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x86,kvm,vmx: Preserve CR4 across VM entry
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CR4 isn't constant; at least the TSD and PCE bits can vary.

TBH, treating CR0 and CR3 as constant scares me a bit, too, but it looks
like it's correct.

This adds a branch and a read from cr4 to each vm entry.  Because it is
extremely likely that consecutive entries into the same vcpu will have
the same host cr4 value, this fixes up the vmcs instead of restoring cr4
after the fact.  A subsequent patch will add a kernel-wide cr4 shadow,
reducing the overhead in the common case to just two memory reads and a
branch.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Petr Matousek <[email protected]>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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amluto authored and torvalds committed Oct 18, 2014
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16 changes: 14 additions & 2 deletions arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
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Expand Up @@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ struct vcpu_vmx {
int gs_ldt_reload_needed;
int fs_reload_needed;
u64 msr_host_bndcfgs;
unsigned long vmcs_host_cr4; /* May not match real cr4 */
} host_state;
struct {
int vm86_active;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4267,11 +4268,16 @@ static void vmx_set_constant_host_state(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
u32 low32, high32;
unsigned long tmpl;
struct desc_ptr dt;
unsigned long cr4;

vmcs_writel(HOST_CR0, read_cr0() & ~X86_CR0_TS); /* 22.2.3 */
vmcs_writel(HOST_CR4, read_cr4()); /* 22.2.3, 22.2.5 */
vmcs_writel(HOST_CR3, read_cr3()); /* 22.2.3 FIXME: shadow tables */

/* Save the most likely value for this task's CR4 in the VMCS. */
cr4 = read_cr4();
vmcs_writel(HOST_CR4, cr4); /* 22.2.3, 22.2.5 */
vmx->host_state.vmcs_host_cr4 = cr4;

vmcs_write16(HOST_CS_SELECTOR, __KERNEL_CS); /* 22.2.4 */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
/*
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -7514,7 +7520,7 @@ static void atomic_switch_perf_msrs(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
unsigned long debugctlmsr;
unsigned long debugctlmsr, cr4;

/* Record the guest's net vcpu time for enforced NMI injections. */
if (unlikely(!cpu_has_virtual_nmis() && vmx->soft_vnmi_blocked))
Expand All @@ -7540,6 +7546,12 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (test_bit(VCPU_REGS_RIP, (unsigned long *)&vcpu->arch.regs_dirty))
vmcs_writel(GUEST_RIP, vcpu->arch.regs[VCPU_REGS_RIP]);

cr4 = read_cr4();
if (unlikely(cr4 != vmx->host_state.vmcs_host_cr4)) {
vmcs_writel(HOST_CR4, cr4);
vmx->host_state.vmcs_host_cr4 = cr4;
}

/* When single-stepping over STI and MOV SS, we must clear the
* corresponding interruptibility bits in the guest state. Otherwise
* vmentry fails as it then expects bit 14 (BS) in pending debug
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