Re: [PATCH] nVMX: Keep arch.pat in sync on L1-L2 switches

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On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When asking vmx to load the PAT MSR for us while switching from L1 to L2
> or vice versa, we have to update arch.pat as well as it may later be
> used again to load or read out the MSR content.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Arthur, please add your tested-by also officially.
This patch is generally good expect that we need to add
VM_EXIT_LOAD_IA32_PAT/VM_EXIT_SAVE_IA32_PAT to
nested_vmx_exit_ctls_high in function nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs() to
enable these two features. Currently only VM_ENTRY_LOAD_IA32_PAT is
enabled while all three are implemented.

Arthur
>
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    9 ++++++---
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index 45fd70c..396572d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -7535,9 +7535,10 @@ static void prepare_vmcs02(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vmcs12 *vmcs12)
>         vmcs_write32(VM_ENTRY_CONTROLS, vmcs12->vm_entry_controls |
>                 (vmcs_config.vmentry_ctrl & ~VM_ENTRY_IA32E_MODE));
>
> -       if (vmcs12->vm_entry_controls & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_IA32_PAT)
> +       if (vmcs12->vm_entry_controls & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_IA32_PAT) {
>                 vmcs_write64(GUEST_IA32_PAT, vmcs12->guest_ia32_pat);
> -       else if (vmcs_config.vmentry_ctrl & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_IA32_PAT)
> +               vcpu->arch.pat = vmcs12->guest_ia32_pat;
> +       } else if (vmcs_config.vmentry_ctrl & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_IA32_PAT)
>                 vmcs_write64(GUEST_IA32_PAT, vmx->vcpu.arch.pat);
>
>
> @@ -8025,8 +8026,10 @@ static void load_vmcs12_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>         vmcs_writel(GUEST_IDTR_BASE, vmcs12->host_idtr_base);
>         vmcs_writel(GUEST_GDTR_BASE, vmcs12->host_gdtr_base);
>
> -       if (vmcs12->vm_exit_controls & VM_EXIT_LOAD_IA32_PAT)
> +       if (vmcs12->vm_exit_controls & VM_EXIT_LOAD_IA32_PAT) {
>                 vmcs_write64(GUEST_IA32_PAT, vmcs12->host_ia32_pat);
> +               vcpu->arch.pat = vmcs12->host_ia32_pat;
> +       }
>         if (vmcs12->vm_exit_controls & VM_EXIT_LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL)
>                 vmcs_write64(GUEST_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL,
>                         vmcs12->host_ia32_perf_global_ctrl);
> --
> 1.7.3.4
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