From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
"maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)"
<x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] KVM: nSVM: ondemand nested state allocation
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:36:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <521dd8fe55650eac720891e90084a7f7620c7f0f.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200922211025.175547-1-mlevitsk@redhat.com>
On Wed, 2020-09-23 at 00:10 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> This is the next version of this patch series.
>
> In V5 I adopted Sean Christopherson's suggestion to make .set_efer return
> a negative error (-ENOMEM in this case) which in most cases in kvm
> propagates to the userspace.
>
> I noticed though that wrmsr emulation code doesn't do this and instead
> it injects #GP to the guest on _any_ error.
>
> So I fixed the wrmsr code to behave in a similar way to the rest
> of the kvm code.
> (#GP only on a positive error value, and forward the negative error to
> the userspace)
>
> I had to adjust one wrmsr handler (xen_hvm_config) to stop it from returning
> negative values so that new WRMSR emulation behavior doesn't break it.
> This patch was only compile tested.
>
> The memory allocation failure was tested by always returning -ENOMEM
> from svm_allocate_nested.
>
> The nested allocation itself was tested by countless attempts to run
> nested guests, do nested migration on both my AMD and Intel machines.
> I wasn't able to break it.
>
> Changes from V5: addressed Sean Christopherson's review feedback.
>
> Best regards,
> Maxim Levitsky
>
> Maxim Levitsky (4):
> KVM: x86: xen_hvm_config: cleanup return values
> KVM: x86: report negative values from wrmsr emulation to userspace
> KVM: x86: allow kvm_x86_ops.set_efer to return an error value
> KVM: nSVM: implement on demand allocation of the nested state
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 7 ++--
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 8 ++++-
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 6 ++--
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 37 ++++++++++++---------
> 7 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>
Very polite ping on this patch series.
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-30 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-22 21:10 [PATCH v6 0/4] KVM: nSVM: ondemand nested state allocation Maxim Levitsky
2020-09-22 21:10 ` [PATCH v6 1/4] KVM: x86: xen_hvm_config: cleanup return values Maxim Levitsky
2020-09-22 21:10 ` [PATCH v6 2/4] KVM: x86: report negative values from wrmsr emulation to userspace Maxim Levitsky
2020-10-26 19:40 ` Qian Cai
2020-10-27 20:31 ` Qian Cai
2020-10-28 8:51 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-09-22 21:10 ` [PATCH v6 3/4] KVM: x86: allow kvm_x86_ops.set_efer to return an error value Maxim Levitsky
2020-09-29 5:12 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-22 21:10 ` [PATCH v6 4/4] KVM: nSVM: implement on demand allocation of the nested state Maxim Levitsky
2020-09-29 5:15 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30 15:35 ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-10-01 0:26 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30 15:36 ` Maxim Levitsky [this message]
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