From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 25/30] KVM: nSVM: leave guest mode when clearing EFER.SVME
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 09:28:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9319ccf9-c318-40e8-7d56-df0e32617430@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da854e9e-b305-b938-68f6-995bcc80ffd1@oracle.com>
On 01/06/20 04:26, Krish Sadhukhan wrote:
> On 5/29/20 8:39 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> According to the AMD manual, the effect of turning off EFER.SVME while a
>> guest is running is undefined. We make it leave guest mode immediately,
>> similar to the effect of clearing the VMX bit in MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL.
>
> I see that svm_set_efer() is called in enter_svm_guest_mode() and
> nested_svm_vmexit(). In the VMRUN path, we have already checked
> EFER.SVME in nested_vmcb_checks(). So if it was not set, we wouldn't
> come to enter_svm_guest_mode(). Your fix is only for the #VMEXIT path
> then ?
No, it's for KVM_SET_MSR.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-01 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-29 15:39 [PATCH v3 00/28] KVM: nSVM: event fixes and migration support Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 01/30] KVM: x86: track manually whether an event has been injected Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 02/30] KVM: x86: enable event window in inject_pending_event Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 03/30] KVM: nSVM: inject exceptions via svm_check_nested_events Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 04/30] KVM: nSVM: remove exit_required Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 05/30] KVM: nSVM: correctly inject INIT vmexits Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 06/30] KVM: SVM: always update CR3 in VMCB Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 17:41 ` Krish Sadhukhan
2020-05-29 17:56 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 07/30] KVM: nVMX: always update CR3 in VMCS Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 08/30] KVM: nSVM: move map argument out of enter_svm_guest_mode Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 18:10 ` Krish Sadhukhan
2020-05-29 19:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 20:02 ` Krish Sadhukhan
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 09/30] KVM: nSVM: extract load_nested_vmcb_control Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 10/30] KVM: nSVM: extract preparation of VMCB for nested run Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 18:27 ` Krish Sadhukhan
2020-05-29 19:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 11/30] KVM: nSVM: move MMU setup to nested_prepare_vmcb_control Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 12/30] KVM: nSVM: clean up tsc_offset update Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 13/30] KVM: nSVM: pass vmcb_control_area to copy_vmcb_control_area Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 14/30] KVM: nSVM: remove trailing padding for struct vmcb_control_area Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 15/30] KVM: nSVM: save all control fields in svm->nested Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 16/30] KVM: nSVM: restore clobbered INT_CTL fields after clearing VINTR Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 17/30] KVM: nSVM: synchronize VMCB controls updated by the processor on every vmexit Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-30 2:06 ` Krish Sadhukhan
2020-05-30 5:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 18/30] KVM: nSVM: remove unnecessary if Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 19/30] KVM: nSVM: extract svm_set_gif Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-05 20:33 ` Qian Cai
2020-06-08 11:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 20/30] KVM: SVM: preserve VGIF across VMCB switch Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-31 23:11 ` Krish Sadhukhan
2020-06-01 7:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 21/30] KVM: nSVM: synthesize correct EXITINTINFO on vmexit Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 22/30] KVM: nSVM: remove HF_VINTR_MASK Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 23/30] KVM: nSVM: remove HF_HIF_MASK Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 24/30] KVM: nSVM: split nested_vmcb_check_controls Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 25/30] KVM: nSVM: leave guest mode when clearing EFER.SVME Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-01 2:26 ` Krish Sadhukhan
2020-06-01 7:28 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 26/30] KVM: MMU: pass arbitrary CR0/CR4/EFER to kvm_init_shadow_mmu Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 27/30] selftests: kvm: introduce cpu_has_svm() check Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 28/30] selftests: kvm: add a SVM version of state-test Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 29/30] selftests: kvm: fix smm test on SVM Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 15:39 ` [PATCH 30/30] KVM: nSVM: implement KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE and KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-02 0:11 ` Krish Sadhukhan
2020-06-04 14:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-29 17:59 ` [PATCH v3 00/28] KVM: nSVM: event fixes and migration support Sean Christopherson
2020-05-29 19:07 ` Paolo Bonzini
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