linux-kernel - Re: FSGSBASE causing panic on 5.9-rc1

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Message-ID: <CALCETrXxfZtLSPx+QFMRdnvDE6+zT=Jy8CYX03Va7o8M0VvKng@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:07:10 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: FSGSBASE causing panic on 5.9-rc1

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 3:05 PM Sean Christopherson
<sean.j.christopherson@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 01:36:46PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Aug 20, 2020, at 1:15 PM, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 8/20/20 3:07 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > >> On 8/20/20 12:05 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > >>>> I added a quick hack to save TSC_AUX to a new variable in the SVM
> > >>>> struct and then restore it right after VMEXIT (just after where GS is
> > >>>> restored in svm_vcpu_enter_exit()) and my guest is no longer crashing.
> > >>>
> > >>> Sorry, I mean my host is no longer crashing.
> > >> Just to make sure I've got this:
> > >> 1. Older CPUs didn't have X86_FEATURE_RDPID
> > >> 2. FSGSBASE patches started using RDPID in the NMI entry path when
> > >>    supported *AND* FSGSBASE was enabled
> > >> 3. There was a latent SVM bug which did not restore the RDPID data
> > >>    before NMIs were reenabled after VMEXIT
> > >> 4. If an NMI comes in the window between VMEXIT and the
> > >>    wrmsr(TSC_AUX)... boom
> > >
> > > Right, which means that the setting of TSC_AUX to the guest value needs to be moved, too.
> > >
> >
> > Depending on how much of a perf hit this is, we could also skip using RDPID
> > in the paranoid path on SVM-capable CPUs.
>
> Doesn't this affect VMX as well?  KVM+VMX doesn't restore TSC_AUX until the
> kernel returns to userspace.  I don't see anything that prevents the NMI
> RDPID path from affecting Intel CPUs.
>
> Assuming that's the case, I would strongly prefer this be handled in the
> paranoid path.  NMIs are unblocked immediately on VMX VM-Exit, which means
> using the MSR load lists in the VMCS, and I hate those with a vengeance.
>
> Perf overhead on VMX would be 8-10% for VM-Exits that would normally stay
> in KVM's run loop, e.g. ~125 cycles for the WMRSR, ~1300-1500 cycles to
> handle the most common VM-Exits.  It'd be even higher overhead for the
> VMX preemption timer, which is handled without even enabling IRQs and is
> a hot path as it's used to emulate the TSC deadline timer for the guest.

I'm fine with that -- let's get rid of RDPID unconditionally in the
paranoid path.  Want to send a patch that also adds as comment
explaining why we're not using RDPID?

--Andy