From 6cd88243c7e03845a450795e134b488fc2afb736 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 10:09:03 -0400 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/include') 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; }; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b