Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Add support for capturing the highest observable L2 TSC

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On 08/11/19 06:14, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> The L1 hypervisor may include the IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER MSR in the
> vmcs12 MSR VM-exit MSR-store area as a way of determining the highest
> TSC value that might have been observed by L2 prior to VM-exit. The
> current implementation does not capture a very tight bound on this
> value.  To tighten the bound, add the IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER MSR to the
> vmcs02 VM-exit MSR-store area whenever it appears in the vmcs12 VM-exit
> MSR-store area.  When L0 processes the vmcs12 VM-exit MSR-store area
> during the emulation of an L2->L1 VM-exit, special-case the
> IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER MSR, using the value stored in the vmcs02
> VM-exit MSR-store area to derive the value to be stored in the vmcs12
> VM-exit MSR-store area.
> 
> v3 -> v4:
>  - Squash the final commit with the previous one used to prepare the MSR-store
>    area.  There is no need for this split after all.
> 
> v2 -> v3:
>  - Rename NR_MSR_ENTRIES to NR_LOADSAVE_MSRS
>  - Pull setup code for preparing the MSR-store area out of the final commit and
>    put it in it's own commit (4/5).
>  - Export vmx_find_msr_index() in the final commit instead of in commit 3/5 as
>    it isn't until the final commit that we actually use it.
> 
> v1 -> v2:
>  - Rename function nested_vmx_get_msr_value() to
>    nested_vmx_get_vmexit_msr_value().
>  - Remove unneeded tag 'Change-Id' from commit messages.
> 
> Aaron Lewis (4):
>   kvm: nested: Introduce read_and_check_msr_entry()
>   kvm: vmx: Rename NR_AUTOLOAD_MSRS to NR_LOADSTORE_MSRS
>   kvm: vmx: Rename function find_msr() to vmx_find_msr_index()
>   KVM: nVMX: Add support for capturing highest observable L2 TSC
> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c    |  14 ++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h    |   9 ++-
>  3 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 

Queued, but it would be good to have a testcase for this, either for
kvm-unit-tests or for tools/testing/selftests/kvm.

Paolo





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