linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] KVM: nVMX: Drop superfluous VMREAD of vmcs02.GUEST_SYSENTER

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Message-Id: <20200428231025.12766-3-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:10:25 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: nVMX: Drop superfluous VMREAD of vmcs02.GUEST_SYSENTER_*

Don't propagate GUEST_SYSENTER_* from vmcs02 to vmcs12 on nested VM-Exit
as the vmcs12 fields are updated in vmx_set_msr(), and writes to the
corresponding MSRs are always intercepted by KVM when running L2.

Dropping the propagation was intended to be done in the same commit that
added vmcs12 writes in vmx_set_msr()[1], but for reasons unknown was
only shuffled around[2][3].

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10933215
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10933215/#22682289
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1088643

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 2c36f3f53108..a54231bac047 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -3944,10 +3944,6 @@ static void sync_vmcs02_to_vmcs12(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vmcs12 *vmcs12)
 	vmcs12->guest_cs_ar_bytes = vmcs_read32(GUEST_CS_AR_BYTES);
 	vmcs12->guest_ss_ar_bytes = vmcs_read32(GUEST_SS_AR_BYTES);
 
-	vmcs12->guest_sysenter_cs = vmcs_read32(GUEST_SYSENTER_CS);
-	vmcs12->guest_sysenter_esp = vmcs_readl(GUEST_SYSENTER_ESP);
-	vmcs12->guest_sysenter_eip = vmcs_readl(GUEST_SYSENTER_EIP);
-
 	vmcs12->guest_interruptibility_info =
 		vmcs_read32(GUEST_INTERRUPTIBILITY_INFO);
 
-- 
2.26.0