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Message-ID: <5f714d7fb68aef92f1bea58a10deb4de1a10a5b8.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:11:47 -0400
From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@...ux.dev>, Sean Christopherson
<seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>, x86@...nel.org,
kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 23/24] KVM: nSVM: Allocate a new ASID for nested
guests
On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 19:44 +0000, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> Now that nested TLB flushes are properly tracked, start allocating a
> separate ASID for nested guests. This allows dropping the unconditional
> TLB flushes on nested transitions and doing finer grained TLB flushing
> when necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@...ux.dev>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 11 +++++++++--
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 5 +++--
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> index 544913461693c..0c887c91bd50d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> @@ -1204,6 +1204,7 @@ int svm_allocate_nested(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> {
> struct kvm_svm *kvm_svm = to_kvm_svm(svm->vcpu.kvm);
> struct page *vmcb02_page;
> + unsigned int asid;
>
> if (svm->nested.initialized)
> return 0;
> @@ -1221,8 +1222,14 @@ int svm_allocate_nested(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>
> svm->nested.initialized = true;
>
> - if (!kvm_svm->nested_asid)
> - kvm_svm->nested_asid = kvm_svm->asid;
> + if (!kvm_svm->nested_asid) {
> + asid = kvm_tlb_tags_alloc(&svm_asids);
> + if (asid && !svm_register_asid(asid)) {
> + kvm_tlb_tags_free(&svm_asids, asid);
> + asid = 0;
> + }
> + kvm_svm->nested_asid = asid ?: fallback_asid;
> + }
Nitpick: AFAIK at least nested KVM doesn't enable EFER.SVME,
unless it actually runs a guest thus most of the time we will waste a ASID on a VM
which once did run a VM nested and since then doesn't run anything else.
So maybe we want to free the nested ASID in the svm_free_nested?
>
> return 0;
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> index 4b95fd6b501e6..196f5bca57a0e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> @@ -249,8 +249,8 @@ static unsigned long iopm_base;
>
> DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct svm_cpu_data, svm_data);
>
> -static struct kvm_tlb_tags svm_asids;
> -static unsigned int fallback_asid;
> +struct kvm_tlb_tags svm_asids;
> +unsigned int fallback_asid;
>
> /*
> * Only MSR_TSC_AUX is switched via the user return hook. EFER is switched via
> @@ -5127,6 +5127,7 @@ static void svm_vm_destroy(struct kvm *kvm)
> avic_vm_destroy(kvm);
> sev_vm_destroy(kvm);
> kvm_tlb_tags_free(&svm_asids, kvm_svm->asid);
> + kvm_tlb_tags_free(&svm_asids, kvm_svm->nested_asid);
> }
>
> static int svm_vm_init(struct kvm *kvm)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
> index 0c44133bc05ca..220d10d2b1a5c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
> @@ -630,6 +630,9 @@ static inline void svm_vmgexit_no_action(struct vcpu_svm *svm, u64 data)
>
> extern bool dump_invalid_vmcb;
>
> +extern struct kvm_tlb_tags svm_asids;
> +extern unsigned int fallback_asid;
> +
> u32 svm_msrpm_offset(u32 msr);
> u32 *svm_vcpu_alloc_msrpm(void);
> void svm_vcpu_init_msrpm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 *msrpm);
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
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