From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
To: Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>,
kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/7] KVM: VMX: Expose IA32_PKRS MSR
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 11:23:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALMp9eSAkzGPp4zPVakypR1McSJtJ1x4j1zAAj1sM1bHxd01zg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <268b0ee4-e56f-981c-c03e-6dca8a4e99da@intel.com>
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:28 AM Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 8/14/2020 1:31 AM, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:42 PM Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 8/13/2020 5:21 AM, Jim Mattson wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 1:46 AM Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Protection Keys for Supervisor Pages (PKS) uses IA32_PKRS MSR (PKRS) at
> >>>> index 0x6E1 to allow software to manage supervisor protection key
> >>>> rights. For performance consideration, PKRS intercept will be disabled
> >>>> so that the guest can access the PKRS without VM exits.
> >>>> PKS introduces dedicated control fields in VMCS to switch PKRS, which
> >>>> only does the retore part. In addition, every VM exit saves PKRS into
> >>>> the guest-state area in VMCS, while VM enter won't save the host value
> >>>> due to the expectation that the host won't change the MSR often. Update
> >>>> the host's value in VMCS manually if the MSR has been changed by the
> >>>> kernel since the last time the VMCS was run.
> >>>> The function get_current_pkrs() in arch/x86/mm/pkeys.c exports the
> >>>> per-cpu variable pkrs_cache to avoid frequent rdmsr of PKRS.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>
> >>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> >>>> index 11e4df560018..df2c2e733549 100644
> >>>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> >>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> >>>> @@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ static void vmx_sync_vmcs_host_state(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx,
> >>>> dest->ds_sel = src->ds_sel;
> >>>> dest->es_sel = src->es_sel;
> >>>> #endif
> >>>> + dest->pkrs = src->pkrs;
> >>>
> >>> Why isn't this (and other PKRS code) inside the #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64?
> >>> PKRS isn't usable outside of long mode, is it?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yes, I'm also thinking about whether to put all pks code into
> >> CONFIG_X86_64. The kernel implementation also wrap its pks code inside
> >> CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SUPERVISOR_PKEYS which has dependency with CONFIG_X86_64.
> >> However, maybe this can help when host kernel disable PKS but the guest
> >> enable it. What do you think about this?
> >
> > I see no problem in exposing PKRS to the guest even if the host
> > doesn't have CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SUPERVISOR_PKEYS.
> >
>
> Yes, but I would prefer to keep it outside CONFIG_X86_64. PKS code has
> several code blocks and putting them under x86_64 may end up being a
> mess. In addition, PKU KVM related code isn't under CONFIG_X86_64 as
> well. So, is it really necessary to put inside?
I'll let someone who actually cares about the i386 build answer that question.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-18 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-07 8:48 [RFC 0/7] KVM: PKS Virtualization support Chenyi Qiang
2020-08-07 8:48 ` [RFC 1/7] KVM: VMX: Introduce PKS VMCS fields Chenyi Qiang
2020-08-10 23:17 ` Jim Mattson
2020-08-07 8:48 ` [RFC 2/7] KVM: VMX: Expose IA32_PKRS MSR Chenyi Qiang
2020-08-12 21:21 ` Jim Mattson
2020-08-13 5:42 ` Chenyi Qiang
2020-08-13 17:31 ` Jim Mattson
2020-08-18 7:27 ` Chenyi Qiang
2020-08-18 18:23 ` Jim Mattson [this message]
2020-08-22 3:28 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-26 18:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-27 7:55 ` Chenyi Qiang
2021-02-01 9:53 ` Chenyi Qiang
2021-02-01 10:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-07 8:48 ` [RFC 3/7] KVM: MMU: Rename the pkru to pkr Chenyi Qiang
2021-01-26 18:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-07 8:48 ` [RFC 4/7] KVM: MMU: Refactor pkr_mask to cache condition Chenyi Qiang
2021-01-26 18:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-27 3:14 ` Chenyi Qiang
2020-08-07 8:48 ` [RFC 5/7] KVM: MMU: Add support for PKS emulation Chenyi Qiang
2021-01-26 18:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-27 3:00 ` Chenyi Qiang
2021-01-27 8:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-07 8:48 ` [RFC 6/7] KVM: X86: Expose PKS to guest and userspace Chenyi Qiang
2020-08-13 19:04 ` Jim Mattson
2020-08-14 2:33 ` Chenyi Qiang
2020-09-30 4:36 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-26 18:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-26 19:56 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-26 20:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-07 8:48 ` [RFC 7/7] KVM: VMX: Enable PKS for nested VM Chenyi Qiang
2020-08-11 0:05 ` Jim Mattson
2020-08-12 15:00 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-08-12 18:32 ` Jim Mattson
2020-08-13 4:52 ` Chenyi Qiang
2020-08-13 17:52 ` Jim Mattson
2020-08-14 10:07 ` Chenyi Qiang
2020-08-14 17:34 ` Jim Mattson
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