Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86: correct mwait and monitor emulation

Bandan Das
2014-06-18T19:09:22Z

"Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:59:14AM -0700, Eric Northup wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il> wrote:
>> > mwait and monitor are currently handled as nop. Considering this behavior, they
>> > should still be handled correctly, i.e., check execution conditions and generate
>> > exceptions when required. mwait and monitor may also be executed in real-mode
>> > and are not handled in that case. This patch performs the emulation of
>> > monitor-mwait according to Intel SDM (other than checking whether interrupt can
>> > be used as a break event).
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
>
> How about this instead (details in the commit log below) ? Please let
> me know what you think, and if you'd prefer me to send it out as a
> separate patch rather than a reply to this thread.

I am not saying we should "punish" guests that don't do the right thing.
But if we can't emulate it the right way, we emulate it ?
And the fact that a workaround exists for the guest is all the more better :)

> Thanks,
> --Gabriel
>
>
> From 0375a0aceb54cdbc26a6c0e5b43c46324f830ec3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:39:15 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] kvm: x86: revert "emulate monitor and mwait instructions as nop"
>
> This reverts commit 87c00572ba05aa8c9db118da75c608f47eb10b9e.
>
> OS X <= 10.7.* are the only known guests which realistically required
> this functionality. As it turns out, OS X can be told to forego using
> monitor/mwait by passing it "idlehalt=0" as a kernel argument, so we're
> better off removing this hack from KVM altogether.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 2 --
> arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 8 +++-----
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 10 ++++------
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> index 38a0afe..17b42fa 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> @@ -283,8 +283,6 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_ent(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry, u32 function,
> 0 /* Reserved */ | f_lm | F(3DNOWEXT) | F(3DNOW);
> /* cpuid 1.ecx */
> const u32 kvm_supported_word4_x86_features =
> - /* NOTE: MONITOR (and MWAIT) are emulated as NOP,
> - * but *not* advertised to guests via CPUID ! */
> F(XMM3) | F(PCLMULQDQ) | 0 /* DTES64, MONITOR */ |
> 0 /* DS-CPL, VMX, SMX, EST */ |
> 0 /* TM2 */ | F(SSSE3) | 0 /* CNXT-ID */ | 0 /* Reserved */ |
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> index ec8366c..0e8ef20 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> @@ -3274,7 +3274,7 @@ static int pause_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> return 1;
> }
>
> -static int nop_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> +static int invalid_op_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> {
> skip_emulated_instruction(&(svm->vcpu));
> return 1;
> @@ -3282,14 +3282,12 @@ static int nop_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>
> static int monitor_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> {
> - printk_once(KERN_WARNING "kvm: MONITOR instruction emulated as NOP!\n");
> - return nop_interception(svm);
> + return invalid_op_interception(svm);
> }
>
> static int mwait_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> {
> - printk_once(KERN_WARNING "kvm: MWAIT instruction emulated as NOP!\n");
> - return nop_interception(svm);
> + return invalid_op_interception(svm);
> }
>
> static int (*const svm_exit_handlers[])(struct vcpu_svm *svm) = {
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index 801332e..577c7df 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -5672,22 +5672,20 @@ static int handle_pause(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> return 1;
> }
>
> -static int handle_nop(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +static int handle_invalid_op(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> - skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
> + kvm_queue_exception(vcpu, UD_VECTOR);
> return 1;
> }
>
> static int handle_mwait(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> - printk_once(KERN_WARNING "kvm: MWAIT instruction emulated as NOP!\n");
> - return handle_nop(vcpu);
> + return handle_invalid_op(vcpu);
> }
>
> static int handle_monitor(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> - printk_once(KERN_WARNING "kvm: MONITOR instruction emulated as NOP!\n");
> - return handle_nop(vcpu);
> + return handle_invalid_op(vcpu);
> }
>
> /*