From: Sean Christopherson Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 16:31:17 +0000 (-0700) Subject: KVM: nVMX: Skip IBPB when switching between vmcs01 and vmcs02 X-Git-Tag: v5.8-rc1~168^2~103 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5c911beff20aa8639e7a1f28988736c13e03ed54;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git KVM: nVMX: Skip IBPB when switching between vmcs01 and vmcs02 Skip the Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier that is triggered on a VMCS switch when running with spectre_v2_user=on/auto if the switch is between two VMCSes in the same guest, i.e. between vmcs01 and vmcs02. The IBPB is intended to prevent one guest from attacking another, which is unnecessary in the nested case as it's the same guest from KVM's perspective. This all but eliminates the overhead observed for nested VMX transitions when running with CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y and spectre_v2_user=on/auto, which can be significant, e.g. roughly 3x on current systems. Reported-by: Alexander Graf Cc: KarimAllah Raslan Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 15d45071523d ("KVM/x86: Add IBPB support") Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Message-Id: <20200501163117.4655-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> [Invert direction of bool argument. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c index 669445136144d..7f754b3bc6dd6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static void vmx_switch_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct loaded_vmcs *vmcs) cpu = get_cpu(); prev = vmx->loaded_vmcs; vmx->loaded_vmcs = vmcs; - vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(vcpu, cpu); + vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(vcpu, cpu, prev); vmx_sync_vmcs_host_state(vmx, prev); put_cpu(); diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c index fbede089d0f7c..db842ce74e5d8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c @@ -1311,10 +1311,12 @@ after_clear_sn: pi_set_on(pi_desc); } -void vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu) +void vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu, + struct loaded_vmcs *buddy) { struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu); bool already_loaded = vmx->loaded_vmcs->cpu == cpu; + struct vmcs *prev; if (!already_loaded) { loaded_vmcs_clear(vmx->loaded_vmcs); @@ -1333,10 +1335,18 @@ void vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu) local_irq_enable(); } - if (per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu) != vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs) { + prev = per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu); + if (prev != vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs) { per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu) = vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs; vmcs_load(vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs); - indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(); + + /* + * No indirect branch prediction barrier needed when switching + * the active VMCS within a guest, e.g. on nested VM-Enter. + * The L1 VMM can protect itself with retpolines, IBPB or IBRS. + */ + if (!buddy || WARN_ON_ONCE(buddy->vmcs != prev)) + indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(); } if (!already_loaded) { @@ -1377,7 +1387,7 @@ void vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu) { struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu); - vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(vcpu, cpu); + vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(vcpu, cpu, NULL); vmx_vcpu_pi_load(vcpu, cpu); diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h index b5e773267abe9..d3d48acc6bd99 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h @@ -320,7 +320,8 @@ struct kvm_vmx { }; bool nested_vmx_allowed(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu); -void vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu); +void vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu, + struct loaded_vmcs *buddy); void vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu); int allocate_vpid(void); void free_vpid(int vpid);