[PATCH 3/3] nVMX: Advertise PML to L1 hypervisor

From: Bandan Das
Date: Wed May 03 2017 - 18:16:01 EST


Advertise the PML bit in vmcs12 but clear it out
before running L2 since we don't depend on hardware support
for PML emulation.

Signed-off-by: Bandan Das <bsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 5e5abb7..df71116 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -2763,8 +2763,11 @@ static void nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
vmx->nested.nested_vmx_ept_caps |= VMX_EPT_EXTENT_GLOBAL_BIT |
VMX_EPT_EXTENT_CONTEXT_BIT | VMX_EPT_2MB_PAGE_BIT |
VMX_EPT_1GB_PAGE_BIT;
- if (enable_ept_ad_bits)
+ if (enable_ept_ad_bits) {
+ vmx->nested.nested_vmx_secondary_ctls_high |=
+ SECONDARY_EXEC_ENABLE_PML;
vmx->nested.nested_vmx_ept_caps |= VMX_EPT_AD_BIT;
+ }
} else
vmx->nested.nested_vmx_ept_caps = 0;

@@ -10080,6 +10083,7 @@ static int prepare_vmcs02(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vmcs12 *vmcs12,
if (exec_control & SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES)
vmcs_write64(APIC_ACCESS_ADDR, -1ull);

+ exec_control &= ~SECONDARY_EXEC_ENABLE_PML;
vmcs_write32(SECONDARY_VM_EXEC_CONTROL, exec_control);
}

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