Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: nested TPR shadow/threshold emulation

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Jul 30 2014 - 11:21:14 EST


Il 30/07/2014 14:04, Wanpeng Li ha scritto:
> @@ -7962,14 +7965,14 @@ static void prepare_vmcs02(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vmcs12 *vmcs12)
> if (!vmx->rdtscp_enabled)
> exec_control &= ~SECONDARY_EXEC_RDTSCP;
> /* Take the following fields only from vmcs12 */
> - exec_control &= ~(SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES |
> - SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUAL_INTR_DELIVERY |
> + exec_control &= ~(SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUAL_INTR_DELIVERY |
> SECONDARY_EXEC_APIC_REGISTER_VIRT);

This change is wrong. You don't have to take L0's "virtualize APIC
accesses" setting into account, because while running L2 you cannot
modify L1's CR8 (only the virtual nested one).

> +
> + virtual_apic_page = nested_get_page(vcpu,
> + vmcs12->virtual_apic_page_addr);
> + if (vmcs_read64(VIRTUAL_APIC_PAGE_ADDR) !=
> + page_to_phys(virtual_apic_page))
> + vmcs_write64(VIRTUAL_APIC_PAGE_ADDR,
> + page_to_phys(virtual_apic_page));
> + nested_release_page(virtual_apic_page);
> +

You cannot release this page here. You need to the exactly the same
thing that is done for apic_access_page.

One thing:

> + if (nested_cpu_has(vmcs12, CPU_BASED_TPR_SHADOW))
> + vmcs_write32(TPR_THRESHOLD, vmcs12->tpr_threshold);

I think you can just do this write unconditionally, since most
hypervisors will enable this. Also, you probably can add the tpr
threshold field to the read-write fields for shadow VMCS.

Paolo
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