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@ 2021-09-14 15:48 Maxim Levitsky
  2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 01/14] KVM: x86: nSVM: restore int_vector in svm_clear_vintr Maxim Levitsky
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From: Maxim Levitsky @ 2021-09-14 15:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm
  Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov, Paolo Bonzini, Borislav Petkov, Bandan Das,
	open list, Joerg Roedel, Ingo Molnar, Wei Huang,
	Sean Christopherson, open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK,
	Maxim Levitsky, H. Peter Anvin, Jim Mattson, Thomas Gleixner,
	maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT),
	Shuah Khan, Wanpeng Li

Those are few patches I was working on lately, all somewhat related
to the two CVEs that I found recently.

First 7 patches fix various minor bugs that relate to these CVEs.

The rest of the patches implement various optional SVM features,
some of which the guest could enable anyway due to incorrect
checking of virt_ext field.

Last patch is somewhat an RFC, I would like to hear your opinion
on that.

I also implemented nested TSC scaling while at it.

As for other optional SVM features here is my summary of few features
I took a look at:

X86_FEATURE_DECODEASSISTS:
   this feature should make it easier
   for the L1 to emulate an instruction on MMIO access, by not
   needing to read the guest memory but rather using the instruction
   bytes that the CPU already fetched.

   The challenge of implementing this is that we sometimes inject
   #PF and #NPT syntenically and in those cases we must be sure
   we set the correct instruction bytes.

   Also this feature adds assists for MOV CR/DR, INTn, and INVLPG,
   which aren't that interesting but must be supported as well to
   expose this feature to the nested guest.

X86_FEATURE_VGIF
   Might allow the L2 to run the L3 a bit faster, but due to crazy complex
   logic we already have around int_ctl and vgif probably not worth it.

X86_FEATURE_VMCBCLEAN
   Should just be enabled, because otherwise L1 doesn't even attempt
   to set the clean bits. But we need to know if we can take an
   advantage of these bits first.

X86_FEATURE_FLUSHBYASID
X86_FEATURE_AVIC
   These two features would be very good to enable, but that
   would require lots of work, and will be done eventually.

There are few more nested SVM features that I didn't yet had a
chance to take a look at.

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

Maxim Levitsky (14):
  KVM: x86: nSVM: restore int_vector in svm_clear_vintr
  KVM: x86: selftests: test simultaneous uses of V_IRQ from L1 and L0
  KVM: x86: nSVM: test eax for 4K alignment for GP errata workaround
  KVM: x86: nSVM: don't copy pause related settings
  KVM: x86: nSVM: don't copy virt_ext from vmcb12
  KVM: x86: SVM: don't set VMLOAD/VMSAVE intercepts on vCPU reset
  KVM: x86: SVM: add warning for CVE-2021-3656
  KVM: x86: SVM: add module param to control LBR virtualization
  KVM: x86: nSVM: correctly virtualize LBR msrs when L2 is running
  KVM: x86: nSVM: implement nested LBR virtualization
  KVM: x86: nSVM: implement nested VMLOAD/VMSAVE
  KVM: x86: SVM: add module param to control TSC scaling
  KVM: x86: nSVM: implement nested TSC scaling
  KVM: x86: nSVM: support PAUSE filter threshold and count

 arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c                     | 105 +++++++--
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c                        | 218 +++++++++++++++---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h                        |  20 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c                        |   1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                            |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/.gitignore        |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile          |   1 +
 .../selftests/kvm/x86_64/svm_int_ctl_test.c   | 128 ++++++++++
 8 files changed, 427 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/svm_int_ctl_test.c

-- 
2.26.3



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2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 01/14] KVM: x86: nSVM: restore int_vector in svm_clear_vintr Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-23 14:04   ` Paolo Bonzini
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2021-09-23 14:05   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 03/14] KVM: x86: nSVM: test eax for 4K alignment for GP errata workaround Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-23 14:05   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 04/14] KVM: x86: nSVM: don't copy pause related settings Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 05/14] KVM: x86: nSVM: don't copy virt_ext from vmcb12 Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-23 14:06   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 06/14] KVM: x86: SVM: don't set VMLOAD/VMSAVE intercepts on vCPU reset Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-23 16:40   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 07/14] KVM: x86: SVM: add warning for CVE-2021-3656 Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-23 16:44   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-12  0:21     ` Sean Christopherson
2021-10-11 17:30   ` Xiaoyao Li
2021-10-12  7:51     ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 08/14] KVM: x86: SVM: add module param to control LBR virtualization Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 09/14] KVM: x86: nSVM: correctly virtualize LBR msrs when L2 is running Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 10/14] KVM: x86: nSVM: implement nested LBR virtualization Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 11/14] KVM: x86: nSVM: implement nested VMLOAD/VMSAVE Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 12/14] KVM: x86: SVM: add module param to control TSC scaling Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 13/14] KVM: x86: nSVM: implement nested " Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-14 15:48 ` [PATCH 14/14] KVM: x86: nSVM: support PAUSE filter threshold and count Maxim Levitsky
2021-09-23 16:54 ` [PATCH 00/14] nSVM fixes and optional features Paolo Bonzini

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