Re: [PATCH] x86/hyperv: Suspend/resume the VP assist page for hibernation

Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-04-17T12:03:47Z

Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:03:18PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> writes:
>>
>> > Unlike the other CPUs, CPU0 is never offlined during hibernation. So in the
>> > resume path, the "new" kernel's VP assist page is not suspended (i.e.
>> > disabled), and later when we jump to the "old" kernel, the page is not
>> > properly re-enabled for CPU0 with the allocated page from the old kernel.
>> >
>> > So far, the VP assist page is only used by hv_apic_eoi_write().
>>
>> No, not only for that ('git grep hv_get_vp_assist_page')
>>
>> KVM on Hyper-V also needs VP assist page to use Enlightened VMCS. In
>> particular, Enlightened VMPTR is written there.
>>
>> This makes me wonder: how does hibernation work with KVM in case we use
>> Enlightened VMCS and we have VMs running? We need to make sure VP Assist
>> page content is preserved.
>
> The page itself is preserved, isn't it?
>

Right, unlike hyperv_pcpu_input_arg is is not freed.

> hv_cpu_die never frees the vp_assit page. It merely disables it.
> hv_cpu_init only allocates a new page if necessary.

I'm not really sure that Hyper-V will like us when we disable VP Assist
page and have an active L2 guest using Enlightened VMCS, who knows what
it caches and when. I'll try to at least test if/how it works.

This all is not really related to Dexuan's patch)

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Vitaly