Re: [PATCH v4 09/25] KVM: VMX: nVMX: Support TSC scaling and PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL with enlightened VMCS

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Jul 25 2022 - 13:09:23 EST


On 7/21/22 23:58, Sean Christopherson wrote:

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/evmcs.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/evmcs.c
index b5cfbf7d487b..7b348a03e096 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/evmcs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/evmcs.c
@@ -355,11 +355,6 @@ uint16_t nested_get_evmcs_version(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return 0;
}

-enum evmcs_v1_revision {
- EVMCSv1_2016,
- EVMCSv1_2022,
-};
-
enum evmcs_unsupported_ctrl_type {
EVMCS_EXIT_CTLS,
EVMCS_ENTRY_CTLS,
@@ -372,29 +367,29 @@ static u32 evmcs_get_unsupported_ctls(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
enum evmcs_unsupported_ctrl_type ctrl_type)
{
struct kvm_vcpu_hv *hv_vcpu = to_hv_vcpu(vcpu);
- enum evmcs_v1_revision evmcs_rev = EVMCSv1_2016;
+ bool has_evmcs_2022_features;

if (!hv_vcpu)
return 0;

- if (hv_vcpu->cpuid_cache.nested_ebx & HV_X64_NESTED_EVMCS1_2022_UPDATE)
- evmcs_rev = EVMCSv1_2022;
+ has_evmcs_2022_features = hv_vcpu->cpuid_cache.nested_ebx &
+ HV_X64_NESTED_EVMCS1_2022_UPDATE;

switch (ctrl_type) {
case EVMCS_EXIT_CTLS:
- if (evmcs_rev == EVMCSv1_2016)
+ if (!has_evmcs_2022_features)
return EVMCS1_UNSUPPORTED_VMEXIT_CTRL |
VM_EXIT_LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL;
else
return EVMCS1_UNSUPPORTED_VMEXIT_CTRL;
case EVMCS_ENTRY_CTLS:
- if (evmcs_rev == EVMCSv1_2016)
+ if (!has_evmcs_2022_features)
return EVMCS1_UNSUPPORTED_VMENTRY_CTRL |
VM_ENTRY_LOAD_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL;
else
return EVMCS1_UNSUPPORTED_VMENTRY_CTRL;
case EVMCS_2NDEXEC:
- if (evmcs_rev == EVMCSv1_2016)
+ if (!has_evmcs_2022_features)
return EVMCS1_UNSUPPORTED_2NDEXEC |
SECONDARY_EXEC_TSC_SCALING;
else


I kind of like the idea of having a two-dimensional array based on the enums instead of switch statements, so for now I'll keep Vitaly's enums.

Paolo