Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] KVM: nSVM: implement ondemand allocation of the nested state

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Sep 17 2020 - 12:38:58 EST


On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 01:10:48PM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> This way we don't waste memory on VMs which don't use
> nesting virtualization even if it is available to them.
>
> If allocation of nested state fails (which should happen,
> only when host is about to OOM anyway), use new KVM_REQ_OUT_OF_MEMORY
> request to shut down the guest
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 7 +++++
> 3 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> index 09417f5197410..fe119da2ef836 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> @@ -467,6 +467,9 @@ int nested_svm_vmrun(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>
> vmcb12 = map.hva;
>
> + if (WARN_ON(!svm->nested.initialized))
> + return 1;
> +
> if (!nested_vmcb_checks(svm, vmcb12)) {
> vmcb12->control.exit_code = SVM_EXIT_ERR;
> vmcb12->control.exit_code_hi = 0;
> @@ -684,6 +687,45 @@ int nested_svm_vmexit(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +int svm_allocate_nested(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> +{
> + struct page *hsave_page;
> +
> + if (svm->nested.initialized)
> + return 0;
> +
> + hsave_page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO);
> + if (!hsave_page)
> + goto error;

goto is unnecessary, just do

return -ENOMEM;

> +
> + svm->nested.hsave = page_address(hsave_page);
> +
> + svm->nested.msrpm = svm_vcpu_init_msrpm();
> + if (!svm->nested.msrpm)
> + goto err_free_hsave;
> +
> + svm->nested.initialized = true;
> + return 0;
> +err_free_hsave:
> + __free_page(hsave_page);
> +error:
> + return 1;

As above, -ENOMEM would be preferable.

> +}
> +
> +void svm_free_nested(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> +{
> + if (!svm->nested.initialized)
> + return;
> +
> + svm_vcpu_free_msrpm(svm->nested.msrpm);
> + svm->nested.msrpm = NULL;
> +
> + __free_page(virt_to_page(svm->nested.hsave));
> + svm->nested.hsave = NULL;
> +
> + svm->nested.initialized = false;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Forcibly leave nested mode in order to be able to reset the VCPU later on.
> */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> index 3da5b2f1b4a19..57ea4407dcf09 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
> @@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ static int get_max_npt_level(void)
> void svm_set_efer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 efer)
> {
> struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
> + u64 old_efer = vcpu->arch.efer;
> vcpu->arch.efer = efer;
>
> if (!npt_enabled) {
> @@ -276,9 +277,26 @@ void svm_set_efer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 efer)
> efer &= ~EFER_LME;
> }
>
> - if (!(efer & EFER_SVME)) {
> - svm_leave_nested(svm);
> - svm_set_gif(svm, true);
> + if ((old_efer & EFER_SVME) != (efer & EFER_SVME)) {
> + if (!(efer & EFER_SVME)) {
> + svm_leave_nested(svm);
> + svm_set_gif(svm, true);
> +
> + /*
> + * Free the nested state unless we are in SMM, in which
> + * case the exit from SVM mode is only for duration of the SMI
> + * handler
> + */
> + if (!is_smm(&svm->vcpu))
> + svm_free_nested(svm);
> +
> + } else {
> + if (svm_allocate_nested(svm)) {
> + vcpu->arch.efer = old_efer;
> + kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_OUT_OF_MEMORY, vcpu);

I really dislike KVM_REQ_OUT_OF_MEMORY. It's redundant with -ENOMEM and
creates a huge discrepancy with respect to existing code, e.g. nVMX returns
-ENOMEM in a similar situation.

The deferred error handling creates other issues, e.g. vcpu->arch.efer is
unwound but the guest's RIP is not.

One thought for handling this without opening a can of worms would be to do:

r = kvm_x86_ops.set_efer(vcpu, efer);
if (r) {
WARN_ON(r > 0);
return r;
}

I.e. go with the original approach, but only for returning errors that will
go all the way out to userspace.

> + return;
> + }
> + }
> }
>
> svm->vmcb->save.efer = efer | EFER_SVME;