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From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list),
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org (open list:DOCUMENTATION),
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	x86@kernel.org (maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)),
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/8] KVM: nVMX: Drop obsolete (and pointless) pdptrs_changed() check
Date: Mon,  7 Jun 2021 12:01:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210607090203.133058-2-mlevitsk@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210607090203.133058-1-mlevitsk@redhat.com>

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

Remove the pdptrs_changed() check when loading L2's CR3.  The set of
available registers is always reset when switching VMCSes (see commit
e5d03de5937e, "KVM: nVMX: Reset register cache (available and dirty
masks) on VMCS switch"), thus the "are PDPTRs available" check will
always fail.  And even if it didn't fail, reading guest memory to check
the PDPTRs is just as expensive as reading guest memory to load 'em.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 6058a65a6ede..c45189898a64 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -1118,11 +1118,9 @@ static int nested_vmx_load_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr3, bool ne
 	 * must not be dereferenced.
 	 */
 	if (!nested_ept && is_pae_paging(vcpu) &&
-	    (cr3 != kvm_read_cr3(vcpu) || pdptrs_changed(vcpu))) {
-		if (CC(!load_pdptrs(vcpu, vcpu->arch.walk_mmu, cr3))) {
-			*entry_failure_code = ENTRY_FAIL_PDPTE;
-			return -EINVAL;
-		}
+	    CC(!load_pdptrs(vcpu, vcpu->arch.walk_mmu, cr3))) {
+		*entry_failure_code = ENTRY_FAIL_PDPTE;
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	/*
-- 
2.26.3


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-07  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-07  9:01 [PATCH v3 0/8] Introduce KVM_{GET|SET}_SREGS2 and fix PDPTR migration Maxim Levitsky
2021-06-07  9:01 ` Maxim Levitsky [this message]
2021-06-07  9:01 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] KVM: nSVM: Drop pointless pdptrs_changed() check on nested transition Maxim Levitsky
2021-06-07  9:01 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] KVM: x86: Always load PDPTRs on CR3 load for SVM w/o NPT and a PAE guest Maxim Levitsky
2021-06-07  9:01 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] KVM: nSVM: refactor the CR3 reload on migration Maxim Levitsky
2021-06-07  9:02 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] KVM: nVMX: delay loading of PDPTRs to KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES Maxim Levitsky
2021-06-07  9:02 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] KVM: x86: introduce kvm_register_clear_available Maxim Levitsky
2021-06-07  9:02 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_GET_SREGS2 / KVM_SET_SREGS2 Maxim Levitsky
2021-06-10 15:06   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-07  9:02 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] KVM: x86: avoid loading PDPTRs after migration when possible Maxim Levitsky
2021-06-18 20:53   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-06-19  7:03     ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-20 22:25     ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-06-10 15:06 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] Introduce KVM_{GET|SET}_SREGS2 and fix PDPTR migration Paolo Bonzini

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