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Sean Christopherson 775bc09865 KVM: VMX: Drop manual TLB flush when migrating vmcs.APIC_ACCESS_ADDR 
Remove the superfluous flush of the current TLB in VMX's handling of
migration of the APIC-access page, as a full TLB flush on all vCPUs will
have already been performed in response to kvm_unmap_gfn_range() *if*
there were SPTEs pointing at the APIC-access page.  And if there were no
valid SPTEs, then there can't possibly be TLB entries to flush.

The extra flush was added by commit fb6c819843 ("kvm: vmx: Flush TLB
when the APIC-access address changes"), with the justification of "because
the SDM says so".  The SDM said, and still says:

 As detailed in Section xx.x.x, an access to the APIC-access page might
 not cause an APIC-access VM exit if software does not properly invalidate
 information that may be cached from the EPT paging structures. If EPT was
 in use on a logical processor at one time with EPTP X, it is recommended
 that software use the INVEPT instruction with the “single-context” INVEPT
 type and with EPTP X in the INVEPT descriptor before a VM entry on the
 same logical processor that enables EPT with EPTP X and either (a) the
 "virtualize APIC accesses" VM- execution control was changed from 0 to 1;
 or (b) the value of the APIC-access address was changed.

But the "recommendation" for (b) is predicated on there actually being
a valid EPT translation *and* possible TLB entries for the GPA (or guest
VA when using shadow paging).  It's possible that a different vCPU has
established a mapping for the new page, but the current vCPU can't have
entered the guest, i.e. can't have created a TLB entry, between flushing
the old mappings and changing its vmcs.APIC_ACCESS_ADDR.

kvm_unmap_gfn_range() waits for all vCPUs to ack KVM_REQ_APIC_PAGE_RELOAD,
and then flushes remote TLBs (which may or may not also pend a request).
Thus the vCPU is guaranteed to update vmcs.APIC_ACCESS_ADDR before
re-entering the guest and before it can possibly create new TLB entries.

In other words, KVM does flush in this case, it just does so earlier
on while handling the page migration.

Note, VMX also flushes if the vCPU is migrated to a new pCPU, i.e. if
the vCPU is migrated to a pCPU that entered the guest for a different
vCPU.

Suggested-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230721233858.2343941-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
History 2023-08-02 16:41:15 -07:00
arch KVM: VMX: Drop manual TLB flush when migrating vmcs.APIC_ACCESS_ADDR 2023-08-02 16:41:15 -07:00
block SCSI fixes on 20230714 2023-07-14 19:57:29 -07:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto crypto: algif_hash - Fix race between MORE and non-MORE sends 2023-07-08 22:48:42 +10:00
Documentation SCSI fixes on 20230714 2023-07-14 19:57:29 -07:00
drivers Pin control fixes for the v6.5 series: 2023-07-16 12:55:31 -07:00
fs Five smb3 client fixes 2023-07-16 12:49:05 -07:00
include - Remove a cgroup from under a polling process properly 2023-07-16 13:22:08 -07:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.5 2023-07-01 09:24:31 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.5-2023-07-14 2023-07-14 19:46:54 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel - Remove a cgroup from under a polling process properly 2023-07-16 13:22:08 -07:00
lib iov_iter: Mark copy_iovec_from_user() noclone 2023-07-10 09:52:28 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm: lock newly mapped VMA with corrected ordering 2023-07-08 16:44:11 -07:00
net A fix to prevent a potential buffer overrun in the messenger, marked 2023-07-14 09:05:15 -07:00
rust rust: error: impl Debug for Error with errname() integration 2023-06-13 01:24:42 +02:00
samples arm64: ftrace: Add direct call trampoline samples support 2023-07-10 17:51:54 -04:00
scripts kallsyms: strip LTO-only suffixes from promoted global functions 2023-07-12 15:39:34 -07:00
security + Bug Fixes 2023-07-07 09:55:31 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 6.5-rc1 2023-07-07 15:40:17 -07:00
tools - Mark copy_iovec_from_user() __noclone in order to prevent gcc from 2023-07-16 13:34:29 -07:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt ARM64: 2023-07-03 15:32:22 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Revert ".gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx" 2023-07-04 15:05:12 -07:00
.mailmap spi: Fixes for v6.5 2023-07-15 08:51:02 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS - Address -Wmissing-prototype warnings 2023-06-26 16:43:54 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS hardening fixes for v6.5-rc2 2023-07-16 12:18:18 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.5-rc2 2023-07-16 15:10:37 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.