Re: [PATCH 08/12] KVM: nSVM: Use KVM-governed feature framework to track "vVM{SAVE,LOAD} enabled"

[Sean Christopherson]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> +Maxim
> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023, Yu Zhang wrote:
> I'll opportunistically massage the comment to make it more explicit about why
> VMLOAD needs to be intercepted.
>  
> That said, clearing the bits for this seems wrong.  That would corrupt the MSRs
> for 64-bit Intel guests.  The "target" of the fix was 32-bit L2s, i.e. I doubt
> anything would notice.
> 
>     This patch fixes nested migration of 32 bit nested guests, that was
>     broken because incorrect cached values of SYSENTER msrs were stored in
>     the migration stream if L1 changed these msrs with
>     vmload prior to L2 entry.

Aha!  Finally figured out what this code is doing.  KVM intercepts VMLOAD so that
KVM can correctly model the VMLOAD behavior of dropping bits 63:32, i.e. to clear
svm->sysenter_eip_hi and svm->sysenter_esp_hi.

So the code is correct.  I'll add this comment:

	/*
	 * Intercept VMLOAD if the vCPU mode is Intel in order to emulate that
	 * VMLOAD drops bits 63:32 of SYSENTER (ignoring the fact that exposing
	 * SVM on Intel is bonkers and extremely unlikely to work).
	 */