From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>,
Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: x86/mmu: Fully re-evaluate MMIO caching when SPTE masks change
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 21:08:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YwaTX88JZUKPwyqX@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bab3cc28-4473-d446-bb6d-bca6939adb63@redhat.com>
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 8/19/22 18:21, David Matlack wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 3:50 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Fully re-evaluate whether or not MMIO caching can be enabled when SPTE
> > > masks change; simply clearing enable_mmio_caching when a configuration
> > > isn't compatible with caching fails to handle the scenario where the
> > > masks are updated, e.g. by VMX for EPT or by SVM to account for the C-bit
> > > location, and toggle compatibility from false=>true.
> > >
> > > Snapshot the original module param so that re-evaluating MMIO caching
> > > preserves userspace's desire to allow caching. Use a snapshot approach
> > > so that enable_mmio_caching still reflects KVM's actual behavior.
> >
> > Is updating module parameters to reflect the actual behavior (vs.
> > userspace desire) something we should do for all module parameters?
> >
> > I am doing an unrelated refactor to the tdp_mmu module parameter and
> > noticed it is not updated e.g. if userspace loads kvm_intel with
> > ept=N.
>
> If it is cheap/easy then yeah, updating the parameters is the right thing to
> do. Generally, however, this is only done for kvm_intel/kvm_amd modules
> that depend on hardware features, because they are more important for
> debugging user issues. (Or at least they were until vmx features were added
> to /proc/cpuinfo).
IMO, unless it's _really_ hard, KVM should keep the parameters up-to-date with
reality, e.g. so that userspace can assert that a feature is fully enabled, either
for testing purposes (unrestricted guest?) or to prevent running with a "bad" config.
We've had at least one internal OMG-level bug where KVM effectively ran with the
wrong MMU configuration, and IIRC one of the actions taken in response to that was
to assert on KVM's parameters post-load.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-24 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-03 22:49 [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: x86/mmu: MMIO caching bug fixes Sean Christopherson
2022-08-03 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: x86: Tag kvm_mmu_x86_module_init() with __init Sean Christopherson
2022-08-03 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: x86/mmu: Fully re-evaluate MMIO caching when SPTE masks change Sean Christopherson
2022-08-03 22:59 ` Kai Huang
2022-08-04 0:16 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-08-19 16:21 ` David Matlack
2022-08-19 17:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-08-24 21:08 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2022-08-03 22:49 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: SVM: Disable SEV-ES support if MMIO caching is disable Sean Christopherson
2022-08-05 11:17 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: x86/mmu: MMIO caching bug fixes Paolo Bonzini
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