kernel.git/include/linux/kvm_host.h, branch linux-6.11.y

KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task

2024-12-05T12:54:09Z

commit d96c77bd4eeba469bddbbb14323d2191684da82a upstream. kvm_vm_create_worker_thread() is meant to be used for kthreads that can consume significant amounts of CPU time on behalf of a VM or in response to how the VM behaves (for example how it accesses its memory). Therefore it wants to charge the CPU time consumed by that work to the VM's container. However, because of these threads, cgroups which have kvm instances inside never complete freezing. This can be trivially reproduced: root@test ~# mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test root@test ~# echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs root@test ~# qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -enable-kvm and in another terminal: root@test ~# echo 1 > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.freeze root@test ~# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.events populated 1 frozen 0 The cgroup freezing happens in the signal delivery path but kvm_nx_huge_page_recovery_worker, while joining non-root cgroups, never calls into the signal delivery path and thus never gets frozen. Because the cgroup freezer determines whether a given cgroup is frozen by comparing the number of frozen threads to the total number of threads in the cgroup, the cgroup never becomes frozen and users waiting for the state transition may hang indefinitely. Since the worker kthread is tied to a user process, it's better if it behaves similarly to user tasks as much as possible, including being able to send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT. In fact, vhost_task is all that kvm_vm_create_worker_thread() wanted to be and more: not only it inherits the userspace process's cgroups, it has other niceties like being parented properly in the process tree. Use it instead of the homegrown alternative. Incidentally, the new code is also better behaved when you flip recovery back and forth to disabled and back to enabled. If your recovery period is 1 minute, it will run the next recovery after 1 minute independent of how many times you flipped the parameter. (Commit message based on emails from Tejun). Reported-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Luca Boccassi Acked-by: Tejun Heo Tested-by: Luca Boccassi Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kvm: Note an RCU quiescent state on guest exit

2024-09-04T14:44:42Z

As of today, KVM notes a quiescent state only in guest entry, which is good as it avoids the guest being interrupted for current RCU operations. While the guest vcpu runs, it can be interrupted by a timer IRQ that will check for any RCU operations waiting for this CPU. In case there are any of such, it invokes rcu_core() in order to sched-out the current thread and note a quiescent state. This occasional schedule work will introduce tens of microsseconds of latency, which is really bad for vcpus running latency-sensitive applications, such as real-time workloads. So, note a quiescent state in guest exit, so the interrupted guests is able to deal with any pending RCU operations before being required to invoke rcu_core(), and thus avoid the overhead of related scheduler work. Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Sean Christopherson Message-ID: <20240511020557.1198200-1-leobras@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: x86: Disallow read-only memslots for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP (and TDX)

2024-08-14T16:28:24Z

Disallow read-only memslots for SEV-{ES,SNP} VM types, as KVM can't directly emulate instructions for ES/SNP, and instead the guest must explicitly request emulation. Unless the guest explicitly requests emulation without accessing memory, ES/SNP relies on KVM creating an MMIO SPTE, with the subsequent #NPF being reflected into the guest as a #VC. But for read-only memslots, KVM deliberately doesn't create MMIO SPTEs, because except for ES/SNP, doing so requires setting reserved bits in the SPTE, i.e. the SPTE can't be readable while also generating a #VC on writes. Because KVM never creates MMIO SPTEs and jumps directly to emulation, the guest never gets a #VC. And since KVM simply resumes the guest if ES/SNP guests trigger emulation, KVM effectively puts the vCPU into an infinite #NPF loop if the vCPU attempts to write read-only memory. Disallow read-only memory for all VMs with protected state, i.e. for upcoming TDX VMs as well as ES/SNP VMs. For TDX, it's actually possible to support read-only memory, as TDX uses EPT Violation #VE to reflect the fault into the guest, e.g. KVM could configure read-only SPTEs with RX protections and SUPPRESS_VE=0. But there is no strong use case for supporting read-only memslots on TDX, e.g. the main historical usage is to emulate option ROMs, but TDX disallows executing from shared memory. And if someone comes along with a legitimate, strong use case, the restriction can always be lifted for TDX. Don't bother trying to retroactively apply the restriction to SEV-ES VMs that are created as type KVM_X86_DEFAULT_VM. Read-only memslots can't possibly work for SEV-ES, i.e. disallowing such memslots is really just means reporting an error to userspace instead of silently hanging vCPUs. Trying to deal with the ordering between KVM_SEV_INIT and memslot creation isn't worth the marginal benefit it would provide userspace. Fixes: 26c44aa9e076 ("KVM: SEV: define VM types for SEV and SEV-ES") Fixes: 1dfe571c12cf ("KVM: SEV: Add initial SEV-SNP support") Cc: Peter Gonda Cc: Michael Roth Cc: Vishal Annapurve Cc: Ackerly Tng Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Message-ID: <20240809190319.1710470-2-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: guest_memfd: let kvm_gmem_populate() operate only on private gfns

