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Message-ID: <84cc95e6-74a5-47b2-9f36-ae33f1e8b5c8@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:00:03 +0800
From: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>, pbonzini@...hat.com,
 seanjc@...gle.com
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com, kai.huang@...el.com,
 reinette.chatre@...el.com, tony.lindgren@...ux.intel.com,
 binbin.wu@...ux.intel.com, dmatlack@...gle.com, isaku.yamahata@...el.com,
 nik.borisov@...e.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yan.y.zhao@...el.com,
 chao.gao@...el.com, weijiang.yang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 08/12] KVM: x86: Allow to update cached values in
 kvm_user_return_msrs w/o wrmsr

On 1/29/2025 5:58 PM, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> From: Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>
> 
> Several MSRs are constant and only used in userspace(ring 3).  But VMs may
> have different values.  KVM uses kvm_set_user_return_msr() to switch to
> guest's values and leverages user return notifier to restore them when the
> kernel is to return to userspace.  To eliminate unnecessary wrmsr, KVM also
> caches the value it wrote to an MSR last time.
> 
> TDX module unconditionally resets some of these MSRs to architectural INIT
> state on TD exit.  It makes the cached values in kvm_user_return_msrs are
> inconsistent with values in hardware.  This inconsistency needs to be
> fixed.  Otherwise, it may mislead kvm_on_user_return() to skip restoring
> some MSRs to the host's values.  kvm_set_user_return_msr() can help correct
> this case, but it is not optimal as it always does a wrmsr.  So, introduce
> a variation of kvm_set_user_return_msr() to update cached values and skip
> that wrmsr.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>

> ---
> TD vcpu enter/exit v2:
>   - No changes
> 
> TD vcpu enter/exit v1:
>   - Rename functions and remove useless comment (Binbin)
> ---
>   arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  1 +
>   arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
>   2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 6b686d62c735..e557a441fade 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -2322,6 +2322,7 @@ int kvm_pv_send_ipi(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long ipi_bitmap_low,
>   int kvm_add_user_return_msr(u32 msr);
>   int kvm_find_user_return_msr(u32 msr);
>   int kvm_set_user_return_msr(unsigned index, u64 val, u64 mask);
> +void kvm_user_return_msr_update_cache(unsigned int index, u64 val);
>   
>   static inline bool kvm_is_supported_user_return_msr(u32 msr)
>   {
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 5cf9f023fd4b..15447fe7687c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -636,6 +636,15 @@ static void kvm_user_return_msr_cpu_online(void)
>   	}
>   }
>   
> +static void kvm_user_return_register_notifier(struct kvm_user_return_msrs *msrs)
> +{
> +	if (!msrs->registered) {
> +		msrs->urn.on_user_return = kvm_on_user_return;
> +		user_return_notifier_register(&msrs->urn);
> +		msrs->registered = true;
> +	}
> +}
> +
>   int kvm_set_user_return_msr(unsigned slot, u64 value, u64 mask)
>   {
>   	struct kvm_user_return_msrs *msrs = this_cpu_ptr(user_return_msrs);
> @@ -649,15 +658,20 @@ int kvm_set_user_return_msr(unsigned slot, u64 value, u64 mask)
>   		return 1;
>   
>   	msrs->values[slot].curr = value;
> -	if (!msrs->registered) {
> -		msrs->urn.on_user_return = kvm_on_user_return;
> -		user_return_notifier_register(&msrs->urn);
> -		msrs->registered = true;
> -	}
> +	kvm_user_return_register_notifier(msrs);
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_set_user_return_msr);
>   
> +void kvm_user_return_msr_update_cache(unsigned int slot, u64 value)
> +{
> +	struct kvm_user_return_msrs *msrs = this_cpu_ptr(user_return_msrs);
> +
> +	msrs->values[slot].curr = value;
> +	kvm_user_return_register_notifier(msrs);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_user_return_msr_update_cache);
> +
>   static void drop_user_return_notifiers(void)
>   {
>   	struct kvm_user_return_msrs *msrs = this_cpu_ptr(user_return_msrs);