Re: [PATCH v10 4/9] KVM: x86: Virtualize CR4.LAM_SUP

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed Aug 16 2023 - 17:42:43 EST


This patch doesn't virtualize LAM_SUP, it simply allows the guest to enable
CR4.LAM_SUP (ignoring that that's not possible at this point because KVM will
reject CR4 values that *KVM* doesn't support).

Actually virtualizing LAM_SUP requires the bits from "KVM: VMX: Implement and wire
get_untagged_addr() for LAM". You can still separate LAM_SUP from LAM_U*, but
these patches should come *after* the get_untagged_addr() hook is added. The
first of LAM_SUP vs. LAM_U* can then implement vmx_get_untagged_addr(), and simply
return the raw gva in the "other" case. E.g. if you add LAM_SUP first, the code
can be:

if (!(gva & BIT_ULL(63))) {
/* KVM doesn't yet virtualize LAM_U{48,57}. */
return false;
} else {
if (!kvm_is_cr4_bit_set(vcpu, X86_CR4_LAM_SUP))
return gva;

lam_bit = kvm_is_cr4_bit_set(vcpu, X86_CR4_LA57) ? 56 : 47;
}

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023, Binbin Wu wrote:
> From: Robert Hoo <robert.hu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add support to allow guests to set the new CR4 control bit for guests to enable
> the new Intel CPU feature Linear Address Masking (LAM) on supervisor pointers.
>
> LAM modifies the checking that is applied to 64-bit linear addresses, allowing
> software to use of the untranslated address bits for metadata and masks the
> metadata bits before using them as linear addresses to access memory. LAM uses
> CR4.LAM_SUP (bit 28) to configure LAM for supervisor pointers. LAM also changes
> VMENTER to allow the bit to be set in VMCS's HOST_CR4 and GUEST_CR4 for
> virtualization. Note CR4.LAM_SUP is allowed to be set even not in 64-bit mode,
> but it will not take effect since LAM only applies to 64-bit linear addresses.
>
> Move CR4.LAM_SUP out of CR4_RESERVED_BITS and its reservation depends on vcpu
> supporting LAM feature or not. Leave the bit intercepted to prevent guest from
> setting CR4.LAM_SUP bit if LAM is not exposed to guest as well as to avoid vmread
> every time when KVM fetches its value, with the expectation that guest won't
> toggle the bit frequently.
>
> Set CR4.LAM_SUP bit in the emulated IA32_VMX_CR4_FIXED1 MSR for guests to allow
> guests to enable LAM for supervisor pointers in nested VMX operation.
>
> Hardware is not required to do TLB flush when CR4.LAM_SUP toggled, KVM doesn't
> need to emulate TLB flush based on it.
> There's no other features/vmx_exec_controls connection, no other code needed in
> {kvm,vmx}_set_cr4().
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Hoo <robert.hu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Xuelian Guo <xuelian.guo@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 ++-
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 3 +++
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 2 ++
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index e8e1101a90c8..881a0be862e1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -125,7 +125,8 @@
> | X86_CR4_PGE | X86_CR4_PCE | X86_CR4_OSFXSR | X86_CR4_PCIDE \
> | X86_CR4_OSXSAVE | X86_CR4_SMEP | X86_CR4_FSGSBASE \
> | X86_CR4_OSXMMEXCPT | X86_CR4_LA57 | X86_CR4_VMXE \
> - | X86_CR4_SMAP | X86_CR4_PKE | X86_CR4_UMIP))
> + | X86_CR4_SMAP | X86_CR4_PKE | X86_CR4_UMIP \
> + | X86_CR4_LAM_SUP))
>
> #define CR8_RESERVED_BITS (~(unsigned long)X86_CR8_TPR)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> index ae47303c88d7..a0d6ea87a2d0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> @@ -7646,6 +7646,9 @@ static void nested_vmx_cr_fixed1_bits_update(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> cr4_fixed1_update(X86_CR4_UMIP, ecx, feature_bit(UMIP));
> cr4_fixed1_update(X86_CR4_LA57, ecx, feature_bit(LA57));
>
> + entry = kvm_find_cpuid_entry_index(vcpu, 0x7, 1);
> + cr4_fixed1_update(X86_CR4_LAM_SUP, eax, feature_bit(LAM));
> +
> #undef cr4_fixed1_update
> }
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
> index 82e3dafc5453..24e2b56356b8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
> @@ -528,6 +528,8 @@ bool kvm_msr_allowed(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 index, u32 type);
> __reserved_bits |= X86_CR4_VMXE; \
> if (!__cpu_has(__c, X86_FEATURE_PCID)) \
> __reserved_bits |= X86_CR4_PCIDE; \
> + if (!__cpu_has(__c, X86_FEATURE_LAM)) \
> + __reserved_bits |= X86_CR4_LAM_SUP; \
> __reserved_bits; \
> })
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>