Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 7/8] x86/HVM: don't needlessly intercept APERF/MPERF/TSC MSR reads

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>]

On 19.01.2020 03:44, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 12:39 AM
>>
>> If the hardware can handle accesses, we should allow it to do so. This
>> way we can expose EFRO to HVM guests, and "all" that's left for exposing
>> APERF/MPERF is to figure out how to handle writes to these MSRs. (Note
>> that the leaf 6 guest CPUID checks will evaluate to false for now, as
>> recalculate_misc() zaps the entire leaf for now.)
>>
>> For TSC the intercepts are made mirror the RDTSC ones.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>

Thanks. I assume you've seen Andrew's comment, and hence I take it
that the R-b also applies to the adjusted version (not posted yet):

--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmcs.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmcs.c
@@ -1140,8 +1140,13 @@ static int construct_vmcs(struct vcpu *v
         vmx_clear_msr_intercept(v, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS, VMX_MSR_RW);
         vmx_clear_msr_intercept(v, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, VMX_MSR_RW);
         vmx_clear_msr_intercept(v, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP, VMX_MSR_RW);
+
+        if ( !(v->arch.hvm.vmx.exec_control & CPU_BASED_RDTSC_EXITING) )
+            vmx_clear_msr_intercept(v, MSR_IA32_TSC, VMX_MSR_R);
+
         if ( paging_mode_hap(d) && (!is_iommu_enabled(d) || iommu_snoop) )
             vmx_clear_msr_intercept(v, MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, VMX_MSR_RW);
+
         if ( (vmexit_ctl & VM_EXIT_CLEAR_BNDCFGS) &&
              (vmentry_ctl & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_BNDCFGS) )
             vmx_clear_msr_intercept(v, MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS, VMX_MSR_RW);

plus this extra vmx.c hunk:

@@ -1249,7 +1261,12 @@ static void vmx_set_rdtsc_exiting(struct
     vmx_vmcs_enter(v);
     v->arch.hvm.vmx.exec_control &= ~CPU_BASED_RDTSC_EXITING;
     if ( enable )
+    {
         v->arch.hvm.vmx.exec_control |= CPU_BASED_RDTSC_EXITING;
+        vmx_set_msr_intercept(v, MSR_IA32_TSC, VMX_MSR_R);
+    }
+    else
+        vmx_clear_msr_intercept(v, MSR_IA32_TSC, VMX_MSR_R);
     vmx_update_cpu_exec_control(v);
     vmx_vmcs_exit(v);
 }

Jan

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