[PATCH 6.3 0/5] KVM CR0.WP series backport

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This is a backport of the CR0.WP KVM series[1] to Linux v6.3.

As the original series is based on v6.3-rc1, it's mostly a verbatim
port. Only the last patch needed adaption, as it was a fix based on
v6.4-rc1. However, as for the v6.2 backport, I simply changed the code
to make use of the older kvm_is_cr0_bit_set() helper.

I used 'ssdd 10 50000' from rt-tests[2] as a micro-benchmark, running on
a grsecurity L1 VM. Below table shows the results (runtime in seconds,
lower is better):

                       legacy     TDP
    Linux v6.3.1        7.60s    8.29s
    + patches           3.39s    3.39s

    Linux v6.3.2        7.82s    7.81s
    + patches           3.38s    3.38s

I left out the shadow MMU tests this time, as they're not impacted
anyways, only take a lot of time to run. I did, however, include
separate tests for v6.3.{1,2} -- not because I had an outdated
linux-stable git tree lying around *cough, cough* but because the later
includes commit 2ec1fe292d6e ("KVM: x86: Preserve TDP MMU roots until
they are explicitly invalidated"), the commit I wanted to benchmark
against anyways. Apparently, it has only a minor impact for our use
case, so this series is still wanted, imho.

Please consider applying.

Thanks,
Mathias

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20230322013731.102955-1-minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/rt-tests/rt-tests.git


Mathias Krause (3):
  KVM: x86: Do not unload MMU roots when only toggling CR0.WP with TDP
    enabled
  KVM: x86: Make use of kvm_read_cr*_bits() when testing bits
  KVM: VMX: Make CR0.WP a guest owned bit

Paolo Bonzini (1):
  KVM: x86/mmu: Avoid indirect call for get_cr3

Sean Christopherson (1):
  KVM: x86/mmu: Refresh CR0.WP prior to checking for emulated permission
    faults

 arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h  |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h             | 26 ++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c         | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c             |  4 +--
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c      |  4 +--
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c         |  6 ++---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h         | 18 +++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c             | 12 +++++++++
 9 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

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2.39.2




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