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| author | Thomas Prescher <thomas.prescher@cyberus-technology.de> | 2024-05-08 15:25:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> | 2024-06-11 09:24:31 -0700 |
| commit | 85542adb65ecd7cc0e442e8befef74f2ed07f5f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f270cf7ff144d486bcee57272efd1e2085ab922 /Documentation/virt | |
| parent | 508f0c7bf6d55ebf988f8e59a998f6eeb2c0272b (diff) | |
KVM: x86: Add KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE kvm_run flag
When a vCPU is interrupted by a signal while running a nested guest,
KVM will exit to userspace with L2 state. However, userspace has no
way to know whether it sees L1 or L2 state (besides calling
KVM_GET_STATS_FD, which does not have a stable ABI).
This causes multiple problems:
The simplest one is L2 state corruption when userspace marks the sregs
as dirty. See this mailing list thread [1] for a complete discussion.
Another problem is that if userspace decides to continue by emulating
instructions, it will unknowingly emulate with L2 state as if L1
doesn't exist, which can be considered a weird guest escape.
Introduce a new flag, KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE, in the kvm_run data
structure, which is set when the vCPU exited while running a nested
guest. Also introduce a new capability, KVM_CAP_X86_GUEST_MODE, to
advertise the functionality to userspace.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240416123558.212040-1-julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de/T/#m280aadcb2e10ae02c191a7dc4ed4b711a74b1f55
Signed-off-by: Thomas Prescher <thomas.prescher@cyberus-technology.de>
Signed-off-by: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508132502.184428-1-julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 67edb84317ef..42d1d9518bf2 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -6419,6 +6419,9 @@ affect the device's behavior. Current defined flags:: #define KVM_RUN_X86_SMM (1 << 0) /* x86, set if bus lock detected in VM */ #define KVM_RUN_X86_BUS_LOCK (1 << 1) + /* x86, set if the VCPU is executing a nested (L2) guest */ + #define KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE (1 << 2) + /* arm64, set for KVM_EXIT_DEBUG */ #define KVM_DEBUG_ARCH_HSR_HIGH_VALID (1 << 0) @@ -8089,6 +8092,20 @@ by KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION. Note: Userspace is responsible for correctly configuring CPUID 0x15, a.k.a. the core crystal clock frequency, if a non-zero CPUID 0x15 is exposed to the guest. +7.36 KVM_CAP_X86_GUEST_MODE +------------------------------ + +:Architectures: x86 +:Returns: Informational only, -EINVAL on direct KVM_ENABLE_CAP. + +The presence of this capability indicates that KVM_RUN will update the +KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE bit in kvm_run.flags to indicate whether the +vCPU was executing nested guest code when it exited. + +KVM exits with the register state of either the L1 or L2 guest +depending on which executed at the time of an exit. Userspace must +take care to differentiate between these cases. + 8. Other capabilities. ====================== |