[PATCH v8 5/6] KVM: VMX: Use BT+JNC, i.e. EFLAGS.CF to select VMRESUME vs. VMLAUNCH

Pawan Gupta
2024-02-14T02:22:43Z

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

Use EFLAGS.CF instead of EFLAGS.ZF to track whether to use VMRESUME versus
VMLAUNCH. Freeing up EFLAGS.ZF will allow doing VERW, which clobbers ZF,
for MDS mitigations as late as possible without needing to duplicate VERW
for both paths.

Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/run_flags.h | 7 +++++--
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/run_flags.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/run_flags.h
index edc3f16cc189..6a9bfdfbb6e5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/run_flags.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/run_flags.h
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
#ifndef __KVM_X86_VMX_RUN_FLAGS_H
#define __KVM_X86_VMX_RUN_FLAGS_H

-#define VMX_RUN_VMRESUME (1 << 0)
-#define VMX_RUN_SAVE_SPEC_CTRL (1 << 1)
+#define VMX_RUN_VMRESUME_SHIFT 0
+#define VMX_RUN_SAVE_SPEC_CTRL_SHIFT 1
+
+#define VMX_RUN_VMRESUME BIT(VMX_RUN_VMRESUME_SHIFT)
+#define VMX_RUN_SAVE_SPEC_CTRL BIT(VMX_RUN_SAVE_SPEC_CTRL_SHIFT)

#endif /* __KVM_X86_VMX_RUN_FLAGS_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S
index 906ecd001511..ef7cfbad4d57 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmenter.S
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(__vmx_vcpu_run)
mov (%_ASM_SP), %_ASM_AX

/* Check if vmlaunch or vmresume is needed */
- test $VMX_RUN_VMRESUME, %ebx
+ bt $VMX_RUN_VMRESUME_SHIFT, %ebx

/* Load guest registers. Don't clobber flags. */
mov VCPU_RCX(%_ASM_AX), %_ASM_CX
@@ -161,8 +161,8 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(__vmx_vcpu_run)
/* Load guest RAX. This kills the @regs pointer! */
mov VCPU_RAX(%_ASM_AX), %_ASM_AX

- /* Check EFLAGS.ZF from 'test VMX_RUN_VMRESUME' above */
- jz .Lvmlaunch
+ /* Check EFLAGS.CF from the VMX_RUN_VMRESUME bit test above. */
+ jnc .Lvmlaunch

/*
* After a successful VMRESUME/VMLAUNCH, control flow "magically"

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