On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 03:03:03PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> On AMD platform, under certain conditions insn_len may be zero on #NPF.
"On AMD platforms... "
> This can happen if guest gets a page-fault on data access, but HW table
" ... if a guest... .. but the HW table walker ..."
> walker is not able to read the instruction page (e.g instuction page
> is not present in memory).
>
> Typically, when insn_len is zero, x86_emulate_instruction() walks the
> guest page table and fetches the instruction bytes from guest memory.
> When SEV is enabled, the guest memory is encrypted with guest-specific
> key hence hypervisor will not able to fetch the instruction bytes.
> In those cases we simply restart the guest.
Same question as in the previous patch: should we make this a proper
interface?
> I have encountered this issue when running kernbench inside the guest.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index ccb70b8..be41ad0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -4850,6 +4850,23 @@ int kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t cr2, u64 error_code,
> if (mmio_info_in_cache(vcpu, cr2, direct))
> emulation_type = 0;
> emulate:
> + /*
> + * On AMD platform, under certain conditions insn_len may be zero on #NPF.
Same typos as above.
> + * This can happen if guest gets a page-fault on data access, but HW table
> + * walker is not able to read the instruction page (e.g instuction page
> + * is not present).
> + *
> + * Typically, when insn_len is zero, x86_emulate_instruction() walks the
> + * guest page table and fetches the instruction bytes. When SEV is active,
> + * the guest memory is encrypted with guest key hence we will not able to
> + * fetch the instruction bytes. In those cases we simply restart the guest.
> + */
> + if (unlikely(!insn_len)) {
> + if (kvm_x86_ops->memory_encryption_enabled &&
> + kvm_x86_ops->memory_encryption_enabled(vcpu))
Align vertically.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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