Re: [PATCH 1/4] KVM: nVMX: Flush TLB entries tagged by dest EPTP on L1<->L2 transitions

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On 06/09/2018 15:32, Liran Alon wrote:
> If L1 and L2 share VPID (because L1 don't use VPID or we haven't allocated
> a vpid02), we need to flush TLB on L1<->L2 transitions.
> 
> Before this patch, this TLB flushing was done by vmx_flush_tlb().
> If L0 use EPT, this will translate into INVEPT(active_eptp);
> However, if L1 use EPT, in L1->L2 VMEntry, active EPTP is EPTP01 but
> TLB entries populated by L2 are tagged with EPTP02.
> Therefore we should delay vmx_flush_tlb() until active_eptp is EPTP02.
> 
> To achieve this, instead of directly calling vmx_flush_tlb() we request
> it to be called by KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH which is evaluated after
> KVM_REQ_LOAD_CR3 which sets the active_eptp to EPTP02 as required.
> 
> Similarly, on L2->L1 VMExit, active EPTP is EPTP02 but TLB entries
> populated by L1 are tagged with EPTP01 and therefore we should delay
> vmx_flush_tlb() until active_eptp is EPTP01.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshchenko <nikita.leshchenko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index bed75118111c..7dcf5e96039d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -12245,7 +12245,15 @@ static int prepare_vmcs02(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vmcs12 *vmcs12,
>  				__vmx_flush_tlb(vcpu, vmx->nested.vpid02, true);
>  			}
>  		} else {
> -			vmx_flush_tlb(vcpu, true);
> +			/*
> +			 * If L1 use EPT, then L0 needs to execute INVEPT on
> +			 * EPTP02 instead of EPTP01. Therefore, delay TLB
> +			 * flush until vmcs02->eptp is fully updated by
> +			 * KVM_REQ_LOAD_CR3. Note that this assumes
> +			 * KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH is evaluated after
> +			 * KVM_REQ_LOAD_CR3 in vcpu_enter_guest().
> +			 */
> +			kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH, vcpu);
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> @@ -13131,10 +13139,14 @@ static void load_vmcs12_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  	 * Therefore, flush TLB only in case vmcs01 uses VPID and
>  	 * vmcs12 don't use VPID as in this case L1 & L2 TLB entries
>  	 * are both tagged with vmx->vpid.
> +	 *
> +	 * If vmcs12 uses EPT, we need to execute this flush on EPTP01
> +	 * and therefore we request the TLB flush to happen only after VMCS EPTP
> +	 * has been set by KVM_REQ_LOAD_CR3.
>  	 */
>  	if (enable_vpid &&
> -	    !(nested_cpu_has_vpid(vmcs12) && to_vmx(vcpu)->nested.vpid02)) {
> -		vmx_flush_tlb(vcpu, true);
> +		!(nested_cpu_has_vpid(vmcs12) && to_vmx(vcpu)->nested.vpid02)) {
> +		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH, vcpu);
>  	}
>  
>  	vmcs_write32(GUEST_SYSENTER_CS, vmcs12->host_ia32_sysenter_cs);
> 

Fixes: 6e42782f516f05c8030f63308f2457681b1c9919

Queued, thanks.

Paolo



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