Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: nSVM: improve SYSENTER emulation on AMD

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On 15/03/21 19:19, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
On Mon, 2021-03-15 at 18:56 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 15/03/21 18:43, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
+	if (!guest_cpuid_is_intel(vcpu)) {
+		/*
+		 * If hardware supports Virtual VMLOAD VMSAVE then enable it
+		 * in VMCB and clear intercepts to avoid #VMEXIT.
+		 */
+		if (vls) {
+			svm_clr_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_VMLOAD);
+			svm_clr_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_VMSAVE);
+			svm->vmcb->control.virt_ext |= VIRTUAL_VMLOAD_VMSAVE_ENABLE_MASK;
+		}
+		/* No need to intercept these msrs either */
+		set_msr_interception(vcpu, svm->msrpm, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP, 1, 1);
+		set_msr_interception(vcpu, svm->msrpm, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, 1, 1);
+	}

An "else" is needed here to do the opposite setup (removing the "if
(vls)" from init_vmcb).

init_vmcb currently set the INTERCEPT_VMLOAD and INTERCEPT_VMSAVE and it doesn't enable vls

There's also this towards the end of the function:

        /*
         * If hardware supports Virtual VMLOAD VMSAVE then enable it
         * in VMCB and clear intercepts to avoid #VMEXIT.
         */
        if (vls) {
                svm_clr_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_VMLOAD);
                svm_clr_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_VMSAVE);
svm->vmcb->control.virt_ext |= VIRTUAL_VMLOAD_VMSAVE_ENABLE_MASK;
        }

thus there is nothing to do if I don't want to enable vls.
It seems reasonable to me.

Both msrs I marked as '.always = false' in the
'direct_access_msrs', which makes them be intercepted by the default.
If I were to use '.always = true' it would feel a bit wrong as the intercept is not always
enabled.

I agree that .always = false is correct.

What do you think?

You can set the CPUID multiple times, so you could go from AMD to Intel and back.

Thanks,

Paolo




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