linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 00/10] KVM: x86: Add a cap to disable NX hugepages on a VM

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Message-Id: <20220411211015.3091615-1-bgardon@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:10:05 -0700
From:   Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>,
        David Dunn <daviddunn@...gle.com>,
        Junaid Shahid <junaids@...gle.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>,
        Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>,
        Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@...gle.com>,
        Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 00/10] KVM: x86: Add a cap to disable NX hugepages on a VM

Given the high cost of NX hugepages in terms of TLB performance, it may
be desirable to disable the mitigation on a per-VM basis. In the case of public
cloud providers with many VMs on a single host, some VMs may be more trusted
than others. In order to maximize performance on critical VMs, while still
providing some protection to the host from iTLB Multihit, allow the mitigation
to be selectively disabled.

Disabling NX hugepages on a VM is relatively straightforward, but I took this
as an opportunity to add some NX hugepages test coverage and clean up selftests
infrastructure a bit.

This series was tested with the new selftest and the rest of the KVM selftests
on an Intel Haswell machine.

The following tests failed, but I do not believe that has anything to do with
this series:
	userspace_io_test
	vmx_nested_tsc_scaling_test
	vmx_preemption_timer_test

Changelog:
v1->v2:
	Dropped the complicated memslot refactor in favor of Ricardo Koller's
	patch with a similar effect.
	Incorporated David Dunn's feedback and reviewed by tag: shortened waits
	to speed up test.
v2->v3:
	Incorporated a suggestion from David on how to build the NX huge pages
	test.
	Fixed a build breakage identified by David.
	Dropped the per-vm nx_huge_pages field in favor of simply checking the
	global + per-VM disable override.
	Documented the new capability
	Separated out the commit to test disabling NX huge pages
	Removed permission check when checking if the disable NX capability is
	supported.
	Added test coverage for the permission check.
v3->v4:
	Collected RB's from Jing and David
	Modified stat collection to reduce a memory allocation [David]
	Incorporated various improvments to the NX test [David]
	Changed the NX disable test to run by default [David]
	Removed some now unnecessary commits
	Dropped the code to dump KVM stats from the binary stats test, and
	factor out parts of the existing test to library functions instead.
	[David, Jing, Sean]
	Dropped the improvement to a debugging log message as it's no longer
	relevant to this series.

Ben Gardon (10):
  KVM: selftests: Remove dynamic memory allocation for stats header
  KVM: selftests: Read binary stats header in lib
  KVM: selftests: Read binary stats desc in lib
  KVM: selftests: Read binary stat data in lib
  KVM: selftests: Add NX huge pages test
  KVM: x86/MMU: Factor out updating NX hugepages state for a VM
  KVM: x86/MMU: Allow NX huge pages to be disabled on a per-vm basis
  KVM: x86: Fix errant brace in KVM capability handling
  KVM: x86/MMU: Require reboot permission to disable NX hugepages
  KVM: selftests: Test disabling NX hugepages on a VM

 Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst                |  13 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h               |   2 +
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h                            |  10 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c                        |  17 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c                       |   7 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.h                       |   3 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c                    |   3 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                            |  17 +-
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h                      |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile          |  10 +
 .../selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util_base.h     |  11 +
 .../selftests/kvm/kvm_binary_stats_test.c     |  75 +++----
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c    | 125 ++++++++++-
 .../selftests/kvm/x86_64/nx_huge_pages_test.c | 198 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../kvm/x86_64/nx_huge_pages_test.sh          |  25 +++
 15 files changed, 453 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/nx_huge_pages_test.c
 create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/nx_huge_pages_test.sh

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