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)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tue, 2 Jul 2019 17:01:56 +0000 (19:01 +0200)
commitb119019847fbcac36ed1384f166c91f177d070e7
treef79d1fb038e89f807ac7cbc6f8cf1fb6b30f590d
parent9824c83f92bc8351dfb5c387436cc2816616fb4a
kvm: nVMX: Remove unnecessary sync_roots from handle_invept

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>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c