Re: [PATCH v3 13/25] KVM: VMX: Check CPU_BASED_{INTR,NMI}_WINDOW_EXITING in setup_vmcs_config()

[Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 2022-07-08 at 16:42 +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> CPU_BASED_{INTR,NMI}_WINDOW_EXITING controls are toggled dynamically by
> vmx_enable_{irq,nmi}_window, handle_interrupt_window(), handle_nmi_window()
> but setup_vmcs_config() doesn't check their existence. Add the check and
> filter the controls out in vmx_exec_control().
> 
> Note: KVM explicitly supports CPUs without VIRTUAL_NMIS and all these CPUs
> are supposedly lacking NMI_WINDOW_EXITING too. Adjust cpu_has_virtual_nmis()
> accordingly.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h | 3 ++-
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          | 8 +++++++-
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
> index 069d8d298e1d..07e7492fe72a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
> @@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ static inline bool cpu_has_vmx_basic_inout(void)
>  
>  static inline bool cpu_has_virtual_nmis(void)
>  {
> -       return vmcs_config.pin_based_exec_ctrl & PIN_BASED_VIRTUAL_NMIS;
> +       return vmcs_config.pin_based_exec_ctrl & PIN_BASED_VIRTUAL_NMIS &&
> +               vmcs_config.cpu_based_exec_ctrl & CPU_BASED_NMI_WINDOW_EXITING;
>  }

Oh, a bit offtopic, I see how VMX handles the case of no support of vNMI,
VMX has no IRET intercept, and so it cheats by using regular interrupt window
and assuming that NMI hanlder will not enable normal interrupts....
Oh well....

>  
>  static inline bool cpu_has_vmx_preemption_timer(void)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> index 1aaec4d19e1b..ce54f13d8da1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> @@ -2487,10 +2487,12 @@ static __init int setup_vmcs_config(struct vmcs_config *vmcs_conf,
>               CPU_BASED_MWAIT_EXITING |
>               CPU_BASED_MONITOR_EXITING |
>               CPU_BASED_INVLPG_EXITING |
> -             CPU_BASED_RDPMC_EXITING;
> +             CPU_BASED_RDPMC_EXITING |
> +             CPU_BASED_INTR_WINDOW_EXITING;
>  
>         opt = CPU_BASED_TPR_SHADOW |
>               CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS |
> +             CPU_BASED_NMI_WINDOW_EXITING |
>               CPU_BASED_ACTIVATE_SECONDARY_CONTROLS |
>               CPU_BASED_ACTIVATE_TERTIARY_CONTROLS;
>         if (adjust_vmx_controls(min, opt, MSR_IA32_VMX_PROCBASED_CTLS,
> @@ -4299,6 +4301,10 @@ static u32 vmx_exec_control(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
>  {
>         u32 exec_control = vmcs_config.cpu_based_exec_ctrl;
>  
> +       /* INTR_WINDOW_EXITING and NMI_WINDOW_EXITING are toggled dynamically */
> +       exec_control &= ~(CPU_BASED_INTR_WINDOW_EXITING |
> +                         CPU_BASED_NMI_WINDOW_EXITING);
> +
>         if (vmx->vcpu.arch.switch_db_regs & KVM_DEBUGREG_WONT_EXIT)
>                 exec_control &= ~CPU_BASED_MOV_DR_EXITING;
>  

Also makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky