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

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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 959d66b9be94..3a240a64ac68 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -653,6 +653,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
 	u64 ia32_misc_enable_msr;
 	u64 smbase;
 	u64 smi_count;
+	bool at_instruction_boundary;
 	bool tpr_access_reporting;
 	bool xsaves_enabled;
 	bool xfd_no_write_intercept;
@@ -1300,6 +1301,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_stat {
 	u64 nested_run;
 	u64 directed_yield_attempted;
 	u64 directed_yield_successful;
+	u64 preemption_reported;
+	u64 preemption_other;
 	u64 guest_mode;
 };