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Amit Shah
db5e824964 KVM: SVM: Virtualize and advertise support for ERAPS
AMD CPUs with the Enhanced Return Address Predictor Security (ERAPS)
feature (available on Zen5+) obviate the need for FILL_RETURN_BUFFER
sequences right after VMEXITs.  ERAPS adds guest/host tags to entries in
the RSB (a.k.a. RAP).  This helps with speculation protection across the
VM boundary, and it also preserves host and guest entries in the RSB that
can improve software performance (which would otherwise be flushed due to
the FILL_RETURN_BUFFER sequences).

Importantly, ERAPS also improves cross-domain security by clearing the RAP
in certain situations.  Specifically, the RAP is cleared in response to
actions that are typically tied to software context switching between
tasks.  Per the APM:

  The ERAPS feature eliminates the need to execute CALL instructions to
  clear the return address predictor in most cases. On processors that
  support ERAPS, return addresses from CALL instructions executed in host
  mode are not used in guest mode, and vice versa. Additionally, the
  return address predictor is cleared in all cases when the TLB is
  implicitly invalidated and in the following cases:

  • MOV CR3 instruction
  • INVPCID other than single address invalidation (operation type 0)

ERAPS also allows CPUs to extends the size of the RSB/RAP from the older
standard (of 32 entries) to a new size, enumerated in CPUID leaf
0x80000021:EBX bits 23:16 (64 entries in Zen5 CPUs).

In hardware, ERAPS is always-on, when running in host context, the CPU
uses the full RSB/RAP size without any software changes necessary.
However, when running in guest context, the CPU utilizes the full size of
the RSB/RAP if and only if the new ALLOW_LARGER_RAP flag is set in the
VMCB; if the flag is not set, the CPU limits itself to the historical size
of 32 entires.

Requiring software to opt-in for guest usage of RAPs larger than 32 entries
allows hypervisors, i.e. KVM, to emulate the aforementioned conditions in
which the RAP is cleared as well as the guest/host split.  E.g. if the CPU
unconditionally used the full RAP for guests, failure to clear the RAP on
transitions between L1 or L2, or on emulated guest TLB flushes, would
expose the guest to RAP-based attacks as a guest without support for ERAPS
wouldn't know that its FILL_RETURN_BUFFER sequence is insufficient.

Address the ~two broad categories of ERAPS emulation, and advertise
ERAPS support to userspace, along with the RAP size enumerated in CPUID.

1. Architectural RAP clearing: as above, CPUs with ERAPS clear RAP entries
   on several conditions, including CR3 updates.  To handle scenarios
   where a relevant operation is handled in common code (emulation of
   INVPCID and to a lesser extent MOV CR3), piggyback VCPU_EXREG_CR3 and
   create an alias, VCPU_EXREG_ERAPS.  SVM doesn't utilize CR3 dirty
   tracking, and so for all intents and purposes VCPU_EXREG_CR3 is unused.
   Aliasing VCPU_EXREG_ERAPS ensures that any flow that writes CR3 will
   also clear the guest's RAP, and allows common x86 to mark ERAPS vCPUs
   as needing a RAP clear without having to add a new request (or other
   mechanism).

2. Nested guests: the ERAPS feature adds host/guest tagging to entries
   in the RSB, but does not distinguish between the guest ASIDs.  To
   prevent the case of an L2 guest poisoning the RSB to attack the L1
   guest, the CPU exposes a new VMCB bit (CLEAR_RAP).  The next
   VMRUN with a VMCB that has this bit set causes the CPU to flush the
   RSB before entering the guest context.  Set the bit in VMCB01 after a
   nested #VMEXIT to ensure the next time the L1 guest runs, its RSB
   contents aren't polluted by the L2's contents.  Similarly, before
   entry into a nested guest, set the bit for VMCB02, so that the L1
   guest's RSB contents are not leaked/used in the L2 context.

Enable ALLOW_LARGER_RAP (and emulate RAP clears) if and only if ERAPS is
exposed to the guest.  Enabling ALLOW_LARGER_RAP unconditionally wouldn't
cause any functional issues, but ignoring userspace's (and L1's) desires
would put KVM into a grey area, which is especially undesirable due to the
potential security implications.  E.g. if a use case wants to have L1 do
manual RAP clearing even when ERAPS is present in hardware, enabling
ALLOW_LARGER_RAP could result in L1 leaving stale entries in the RAP.

ERAPS is documented in AMD APM Vol 2 (Pub 24593), in revisions 3.43 and
later.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@amd.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aR913X8EqO6meCqa@google.com
2026-01-08 12:12:12 -08:00
Kevin Cheng
1d1722e52f KVM: SVM: Don't allow L1 intercepts for instructions not advertised
If a feature is not advertised in the guest's CPUID, prevent L1 from
intercepting the unsupported instructions by clearing the corresponding
intercept in KVM's cached vmcb12.

When an L2 guest executes an instruction that is not advertised to L1,
we expect a #UD exception to be injected by L0. However, the nested svm
exit handler first checks if the instruction intercept is set in vmcb12,
and if so, synthesizes an exit from L2 to L1 instead of a #UD exception.
If a feature is not advertised, the L1 intercept should be ignored.

