Userspace that does not know about KVM_GET_MSR_FEATURE_INDEX_LIST will
generally use the default value for MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.
When this happens and the host has tsx=on, it is possible to end up
with virtual machines that have HLE and RTM disabled, but TSX_CTRL
disabled.
If the fleet is then switched to tsx=off, kvm_get_arch_capabilities()
will clear the ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR bit and it will not be possible
to use the tsx=off as migration destinations, even though the guests
indeed do not have TSX enabled.
When tsx=off is used, however, we know that guests will not have
HLE and RTM (or if userspace sets bogus CPUID data, we do not
expect HLE and RTM to work in guests). Therefore we can keep
TSX_CTRL_RTM_DISABLE set for the entire life of the guests and
save MSR reads and writes on KVM_RUN and in the user return
notifiers.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: cbbaa2727aa3 ("KVM: x86: fix presentation of TSX feature in ARCH_CAPABILITIES")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 12 +++++++++++-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index cc60b1fc3ee7..80491a729408 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -6863,8 +6863,18 @@ static int vmx_create_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
* No need to pass TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR through, so
* let's avoid changing CPUID bits under the host
* kernel's feet.
+ *
+ * If the host disabled RTM, we may still need TSX_CTRL
+ * to be supported in the guest; for example the guest
+ * could have been created on a tsx=on host with hle=0,
+ * rtm=0, tsx_ctrl=1 and later migrate to a tsx=off host.
+ * In that case however do not change the value on the host,
+ * so that TSX remains always disabled.
*/
- vmx->guest_uret_msrs[j].mask = ~(u64)TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR;
+ if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM))
+ vmx->guest_uret_msrs[j].mask = ~(u64)TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR;
+ else
+ vmx->guest_uret_msrs[j].mask = 0;
break;
default:
vmx->guest_uret_msrs[j].mask = -1ull;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 76bce832cade..15733013b266 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1401,7 +1401,7 @@ static u64 kvm_get_arch_capabilities(void)
* This lets the guest use VERW to clear CPU buffers.
*/
if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM))
- data &= ~(ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO | ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR);
+ data &= ~ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO;
else if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_TAA))
data |= ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO;
--
2.26.2
