linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] KVM: nSVM: ondemand nested state allocation

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Message-ID: <521dd8fe55650eac720891e90084a7f7620c7f0f.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:36:38 +0300
From:   Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
To:     kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] KVM: nSVM: ondemand nested state allocation

On Wed, 2020-09-23 at 00:10 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> This is the next version of this patch series.
> 
> In V5 I adopted Sean Christopherson's suggestion to make .set_efer return
> a negative error (-ENOMEM in this case) which in most cases in kvm
> propagates to the userspace.
> 
> I noticed though that wrmsr emulation code doesn't do this and instead
> it injects #GP to the guest on _any_ error.
> 
> So I fixed the wrmsr code to behave in a similar way to the rest
> of the kvm code.
> (#GP only on a positive error value, and forward the negative error to
> the userspace)
> 
> I had to adjust one wrmsr handler (xen_hvm_config) to stop it from returning
> negative values	so that new WRMSR emulation behavior doesn't break it.
> This patch was only compile tested.
> 
> The memory allocation failure was tested by always returning -ENOMEM
> from svm_allocate_nested.
> 
> The nested allocation itself was tested by countless attempts to run
> nested guests, do nested migration on both my AMD and Intel machines.
> I wasn't able to break it.
> 
> Changes from V5: addressed Sean Christopherson's review feedback.
> 
> Best regards,
> 	Maxim Levitsky
> 
> Maxim Levitsky (4):
>   KVM: x86: xen_hvm_config: cleanup return values
>   KVM: x86: report negative values from wrmsr emulation to userspace
>   KVM: x86: allow kvm_x86_ops.set_efer to return an error value
>   KVM: nSVM: implement on demand allocation of the nested state
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c          |  7 ++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c       | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c          | 58 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h          |  8 ++++-
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          |  6 ++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              | 37 ++++++++++++---------
>  7 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.26.2
> 
Very polite ping on this patch series.

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky