Re: [PATCH 0/5] Fix nested VMX controls MSRs

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On 28/08/20 10:56, Chenyi Qiang wrote:
> The first three patches fix a issue for the nested VMX controls MSRs. The
> issue happens when I use QEMU to run nested VM. The VM_{ENTRY,
> EXIT}_LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL and VM_{ENTRY_LOAD, EXIT_CLEAR}_BNDCFGS
> in L1 MSR_IA32_VMX_TRUE_{ENTRY, EXIT}_CTLS MSR are always cleared
> regardless of whether it supports in L1. This is because QEMU gets the
> nested VMX MSRs from vmcs_config.nested_vmx_msrs which doesn't expose
> these two fields. Then, when QEMU initializes the features MSRs after
> SET_CPUID, it will override the nested VMX MSR values which has been
> updated according to guest CPUID during SET_CPUID. This patch series
> just expose the missing fields in nested VMX {ENTRY, EXIT} controls
> MSR and adds the support to update nested VMX MSRs after set_vmx_msrs.
> 
> The last two patches are a minor fix and cleanup.
> 
> Chenyi Qiang (5):
>   KVM: nVMX: Fix VMX controls MSRs setup when nested VMX enabled
>   KVM: nVMX: Verify the VMX controls MSRs with the global capability
>     when setting VMX MSRs
>   KVM: nVMX: Update VMX controls MSR according to guest CPUID after
>     setting VMX MSRs
>   KVM: nVMX: Fix the update value of nested load IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL
>     control
>   KVM: nVMX: Simplify the initialization of nested_vmx_msrs
> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c    |  9 +++--
>  2 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> 

Queued patch 1/4/5, thanks.

Paolo




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