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Message-ID: <f05d0850-06ee-c5d9-4e37-bf6fe26d1fd1@microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 06:55:44 +0000
From: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>
To: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
CC: "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
Roman Kagan <rkagan@...tuozzo.com>,
KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
"Michael Kelley (EOSG)" <Michael.H.Kelley@...rosoft.com>,
Mohammed Gamal <mmorsy@...hat.com>,
Cathy Avery <cavery@...hat.com>,
Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: VMX: hyper-v: Enlightened MSR-Bitmap support
On 4/12/2018 11:25 PM, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Enlightened MSR-Bitmap is a natural extension of Enlightened VMCS:
> Hyper-V Top Level Functional Specification states:
>
> "The L1 hypervisor may collaborate with the L0 hypervisor to make MSR
> accesses more efficient. It can enable enlightened MSR bitmaps by setting
> the corresponding field in the enlightened VMCS to 1. When enabled, the L0
> hypervisor does not monitor the MSR bitmaps for changes. Instead, the L1
> hypervisor must invalidate the corresponding clean field after making
> changes to one of the MSR bitmaps."
>
> I reached out to Hyper-V team for additional details and I got the
> following information
>
> "Current Hyper-V implementation works as following.
>
> If the enlightened MSR bitmap is not enabled:
> - All MSR accesses of L2 guests cause physical VM-Exits
>
> If the enlightened MSR bitmap is enabled:
> - Physical VM-Exits for L2 accesses to certain MSRs (currently FS_BASE,
> GS_BASE and KERNEL_GS_BASE) are avoided, thus making these MSR accesses
> faster."
>
> I tested my series with a custom kernel module doing tight rdmsrl loop,
> for KERNEL_GS_BASE the results are:
>
> Without Enlightened MSR-Bitmap: 1300 cycles/read
> With Enlightened MSR-Bitmap: 120 cycles/read
Tested-by: Lan Tianyu <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h | 9 ++++++++-
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> index 1c602ad4bda8..26e7e2240066 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hyperv-tlfs.h
> @@ -300,6 +300,9 @@ struct ms_hyperv_tsc_page {
> /* TSC emulation after migration */
> #define HV_X64_MSR_REENLIGHTENMENT_CONTROL 0x40000106
>
> +/* Nested features (CPUID 0x4000000A) EAX */
> +#define HV_X64_NESTED_MSR_BITMAP BIT(19)
> +
> struct hv_reenlightenment_control {
> __u64 vector:8;
> __u64 reserved1:8;
> @@ -665,7 +668,11 @@ struct hv_enlightened_vmcs {
> u32 hv_clean_fields;
> u32 hv_padding_32;
> u32 hv_synthetic_controls;
> - u32 hv_enlightenments_control;
> + struct {
> + u32 nested_flush_hypercall:1;
> + u32 msr_bitmap:1;
> + u32 reserved:30;
> + } hv_enlightenments_control;
> u32 hv_vp_id;
>
> u64 hv_vm_id;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index b2f8a700aeef..c80a48cffc52 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -1014,6 +1014,7 @@ static const u32 vmx_msr_index[] = {
> };
>
> DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(enable_evmcs);
> +DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(enable_emsr_bitmap);
>
> #define current_evmcs ((struct hv_enlightened_vmcs *)this_cpu_read(current_vmcs))
>
> @@ -1090,6 +1091,15 @@ static inline u16 evmcs_read16(unsigned long field)
> return *(u16 *)((char *)current_evmcs + offset);
> }
>
> +static inline void evmcs_touch_msr_bitmap(void)
> +{
> + if (unlikely(!current_evmcs))
> + return;
> +
> + current_evmcs->hv_clean_fields &=
> + ~HV_VMX_ENLIGHTENED_CLEAN_FIELD_MSR_BITMAP;
> +}
> +
> static void evmcs_load(u64 phys_addr)
> {
> struct hv_vp_assist_page *vp_ap =
> @@ -1174,6 +1184,7 @@ static inline u32 evmcs_read32(unsigned long field) { return 0; }
> static inline u16 evmcs_read16(unsigned long field) { return 0; }
> static inline void evmcs_load(u64 phys_addr) {}
> static inline void evmcs_sanitize_exec_ctrls(struct vmcs_config *vmcs_conf) {}
> +static inline void evmcs_touch_msr_bitmap(void) {}
> #endif /* IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HYPERV) */
>
> static inline bool is_exception_n(u32 intr_info, u8 vector)
> @@ -4218,6 +4229,13 @@ static int alloc_loaded_vmcs(struct loaded_vmcs *loaded_vmcs)
> if (!loaded_vmcs->msr_bitmap)
> goto out_vmcs;
> memset(loaded_vmcs->msr_bitmap, 0xff, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> + if (static_branch_unlikely(&enable_emsr_bitmap)) {
> + struct hv_enlightened_vmcs *evmcs =
> + (struct hv_enlightened_vmcs *)loaded_vmcs->vmcs;
> +
> + evmcs->hv_enlightenments_control.msr_bitmap = 1;
> + }
> }
> return 0;
>
> @@ -5335,6 +5353,9 @@ static void __always_inline vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(unsigned long *msr_bit
> if (!cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap())
> return;
>
> + if (static_branch_unlikely(&enable_emsr_bitmap))
> + evmcs_touch_msr_bitmap();
> +
> /*
> * See Intel PRM Vol. 3, 20.6.9 (MSR-Bitmap Address). Early manuals
> * have the write-low and read-high bitmap offsets the wrong way round.
> @@ -5370,6 +5391,9 @@ static void __always_inline vmx_enable_intercept_for_msr(unsigned long *msr_bitm
> if (!cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap())
> return;
>
> + if (static_branch_unlikely(&enable_emsr_bitmap))
> + evmcs_touch_msr_bitmap();
> +
> /*
> * See Intel PRM Vol. 3, 20.6.9 (MSR-Bitmap Address). Early manuals
> * have the write-low and read-high bitmap offsets the wrong way round.
> @@ -12790,8 +12814,16 @@ static int __init vmx_init(void)
> }
>
> if (enlightened_vmcs) {
> - pr_info("KVM: vmx: using Hyper-V Enlightened VMCS\n");
> static_branch_enable(&enable_evmcs);
> +
> + /* Nested MSR-Bitmap */
> + if (ms_hyperv.nested_features &
> + HV_X64_NESTED_MSR_BITMAP)
> + static_branch_enable(&enable_emsr_bitmap);
> +
> + pr_info("KVM: vmx: using Hyper-V Enlightened VMCS %s\n",
> + !static_branch_likely(&enable_emsr_bitmap) ? ""
> + : "with MSR-Bitmap");
> }
> } else {
> enlightened_vmcs = false;
>
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