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Message-ID: <64ee2d55-8a56-bd12-1f4b-9787ab01a93e@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 23 Feb 2018 23:45:53 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: fix backward migration with async_PF

On 01/02/2018 22:16, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> Guests on new hypersiors might set KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_PF_VMEXIT
> bit when enabling async_PF, but this bit is reserved on old hypervisors,
> which results in a failure upon migration.
> 
> To avoid breaking different cases, we are checking for CPUID feature bit
> before enabling the feature and nothing else.
> 
> Fixes: 52a5c155cf79 ("KVM: async_pf: Let guest support delivery of async_pf from guest mode")
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
> ---
> v2:
> * added documentation [Paolo]
> * retained compatibility recent kernels [Paolo]
> ---
>  Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt  | 4 ++++
>  Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt    | 3 ++-
>  arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 1 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c                | 8 ++++----
>  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c                 | 3 ++-
>  5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt
> index dcab6dc11e3b..87a7506f31c2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt
> @@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH           ||     9 || guest checks this feature bit
>                                     ||       || before enabling paravirtualized
>                                     ||       || tlb flush.
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> +KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_VMEXIT        ||    10 || paravirtualized async PF VM exit
> +                                   ||       || can be enabled by setting bit 2
> +                                   ||       || when writing to msr 0x4b564d02
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT ||    24 || host will warn if no guest-side
>                                     ||       || per-cpu warps are expected in
>                                     ||       || kvmclock.
> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> index 1ebecc115dc6..f3f0d57ced8e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
> @@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02
>  	when asynchronous page faults are enabled on the vcpu 0 when
>  	disabled. Bit 1 is 1 if asynchronous page faults can be injected
>  	when vcpu is in cpl == 0. Bit 2 is 1 if asynchronous page faults
> -	are delivered to L1 as #PF vmexits.
> +	are delivered to L1 as #PF vmexits.  Bit 2 can be set only if
> +	KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_VMEXIT is present in CPUID.
>  
>  	First 4 byte of 64 byte memory location will be written to by
>  	the hypervisor at the time of asynchronous page fault (APF)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> index 7a2ade4aa235..6cfa9c8cb7d6 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
>  #define KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI		6
>  #define KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT		7
>  #define KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH	9
> +#define KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_VMEXIT	10
>  
>  /* The last 8 bits are used to indicate how to interpret the flags field
>   * in pvclock structure. If no bits are set, all flags are ignored.
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> index 4e37d1a851a6..971babe964d2 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> @@ -341,10 +341,10 @@ static void kvm_guest_cpu_init(void)
>  #endif
>  		pa |= KVM_ASYNC_PF_ENABLED;
>  
> -		/* Async page fault support for L1 hypervisor is optional */
> -		if (wrmsr_safe(MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN,
> -			(pa | KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_PF_VMEXIT) & 0xffffffff, pa >> 32) < 0)
> -			wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN, pa);
> +		if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_VMEXIT))
> +			pa |= KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_PF_VMEXIT;
> +
> +		wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN, pa);
>  		__this_cpu_write(apf_reason.enabled, 1);
>  		printk(KERN_INFO"KVM setup async PF for cpu %d\n",
>  		       smp_processor_id());
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> index 20e491b94f44..7fc04a176c57 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> @@ -604,7 +604,8 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_ent(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry, u32 function,
>  			     (1 << KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI) |
>  			     (1 << KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT) |
>  			     (1 << KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT) |
> -			     (1 << KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH);
> +			     (1 << KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH) |
> +			     (1 << KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_VMEXIT);
>  
>  		if (sched_info_on())
>  			entry->eax |= (1 << KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME);
> 

Queued, thanks.

Paolo