2024-07-26T18:46:15Z

This check is currently performed by sev_gmem_post_populate(), but it applies to all callers of kvm_gmem_populate(): the point of the function is that the memory is being encrypted and some work has to be done on all the gfns in order to encrypt them. Therefore, check the KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE attribute prior to invoking the callback, and stop the operation if a shared page is encountered. Because CONFIG_KVM_PRIVATE_MEM in principle does not require attributes, this makes kvm_gmem_populate() depend on CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_PRIVATE_MEM (which does require them). Reviewed-by: Michael Roth Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: extend kvm_range_has_memory_attributes() to check subset of attributes

2024-07-26T18:46:15Z

While currently there is no other attribute than KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE, KVM code such as kvm_mem_is_private() is written to expect their existence. Allow using kvm_range_has_memory_attributes() as a multi-page version of kvm_mem_is_private(), without it breaking later when more attributes are introduced. Reviewed-by: Michael Roth Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: remove kvm_arch_gmem_prepare_needed()

2024-07-26T18:46:14Z

It is enough to return 0 if a guest need not do any preparation. This is in fact how sev_gmem_prepare() works for non-SNP guests, and it extends naturally to Intel hosts: the x86 callback for gmem_prepare is optional and returns 0 if not defined. Reviewed-by: Michael Roth Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: rename CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_GMEM_* to CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_GMEM_*

2024-07-26T18:46:14Z

Add "ARCH" to the symbols; shortly, the "prepare" phase will include both the arch-independent step to clear out contents left in the page by the host, and the arch-dependent step enabled by CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_GMEM_PREPARE. For consistency do the same for CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_GMEM_INVALIDATE as well. Reviewed-by: Michael Roth Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'kvm-x86-generic-6.11' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD

2024-07-16T13:51:36Z

KVM generic changes for 6.11 - Enable halt poll shrinking by default, as Intel found it to be a clear win. - Setup empty IRQ routing when creating a VM to avoid having to synchronize SRCU when creating a split IRQCHIP on x86. - Rework the sched_in/out() paths to replace kvm_arch_sched_in() with a flag that arch code can use for hooking both sched_in() and sched_out(). - Take the vCPU @id as an "unsigned long" instead of "u32" to avoid truncating a bogus value from userspace, e.g. to help userspace detect bugs. - Mark a vCPU as preempted if and only if it's scheduled out while in the KVM_RUN loop, e.g. to avoid marking it preempted and thus writing guest memory when retrieving guest state during live migration blackout. - A few minor cleanups

KVM: Add KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY vcpu ioctl to pre-populate guest memory

2024-07-12T15:17:35Z

Add a new ioctl KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY in the KVM common code. It iterates on the memory range and calls the arch-specific function. The implementation is optional and enabled by a Kconfig symbol. Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe Message-ID: <819322b8f25971f2b9933bfa4506e618508ad782.1712785629.git.isaku.yamahata@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: Introduce vcpu->wants_to_run

2024-06-18T16:20:01Z

Introduce vcpu->wants_to_run to indicate when a vCPU is in its core run loop, i.e. when the vCPU is running the KVM_RUN ioctl and immediate_exit was not set. Replace all references to vcpu->run->immediate_exit with !vcpu->wants_to_run to avoid TOCTOU races with userspace. For example, a malicious userspace could invoked KVM_RUN with immediate_exit=true and then after KVM reads it to set wants_to_run=false, flip it to false. This would result in the vCPU running in KVM_RUN with wants_to_run=false. This wouldn't cause any real bugs today but is a dangerous landmine. Signed-off-by: David Matlack Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503181734.1467938-2-dmatlack@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson