Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Sep 2022 23:58:56 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 02/23] KVM: SVM: Flush the "current" TLB when activating AVIC | From | Paolo Bonzini <> |
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On 9/3/22 02:22, Sean Christopherson wrote: > Flush the TLB when activating AVIC as the CPU can insert into the TLB > while AVIC is "locally" disabled. KVM doesn't treat "APIC hardware > disabled" as VM-wide AVIC inhibition, and so when a vCPU has its APIC > hardware disabled, AVIC is not guaranteed to be inhibited. As a result, > KVM may create a valid NPT mapping for the APIC base, which the CPU can > cache as a non-AVIC translation. > > Note, Intel handles this in vmx_set_virtual_apic_mode(). > > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> > --- > arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c > index 6919dee69f18..4fbef2af1efc 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c > @@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ static void avic_activate_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm) > /* Disabling MSR intercept for x2APIC registers */ > svm_set_x2apic_msr_interception(svm, false); > } else { > + /* > + * Flush the TLB, the guest may have inserted a non-APIC > + * mappings into the TLB while AVIC was disabled.
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Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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> + */ > + kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH_CURRENT, &svm->vcpu); > + > /* For xAVIC and hybrid-xAVIC modes */ > vmcb->control.avic_physical_id |= AVIC_MAX_PHYSICAL_ID; > /* Enabling MSR intercept for x2APIC registers */
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