDFGWTR_EL2) |= HDFGWTR_EL2_MDSCR_EL1;
+}
+
 void kvm_vcpu_load_fgt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	if (!cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HAS_FGT))
@@ -1498,7 +1506,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_load_fgt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	__compute_hfgwtr(vcpu);
 	__compute_fgt(vcpu, HFGITR_EL2);
 	__compute_fgt(vcpu, HDFGRTR_EL2);
-	__compute_fgt(vcpu, HDFGWTR_EL2);
+	__compute_hdfgwtr(vcpu);
 	__compute_fgt(vcpu, HAFGRTR_EL2);
 
 	if (!cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HAS_FGT2))
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
index d828c60c6300..5009bfe849ff 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
@@ -1830,13 +1830,16 @@ void kvm_nested_setup_mdcr_el2(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	u64 guest_mdcr = __vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, MDCR_EL2);
 
+	if (is_nested_ctxt(vcpu))
+		vcpu->arch.mdcr_el2 |= (guest_mdcr & NV_MDCR_GUEST_INCLUDE);
 	/*
 	 * In yet another example where FEAT_NV2 is fscking broken, accesses
 	 * to MDSCR_EL1 are redirected to the VNCR despite having an effect
 	 * at EL2. Use a big hammer to apply sanity.
+	 *
+	 * Unless of course we have FEAT_FGT, in which case we can precisely
+	 * trap MDSCR_EL1.
 	 */
-	if (is_hyp_ctxt(vcpu))
+	else if (!cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HAS_FGT))
 		vcpu->arch.mdcr_el2 |= MDCR_EL2_TDA;
-	else
-		vcpu->arch.mdcr_el2 |= (guest_mdcr & NV_MDCR_GUEST_INCLUDE);
 }
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-09-24 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-24 23:51 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm64: nv: FGT traps of MDSCR_EL1 Oliver Upton
2025-09-24 23:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: Compute per-vCPU FGTs at vcpu_load() Oliver Upton
2025-09-25 11:09   ` Joey Gouly
2025-09-24 23:51 ` Oliver Upton [this message]
2025-09-25 11:12   ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: nv: Use FGT write trap of MDSCR_EL1 when available Joey Gouly
2025-10-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm64: nv: FGT traps of MDSCR_EL1 Marc Zyngier

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