Re: [PATCH 2/4] KVM: SVM: use NPT page attributes

From: Xiao Guangrong
Date: Wed Jul 08 2015 - 22:35:57 EST




On 07/08/2015 07:19 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:


On 08/07/2015 07:59, Xiao Guangrong wrote:


On 07/07/2015 09:45 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Right now, NPT page attributes are not used, and the final page
attribute depends solely on gPAT (which however is not synced
correctly), the guest MTRRs and the guest page attributes.

However, we can do better by mimicking what is done for VMX.
In the absence of PCI passthrough, the guest PAT can be ignored
and the page attributes can be just WB. If passthrough is being
used, instead, keep respecting the guest PAT, and emulate the guest
MTRRs through the PAT field of the nested page tables.

The only snag is that WP memory cannot be emulated correctly,
because Linux's default PAT setting only includes the other types.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index 602b974a60a6..0f125c1860ec 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -1085,6 +1085,47 @@ static u64 svm_compute_tsc_offset(struct
kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 target_tsc)
return target_tsc - tsc;
}

+static void svm_set_guest_pat(struct vcpu_svm *svm, u64 *g_pat)
+{
+ struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = &svm->vcpu;
+
+ /* Unlike Intel, AMD takes the guest's CR0.CD into account.

I noticed this code in svm_set_cr0():

if (!(vcpu->kvm->arch.disabled_quirks & KVM_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED))
cr0 &= ~(X86_CR0_CD | X86_CR0_NW);

gCR0.CD is hidden to CPU if KVM_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED is not set and looks
like
it is the normal case after grepping Qemu code.


How about this one? I still do not know how SVM properly emulates CR0.CD? :(
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