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@ 2024-10-01  5:00 Xin Li (Intel)
  2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 01/27] KVM: x86: Use a dedicated flow for queueing re-injected exceptions Xin Li (Intel)
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  0 siblings, 29 replies; 81+ messages in thread
From: Xin Li (Intel) @ 2024-10-01  5:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm, linux-kernel, linux-doc
  Cc: seanjc, pbonzini, corbet, tglx, mingo, bp, dave.hansen, x86, hpa,
	luto, peterz, andrew.cooper3, xin

This patch set enables the Intel flexible return and event delivery
(FRED) architecture with KVM VMX to allow guests to utilize FRED.

The FRED architecture defines simple new transitions that change
privilege level (ring transitions). The FRED architecture was
designed with the following goals:

1) Improve overall performance and response time by replacing event
   delivery through the interrupt descriptor table (IDT event
   delivery) and event return by the IRET instruction with lower
   latency transitions.

2) Improve software robustness by ensuring that event delivery
   establishes the full supervisor context and that event return
   establishes the full user context.

The new transitions defined by the FRED architecture are FRED event
delivery and, for returning from events, two FRED return instructions.
FRED event delivery can effect a transition from ring 3 to ring 0, but
it is used also to deliver events incident to ring 0. One FRED
instruction (ERETU) effects a return from ring 0 to ring 3, while the
other (ERETS) returns while remaining in ring 0. Collectively, FRED
event delivery and the FRED return instructions are FRED transitions.

Intel VMX architecture is extended to run FRED guests, and the major
changes are:

1) New VMCS fields for FRED context management, which includes two new
event data VMCS fields, eight new guest FRED context VMCS fields and
eight new host FRED context VMCS fields.

2) VMX nested-exception support for proper virtualization of stack
levels introduced with FRED architecture.

Search for the latest FRED spec in most search engines with this search
pattern:

  site:intel.com FRED (flexible return and event delivery) specification

The first 20 patches add FRED support to VMX, and the rest 7 patches
add FRED support to nested VMX.


Following is the link to the v2 of this patch set:
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240207172646.3981-1-xin3.li@intel.com/

Sean Christopherson (3):
  KVM: x86: Use a dedicated flow for queueing re-injected exceptions
  KVM: VMX: Don't modify guest XFD_ERR if CR0.TS=1
  KVM: VMX: Pass XFD_ERR as pseudo-payload when injecting #NM

Xin Li (21):
  KVM: VMX: Add support for the secondary VM exit controls
  KVM: VMX: Initialize FRED VM entry/exit controls in vmcs_config
  KVM: VMX: Disable FRED if FRED consistency checks fail
  KVM: VMX: Initialize VMCS FRED fields
  KVM: x86: Use KVM-governed feature framework to track "FRED enabled"
  KVM: VMX: Set FRED MSR interception
  KVM: VMX: Save/restore guest FRED RSP0
  KVM: VMX: Add support for FRED context save/restore
  KVM: x86: Add a helper to detect if FRED is enabled for a vCPU
  KVM: VMX: Virtualize FRED event_data
  KVM: VMX: Virtualize FRED nested exception tracking
  KVM: x86: Mark CR4.FRED as not reserved when guest can use FRED
  KVM: VMX: Dump FRED context in dump_vmcs()
  KVM: x86: Allow FRED/LKGS to be advertised to guests
  KVM: x86: Allow WRMSRNS to be advertised to guests
  KVM: VMX: Invoke vmx_set_cpu_caps() before nested setup
  KVM: nVMX: Add support for the secondary VM exit controls
  KVM: nVMX: Add a prerequisite to SHADOW_FIELD_R[OW] macros
  KVM: nVMX: Add FRED VMCS fields
  KVM: nVMX: Add VMCS FRED states checking
  KVM: nVMX: Allow VMX FRED controls

Xin Li (Intel) (3):
  x86/cea: Export per CPU variable cea_exception_stacks
  KVM: VMX: Do not use MAX_POSSIBLE_PASSTHROUGH_MSRS in array definition
  KVM: nVMX: Add a prerequisite to existence of VMCS fields

 Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/nested-vmx.rst |  19 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h           |   9 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h          |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h                |  32 ++-
 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c                      |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/governed_features.h          |   1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h             |  15 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c                    |  15 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h           |  17 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c                 | 291 ++++++++++++++++----
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h                 |   8 +
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested_vmcs_fields.h     |  25 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmcs.h                   |   1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmcs12.c                 |  19 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmcs12.h                 |  38 +++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmcs_shadow_fields.h     |  37 ++-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c                    | 308 +++++++++++++++++++---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h                    |  15 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                        | 140 ++++++----
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.h                        |   8 +-
 arch/x86/mm/cpu_entry_area.c              |   1 +
 21 files changed, 846 insertions(+), 158 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested_vmcs_fields.h


