From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>, Wei Huang <wei.huang2@amd.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
vkuznets@redhat.com, wanpengli@tencent.com, jmattson@google.com,
joro@8bytes.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
bp@alien8.de, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] KVM: x86: Handle the case of 5-level shadow page table
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:36:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a73558eb-01d0-31e3-d066-8da1c05495d4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YR1AHVwUM8AS5JvQ@google.com>
On 18/08/21 19:15, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>> When the 5-level page table CPU flag is exposed, KVM code needs to handle
>> this case by pointing mmu->root_hpa to a properly-constructed 5-level page
>> table.
> Similarly, this is wrong, or maybe just poorly worded. This has nothing to do
> with LA57 being exposed to the guest, it's purely the host using 5-level paging
> and NPT being enabled and exposed to L1.
Like this:
---
KVM: x86/mmu: Support shadowing NPT when 5-level paging is enabled in host
When the 5-level page table CPU flag is set in the host, but the guest
has CR4.LA57=0 (including the case of a 32-bit guest), the top level of
the shadow NPT page tables will be fixed, consisting of one pointer to
a lower-level table and 511 non-present entries. Extend the existing
code that creates the fixed PML4 or PDP table, to provide a fixed PML5
table if needed.
This is not needed on EPT because the number of layers in the tables
is specified in the EPTP instead of depending on the host CR4.
---
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-19 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-18 16:55 [PATCH v3 0/3] SVM 5-level page table support Wei Huang
2021-08-18 16:55 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] KVM: x86: Allow CPU to force vendor-specific TDP level Wei Huang
2021-08-18 16:55 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] KVM: x86: Handle the case of 5-level shadow page table Wei Huang
2021-08-18 17:15 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-08-19 16:36 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2021-08-18 18:00 ` Tom Lendacky
2021-08-18 16:55 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] KVM: SVM: Add 5-level page table support for SVM Wei Huang
2021-08-18 17:32 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-08-19 16:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-08-19 16:43 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] SVM 5-level page table support Paolo Bonzini
2021-08-23 9:20 ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-08-23 15:15 ` Wei Huang
2021-08-23 16:10 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-08-23 18:10 ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-08-23 18:06 ` Maxim Levitsky
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