linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: s390: Enable specification exception interpretation

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 6 Jul 2021 13:56:27 +0200
From:   Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:     Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Janis Schoetterl-Glausch <scgl@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "open list:KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE for s390 (KVM/s390)" 
        <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:S390" <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: s390: Enable specification exception interpretation



On 06.07.21 13:52, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06 2021, Janis Schoetterl-Glausch <scgl@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> When this feature is enabled the hardware is free to interpret
>> specification exceptions generated by the guest, instead of causing
>> program interruption interceptions.
>>
>> This benefits (test) programs that generate a lot of specification
>> exceptions (roughly 4x increase in exceptions/sec).
>>
>> Interceptions will occur as before if ICTL_PINT is set,
>> i.e. if guest debug is enabled.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Janis Schoetterl-Glausch <scgl@...ux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> I'll additionally send kvm-unit-tests for testing this feature.
>>
>>   arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
>>   arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c         | 2 ++
>>   arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c             | 2 ++
>>   3 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> (...)
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
>> index b655a7d82bf0..aadd589a3755 100644
>> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
>> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
>> @@ -3200,6 +3200,8 @@ static int kvm_s390_vcpu_setup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>   		vcpu->arch.sie_block->ecb |= ECB_SRSI;
>>   	if (test_kvm_facility(vcpu->kvm, 73))
>>   		vcpu->arch.sie_block->ecb |= ECB_TE;
>> +	if (!kvm_is_ucontrol(vcpu->kvm))
>> +		vcpu->arch.sie_block->ecb |= ECB_SPECI;
> 
> Does this exist for any hardware version (i.e. not guarded by a cpu
> feature?)

Not for all hardware versions, but also no indication. The architecture
says that the HW is free to do this or not. (which makes the vsie code
simpler).
> 
>>   
>>   	if (test_kvm_facility(vcpu->kvm, 8) && vcpu->kvm->arch.use_pfmfi)
>>   		vcpu->arch.sie_block->ecb2 |= ECB2_PFMFI;
>