Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/kvm/hyper-v: fix enlightened VMCS & QEMU4.2

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Feb 05 2020 - 09:55:44 EST


On 05/02/20 13:30, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> With fine grained VMX feature enablement QEMU>=4.2 tries to do KVM_SET_MSRS
> with default (matching CPU model) values and in case eVMCS is also enabled,
> fails. While the regression is in QEMU, it may still be preferable to
> fix this in KVM.
>
> It would be great if we could just omit the VMX feature filtering in KVM
> and make this guest's responsibility: if it switches to using enlightened
> vmcs it should be aware that not all hardware features are going to be
> supported. Genuine Hyper-V, however, fails the test. It, for example,
> enables SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES and without
> 'apic_access_addr' field in eVMCS there's not much we can do in KVM.
> Microsoft confirms the bug but it is unclear if it will ever get fixed
> in the existing Hyper-V versions as genuine Hyper-V never exposes
> these unsupported controls to L1.
>
> Changes since 'RFC':
> - Go with the bare minimum [Paolo]
>
> KVM RFC:
> https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20200115171014.56405-1-vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> QEMU RFC@:
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-01/msg00123.html
>
> Vitaly Kuznetsov (3):
> x86/kvm/hyper-v: remove stale evmcs_already_enabled check from
> nested_enable_evmcs()
> x86/kvm/hyper-v: move VMX controls sanitization out of
> nested_enable_evmcs()
> x86/kvm/hyper-v: don't allow to turn on unsupported VMX controls for
> nested guests
>
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/evmcs.c | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/evmcs.h | 3 ++
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 3 ++
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 16 ++++++-
> 4 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>

Queued, thanks.

Paolo