From: "Shukla, Santosh" <santosh.shukla@amd.com>
To: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>,
"Shukla, Santosh" <santosh.shukla@amd.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mlevitsk@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 5/8] KVM: SVM: Add VNMI support in inject_nmi
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:56:55 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1412227-151c-dc2a-1592-3eb71eb9f24f@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d30192e4-9e12-f770-e944-e3c38b9514b8@maciej.szmigiero.name>
On 8/26/2022 5:50 PM, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> On 26.08.2022 11:35, Shukla, Santosh wrote:
>> On 8/25/2022 7:46 PM, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>>> On 25.08.2022 16:05, Shukla, Santosh wrote:
>>>> On 8/25/2022 6:15 PM, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>>>>> On 25.08.2022 12:56, Shukla, Santosh wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/24/2022 6:26 PM, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>>>>>>> On 24.08.2022 14:13, Shukla, Santosh wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Maciej,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 8/11/2022 2:54 AM, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 10.08.2022 08:12, Santosh Shukla wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Inject the NMI by setting V_NMI in the VMCB interrupt control. processor
>>>>>>>>>> will clear V_NMI to acknowledge processing has started and will keep the
>>>>>>>>>> V_NMI_MASK set until the processor is done with processing the NMI event.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@amd.com>
>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>> v3:
>>>>>>>>>> - Removed WARN_ON check.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> v2:
>>>>>>>>>> - Added WARN_ON check for vnmi pending.
>>>>>>>>>> - use `get_vnmi_vmcb` to get correct vmcb so to inject vnmi.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 7 +++++++
>>>>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
>>>>>>>>>> index e260e8cb0c81..8c4098b8a63e 100644
>>>>>>>>>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
>>>>>>>>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
>>>>>>>>>> @@ -3479,7 +3479,14 @@ static void pre_svm_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>>>>>>>>> static void svm_inject_nmi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>>> struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
>>>>>>>>>> + struct vmcb *vmcb = NULL;
>>>>>>>>>> + if (is_vnmi_enabled(svm)) {
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I guess this should be "is_vnmi_enabled(svm) && !svm->nmi_l1_to_l2"
>>>>>>>>> since if nmi_l1_to_l2 is true then the NMI to be injected originally
>>>>>>>>> comes from L1's VMCB12 EVENTINJ field.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Not sure if I understood the case fully.. so trying to sketch scenario here -
>>>>>>>> if nmi_l1_to_l2 is true then event is coming from EVTINJ. .which could
>>>>>>>> be one of following case -
>>>>>>>> 1) L0 (vnmi enabled) and L1 (vnmi disabled)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As far as I can see in this case:
>>>>>>> is_vnmi_enabled() returns whether VMCB02's int_ctl has V_NMI_ENABLE bit set.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For L1 with vnmi disabled case - is_vnmi_enabled()->get_vnmi_vmcb() will return false so the
>>>>>> execution path will opt EVTINJ model for re-injection.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess by "get_vnmi_vmcb() will return false" you mean it will return NULL,
>>>>> since this function returns a pointer, not a bool.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I meant is_vnmi_enabled() will return false if vnmi param is unset.
>>>>
>>>>> I can't see however, how this will happen:
>>>>>> static inline struct vmcb *get_vnmi_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>>>>>> {
>>>>>> if (!vnmi)
>>>>>> return NULL;
>>>>> ^ "vnmi" variable controls whether L0 uses vNMI,
>>>>> so this variable is true in our case
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No.
>>>>
>>>> In L1 case (vnmi disabled) - vnmi param will be false.
>>>
>>> Perhaps there was a misunderstanding here - the case here
>>> isn't the code under discussion running as L1, but as L0
>>> where L1 not using vNMI - L1 here can be an old version of KVM,
>>> or Hyper-V, or any other hypervisor.
>>>
>>
>> Ok.
>>
>>> In this case L0 is re-injecting an EVENTINJ NMI into L2 on
>>> the behalf of L1.
>>> That's when "nmi_l1_to_l2" is true.
>> hmm,. trying to understand the event re-injection flow -
>> First L1 (non-vnmi) injecting event to L2 guest, in-turn
>> intercepted by L0,
>
> That's right, the L1's VMRUN of L2 gets intercepted by L0.
>
>> L0 sees event injection through EVTINJ
>
> It sees that L1 wants to inject an NMI into L2 via VMCB12 EVTINJ.
>
>> so sets the 'nmi_l1_to_l2' var
>
> That's right, L0 needs to keep track of this fact.
>
>> and then L0 calls svm_inject_nmi()
>
> Not yet - at this point svm_inject_nmi() is NOT called
> (rather than, VMCB12 EVTINJ is directly copied into VMCB02 EVTINJ).
>
> Now L0 does the actual VMRUN of L2.
>
> Let's say that there is an intervening VMExit during delivery of
> that NMI to L2, of type which is handled by L0 (perhaps a NPF on
> L2 IDT or so).
>
> In this case the NMI will be returned in VMCB02 EXITINTINFO and
> needs to be re-injected into L2 on the next VMRUN,
> again via EVTINJ.
>
> That's when svm_inject_nmi() will get called to re-inject
> that NMI.
>
>> to re-inject event in L2 - is that correct (nmi_l1_to_l2) flow?
> Hope the flow is clear now.
>
Yes, Thank-you for the clarification :).
Santosh.
>>
>> Thanks,.
>> Santosh
>
> Thanks,
> Maciej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-26 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-10 6:12 [PATCHv3 0/8] Virtual NMI feature Santosh Shukla
2022-08-10 6:12 ` [PATCHv3 1/8] x86/cpu: Add CPUID feature bit for VNMI Santosh Shukla
2022-08-10 6:12 ` [PATCHv3 2/8] KVM: SVM: Add VNMI bit definition Santosh Shukla
2022-08-10 6:12 ` [PATCHv3 3/8] KVM: SVM: Add VNMI support in get/set_nmi_mask Santosh Shukla
2022-08-10 6:12 ` [PATCHv3 4/8] KVM: SVM: Report NMI not allowed when Guest busy handling VNMI Santosh Shukla
2022-08-10 6:12 ` [PATCHv3 5/8] KVM: SVM: Add VNMI support in inject_nmi Santosh Shukla
2022-08-10 21:24 ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2022-08-24 12:13 ` Shukla, Santosh
2022-08-24 12:56 ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2022-08-25 10:56 ` Shukla, Santosh
2022-08-25 12:45 ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2022-08-25 14:05 ` Shukla, Santosh
2022-08-25 14:16 ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2022-08-26 9:35 ` Shukla, Santosh
2022-08-26 12:20 ` Maciej S. Szmigiero
2022-08-26 16:26 ` Shukla, Santosh [this message]
2022-08-10 6:12 ` [PATCHv3 6/8] KVM: nSVM: implement nested VNMI Santosh Shukla
2022-08-10 6:12 ` [PATCHv3 7/8] KVM: nSVM: emulate VMEXIT_INVALID case for " Santosh Shukla
2022-08-10 6:12 ` [PATCHv3 8/8] KVM: SVM: Enable VNMI feature Santosh Shukla
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