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Message-ID: <439f0b8b52dd019c60974ab105dee75fa15eaf3e.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:13:26 +0200
From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
To: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@....com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] KVM: nSVM: don't sync back tlb_ctl on nested
VM exit
On Mon, 2022-12-05 at 19:35 +0530, Santosh Shukla wrote:
> Hi Maxim,
>
> On 11/30/2022 1:07 AM, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > The CPU doesn't change TLB_CTL value as stated in the PRM (15.16.2):
> >
> nits:
> s / PRM (15.16.2) / APM (15.16.1 - TLB Flush)
True for both changes, thanks!
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
>
> > "The VMRUN instruction reads, but does not change, the
> > value of the TLB_CONTROL field"
> >
> > Therefore the KVM shouldn't do that either.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 1 -
> > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> > index bc9cd7086fa972..37af0338da7c32 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> > @@ -1010,7 +1010,6 @@ int nested_svm_vmexit(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> > vmcb12->control.next_rip = vmcb02->control.next_rip;
> >
> > vmcb12->control.int_ctl = svm->nested.ctl.int_ctl;
> > - vmcb12->control.tlb_ctl = svm->nested.ctl.tlb_ctl;
> > vmcb12->control.event_inj = svm->nested.ctl.event_inj;
> > vmcb12->control.event_inj_err = svm->nested.ctl.event_inj_err;
> >
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