While creating KVM's cached vmcb12, sanitize the intercepts for
instructions that are not advertised in the guest CPUID. This
effectively ignores the L1 intercept on nested vm exit handling. It also
ignores the L1 intercept when computing the intercepts in vmcb02, so if
L0 (for some reason) does not intercept the instruction, KVM won't
intercept it at all.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cheng <chengkev@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215192510.2300816-1-chengkev@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:12:11 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
01cde4eaae KVM: SVM: Add support for expedited writes to the fast MMIO bus
Wire up SVM's #NPF handler to fast MMIO.  While SVM doesn't provide a
dedicated exit reason, it's trivial to key off PFERR_RSVD_MASK.  Like VMX,
restrict the fast path to L1 to avoid having to deal with nGPA=>GPA
translations.

For simplicity, use the fast path if and only if the next RIP is known.
While KVM could utilize EMULTYPE_SKIP, doing so would require additional
logic to deal with SEV guests, e.g. to go down the slow path if the
instruction buffer is empty.  All modern CPUs support next RIP, and in
practice the next RIP will be available for any guest fast path.

Copy+paste the kvm_io_bus_write() + trace_kvm_fast_mmio() logic even
though KVM would ideally provide a small helper, as such a helper would
need to either be a macro or non-inline to avoid including trace.h in a
header (trace.h must not be included by x86.c prior to CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
being defined).

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113221642.1673023-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:12:10 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
737f2a382f KVM: SVM: Rename "fault_address" to "gpa" in npf_interception()
Rename "fault_address" to "gpa" in KVM's #NPF handler and track it as a
gpa_t to more precisely document what type of address is being captured,
and because "gpa" is much more succinct.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113221642.1673023-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:12:10 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
fc3ba56385 KVM: nSVM: Remove a user-triggerable WARN on nested_svm_load_cr3() succeeding
Drop the WARN in svm_set_nested_state() on nested_svm_load_cr3() failing
as it is trivially easy to trigger from userspace by modifying CPUID after
loading CR3.  E.g. modifying the state restoration selftest like so:

  --- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/state_test.c
  +++ tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/state_test.c
  @@ -280,7 +280,16 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])

                 /* Restore state in a new VM.  */
                  vcpu = vm_recreate_with_one_vcpu(vm);
  -               vcpu_load_state(vcpu, state);
  +
  +               if (stage == 4) {
  +                       state->sregs.cr3 = BIT(44);
  +                       vcpu_load_state(vcpu, state);
  +
  +                       vcpu_set_cpuid_property(vcpu, X86_PROPERTY_MAX_PHY_ADDR, 36);
  +                       __vcpu_nested_state_set(vcpu, &state->nested);
  +               } else {
  +                       vcpu_load_state(vcpu, state);
  +               }

                  /*
                   * Restore XSAVE state in a dummy vCPU, first without doing

generates:

  WARNING: CPU: 30 PID: 938 at arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c:1877 svm_set_nested_state+0x34a/0x360 [kvm_amd]
  Modules linked in: kvm_amd kvm irqbypass [last unloaded: kvm]
  CPU: 30 UID: 1000 PID: 938 Comm: state_test Tainted: G        W           6.18.0-rc7-58e10b63777d-next-vm
  Tainted: [W]=WARN
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:svm_set_nested_state+0x34a/0x360 [kvm_amd]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0xf33/0x1700 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x4e6/0x8f0 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8f/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0x61/0xad0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Simply delete the WARN instead of trying to prevent userspace from shoving
"illegal" state into CR3.  For better or worse, KVM's ABI allows userspace
to set CPUID after SREGS, and vice versa, and KVM is very permissive when
it comes to guest CPUID.  I.e. attempting to enforce the virtual CPU model
when setting CPUID could break userspace.  Given that the WARN doesn't
provide any meaningful protection for KVM or benefit for userspace, simply
drop it even though the odds of breaking userspace are minuscule.

Opportunistically delete a spurious newline.

Fixes: b222b0b881 ("KVM: nSVM: refactor the CR3 reload on migration")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251216161755.1775409-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:12:09 -08:00
Nick Chan
591cf7900d arm64: dts: apple: s8001: Add DWI backlight for J98a, J99a
iPad Pro (12.9-inch) uses DWI backlight, while the 9.7-inch model does not.
Add DWI backlight node for s8001 and enable it for J98a and J99a.

Signed-off-by: Nick Chan <towinchenmi@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251231-b4-j98a-j99a-dwi-bl-v1-1-24793c2b99fc@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sven Peter <sven@kernel.org>
2026-01-08 21:10:21 +01:00
Andy Shevchenko
b6376dbed8
spi: Simplify devm_spi_*_controller()
Use devm_add_action_or_reset() instead of devres_alloc() and
devres_add(), which works the same. This will simplify the
code. There is no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108175145.3535441-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
2026-01-08 20:06:31 +00:00
Andy Shevchenko
19a4505a7a
spi: microchip-core: use XOR instead of ANDNOT to fix the logic
Use XOR instead of ANDNOT to fix the logic. The current approach with
(foo & BAR & ~baz) is harder to process, and it proved to be wrong,
than more usual pattern for the comparing misconfiguration using
((foo ^ baz) & BAR) which can be read as "find all different bits
between foo and baz that are related to BAR (mask)". Besides that
it makes the binary code shorter.

Function                                     old     new   delta
mchp_corespi_setup                           103      99      -4

Fixes: 059f545832 ("spi: add support for microchip "soft" spi controller")
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Tested-by: Prajna Rajendra Kumar <prajna.rajendrakumar@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108175100.3535306-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
2026-01-08 20:06:30 +00:00
Xiaoyao Li
57a7b47ab3 KVM: x86: Don't read guest CR3 when doing async pf while the MMU is direct
Don't read guest CR3 in kvm_arch_setup_async_pf() if the MMU is direct
and use INVALID_GPA instead.

When KVM tries to perform the host-only async page fault for the shared
memory of TDX guests, the following WARNING is triggered:

  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 90922 at arch/x86/kvm/vmx/main.c:483 vt_cache_reg+0x16/0x20
  Call Trace:
  __kvm_mmu_faultin_pfn
  kvm_mmu_faultin_pfn
  kvm_tdp_page_fault
  kvm_mmu_do_page_fault
  kvm_mmu_page_fault
  tdx_handle_ept_violation

This WARNING is triggered when calling kvm_mmu_get_guest_pgd() to cache
the guest CR3 in kvm_arch_setup_async_pf() for later use in
kvm_arch_async_page_ready() to determine if it's possible to fix the
page fault in the current vCPU context to save one VM exit. However, when
guest state is protected, KVM cannot read the guest CR3.

Since protected guests aren't compatible with shadow paging, i.e, they
must use direct MMU, avoid calling kvm_mmu_get_guest_pgd() to read guest
CR3 when the MMU is direct and use INVALID_GPA instead.

Note that for protected guests mmu->root_role.direct is always true, so
that kvm_mmu_get_guest_pgd() in kvm_arch_async_page_ready() won't be
reached.

Reported-by: Farrah Chen <farrah.chen@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251212135051.2155280-1-xiaoyao.li@intel.com
[sean: explicitly cast to "unsigned long" to make 32-bit builds happy]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:04:58 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
e353850499 KVM: selftests: Rename vm_get_page_table_entry() to vm_get_pte()
Shorten the API to get a PTE as the "PTE" acronym is ubiquitous, and the
"page table entry" makes it unnecessarily difficult to quickly understand
what callers are doing.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-21-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:17 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
59eef1a47b KVM: selftests: Extend memstress to run on nested SVM
Add L1 SVM code and generalize the setup code to work for both VMX and
SVM. This allows running 'dirty_log_perf_test -n' on AMD CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-20-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:16 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
6794d916f8 KVM: selftests: Extend vmx_dirty_log_test to cover SVM
Generalize the code in vmx_dirty_log_test.c by adding SVM-specific L1
code, doing some renaming (e.g. EPT -> TDP), and having setup code for
both SVM and VMX in test_dirty_log().

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-19-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:16 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
251e4849a7 KVM: selftests: Set the user bit on nested NPT PTEs
According to the APM, NPT walks are treated as user accesses. In
preparation for supporting NPT mappings, set the 'user' bit on NPTs by
adding a mask of bits to always be set on PTEs in kvm_mmu.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-18-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:15 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
753c0d5a50 KVM: selftests: Add support for nested NPTs
Implement nCR3 and NPT initialization functions, similar to the EPT
equivalents, and create common TDP helpers for enablement checking and
initialization. Enable NPT for nested guests by default if the TDP MMU
was initialized, similar to VMX.

Reuse the PTE masks from the main MMU in the NPT MMU, except for the C
and S bits related to confidential VMs.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-17-seanjc@google.com
[sean: apply Yosry's fixup for ncr3_gpa]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:14 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
9cb1944f6b KVM: selftests: Allow kvm_cpu_has_ept() to be called on AMD CPUs
In preparation for generalizing the nested dirty logging test, checking
if either EPT or NPT is enabled will be needed. To avoid needing to gate
the kvm_cpu_has_ept() call by the CPU type, make sure the function
returns false if VMX is not available instead of trying to read VMX-only
MSRs.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-16-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:14 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
07676c04bd KVM: selftests: Move TDP mapping functions outside of vmx.c
Now that the functions are no longer VMX-specific, move them to
processor.c. Do a minor comment tweak replacing 'EPT' with 'TDP'.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-15-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:13 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
508d1cc3ca KVM: selftests: Reuse virt mapping functions for nested EPTs
Rework tdp_map() and friends to use __virt_pg_map() and drop the custom
EPT code in __tdp_pg_map() and tdp_create_pte().  The EPT code and
__virt_pg_map() are practically identical, the main differences are:
  - EPT uses the EPT struct overlay instead of the PTE masks.
  - EPT always assumes 4-level EPTs.

To reuse __virt_pg_map(), extend the PTE masks to work with EPT's RWX and
X-only capabilities, and provide a tdp_mmu_init() API so that EPT can pass
in the EPT PTE masks along with the root page level (which is currently
hardcoded to '4').

Don't reuse KVM's insane overloading of the USER bit for EPT_R as there's
no reason to multiplex bits in the selftests, e.g. selftests aren't trying
to shadow guest PTEs and thus don't care about funnelling protections into
a common permissions check.

Another benefit of reusing the code is having separate handling for
upper-level PTEs vs 4K PTEs, which avoids some quirks like setting the
large bit on a 4K PTE in the EPTs.

For all intents and purposes, no functional change intended.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-14-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:12 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
8296b16c0a KVM: selftests: Add a stage-2 MMU instance to kvm_vm
Add a stage-2 MMU instance so that architectures that support nested
virtualization (more specifically, nested stage-2 page tables) can create
and track stage-2 page tables for running L2 guests.  Plumb the structure
into common code to avoid cyclical dependencies, and to provide some line
of sight to having common APIs for creating stage-2 mappings.

As a bonus, putting the member in common code justifies using stage2_mmu
instead of tdp_mmu for x86.

Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-13-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:12 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
e40e72fec0 KVM: selftests: Stop passing VMX metadata to TDP mapping functions
The root GPA is now retrieved from the nested MMU, stop passing VMX
metadata. This is in preparation for making these functions work for
NPTs as well.

Opportunistically drop tdp_pg_map() since it's unused.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-12-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:11 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
f00f519ceb KVM: selftests: Use a TDP MMU to share EPT page tables between vCPUs
prepare_eptp() currently allocates new EPTs for each vCPU.  memstress has
its own hack to share the EPTs between vCPUs.  Currently, there is no
reason to have separate EPTs for each vCPU, and the complexity is
significant.  The only reason it doesn't matter now is because memstress
is the only user with multiple vCPUs.

Add vm_enable_ept() to allocate EPT page tables for an entire VM, and use
it everywhere to replace prepare_eptp().  Drop 'eptp' and 'eptp_hva' from
'struct vmx_pages' as they serve no purpose (e.g. the EPTP can be built
from the PGD), but keep 'eptp_gpa' so that the MMU structure doesn't need
to be passed in along with vmx_pages.  Dynamically allocate the TDP MMU
structure to avoid a cyclical dependency between kvm_util_arch.h and
kvm_util.h.

Remove the workaround in memstress to copy the EPT root between vCPUs
since that's now the default behavior.

Name the MMU tdp_mmu instead of e.g. nested_mmu or nested.mmu to avoid
recreating the same mess that KVM has with respect to "nested" MMUs, e.g.
does nested refer to the stage-2 page tables created by L1, or the stage-1
page tables created by L2?

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-11-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:10 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
6dd7075721 KVM: selftests: Move PTE bitmasks to kvm_mmu
Move the PTE bitmasks into kvm_mmu to parameterize them for virt mapping
functions. Introduce helpers to read/write different PTE bits given a
kvm_mmu.

Drop the 'global' bit definition as it's currently unused, but leave the
'user' bit as it will be used in coming changes. Opportunisitcally
rename 'large' to 'huge' as it's more consistent with the kernel naming.

Leave PHYSICAL_PAGE_MASK alone, it's fixed in all page table formats and
a lot of other macros depend on it. It's tempting to move all the other
macros to be per-struct instead, but it would be too much noise for
little benefit.

Keep c_bit and s_bit in vm->arch as they used before the MMU is
initialized, through  __vmcreate() -> vm_userspace_mem_region_add() ->
vm_mem_add() -> vm_arch_has_protected_memory().

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
[sean: rename accessors to is_<adjective>_pte()]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-10-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:10 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
3d0e7595e8 KVM: selftests: Add a "struct kvm_mmu_arch arch" member to kvm_mmu
Add an arch structure+field in "struct kvm_mmu" so that architectures can
track arch-specific information for a given MMU.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-9-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:09 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
11825209f5 KVM: selftests: Plumb "struct kvm_mmu" into x86's MMU APIs
In preparation for generalizing the x86 virt mapping APIs to work with
TDP (stage-2) page tables, plumb "struct kvm_mmu" into all of the helper
functions instead of operating on vm->mmu directly.

Opportunistically swap the order of the check in virt_get_pte() to first
assert that the parent is the PGD, and then check that the PTE is present,
as it makes more sense to check if the parent PTE is the PGD/root (i.e.
not a PTE) before checking that the PTE is PRESENT.

No functional change intended.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
[sean: rebase on common kvm_mmu structure, rewrite changelog]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-8-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:08 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
9f073ac25b KVM: selftests: Add "struct kvm_mmu" to track a given MMU instance
Add a "struct kvm_mmu" to track a given MMU instance, e.g. a VM's stage-1
MMU versus a VM's stage-2 MMU, so that x86 can share MMU functionality for
both stage-1 and stage-2 MMUs, without creating the potential for subtle
bugs, e.g. due to consuming on vm->pgtable_levels when operating a stage-2
MMU.

Encapsulate the existing de facto MMU in "struct kvm_vm", e.g instead of
burying the MMU details in "struct kvm_vm_arch", to avoid more #ifdefs in
____vm_create(), and in the hopes that other architectures can utilize the
formalized MMU structure if/when they too support stage-2 page tables.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-7-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:08 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
3cd5002807 KVM: selftests: Stop setting A/D bits when creating EPT PTEs
Stop setting Accessed/Dirty bits when creating EPT entries for L2 so that
the stage-1 and stage-2 (a.k.a. TDP) page table APIs can use common code
without bleeding the EPT hack into the common APIs.

While commit 0944442045 ("selftests: kvm: add test for dirty logging
inside nested guests") is _very_ light on details, the most likely
explanation is that vmx_dirty_log_test was attempting to avoid taking an
EPT Violation on the first _write_ from L2.

  static void l2_guest_code(u64 *a, u64 *b)
  {
	READ_ONCE(*a);
	WRITE_ONCE(*a, 1);   <===
	GUEST_SYNC(true);

	...
  }

When handling read faults in the shadow MMU, KVM opportunistically creates
a writable SPTE if the mapping can be writable *and* the gPTE is dirty (or
doesn't support the Dirty bit), i.e. if KVM doesn't need to intercept
writes in order to emulate Dirty-bit updates.  By setting A/D bits in the
test's EPT entries, the above READ+WRITE will fault only on the read, and
in theory expose the bug fixed by KVM commit 1f4e5fc83a ("KVM: x86: fix
nested guest live migration with PML").  If the Dirty bit is NOT set, the
test will get a false pass due; though again, in theory.

However, the test is flawed (and always was, at least in the versions
posted publicly), as KVM (correctly) marks the corresponding L1 GFN as
dirty (in the dirty bitmap) when creating the writable SPTE.  I.e. without
a check on the dirty bitmap after the READ_ONCE(), the check after the
first WRITE_ONCE() will get a false pass due to the dirty bitmap/log having
been updated by the read fault, not by PML.

Furthermore, the subsequent behavior in the test's l2_guest_code()
effectively hides the flawed test behavior, as the straight writes to a
new L2 GPA fault also trigger the KVM bug, and so the test will still
detect the failure due to lack of isolation between the two testcases
(Read=>Write vs. Write=>Write).

	WRITE_ONCE(*b, 1);
	GUEST_SYNC(true);
	WRITE_ONCE(*b, 1);
	GUEST_SYNC(true);
	GUEST_SYNC(false);

Punt on fixing vmx_dirty_log_test for the moment as it will be easier to
properly fix the test once the TDP code uses the common MMU APIs, at which
point it will be trivially easy for the test to retrieve the EPT PTE and
set the Dirty bit as needed.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
[sean: rewrite changelog to explain the situation]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-6-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:07 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
b320c03d68 KVM: selftests: Kill eptPageTablePointer
Replace the struct overlay with explicit bitmasks, which is clearer and
less error-prone. See commit f18b4aebe1 ("kvm: selftests: do not use
bitfields larger than 32-bits for PTEs") for an example of why bitfields
are not preferable.

Remove the unused PAGE_SHIFT_4K definition while at it.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-5-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:06 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
60de423781 KVM: selftests: Rename nested TDP mapping functions
Rename the functions from nested_* to tdp_* to make their purpose
clearer.

No functional change intended.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:06 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
97dfbdfea4 KVM: selftests: Stop passing a memslot to nested_map_memslot()
On x86, KVM selftests use memslot 0 for all the default regions used by
the test infrastructure. This is an implementation detail.
nested_map_memslot() is currently used to map the default regions by
explicitly passing slot 0, which leaks the library implementation into
the caller.

Rename the function to a very verbose
nested_identity_map_default_memslots() to reflect what it actually does.
Add an assertion that only memslot 0 is being used so that the
implementation does not change from under us.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:05 -08:00
Yosry Ahmed
69e81ed5e6 KVM: selftests: Make __vm_get_page_table_entry() static
The function is only used in processor.c, drop the declaration in
processor.h and make it static.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230230150.4150236-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:02:04 -08:00
MJ Pooladkhay
7fe9f5366b KVM: selftests: Fix sign extension bug in get_desc64_base()
The function get_desc64_base() performs a series of bitwise left shifts on
fields of various sizes. More specifically, when performing '<< 24' on
'desc->base2' (which is a u8), 'base2' is promoted to a signed integer
before shifting.

In a scenario where base2 >= 0x80, the shift places a 1 into bit 31,
causing the 32-bit intermediate value to become negative. When this
result is cast to uint64_t or ORed into the return value, sign extension
occurs, corrupting the upper 32 bits of the address (base3).

Example:
Given:
  base0 = 0x5000
  base1 = 0xd6
  base2 = 0xf8
  base3 = 0xfffffe7c

Expected return: 0xfffffe7cf8d65000
Actual return:   0xfffffffff8d65000

Fix this by explicitly casting the fields to 'uint64_t' before shifting
to prevent sign extension.

Signed-off-by: MJ Pooladkhay <mj@pooladkhay.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251222174207.107331-1-mj@pooladkhay.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 12:00:56 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
5bb9ac1865 KVM: x86: Return "unsupported" instead of "invalid" on access to unsupported PV MSR
Return KVM_MSR_RET_UNSUPPORTED instead of '1' (which for all intents and
purposes means "invalid") when rejecting accesses to KVM PV MSRs to adhere
to KVM's ABI of allowing host reads and writes of '0' to MSRs that are
advertised to userspace via KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST, even if the vCPU model
doesn't support the MSR.

E.g. running a QEMU VM with

  -cpu host,-kvmclock,kvm-pv-enforce-cpuid

yields:

  qemu: error: failed to set MSR 0x12 to 0x0
  qemu: target/i386/kvm/kvm.c:3301: kvm_buf_set_msrs:
        Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed.

Fixes: 66570e966d ("kvm: x86: only provide PV features if enabled in guest's CPUID")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230205948.4094097-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:59:53 -08:00
Fred Griffoul
c9d7134679 KVM: nVMX: Mark APIC access page dirty when syncing vmcs12 pages
For consistency with commit 7afe79f573 ("KVM: nVMX: Mark vmcs12's APIC
access page dirty when unmapping"), which marks the page dirty during
unmap operations, also mark it dirty during vmcs12 page synchronization.

Signed-off-by: Fred Griffoul <fgriffo@amazon.co.uk>
[sean: use kvm_vcpu_map_mark_dirty()]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121223444.355422-6-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:58:24 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
57dfa61f62 KVM: VMX: Move nested_mark_vmcs12_pages_dirty() to vmx.c, and rename
Move nested_mark_vmcs12_pages_dirty() to vmx.c now that it's only used in
the VM-Exit path, and add "all" to its name to document that its purpose
is to mark all (mapped-out-of-band) vmcs12 pages as dirty.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121223444.355422-5-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:58:23 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
f74bb1d2ed KVM: nVMX: Precisely mark vAPIC and PID maps dirty when delivering nested PI
Explicitly mark the vmcs12 vAPIC and PI descriptor pages as dirty when
delivering a nested posted interrupt instead of marking all vmcs12 pages
as dirty.  This will allow marking the APIC access page (and any future
 vmcs12 pages) as dirty in nested_mark_vmcs12_pages_dirty() without over-
dirtying in the nested PI case.  Manually marking the vAPIC and PID pages
as dirty also makes the flow a bit more self-documenting, e.g. it's not
obvious at first glance that vmx->nested.pi_desc is actually a host kernel
mapping of a vmcs12 page.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121223444.355422-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:58:22 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
70b02809de KVM: x86: Mark vmcs12 pages as dirty if and only if they're mapped
Mark vmcs12 pages as dirty (in KVM's dirty log bitmap) if and only if the
page is mapped, i.e. if the page is actually "active" in vmcs02.  For some
pages, KVM simply disables the associated VMCS control if the vmcs12 page
is unreachable, i.e. it's possible for nested VM-Enter to succeed with a
"bad" vmcs12 page.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121223444.355422-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:58:22 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
44da6629d2 KVM: Use vCPU specific memslots in __kvm_vcpu_map()
When establishing a "host access map", lookup the gfn in the vCPU specific
memslots, as the intent is that the mapping will be established for the
current vCPU context.  Specifically, using __kvm_vcpu_map() in x86's SMM
context should create mappings based on the SMM memslots, not the non-SMM
memslots.

Luckily, the bug is benign as x86 is the only architecture with multiple
memslot address spaces, and all of x86's usage is limited to non-SMM.  The
calls in (or reachable by) {svm,vmx}_enter_smm() are made before
enter_smm() sets HF_SMM_MASK, and the calls in {svm,vmx}_leave_smm() are
made after emulator_leave_smm() clears HF_SMM_MASK.

Note, kvm_vcpu_unmap() uses the vCPU specific memslots, only the map() side
of things is broken.

Fixes: 357a18ad23 ("KVM: Kill kvm_map_gfn() / kvm_unmap_gfn() and gfn_to_pfn_cache")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121223444.355422-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:58:21 -08:00
Jakub Kicinski
56d0aea041 MAINTAINERS: add docs and selftest to the TLS file list
The TLS MAINTAINERS entry does not seem to cover the selftest
or docs. Add those. While at it remove the unnecessary wildcard
from net/tls/, there are no subdirectories anyway so this change
has no impact today.

Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106200706.1596250-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-01-08 11:52:46 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
d374b89edb KVM: VMX: Add mediated PMU support for CPUs without "save perf global ctrl"
Extend mediated PMU support for Intel CPUs without support for saving
PERF_GLOBAL_CONTROL into the guest VMCS field on VM-Exit, e.g. for Skylake
and its derivatives, as well as Icelake.  While supporting CPUs without
VM_EXIT_SAVE_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL isn't completely trivial, it's not that
complex either.  And not supporting such CPUs would mean not supporting 7+
years of Intel CPUs released in the past 10 years.

On VM-Exit, immediately propagate the saved PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL to the VMCS
as well as KVM's software cache so that KVM doesn't need to add full EXREG
tracking of PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL.  In practice, the vast majority of VM-Exits
won't trigger software writes to guest PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL, so deferring the
VMWRITE to the next VM-Enter would only delay the inevitable without
batching/avoiding VMWRITEs.

Note!  Take care to refresh VM_EXIT_MSR_STORE_COUNT on nested VM-Exit, as
it's unfortunately possible that KVM could recalculate MSR intercepts
while L2 is active, e.g. if userspace loads nested state and _then_ sets
PERF_CAPABILITIES.  Eating the VMWRITE on every nested VM-Exit is
unfortunate, but that's a pre-existing problem and can/should be solved
separately, e.g. modifying the number of auto-load entries while L2 is
active is also uncommon on modern CPUs.

Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-45-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:23 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
9757a5aebc KVM: VMX: Initialize vmcs01.VM_EXIT_MSR_STORE_ADDR with list address
Initialize vmcs01.VM_EXIT_MSR_STORE_ADDR to point at the vCPU's
msr_autostore list in anticipation of utilizing the auto-store
functionality, and to harden KVM against stray reads to pfn 0 (or, in
theory, a random pfn if the underlying CPU uses a complex scheme for
encoding VMCS data).  The MSR auto lists are supposed to be ignored if the
associated COUNT VMCS field is '0', but leaving the ADDR field
zero-initialized in memory is an unnecessary risk (albeit a minuscule risk)
given that the cost is a single VMWRITE during vCPU creation.

Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-44-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:22 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
c3d6a7210a KVM: VMX: Dedup code for adding MSR to VMCS's auto list
Add a helper to add an MSR to a VMCS's "auto" list to deduplicate the code
in add_atomic_switch_msr(), and so that the functionality can be used in
the future for managing the MSR auto-store list.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-43-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:22 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
2239d137a7 KVM: VMX: Compartmentalize adding MSRs to host vs. guest auto-load list
Undo the bundling of the "host" and "guest" MSR auto-load list logic so
that the code can be deduplicated by factoring out the logic to a separate
helper.  Now that "list full" situations are treated as fatal to the VM,
there is no need to pre-check both lists.

For all intents and purposes, this reverts the add_atomic_switch_msr()
changes made by commit 3190709335 ("x86/KVM/VMX: Separate the VMX
AUTOLOAD guest/host number accounting").

Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-42-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:21 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
0c4ff0866f KVM: VMX: Set MSR index auto-load entry if and only if entry is "new"
When adding an MSR to the auto-load lists, update the MSR index in the
list entry if and only if a new entry is being inserted, as 'i' can only
be non-negative if vmx_find_loadstore_msr_slot() found an entry with the
MSR's index.  Unnecessarily setting the index is benign, but it makes it
harder to see that updating the value is necessary even when an existing
entry for the MSR was found.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-41-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:20 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
2ed57bb899 KVM: VMX: Bug the VM if either MSR auto-load list is full
WARN and bug the VM if either MSR auto-load list is full when adding an
MSR to the lists, as the set of MSRs that KVM loads via the lists is
finite and entirely KVM controlled, i.e. overflowing the lists shouldn't
be possible in a fully released version of KVM.  Terminate the VM as the
core KVM infrastructure has no insight as to _why_ an MSR is being added
to the list, and failure to load an MSR on VM-Enter and/or VM-Exit could
be fatal to the host.  E.g. running the host with a guest-controlled PEBS
MSR could generate unexpected writes to the DS buffer and crash the host.

Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-40-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:20 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
84ac00042a KVM: VMX: Drop unused @entry_only param from add_atomic_switch_msr()
Drop the "on VM-Enter only" parameter from add_atomic_switch_msr() as it
is no longer used, and for all intents and purposes was never used.  The
functionality was added, under embargo, by commit 989e3992d2
("x86/KVM/VMX: Extend add_atomic_switch_msr() to allow VMENTER only MSRs"),
and then ripped out by commit 2f055947ae ("x86/kvm: Drop L1TF MSR list
approach") just a few commits later.

  2f055947ae x86/kvm: Drop L1TF MSR list approach
  72c6d2db64 x86/litf: Introduce vmx status variable
  215af5499d cpu/hotplug: Online siblings when SMT control is turned on
  390d975e0c x86/KVM/VMX: Use MSR save list for IA32_FLUSH_CMD if required
  989e3992d2 x86/KVM/VMX: Extend add_atomic_switch_msr() to allow VMENTER only MSRs

Furthermore, it's extremely unlikely KVM will ever _need_ to load an MSR
value via the auto-load lists only on VM-Enter.  MSRs writes via the lists
aren't optimized in any way, and so the only reason to use the lists
instead of a WRMSR are for cases where the MSR _must_ be load atomically
with respect to VM-Enter (and/or VM-Exit).  While one could argue that
command MSRs, e.g. IA32_FLUSH_CMD, "need" to be done exact at VM-Enter, in
practice doing such flushes within a few instructons of VM-Enter is more
than sufficient.

Note, the shortlog and changelog for commit 390d975e0c ("x86/KVM/VMX: Use
MSR save list for IA32_FLUSH_CMD if required") are misleading and wrong.
That commit added MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD to the VM-Enter _load_ list, not the
VM-Enter save list (which doesn't exist, only VM-Exit has a store/save
list).

Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-39-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:19 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
0bd2937911 KVM: VMX: Dedup code for removing MSR from VMCS's auto-load list
Add a helper to remove an MSR from an auto-{load,store} list to dedup the
msr_autoload code, and in anticipation of adding similar functionality for
msr_autostore.

No functional change intended.

Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-38-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:18 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
58f21a0141 KVM: nVMX: Don't update msr_autostore count when saving TSC for vmcs12
Rework nVMX's use of the MSR auto-store list to snapshot TSC to sneak
MSR_IA32_TSC into the list _without_ updating KVM's software tracking,
and drop the generic functionality so that future usage of the store list
for nested specific logic needs to consider the implications of modifying
the list.  Updating the list only for vmcs02 and only on nested VM-Enter
is a disaster waiting to happen, as it means vmcs01 is stale relative to
the software tracking, and KVM could unintentionally leave an MSR in the
store list in perpetuity while running L1, e.g. if KVM addressed the first
issue and updated vmcs01 on nested VM-Exit without removing TSC from the
list.

Furthermore, mixing KVM's desire to save an MSR with L1's desire to save
an MSR result KVM clobbering/ignoring the needs of vmcs01 or vmcs02.
E.g. if KVM added MSR_IA32_TSC to the store list for its own purposes, and
then _removed_ MSR_IA32_TSC from the list after emulating nested VM-Enter,
then KVM would remove MSR_IA32_TSC from the list even though saving TSC on
VM-Exit from L2 is still desirable (to provide L1 with an accurate TSC).

Similarly, removing an MSR from the list based on vmcs12's settings could
drop an MSR that KVM wants to save for its own purposes.

In practice, the issues are currently benign, because KVM doesn't use the
store list for vmcs01.  But that will change with upcoming mediated PMU
support.

Alternatively, a "full" solution would be to track MSR list entries for
vmcs12 separately from KVM's standard lists, but MSR_IA32_TSC is likely
the only MSR that KVM would ever want to save on _every_ VM-Exit purely
based on vmcs12.  I.e. the added complexity isn't remotely justified at
this time.

Opportunistically escalate from a pr_warn_ratelimited() to a full WARN as
KVM reserves eight entries in each MSR list, and as above KVM uses at most
one entry.

Opportunistically make vmx_find_loadstore_msr_slot() local to vmx.c as
using it directly from nested code is unsafe due to the potential for
mixing vmcs01 and vmcs02 state (see above).

Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-37-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:17 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
462f092dc5 KVM: VMX: Drop intermediate "guest" field from msr_autostore
Drop the intermediate "guest" field from vcpu_vmx.msr_autostore as the
value saved on VM-Exit isn't guaranteed to be the guest's value, it's
purely whatever is in hardware at the time of VM-Exit.  E.g. KVM's only
use of the store list at the momemnt is to snapshot TSC at VM-Exit, and
the value saved is always the raw TSC even if TSC-offseting and/or
TSC-scaling is enabled for the guest.

And unlike msr_autoload, there is no need differentiate between "on-entry"
and "on-exit".

No functional change intended.

Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-36-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:17 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
b0b6a8d3be KVM: x86/pmu: Elide WRMSRs when loading guest PMCs if values already match
When loading a mediated PMU state, elide the WRMSRs to load PMCs with the
guest's value if the value in hardware already matches the guest's value.
For the relatively common case where neither the guest nor the host is
actively using the PMU, i.e. when all/many counters are '0', eliding the
WRMSRs reduces the latency of handling VM-Exit by a measurable amount
(WRMSR is significantly more expensive than RDPMC).

As measured by KVM-Unit-Tests' CPUID VM-Exit testcase, this provides a
a ~25% reduction in latency (4k => 3k cycles) on Intel Emerald Rapids,
and a ~13% reduction (6.2k => 5.3k cycles) on AMD Turin.

Cc: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-35-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:16 -08:00
Dapeng Mi
860bcb1021 KVM: x86/pmu: Expose enable_mediated_pmu parameter to user space
Expose enable_mediated_pmu parameter to user space, i.e. allow userspace
to enable/disable mediated vPMU support.

Document the mediated versus perf-based behavior as part of the
kernel-parameters.txt entry, and opportunistically add an entry for the
core enable_pmu param as well.

Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-34-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:15 -08:00
Sean Christopherson
3b36160d94 KVM: nSVM: Disable PMU MSR interception as appropriate while running L2
Add MSRs that might be passed through to L1 when running with a mediated
PMU to the nested SVM's set of to-be-merged MSR indices, i.e. disable
interception of PMU MSRs when running L2 if both KVM (L0) and L1 disable
interception.  There is no need for KVM to interpose on such MSR accesses,
e.g. if L1 exposes a mediated PMU (or equivalent) to L2.

Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-33-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2026-01-08 11:52:15 -08:00