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kvm: nVMX: Remove unnecessary sync_roots from handle_invept
authorJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:16:08 +0000 (09:16 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 07:11:07 +0000 (09:11 +0200)
commit54d782e7c86515926b841cff21ae019c8d221bc5
tree3a1852a70bb883aec1ad2923fe5762a010e22720
parent00ab9eeb0314394237e391173657450d5cab59cc
kvm: nVMX: Remove unnecessary sync_roots from handle_invept

commit b119019847fbcac36ed1384f166c91f177d070e7 upstream.

When L0 is executing handle_invept(), the TDP MMU is active. Emulating
an L1 INVEPT does require synchronizing the appropriate shadow EPT
root(s), but a call to kvm_mmu_sync_roots in this context won't do
that. Similarly, the hardware TLB and paging-structure-cache entries
associated with the appropriate shadow EPT root(s) must be flushed,
but requesting a TLB_FLUSH from this context won't do that either.

How did this ever work? KVM always does a sync_roots and TLB flush (in
the correct context) when transitioning from L1 to L2. That isn't the
best choice for nested VM performance, but it effectively papers over
the mistakes here.

Remove the unnecessary operations and leave a comment to try to do
better in the future.

Reported-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Fixes: bfd0a56b90005f ("nEPT: Nested INVEPT")
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Cc: Xinhao Xu <xinhao.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c