KVM: x86/MMU: Allow NX huge pages to be disabled on a per-vm basis

In some cases, the NX hugepage mitigation for iTLB multihit is not
needed for all guests on a host. Allow disabling the mitigation on a
per-VM basis to avoid the performance hit of NX hugepages on trusted
workloads.

In order to disable NX hugepages on a VM, ensure that the userspace
actor has permission to reboot the system. Since disabling NX hugepages
would allow a guest to crash the system, it is similar to reboot
permissions.

Ideally, KVM would require userspace to prove it has access to KVM's
nx_huge_pages module param, e.g. so that userspace can opt out without
needing full reboot permissions.  But getting access to the module param
file info is difficult because it is buried in layers of sysfs and module
glue. Requiring CAP_SYS_BOOT is sufficient for all known use cases.

Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220613212523.3436117-9-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index e37727a74d0a..7e4c31b57a75 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -1336,6 +1336,8 @@ struct kvm_arch {
 	 * the global KVM_MAX_VCPU_IDS may lead to significant memory waste.
 	 */
 	u32 max_vcpu_ids;
+
+	bool disable_nx_huge_pages;
 };
 
 struct kvm_vm_stat {