linux-kernel - Re: [PART1 RFC v4 08/11] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC

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Message-ID: <20160429145627.GC15747@potion>
Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:56:27 +0200
From:	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:	Suravee Suthikulanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>
Cc:	pbonzini@...hat.com, joro@...tes.org, bp@...en8.de,
	gleb@...nel.org, alex.williamson@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wei@...hat.com,
	sherry.hurwitz@....com
Subject: Re: [PART1 RFC v4 08/11] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC

2016-04-28 17:08-0500, Suravee Suthikulanit:
> On 4/12/2016 11:22 AM, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>> 2016-04-07 03:20-0500, Suravee Suthikulpanit:
>> > From: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>
>> > 
>> > This patch introduces VMEXIT handlers, avic_incomplete_ipi_interception()
>> > and avic_unaccelerated_access_interception() along with two trace points
>> > (trace_kvm_avic_incomplete_ipi and trace_kvm_avic_unaccelerated_access).
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>
>> > ---
>> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
>> > @@ -3515,6 +3515,250 @@ static int mwait_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>> > [...]
>> > +		lid = ffs(dlid) - 1;
>> > +		ret = avic_handle_ldr_write(&svm->vcpu, svm->vcpu.vcpu_id, lid);
>> > +		if (ret)
>> > +			return 0;
>> 
>> OS can actually change LDR, so the old one should be invalidated.
>> 
>> (No OS does, but that is not an important factor for the hypervisor.)
>> 
> 
> By validating the old one, are you suggesting that we should disable the
> logical APIC table entry previously used by this vcpu? If so, that means we
> would need to cached the previous LDR value since the one in vAPIC backing
> page would already be updated.

Yes, the cache could be used to speed up recalculate_apic_map() too, so
it might not be a total waste.

Which reminds me that physical APIC_ID doesn't use correct cache.
svm->vcpu.vcpu_id is only the initial ID, but APIC_ID could be changed
more than once.
It would be great to make APIC_ID read-only in all cases, because x86
spec allows us to do so, but KVM_SET_LAPIC can set APIC ID too and I
think we don't retroactively modify userspace API ... Paolo?

>> > [...]
>> 
>> > +		if (vm_data->ldr_mode != mod) {
>> > +			clear_page(page_address(vm_data->avic_logical_id_table_page));
>> > +			vm_data->ldr_mode = mod;
>> > +		}
>> > +		break;
>> > +	}
>> 
>> All these cases need to be called on KVM_SET_LAPIC -- the userspace can
>> provide completely new set of APIC registers and AVIC should build its
>> maps with them.  Test with save/restore or migration.
> 
> Hm.. This means we might need to introduce a new hook which is called from
> the arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c: kvm_apic_post_state_restore(). Probably something
> like kvm_x86_ops->apic_post_state_restore(), which sets up the new physical
> and logical APIC id tables for AVIC.

Sounds good.  I imagine the callback would just call
avic_unaccel_trap_write() for relevant registers.

>> > +		return ret;
>> 
>> because we should not return, but continue to emulate the access.
> 
> Then, this would continue as if we are handling the normal fault access.

Exactly, it is a normal access to an undefined register.

>> > +	}
>> > +
>> > +	if (trap) {
>> > +		/* Handling Trap */
>> > +		if (!write) /* Trap read should never happens */
>> > +			BUG();
>> 
>> (BUG_ON(!write) is shorter, though I would avoid BUG -- only guests are
>>   going to fail, so we don't need to kill the host.)
> 
> Ok. What about just WARN_ONCE(!write, "svm: Handling trap read.\n");

Sure, it's a hardware bug and calling avic_unaccel_trap_write() on a
read access shouldn't result in a bug.  I am slightly inclined towards
'if (trap && write)' and optional 'WARN_ONCE(trap,' in the else branch.

Thanks.