Re: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: nSVM: avoid loss of pending IRQ/NMI before entering L2

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On 05.03.20 11:13, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
This patch reproduces for nSVM the change that was made for nVMX in
commit b5861e5cf2fc ("KVM: nVMX: Fix loss of pending IRQ/NMI before
entering L2").  While I do not have a test that breaks without it, I
cannot see why it would not be necessary since all events are unblocked
by VMRUN's setting of GIF back to 1.

I suspect, running Jailhouse enable/disable in a tight loop as KVM guest can stress this fairly well. At least that was the case last time I tried (4 years ago, or so) - it broke it.

Unfortunately, we have no up-to-date configuration for such a setup. Some old pieces are lying around here, could try to hand them over if someone is interested and has the time I lack ATM.

Jan


Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index 0d773406f7ac..3df62257889a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -3574,6 +3574,10 @@ static bool nested_vmcb_checks(struct vmcb *vmcb)
  static void enter_svm_guest_mode(struct vcpu_svm *svm, u64 vmcb_gpa,
  				 struct vmcb *nested_vmcb, struct kvm_host_map *map)
  {
+	bool evaluate_pending_interrupts =
+		is_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_VINTR) ||
+		is_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_IRET);
+
  	if (kvm_get_rflags(&svm->vcpu) & X86_EFLAGS_IF)
  		svm->vcpu.arch.hflags |= HF_HIF_MASK;
  	else
@@ -3660,7 +3664,21 @@ static void enter_svm_guest_mode(struct vcpu_svm *svm, u64 vmcb_gpa,
svm->nested.vmcb = vmcb_gpa; + /*
+	 * If L1 had a pending IRQ/NMI before executing VMRUN,
+	 * which wasn't delivered because it was disallowed (e.g.
+	 * interrupts disabled), L0 needs to evaluate if this pending
+	 * event should cause an exit from L2 to L1 or be delivered
+	 * directly to L2.
+	 *
+	 * Usually this would be handled by the processor noticing an
+	 * IRQ/NMI window request.  However, VMRUN can unblock interrupts
+	 * by implicitly setting GIF, so force L0 to perform pending event
+	 * evaluation by requesting a KVM_REQ_EVENT.
+	 */
  	enable_gif(svm);
+	if (unlikely(evaluate_pending_interrupts))
+		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_EVENT, &svm->vcpu);
mark_all_dirty(svm->vmcb);
  }


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