[PATCH MANUALSEL 5.18 1/6] KVM: x86: do not report a vCPU as preempted outside instruction boundaries

Sasha Levin
2022-06-14T02:32:05Z

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 6cd88243c7e03845a450795e134b488fc2afb736 ]

If a vCPU is outside guest mode and is scheduled out, it might be in the
process of making a memory access. A problem occurs if another vCPU uses
the PV TLB flush feature during the period when the vCPU is scheduled
out, and a virtual address has already been translated but has not yet
been accessed, because this is equivalent to using a stale TLB entry.

To avoid this, only report a vCPU as preempted if sure that the guest
is at an instruction boundary. A rescheduling request will be delivered
to the host physical CPU as an external interrupt, so for simplicity
consider any vmexit *not* instruction boundary except for external
interrupts.

It would in principle be okay to report the vCPU as preempted also
if it is sleeping in kvm_vcpu_block(): a TLB flush IPI will incur the
vmentry/vmexit overhead unnecessarily, and optimistic spinning is
also unlikely to succeed. However, leave it for later because right
now kvm_vcpu_check_block() is doing memory accesses. Even
though the TLB flush issue only applies to virtual memory address,
it's very much preferrable to be conservative.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +++
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 2 ++
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 4ff36610af6a..9fdaa847d4b6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -651,6 +651,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
u64 ia32_misc_enable_msr;
u64 smbase;
u64 smi_count;
+ bool at_instruction_boundary;
bool tpr_access_reporting;
bool xsaves_enabled;
bool xfd_no_write_intercept;
@@ -1289,6 +1290,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_stat {
u64 nested_run;
u64 directed_yield_attempted;
u64 directed_yield_successful;
+ u64 preemption_reported;
+ u64 preemption_other;
u64 guest_mode;
};

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index 7e45d03cd018..5842abf1eac4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -4165,6 +4165,8 @@ static int svm_check_intercept(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,

static void svm_handle_exit_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
+ if (to_svm(vcpu)->vmcb->control.exit_code == SVM_EXIT_INTR)
+ vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary = true;
}

static void svm_sched_in(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 982df9c000d3..c44f8e1d30c8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -6549,6 +6549,7 @@ static void handle_external_interrupt_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return;

handle_interrupt_nmi_irqoff(vcpu, gate_offset(desc));
+ vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary = true;
}

static void vmx_handle_exit_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 39c571224ac2..36453517e847 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -291,6 +291,8 @@ const struct _kvm_stats_desc kvm_vcpu_stats_desc[] = {
STATS_DESC_COUNTER(VCPU, nested_run),
STATS_DESC_COUNTER(VCPU, directed_yield_attempted),
STATS_DESC_COUNTER(VCPU, directed_yield_successful),
+ STATS_DESC_COUNTER(VCPU, preemption_reported),
+ STATS_DESC_COUNTER(VCPU, preemption_other),
STATS_DESC_ICOUNTER(VCPU, guest_mode)
};

@@ -4604,6 +4606,19 @@ static void kvm_steal_time_set_preempted(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
struct kvm_memslots *slots;
static const u8 preempted = KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED;

+ /*
+ * The vCPU can be marked preempted if and only if the VM-Exit was on
+ * an instruction boundary and will not trigger guest emulation of any
+ * kind (see vcpu_run). Vendor specific code controls (conservatively)
+ * when this is true, for example allowing the vCPU to be marked
+ * preempted if and only if the VM-Exit was due to a host interrupt.
+ */
+ if (!vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary) {
+ vcpu->stat.preemption_other++;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ vcpu->stat.preemption_reported++;
if (!(vcpu->arch.st.msr_val & KVM_MSR_ENABLED))
return;

@@ -10358,6 +10373,13 @@ static int vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
vcpu->arch.l1tf_flush_l1d = true;

for (;;) {
+ /*
+ * If another guest vCPU requests a PV TLB flush in the middle
+ * of instruction emulation, the rest of the emulation could
+ * use a stale page translation. Assume that any code after
+ * this point can start executing an instruction.
+ */
+ vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary = false;
if (kvm_vcpu_running(vcpu)) {
r = vcpu_enter_guest(vcpu);
} else {
--
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