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There are cases that malicious virtual machines can cause CPU stuck (due
to event windows don't open up), e.g., infinite loop in microcode when
nested #AC (CVE-2015-5307). No event window means no event (NMI, SMI and
IRQ) can be delivered. It leads the CPU to be unavailable to host or
other VMs.
VMM can enable notify VM exit that a VM exit generated if no event
window occurs in VM non-root mode for a specified amount of time (notify
window).
Feature enabling:
- The new vmcs field SECONDARY_EXEC_NOTIFY_VM_EXITING is introduced to
enable this feature. VMM can set NOTIFY_WINDOW vmcs field to adjust
the expected notify window.
- Add a new KVM capability KVM_CAP_X86_NOTIFY_VMEXIT so that user space
can query and enable this feature in per-VM scope. The argument is a
64bit value: bits 63:32 are used for notify window, and bits 31:0 are
for flags. Current supported flags:
- KVM_X86_NOTIFY_VMEXIT_ENABLED: enable the feature with the notify
window provided.
- KVM_X86_NOTIFY_VMEXIT_USER: exit to userspace once the exits happen.
- It's safe to even set notify window to zero since an internal hardware
threshold is added to vmcs.notify_window.
VM exit handling:
- Introduce a vcpu state notify_window_exits to records the count of
notify VM exits and expose it through the debugfs.
- Notify VM exit can happen incident to delivery of a vector event.
Allow it in KVM.
- Exit to userspace unconditionally for handling when VM_CONTEXT_INVALID
bit is set.
Nested handling
- Nested notify VM exits are not supported yet. Keep the same notify
window control in vmcs02 as vmcs01, so that L1 can't escape the
restriction of notify VM exits through launching L2 VM.
Notify VM exit is defined in latest Intel Architecture Instruction Set
Extensions Programming Reference, chapter 9.2.
Co-developed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Xu <tao3.xu@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20220524135624.22988-5-chenyi.qiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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With IPI virtualization enabled, the processor emulates writes to
APIC registers that would send IPIs. The processor sets the bit
corresponding to the vector in target vCPU's PIR and may send a
notification (IPI) specified by NDST and NV fields in target vCPU's
Posted-Interrupt Descriptor (PID). It is similar to what IOMMU
engine does when dealing with posted interrupt from devices.
A PID-pointer table is used by the processor to locate the PID of a
vCPU with the vCPU's APIC ID. The table size depends on maximum APIC
ID assigned for current VM session from userspace. Allocating memory
for PID-pointer table is deferred to vCPU creation, because irqchip
mode and VM-scope maximum APIC ID is settled at that point. KVM can
skip PID-pointer table allocation if !irqchip_in_kernel().
Like VT-d PI, if a vCPU goes to blocked state, VMM needs to switch its
notification vector to wakeup vector. This can ensure that when an IPI
for blocked vCPUs arrives, VMM can get control and wake up blocked
vCPUs. And if a VCPU is preempted, its posted interrupt notification
is suppressed.
Note that IPI virtualization can only virualize physical-addressing,
flat mode, unicast IPIs. Sending other IPIs would still cause a
trap-like APIC-write VM-exit and need to be handled by VMM.
Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zeng Guang <guang.zeng@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20220419154510.11938-1-guang.zeng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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A new 64-bit control field "tertiary processor-based VM-execution
controls", is defined [1]. It's controlled by bit 17 of the primary
processor-based VM-execution controls.
Different from its brother VM-execution fields, this tertiary VM-
execution controls field is 64 bit. So it occupies 2 vmx_feature_leafs,
TERTIARY_CTLS_LOW and TERTIARY_CTLS_HIGH.
Its companion VMX capability reporting MSR,MSR_IA32_VMX_PROCBASED_CTLS3
(0x492), is also semantically different from its brothers, whose 64 bits
consist of all allow-1, rather than 32-bit allow-0 and 32-bit allow-1 [1][2].
Therefore, its init_vmx_capabilities() is a little different from others.
[1] ISE 6.2 "VMCS Changes"
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/download/intel-architecture-instruction-set-extensions-programming-reference.html
[2] SDM Vol3. Appendix A.3
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Hoo <robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zeng Guang <guang.zeng@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20220419153240.11549-1-guang.zeng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Virtual Machine can exploit bus locks to degrade the performance of
system. Bus lock can be caused by split locked access to writeback(WB)
memory or by using locks on uncacheable(UC) memory. The bus lock is
typically >1000 cycles slower than an atomic operation within a cache
line. It also disrupts performance on other cores (which must wait for
the bus lock to be released before their memory operations can
complete).
To address the threat, bus lock VM exit is introduced to notify the VMM
when a bus lock was acquired, allowing it to enforce throttling or other
policy based mitigations.
A VMM can enable VM exit due to bus locks by setting a new "Bus Lock
Detection" VM-execution control(bit 30 of Secondary Processor-based VM
execution controls). If delivery of this VM exit was preempted by a
higher priority VM exit (e.g. EPT misconfiguration, EPT violation, APIC
access VM exit, APIC write VM exit, exception bitmap exiting), bit 26 of
exit reason in vmcs field is set to 1.
In current implementation, the KVM exposes this capability through
KVM_CAP_X86_BUS_LOCK_EXIT. The user can get the supported mode bitmap
(i.e. off and exit) and enable it explicitly (disabled by default). If
bus locks in guest are detected by KVM, exit to user space even when
current exit reason is handled by KVM internally. Set a new field
KVM_RUN_BUS_LOCK in vcpu->run->flags to inform the user space that there
is a bus lock detected in guest.
Document for Bus Lock VM exit is now available at the latest "Intel
Architecture Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference".
Document Link:
https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/download/intel-architecture-instruction-set-extensions-programming-reference.html
Co-developed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20201106090315.18606-4-chenyi.qiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Commit 159348784ff0 ("x86/vmx: Introduce VMX_FEATURES_*") missed
bit 26 (enable user wait and pause) of Secondary Processor-based
VM-Execution Controls.
Add VMX_FEATURE_USR_WAIT_PAUSE flag so that it shows up in /proc/cpuinfo,
and use it to define SECONDARY_EXEC_ENABLE_USR_WAIT_PAUSE to make them
uniform.
Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Three of the feature bits in vmxfeatures.h have names that are different
from the Intel SDM. The names have been adjusted recently in KVM but they
were using the old name in the tip tree's x86/cpu branch. Adjust for
consistency.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Add an entry in struct cpuinfo_x86 to track VMX capabilities and fill
the capabilities during IA32_FEAT_CTL MSR initialization.
Make the VMX capabilities dependent on IA32_FEAT_CTL and
X86_FEATURE_NAMES so as to avoid unnecessary overhead on CPUs that can't
possibly support VMX, or when /proc/cpuinfo is not available.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191221044513.21680-11-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
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Add a VMX-specific variant of X86_FEATURE_* flags, which will eventually
supplant the synthetic VMX flags defined in cpufeatures word 8. Use the
Intel-defined layouts for the major VMX execution controls so that their
word entries can be directly populated from their respective MSRs, and
so that the VMX_FEATURE_* flags can be used to define the existing bit
definitions in asm/vmx.h, i.e. force developers to define a VMX_FEATURE
flag when adding support for a new hardware feature.
The majority of Intel's (and compatible CPU's) VMX capabilities are
enumerated via MSRs and not CPUID, i.e. querying /proc/cpuinfo doesn't
naturally provide any insight into the virtualization capabilities of
VMX enabled CPUs. Commit
e38e05a85828d ("x86: extended "flags" to show virtualization HW feature
in /proc/cpuinfo")
attempted to address the issue by synthesizing select VMX features into
a Linux-defined word in cpufeatures.
Lack of reporting of VMX capabilities via /proc/cpuinfo is problematic
because there is no sane way for a user to query the capabilities of
their platform, e.g. when trying to find a platform to test a feature or
debug an issue that has a hardware dependency. Lack of reporting is
especially problematic when the user isn't familiar with VMX, e.g. the
format of the MSRs is non-standard, existence of some MSRs is reported
by bits in other MSRs, several "features" from KVM's point of view are
enumerated as 3+ distinct features by hardware, etc...
The synthetic cpufeatures approach has several flaws:
- The set of synthesized VMX flags has become extremely stale with
respect to the full set of VMX features, e.g. only one new flag
(EPT A/D) has been added in the the decade since the introduction of
the synthetic VMX features. Failure to keep the VMX flags up to
date is likely due to the lack of a mechanism that forces developers
to consider whether or not a new feature is worth reporting.
- The synthetic flags may incorrectly be misinterpreted as affecting
kernel behavior, i.e. KVM, the kernel's sole consumer of VMX,
completely ignores the synthetic flags.
- New CPU vendors that support VMX have duplicated the hideous code
that propagates VMX features from MSRs to cpufeatures. Bringing the
synthetic VMX flags up to date would exacerbate the copy+paste
trainwreck.
Define separate VMX_FEATURE flags to set the stage for enumerating VMX
capabilities outside of the cpu_has() framework, and for adding
functional usage of VMX_FEATURE_* to help ensure the features reported
via /proc/cpuinfo is up to date with respect to kernel recognition of
VMX capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191221044513.21680-10-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
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