From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: nVMX: vmcs.SYSENTER optimization and "fix"
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:10:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200428231025.12766-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> (raw)
Patch 1 is a "fix" for handling SYSENTER_EIP/ESP in L2 on a 32-bit vCPU.
The primary motivation is to provide consistent behavior after patch 2.
Patch 2 is essentially a re-submission of a nested VMX optimization to
avoid redundant VMREADs to the SYSENTER fields in the nested VM-Exit path.
After patch 2 and without patch 1, KVM would end up with weird behavior
where L1 and L2 would only see 32-bit values for their own SYSENTER_E*P
MSRs, but L1 could see a 64-bit value for L2's MSRs.
Sean Christopherson (2):
KVM: nVMX: Truncate writes to vmcs.SYSENTER_EIP/ESP for 32-bit vCPU
KVM: nVMX: Drop superfluous VMREAD of vmcs02.GUEST_SYSENTER_*
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 4 ----
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--
2.26.0
next reply other threads:[~2020-04-28 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-28 23:10 Sean Christopherson [this message]
2020-04-28 23:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: nVMX: Truncate writes to vmcs.SYSENTER_EIP/ESP for 32-bit vCPU Sean Christopherson
2020-04-28 23:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: nVMX: Drop superfluous VMREAD of vmcs02.GUEST_SYSENTER_* Sean Christopherson
2020-04-28 23:45 ` [PATCH 0/2] KVM: nVMX: vmcs.SYSENTER optimization and "fix" Jim Mattson
2020-04-29 15:10 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-04 17:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
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