KVM: x86: do not report a vCPU as preempted outside instruction boundaries

commit 6cd88243c7e03845a450795e134b488fc2afb736 upstream.

If a vCPU is outside guest mode and is scheduled out, it might be in the
process of making a memory access.  A problem occurs if another vCPU uses
the PV TLB flush feature during the period when the vCPU is scheduled
out, and a virtual address has already been translated but has not yet
been accessed, because this is equivalent to using a stale TLB entry.

To avoid this, only report a vCPU as preempted if sure that the guest
is at an instruction boundary.  A rescheduling request will be delivered
to the host physical CPU as an external interrupt, so for simplicity
consider any vmexit *not* instruction boundary except for external
interrupts.

It would in principle be okay to report the vCPU as preempted also
if it is sleeping in kvm_vcpu_block(): a TLB flush IPI will incur the
vmentry/vmexit overhead unnecessarily, and optimistic spinning is
also unlikely to succeed.  However, leave it for later because right
now kvm_vcpu_check_block() is doing memory accesses.  Even
though the TLB flush issue only applies to virtual memory address,
it's very much preferrable to be conservative.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[OP: use VCPU_STAT() for debugfs entries]
Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 4bc476d7fa6c4d90f9dceca27d623a6c60065b3f..80239c84b4ddfc5049886e79b33cd8054930b06b 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -563,6 +563,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
        u64 ia32_misc_enable_msr;
        u64 smbase;
        u64 smi_count;
+       bool at_instruction_boundary;
        bool tpr_access_reporting;
        u64 ia32_xss;
        u64 microcode_version;
@@ -981,6 +982,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_stat {
        u64 irq_injections;
        u64 nmi_injections;
        u64 req_event;
+       u64 preemption_reported;
+       u64 preemption_other;
 };
 
 struct x86_instruction_info;

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index c5a9de8d07250a41458b8417b5478d581bd0b146..e9444e202c334613a65113e372139cef37a30a06 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -6246,7 +6246,8 @@ static int svm_check_intercept(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 
 static void svm_handle_exit_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
-
+       if (to_svm(vcpu)->vmcb->control.exit_code == SVM_EXIT_INTR)
+               vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary = true;
 }
 
 static void svm_sched_in(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 9bd08d2646036b321d8916e87a12c235663cf0fa..c9307082979094e74ff7efaa70377cf46d37588e 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -6358,6 +6358,7 @@ static void handle_external_interrupt_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
        );
 
        kvm_after_interrupt(vcpu);
+       vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary = true;
 }
 STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(handle_external_interrupt_irqoff);
 

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index f5e9590a8f31106e49f73e9da97bc9896b0f5453..d152afdfa8b4f12a13bd839bb4f98fb2a823c950 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -207,6 +207,8 @@ struct kvm_stats_debugfs_item debugfs_entries[] = {
        { "nmi_injections", VCPU_STAT(nmi_injections) },
        { "req_event", VCPU_STAT(req_event) },
        { "l1d_flush", VCPU_STAT(l1d_flush) },
+       { "preemption_reported", VCPU_STAT(preemption_reported) },
+       { "preemption_other", VCPU_STAT(preemption_other) },
        { "mmu_shadow_zapped", VM_STAT(mmu_shadow_zapped) },
        { "mmu_pte_write", VM_STAT(mmu_pte_write) },
        { "mmu_pde_zapped", VM_STAT(mmu_pde_zapped) },
@@ -3562,6 +3564,19 @@ static void kvm_steal_time_set_preempted(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
        struct kvm_host_map map;
        struct kvm_steal_time *st;
 
+       /*
+        * The vCPU can be marked preempted if and only if the VM-Exit was on
+        * an instruction boundary and will not trigger guest emulation of any
+        * kind (see vcpu_run).  Vendor specific code controls (conservatively)
+        * when this is true, for example allowing the vCPU to be marked
+        * preempted if and only if the VM-Exit was due to a host interrupt.
+        */
+       if (!vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary) {
+               vcpu->stat.preemption_other++;
+               return;
+       }
+
+       vcpu->stat.preemption_reported++;
        if (!(vcpu->arch.st.msr_val & KVM_MSR_ENABLED))
                return;
 
@@ -8446,6 +8461,13 @@ static int vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
        vcpu->arch.l1tf_flush_l1d = true;
 
        for (;;) {
+               /*
+                * If another guest vCPU requests a PV TLB flush in the middle
+                * of instruction emulation, the rest of the emulation could
+                * use a stale page translation. Assume that any code after
+                * this point can start executing an instruction.
+                */
+               vcpu->arch.at_instruction_boundary = false;
                if (kvm_vcpu_running(vcpu)) {
                        r = vcpu_enter_guest(vcpu);
                } else {