Re: [PATCH v3 17/25] KVM: VMX: Add missing VMEXIT controls to vmcs_config
From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Tue Jul 12 2022 - 07:57:50 EST
On Fri, 2022-07-08 at 16:42 +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> As a preparation to reusing the result of setup_vmcs_config() in
> nested VMX MSR setup, add the VMEXIT controls which KVM doesn't
> use but supports for nVMX to KVM_OPT_VMX_VM_EXIT_CONTROLS and
> filter them out in vmx_vmexit_ctrl().
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 4 ++++
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> index d7170990f469..2fb89bdcbbd8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> @@ -4196,6 +4196,10 @@ static u32 vmx_vmexit_ctrl(void)
> {
> u32 vmexit_ctrl = vmcs_config.vmexit_ctrl;
>
> + /* Not used by KVM but supported for nesting. */
> + vmexit_ctrl &= ~(VM_EXIT_SAVE_IA32_PAT | VM_EXIT_SAVE_IA32_EFER |
> + VM_EXIT_SAVE_VMX_PREEMPTION_TIMER);
> +
> if (vmx_pt_mode_is_system())
> vmexit_ctrl &= ~(VM_EXIT_PT_CONCEAL_PIP |
> VM_EXIT_CLEAR_IA32_RTIT_CTL);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
> index 89eaab3495a6..e9c392398f1b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
> @@ -498,8 +498,11 @@ static inline u8 vmx_get_rvi(void)
> #endif
> #define KVM_OPT_VMX_VM_EXIT_CONTROLS \
> (VM_EXIT_LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL | \
> + VM_EXIT_SAVE_IA32_PAT | \
> VM_EXIT_LOAD_IA32_PAT | \
> + VM_EXIT_SAVE_IA32_EFER | \
> VM_EXIT_LOAD_IA32_EFER | \
> + VM_EXIT_SAVE_VMX_PREEMPTION_TIMER | \
> VM_EXIT_CLEAR_BNDCFGS | \
> VM_EXIT_PT_CONCEAL_PIP | \
> VM_EXIT_CLEAR_IA32_RTIT_CTL)
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky