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Message-ID: <35ff8f48-2677-78ea-b5f3-329c75ce65c9@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:11:09 +0100
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
Jeremi Piotrowski <jpiotrowski@...ux.microsoft.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Tianyu Lan <ltykernel@...il.com>,
"Michael Kelley (LINUX)" <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: "KVM: x86/mmu: Overhaul TDP MMU zapping and flushing" breaks SVM
on Hyper-V
On 2/13/23 18:38, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
>> Hi Paolo/Sean,
>>
>> We've noticed that changes introduced in "KVM: x86/mmu: Overhaul TDP MMU
>> zapping and flushing" conflict with a nested Hyper-V enlightenment that is
>> always enabled on AMD CPUs (HV_X64_NESTED_ENLIGHTENED_TLB). The scenario that
>> is affected is L0 Hyper-V + L1 KVM on AMD,
>
> Do you see issues with Intel and HV_X64_NESTED_GUEST_MAPPING_FLUSH? IIUC, on the
> KVM side, that setup is equivalent to HV_X64_NESTED_ENLIGHTENED_TLB.
My reading of the spec[1] is that HV_X64_NESTED_ENLIGHTENED_TLB will
cause svm_flush_tlb_current to behave (in Intel parlance) as an INVVPID
rather than an INVEPT. So svm_flush_tlb_current has to be changed to
also add a call to HvCallFlushGuestPhysicalAddressSpace. I'm not sure
if that's a good idea though.
First, that's a TLB shootdown rather than just a local thing;
flush_tlb_current is supposed to be relatively cheap, and there would be
a lot of them because of the unconditional calls to
nested_svm_transition_tlb_flush on vmentry/vmexit.
Second, while the nCR3 matches across virtual processors for SVM, the
(nCR3, ASID) pair does not, so it doesn't even make much sense to do a
TLB shootdown.
Depending on the performance results of adding the hypercall to
svm_flush_tlb_current, the fix could indeed be to just disable usage of
HV_X64_NESTED_ENLIGHTENED_TLB.
Paolo
[1]
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/tlfs/nested-virtualization
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