[PATCH 4.4 43/88] KVM: nVMX: Eliminate vmcs02 pool

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-12-14T12:15:07Z

From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>

commit de3a0021a60635de96aa92713c1a31a96747d72c upstream.

The potential performance advantages of a vmcs02 pool have never been
realized. To simplify the code, eliminate the pool. Instead, a single
vmcs02 is allocated per VCPU when the VCPU enters VMX operation.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ameya More <ameya.more@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 4.4:
- No loaded_vmcs::shadow_vmcs field to initialise
- Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 144 ++++++++---------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -172,7 +172,6 @@ module_param(ple_window_max, int, S_IRUG
extern const ulong vmx_return;

#define NR_AUTOLOAD_MSRS 8
-#define VMCS02_POOL_SIZE 1

struct vmcs {
u32 revision_id;
@@ -205,7 +204,7 @@ struct shared_msr_entry {
* stored in guest memory specified by VMPTRLD, but is opaque to the guest,
* which must access it using VMREAD/VMWRITE/VMCLEAR instructions.
* More than one of these structures may exist, if L1 runs multiple L2 guests.
- * nested_vmx_run() will use the data here to build a vmcs02: a VMCS for the
+ * nested_vmx_run() will use the data here to build the vmcs02: a VMCS for the
* underlying hardware which will be used to run L2.
* This structure is packed to ensure that its layout is identical across
* machines (necessary for live migration).
@@ -384,13 +383,6 @@ struct __packed vmcs12 {
*/
#define VMCS12_SIZE 0x1000

-/* Used to remember the last vmcs02 used for some recently used vmcs12s */
-struct vmcs02_list {
- struct list_head list;
- gpa_t vmptr;
- struct loaded_vmcs vmcs02;
-};
-
/*
* The nested_vmx structure is part of vcpu_vmx, and holds information we need
* for correct emulation of VMX (i.e., nested VMX) on this vcpu.
@@ -412,16 +404,16 @@ struct nested_vmx {
*/
bool sync_shadow_vmcs;

- /* vmcs02_list cache of VMCSs recently used to run L2 guests */
- struct list_head vmcs02_pool;
- int vmcs02_num;
u64 vmcs01_tsc_offset;
bool change_vmcs01_virtual_x2apic_mode;
/* L2 must run next, and mustn't decide to exit to L1. */
bool nested_run_pending;
+
+ struct loaded_vmcs vmcs02;
+
/*
- * Guest pages referred to in vmcs02 with host-physical pointers, so
- * we must keep them pinned while L2 runs.
+ * Guest pages referred to in the vmcs02 with host-physical
+ * pointers, so we must keep them pinned while L2 runs.
*/
struct page *apic_access_page;
struct page *virtual_apic_page;
@@ -6435,93 +6427,6 @@ static int handle_monitor(struct kvm_vcp
}

/*
- * To run an L2 guest, we need a vmcs02 based on the L1-specified vmcs12.
- * We could reuse a single VMCS for all the L2 guests, but we also want the
- * option to allocate a separate vmcs02 for each separate loaded vmcs12 - this
- * allows keeping them loaded on the processor, and in the future will allow
- * optimizations where prepare_vmcs02 doesn't need to set all the fields on
- * every entry if they never change.
- * So we keep, in vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool, a cache of size VMCS02_POOL_SIZE
- * (>=0) with a vmcs02 for each recently loaded vmcs12s, most recent first.
- *
- * The following functions allocate and free a vmcs02 in this pool.
- */
-
-/* Get a VMCS from the pool to use as vmcs02 for the current vmcs12. */
-static struct loaded_vmcs *nested_get_current_vmcs02(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
-{
- struct vmcs02_list *item;
- list_for_each_entry(item, &vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool, list)
- if (item->vmptr == vmx->nested.current_vmptr) {
- list_move(&item->list, &vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool);
- return &item->vmcs02;
- }
-
- if (vmx->nested.vmcs02_num >= max(VMCS02_POOL_SIZE, 1)) {
- /* Recycle the least recently used VMCS. */
- item = list_entry(vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool.prev,
- struct vmcs02_list, list);
- item->vmptr = vmx->nested.current_vmptr;
- list_move(&item->list, &vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool);
- return &item->vmcs02;
- }
-
- /* Create a new VMCS */
- item = kmalloc(sizeof(struct vmcs02_list), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!item)
- return NULL;
- item->vmcs02.vmcs = alloc_vmcs();
- if (!item->vmcs02.vmcs) {
- kfree(item);
- return NULL;
- }
- loaded_vmcs_init(&item->vmcs02);
- item->vmptr = vmx->nested.current_vmptr;
- list_add(&(item->list), &(vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool));
- vmx->nested.vmcs02_num++;
- return &item->vmcs02;
-}
-
-/* Free and remove from pool a vmcs02 saved for a vmcs12 (if there is one) */
-static void nested_free_vmcs02(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx, gpa_t vmptr)
-{
- struct vmcs02_list *item;
- list_for_each_entry(item, &vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool, list)
- if (item->vmptr == vmptr) {
- free_loaded_vmcs(&item->vmcs02);
- list_del(&item->list);
- kfree(item);
- vmx->nested.vmcs02_num--;
- return;
- }
-}
-
-/*
- * Free all VMCSs saved for this vcpu, except the one pointed by
- * vmx->loaded_vmcs. We must be running L1, so vmx->loaded_vmcs
- * must be &vmx->vmcs01.
- */
-static void nested_free_all_saved_vmcss(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
-{
- struct vmcs02_list *item, *n;
-
- WARN_ON(vmx->loaded_vmcs != &vmx->vmcs01);
- list_for_each_entry_safe(item, n, &vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool, list) {
- /*
- * Something will leak if the above WARN triggers. Better than
- * a use-after-free.
- */
- if (vmx->loaded_vmcs == &item->vmcs02)
- continue;
-
- free_loaded_vmcs(&item->vmcs02);
- list_del(&item->list);
- kfree(item);
- vmx->nested.vmcs02_num--;
- }
-}
-
-/*
* The following 3 functions, nested_vmx_succeed()/failValid()/failInvalid(),
* set the success or error code of an emulated VMX instruction, as specified
* by Vol 2B, VMX Instruction Reference, "Conventions".
@@ -6833,6 +6738,11 @@ static int handle_vmon(struct kvm_vcpu *
return 1;
}

