Concerns were expressed around APF events delivery when CPU is not
in user mode (KVM_ASYNC_PF_SEND_ALWAYS), e.g.
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/ed71d0967113a35f670a9625a058b8e6e0b2f104.1583547991.git.l...@kernel.org/
'Page ready' events are already free from '#PF abuse' but 'page not ready'
notifications still go through #PF (to be changed in the future). Make the
probability of running into issues when APF collides with regular #PF lower
by deprecating KVM_ASYNC_PF_SEND_ALWAYS. The feature doesn't seem to be
important enough for any particular workload to notice the difference.
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuzn...@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 -
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 3 ---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 13 +++++++++----
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 356c02bfa587..f491214b7667 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -769,7 +769,6 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
u64 msr_int_val; /* MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_INT */
u16 vec;
u32 id;
- bool send_user_only;
u32 host_apf_flags;
unsigned long nested_apf_token;
bool delivery_as_pf_vmexit;
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
index 812e9b4c1114..3cae0faac2b8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ struct kvm_clock_pairing {
#define KVM_MAX_MMU_OP_BATCH 32
#define KVM_ASYNC_PF_ENABLED (1 << 0)
-#define KVM_ASYNC_PF_SEND_ALWAYS (1 << 1)
+#define KVM_ASYNC_PF_SEND_ALWAYS (1 << 1) /* deprecated */
#define KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_PF_VMEXIT (1 << 2)
#define KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_INT (1 << 3)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index 79730eaef1e1..add123302122 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -324,9 +324,6 @@ static void kvm_guest_cpu_init(void)
if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_INT) && kvmapf) {
u64 pa = slow_virt_to_phys(this_cpu_ptr(&apf_reason));
-#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPTION
- pa |= KVM_ASYNC_PF_SEND_ALWAYS;
-#endif
pa |= KVM_ASYNC_PF_ENABLED | KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_INT;
if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_VMEXIT))
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index cc1bf6cfc5e0..8222133bf5be 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2648,7 +2648,10 @@ static int kvm_pv_enable_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
u64 data)
{
gpa_t gpa = data & ~0x3f;
- /* Bits 4:5 are reserved, Should be zero */
+ /*
+ * Bits 4:5 are reserved and should be zero. Bit 1
+ * (KVM_ASYNC_PF_SEND_ALWAYS) was deprecated and is being ignored.
+ */
if (data & 0x30)
return 1;
@@ -2664,7 +2667,6 @@ static int kvm_pv_enable_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
u64 data)
sizeof(u64)))
return 1;
- vcpu->arch.apf.send_user_only = !(data & KVM_ASYNC_PF_SEND_ALWAYS);
vcpu->arch.apf.delivery_as_pf_vmexit = data &
KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_PF_VMEXIT;
kvm_async_pf_wakeup_all(vcpu);
@@ -10433,8 +10435,11 @@ static bool kvm_can_deliver_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu
*vcpu)
if (!vcpu->arch.apf.delivery_as_pf_vmexit && is_guest_mode(vcpu))
return false;
- if (!kvm_pv_async_pf_enabled(vcpu) ||
- (vcpu->arch.apf.send_user_only && kvm_x86_ops.get_cpl(vcpu) == 0))
+ /*
+ * 'Page not present' APF events are only delivered when CPU is in
+ * user mode and APF mechanism is enabled.
+ */
+ if (!kvm_pv_async_pf_enabled(vcpu) || kvm_x86_ops.get_cpl(vcpu) == 0)
return false;
return true;
--
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