On Thu, 2022-02-17 at 16:03 -0500, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Enabling async page faults is nonsensical if paging is disabled, but
> it is allowed because CR0.PG=0 does not clear the async page fault
> MSR. Just ignore them and only use the artificial halt state,
> similar to what happens in guest mode if async #PF vmexits are disabled.
Well in theory someone could use KVM for emulating DOS programs, and
use async #PF for on demand paging. I would question sanity of author
of such hypervisor though...
The only thing I would add is to add a mention of the CR0.PG=1 restriction in
Documentation/virt/kvm/msr.rst.
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
>
> Given the increasingly complex logic, and the nicer code if the new
> "if" is placed last, opportunistically change the "||" into a chain
> of "if (...) return false" statements.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 99a58c25f5c2..b912eef5dc1a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -12270,14 +12270,28 @@ static inline bool apf_pageready_slot_free(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>
> static bool kvm_can_deliver_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> - if (!vcpu->arch.apf.delivery_as_pf_vmexit && is_guest_mode(vcpu))
> +
> + if (!kvm_pv_async_pf_enabled(vcpu))
> return false;
>
> - if (!kvm_pv_async_pf_enabled(vcpu) ||
> - (vcpu->arch.apf.send_user_only && static_call(kvm_x86_get_cpl)(vcpu) == 0))
> + if (vcpu->arch.apf.send_user_only &&
> + static_call(kvm_x86_get_cpl)(vcpu) == 0)
> return false;
>
> - return true;
> + if (is_guest_mode(vcpu)) {
> + /*
> + * L1 needs to opt into the special #PF vmexits that are
> + * used to deliver async page faults.
> + */
> + return vcpu->arch.apf.delivery_as_pf_vmexit;
> + } else {
> + /*
> + * Play it safe in case the guest does a quick real mode
> + * foray. The real mode IDT is unlikely to have a #PF
> + * exception setup.
> + */
> + return is_paging(vcpu);
> + }
> }
>
> bool kvm_can_do_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
