This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kvm: vmx: ensure VMCS is current while enabling PML
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kvm-vmx-ensure-vmcs-is-current-while-enabling-pml.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4e59516a12a6ef6dcb660cb3a3f70c64bd60cfec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 14:49:58 -0700
Subject: kvm: vmx: ensure VMCS is current while enabling PML
From: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 4e59516a12a6ef6dcb660cb3a3f70c64bd60cfec upstream.
Between loading the new VMCS and enabling PML, the CPU was unpinned.
If the vCPU thread were migrated to another CPU in the interim (e.g.,
due to preemption or sleeping alloc_page), then the VMWRITEs to enable
PML would target the wrong VMCS -- or no VMCS at all:
[ 2087.266950] vmwrite error: reg 200e value 3fe1d52000 (err -506126336)
[ 2087.267062] vmwrite error: reg 812 value 1ff (err 511)
[ 2087.267125] vmwrite error: reg 401e value 12229c00 (err 304258048)
This patch ensures that the VMCS remains current while enabling PML by
doing the VMWRITEs while the CPU is pinned. Allocation of the PML buffer
is hoisted out of the critical section.
Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Herongguang (Stephen)" <herongguang.he@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -4867,6 +4867,12 @@ static int vmx_vcpu_setup(struct vcpu_vm
if (vmx_xsaves_supported())
vmcs_write64(XSS_EXIT_BITMAP, VMX_XSS_EXIT_BITMAP);
+ if (enable_pml) {
+ ASSERT(vmx->pml_pg);
+ vmcs_write64(PML_ADDRESS, page_to_phys(vmx->pml_pg));
+ vmcs_write16(GUEST_PML_INDEX, PML_ENTITY_NUM - 1);
+ }
+
return 0;
}
@@ -7839,22 +7845,6 @@ static void vmx_get_exit_info(struct kvm
*info2 = vmcs_read32(VM_EXIT_INTR_INFO);
}
-static int vmx_create_pml_buffer(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
-{
- struct page *pml_pg;
-
- pml_pg = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
- if (!pml_pg)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- vmx->pml_pg = pml_pg;
-
- vmcs_write64(PML_ADDRESS, page_to_phys(vmx->pml_pg));
- vmcs_write16(GUEST_PML_INDEX, PML_ENTITY_NUM - 1);
-
- return 0;
-}
-
static void vmx_destroy_pml_buffer(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
{
if (vmx->pml_pg) {
@@ -8789,14 +8779,26 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *vmx_create_vcpu(
if (err)
goto free_vcpu;
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+
+ /*
+ * If PML is turned on, failure on enabling PML just results in failure
+ * of creating the vcpu, therefore we can simplify PML logic (by
+ * avoiding dealing with cases, such as enabling PML partially on vcpus
+ * for the guest, etc.
+ */
+ if (enable_pml) {
+ vmx->pml_pg = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
+ if (!vmx->pml_pg)
+ goto uninit_vcpu;
+ }
+
vmx->guest_msrs = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
BUILD_BUG_ON(ARRAY_SIZE(vmx_msr_index) * sizeof(vmx->guest_msrs[0])
> PAGE_SIZE);
- err = -ENOMEM;
- if (!vmx->guest_msrs) {
- goto uninit_vcpu;
- }
+ if (!vmx->guest_msrs)
+ goto free_pml;
vmx->loaded_vmcs = &vmx->vmcs01;
vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs = alloc_vmcs();
@@ -8840,18 +8842,6 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *vmx_create_vcpu(
vmx->nested.current_vmptr = -1ull;
vmx->nested.current_vmcs12 = NULL;
- /*
- * If PML is turned on, failure on enabling PML just results in failure
- * of creating the vcpu, therefore we can simplify PML logic (by
- * avoiding dealing with cases, such as enabling PML partially on vcpus
- * for the guest, etc.
- */
- if (enable_pml) {
- err = vmx_create_pml_buffer(vmx);
- if (err)
- goto free_vmcs;
- }
-
return &vmx->vcpu;
free_vmcs:
@@ -8859,6 +8849,8 @@ free_vmcs:
free_loaded_vmcs(vmx->loaded_vmcs);
free_msrs:
kfree(vmx->guest_msrs);
+free_pml:
+ vmx_destroy_pml_buffer(vmx);
uninit_vcpu:
kvm_vcpu_uninit(&vmx->vcpu);
free_vcpu:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/kvm-vmx-ensure-vmcs-is-current-while-enabling-pml.patch