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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU
2018-01-31 12:37-0500, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 30/01/2018 11:23, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> > 2018-01-27 09:50+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
> >> Place the MSR bitmap in struct loaded_vmcs, and update it in place
> >> every time the x2apic or APICv state can change. This is rare and
> >> the loop can handle 64 MSRs per iteration, in a similar fashion as
> >> nested_vmx_prepare_msr_bitmap.
> >>
> >> This prepares for choosing, on a per-VM basis, whether to intercept
> >> the SPEC_CTRL and PRED_CMD MSRs.
> >>
> >> Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> >> @@ -10022,7 +10043,7 @@ static inline bool nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >> int msr;
> >> struct page *page;
> >> unsigned long *msr_bitmap_l1;
> >> - unsigned long *msr_bitmap_l0 = to_vmx(vcpu)->nested.msr_bitmap;
> >> + unsigned long *msr_bitmap_l0 = to_vmx(vcpu)->nested.vmcs02.msr_bitmap;
> >
> > The physical address of the nested msr_bitmap is never loaded into vmcs.
> >
> > The resolution you provided had extra hunk in prepare_vmcs02_full():
> >
> > + vmcs_write64(MSR_BITMAP, __pa(vmx->nested.vmcs02.msr_bitmap));
> >
> > I have queued that as:
> >
> > + if (cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap())
> > + vmcs_write64(MSR_BITMAP, __pa(vmx->nested.vmcs02.msr_bitmap));
>
> Hmm you're right, it should be in prepare_vmcs02() here (4.15-based),
> and then moved to prepare_vmcs02_full() as part of the conflict resolution.

It also makes sense to have it in nested_get_vmcs12_pages, where we call
nested_vmx_prepare_msr_bitmap() and disable MSR bitmaps.

> I'll send a v3.

Thanks.

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