+ vmx->nested.vmcs02.vmcs = alloc_vmcs();
+ if (!vmx->nested.vmcs02.vmcs)
+ goto out_vmcs02;
+ loaded_vmcs_init(&vmx->nested.vmcs02);
+
if (cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap()) {
vmx->nested.msr_bitmap =
(unsigned long *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -6851,9 +6761,6 @@ static int handle_vmon(struct kvm_vcpu *
vmx->nested.current_shadow_vmcs = shadow_vmcs;
}

- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&(vmx->nested.vmcs02_pool));
- vmx->nested.vmcs02_num = 0;
-
hrtimer_init(&vmx->nested.preemption_timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC,
HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
vmx->nested.preemption_timer.function = vmx_preemption_timer_fn;
@@ -6870,6 +6777,9 @@ out_shadow_vmcs:
free_page((unsigned long)vmx->nested.msr_bitmap);

out_msr_bitmap:
+ free_loaded_vmcs(&vmx->nested.vmcs02);
+
+out_vmcs02:
return -ENOMEM;
}

@@ -6946,7 +6856,7 @@ static void free_nested(struct vcpu_vmx
}
if (enable_shadow_vmcs)
free_vmcs(vmx->nested.current_shadow_vmcs);
- /* Unpin physical memory we referred to in current vmcs02 */
+ /* Unpin physical memory we referred to in the vmcs02 */
if (vmx->nested.apic_access_page) {
nested_release_page(vmx->nested.apic_access_page);
vmx->nested.apic_access_page = NULL;
@@ -6962,7 +6872,7 @@ static void free_nested(struct vcpu_vmx
vmx->nested.pi_desc = NULL;
}

- nested_free_all_saved_vmcss(vmx);
+ free_loaded_vmcs(&vmx->nested.vmcs02);
}

/* Emulate the VMXOFF instruction */
@@ -6996,8 +6906,6 @@ static int handle_vmclear(struct kvm_vcp
vmptr + offsetof(struct vmcs12, launch_state),
&zero, sizeof(zero));

- nested_free_vmcs02(vmx, vmptr);
-
skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
nested_vmx_succeed(vcpu);
return 1;
@@ -7784,10 +7692,11 @@ static bool nested_vmx_exit_handled(stru

/*
* The host physical addresses of some pages of guest memory
- * are loaded into VMCS02 (e.g. L1's Virtual APIC Page). The CPU
- * may write to these pages via their host physical address while
- * L2 is running, bypassing any address-translation-based dirty
- * tracking (e.g. EPT write protection).
+ * are loaded into the vmcs02 (e.g. vmcs12's Virtual APIC
+ * Page). The CPU may write to these pages via their host
+ * physical address while L2 is running, bypassing any
+ * address-translation-based dirty tracking (e.g. EPT write
+ * protection).
*
* Mark them dirty on every exit from L2 to prevent them from
* getting out of sync with dirty tracking.
@@ -9889,7 +9798,6 @@ static int nested_vmx_run(struct kvm_vcp
struct vmcs12 *vmcs12;
struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
int cpu;
- struct loaded_vmcs *vmcs02;
bool ia32e;
u32 msr_entry_idx;

@@ -10029,10 +9937,6 @@ static int nested_vmx_run(struct kvm_vcp
* the nested entry.
*/

- vmcs02 = nested_get_current_vmcs02(vmx);
- if (!vmcs02)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
enter_guest_mode(vcpu);

vmx->nested.vmcs01_tsc_offset = vmcs_read64(TSC_OFFSET);
@@ -10041,7 +9945,7 @@ static int nested_vmx_run(struct kvm_vcp
vmx->nested.vmcs01_debugctl = vmcs_read64(GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL);

cpu = get_cpu();
- vmx->loaded_vmcs = vmcs02;
+ vmx->loaded_vmcs = &vmx->nested.vmcs02;
vmx_vcpu_put(vcpu);
vmx_vcpu_load(vcpu, cpu);
vcpu->cpu = cpu;
@@ -10553,10 +10457,6 @@ static void nested_vmx_vmexit(struct kvm
vm_exit_controls_init(vmx, vmcs_read32(VM_EXIT_CONTROLS));
vmx_segment_cache_clear(vmx);

- /* if no vmcs02 cache requested, remove the one we used */
- if (VMCS02_POOL_SIZE == 0)
- nested_free_vmcs02(vmx, vmx->nested.current_vmptr);
-
load_vmcs12_host_state(vcpu, vmcs12);

/* Update TSC_OFFSET if TSC was changed while L2 ran */