base-commit: 9852d85ec9d492ebef56dc5f229416c925758edc
-- 
2.46.2


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2024-10-01  5:00 [PATCH v3 00/27] Enable FRED with KVM VMX Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 01/27] KVM: x86: Use a dedicated flow for queueing re-injected exceptions Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 02/27] KVM: VMX: Don't modify guest XFD_ERR if CR0.TS=1 Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 03/27] KVM: VMX: Add support for the secondary VM exit controls Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-21  8:28   ` Chao Gao
2024-10-21 17:03     ` Xin Li
2024-10-22  2:47       ` Chao Gao
2024-10-22 16:30         ` Xin Li
2025-02-25 17:28           ` Sean Christopherson
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 04/27] KVM: VMX: Initialize FRED VM entry/exit controls in vmcs_config Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 05/27] KVM: VMX: Disable FRED if FRED consistency checks fail Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-22  8:48   ` Chao Gao
2024-10-22 16:21     ` Xin Li
2024-11-26 15:32   ` Borislav Petkov
2024-11-26 18:53     ` Xin Li
2024-11-26 19:04       ` Borislav Petkov
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 06/27] x86/cea: Export per CPU variable cea_exception_stacks Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01 16:12   ` Dave Hansen
2024-10-01 17:51     ` Xin Li
2024-10-01 18:18       ` Dave Hansen
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 07/27] KVM: VMX: Initialize VMCS FRED fields Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-22  9:06   ` Chao Gao
2024-10-22 16:18     ` Xin Li
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 08/27] KVM: x86: Use KVM-governed feature framework to track "FRED enabled" Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 09/27] KVM: VMX: Do not use MAX_POSSIBLE_PASSTHROUGH_MSRS in array definition Xin Li (Intel)
2024-11-26 18:02   ` Borislav Petkov
2024-11-26 19:22     ` Xin Li
2024-11-26 20:06       ` Borislav Petkov
2024-11-27  6:46         ` Xin Li
2024-11-27  6:55           ` Borislav Petkov
2024-11-27  7:02             ` Xin Li
2024-11-27  7:10               ` Borislav Petkov
2024-11-27  7:32                 ` Xin Li
2024-11-27  7:58                   ` Borislav Petkov
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 10/27] KVM: VMX: Set FRED MSR interception Xin Li (Intel)
2024-11-13 11:31   ` Chao Gao
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 11/27] KVM: VMX: Save/restore guest FRED RSP0 Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 12/27] KVM: VMX: Add support for FRED context save/restore Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 13/27] KVM: x86: Add a helper to detect if FRED is enabled for a vCPU Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 14/27] KVM: VMX: Pass XFD_ERR as pseudo-payload when injecting #NM Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 15/27] KVM: VMX: Virtualize FRED event_data Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:00 ` [PATCH v3 16/27] KVM: VMX: Virtualize FRED nested exception tracking Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-24  6:24   ` Chao Gao
2024-10-25  8:04     ` Xin Li
2024-10-28  6:33       ` Chao Gao
2024-12-05  7:16         ` Xin Li
2024-10-01  5:01 ` [PATCH v3 17/27] KVM: x86: Mark CR4.FRED as not reserved when guest can use FRED Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-24  7:18   ` Chao Gao
2024-12-12 18:48     ` Xin Li
2024-12-12 19:05       ` Sean Christopherson
2024-12-13 18:43         ` Xin Li
2024-10-01  5:01 ` [PATCH v3 18/27] KVM: VMX: Dump FRED context in dump_vmcs() Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-24  7:23   ` Chao Gao
2024-10-24 16:50     ` Xin Li
2024-10-01  5:01 ` [PATCH v3 19/27] KVM: x86: Allow FRED/LKGS to be advertised to guests Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:01 ` [PATCH v3 20/27] KVM: x86: Allow WRMSRNS " Xin Li (Intel)
2025-02-25 15:41   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-10-01  5:01 ` [PATCH v3 21/27] KVM: VMX: Invoke vmx_set_cpu_caps() before nested setup Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-24  7:49   ` Chao Gao
2024-10-25  7:34     ` Xin Li
2025-02-25 16:01       ` Sean Christopherson
2024-10-01  5:01 ` [PATCH v3 22/27] KVM: nVMX: Add support for the secondary VM exit controls Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:01 ` [PATCH v3 23/27] KVM: nVMX: Add a prerequisite to SHADOW_FIELD_R[OW] macros Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:01 ` [PATCH v3 24/27] KVM: nVMX: Add a prerequisite to existence of VMCS fields Xin Li (Intel)
2025-02-25 16:22   ` Sean Christopherson
2025-02-25 16:37     ` Xin Li
2025-02-25 19:32       ` Sean Christopherson
2024-10-01  5:01 ` [PATCH v3 25/27] KVM: nVMX: Add FRED " Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-24  7:42   ` Chao Gao
2024-10-25  7:25     ` Xin Li
2024-10-28  9:07       ` Chao Gao
2024-10-28 18:27         ` Sean Christopherson
2024-10-29 17:40           ` Xin Li
2024-10-01  5:01 ` [PATCH v3 26/27] KVM: nVMX: Add VMCS FRED states checking Xin Li (Intel)
2024-10-01  5:01 ` [PATCH v3 27/27] KVM: nVMX: Allow VMX FRED controls Xin Li (Intel)
2025-02-19  0:26 ` [PATCH v3 00/27] Enable FRED with KVM VMX Xin Li
2025-02-25 15:24   ` Sean Christopherson
2025-02-25 17:04     ` Xin Li
2025-02-25 17:35       ` Sean Christopherson
2025-02-25 18:48         ` Xin Li
2025-02-28 17:06 ` Sean Christopherson

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