On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 4:32 PM Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> From: Chao Peng <chao.p.p...@linux.intel.com>
>
> Add a new KVM exit type to allow userspace to handle memory faults that
> KVM cannot resolve, but that userspace *may* be able to handle (without
> terminating the guest).
>
> KVM will initially use KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT to report implicit
> conversions between private and shared memory.  With guest private memory,
> there will be two kind of memory conversions:
>
>   - explicit conversion: happens when the guest explicitly calls into KVM
>     to map a range (as private or shared)
>
>   - implicit conversion: happens when the guest attempts to access a gfn
>     that is configured in the "wrong" state (private vs. shared)
>
> On x86 (first architecture to support guest private memory), explicit
> conversions will be reported via KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL+KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE,
> but reporting KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL for implicit conversions is undesriable
> as there is (obviously) no hypercall, and there is no guarantee that the
> guest actually intends to convert between private and shared, i.e. what
> KVM thinks is an implicit conversion "request" could actually be the
> result of a guest code bug.
>
> KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT will be used to report memory faults that appear to
> be implicit conversions.
>
> Note!  To allow for future possibilities where KVM reports
> KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT and fills run->memory_fault on _any_ unresolved
> fault, KVM returns "-EFAULT" (-1 with errno == EFAULT from userspace's
> perspective), not '0'!  Due to historical baggage within KVM, exiting to
> userspace with '0' from deep callstacks, e.g. in emulation paths, is
> infeasible as doing so would require a near-complete overhaul of KVM,
> whereas KVM already propagates -errno return codes to userspace even when
> the -errno originated in a low level helper.
>
> Report the gpa+size instead of a single gfn even though the initial usage
> is expected to always report single pages.  It's entirely possible, likely
> even, that KVM will someday support sub-page granularity faults, e.g.
> Intel's sub-page protection feature allows for additional protections at
> 128-byte granularity.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230908222905.1321305-5-amoor...@google.com
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/zq3amlo2syv3d...@google.com
> Cc: Anish Moorthy <amoor...@google.com>
> Cc: David Matlack <dmatl...@google.com>
> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com>
> Co-developed-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zh...@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zh...@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.p...@linux.intel.com>
> Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> Message-Id: <20231027182217.3615211-10-sea...@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <ta...@google.com>
Tested-by: Fuad Tabba <ta...@google.com>

Cheers,
/fuad

>  Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c             |  1 +
>  include/linux/kvm_host.h       | 11 +++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/kvm.h       |  8 +++++++
>  4 files changed, 61 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
> index bdea1423c5f8..481fb0e2ce90 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
> @@ -6846,6 +6846,26 @@ array field represents return values. The userspace 
> should update the return
>  values of SBI call before resuming the VCPU. For more details on RISC-V SBI
>  spec refer, https://github.com/riscv/riscv-sbi-doc.
>
> +::
> +
> +               /* KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT */
> +               struct {
> +                       __u64 flags;
> +                       __u64 gpa;
> +                       __u64 size;
> +               } memory_fault;
> +
> +KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT indicates the vCPU has encountered a memory fault that
> +could not be resolved by KVM.  The 'gpa' and 'size' (in bytes) describe the
> +guest physical address range [gpa, gpa + size) of the fault.  The 'flags' 
> field
> +describes properties of the faulting access that are likely pertinent.
> +Currently, no flags are defined.
> +
> +Note!  KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT is unique among all KVM exit reasons in that it
> +accompanies a return code of '-1', not '0'!  errno will always be set to 
> EFAULT
> +or EHWPOISON when KVM exits with KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT, userspace should 
> assume
> +kvm_run.exit_reason is stale/undefined for all other error numbers.
> +
>  ::
>
>      /* KVM_EXIT_NOTIFY */
> @@ -7880,6 +7900,27 @@ This capability is aimed to mitigate the threat that 
> malicious VMs can
>  cause CPU stuck (due to event windows don't open up) and make the CPU
>  unavailable to host or other VMs.
>
> +7.34 KVM_CAP_MEMORY_FAULT_INFO
> +------------------------------
> +
> +:Architectures: x86
> +:Returns: Informational only, -EINVAL on direct KVM_ENABLE_CAP.
> +
> +The presence of this capability indicates that KVM_RUN will fill
> +kvm_run.memory_fault if KVM cannot resolve a guest page fault VM-Exit, e.g. 
> if
> +there is a valid memslot but no backing VMA for the corresponding host 
> virtual
> +address.
> +
> +The information in kvm_run.memory_fault is valid if and only if KVM_RUN 
> returns
> +an error with errno=EFAULT or errno=EHWPOISON *and* kvm_run.exit_reason is 
> set
> +to KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT.
> +
> +Note: Userspaces which attempt to resolve memory faults so that they can 
> retry
> +KVM_RUN are encouraged to guard against repeatedly receiving the same
> +error/annotated fault.
> +
> +See KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT for more information.
> +
>  8. Other capabilities.
>  ======================
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 7b389f27dffc..8f9d8939b63b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -4625,6 +4625,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long 
> ext)
>         case KVM_CAP_ENABLE_CAP:
>         case KVM_CAP_VM_DISABLE_NX_HUGE_PAGES:
>         case KVM_CAP_IRQFD_RESAMPLE:
> +       case KVM_CAP_MEMORY_FAULT_INFO:
>                 r = 1;
>                 break;
>         case KVM_CAP_EXIT_HYPERCALL:
> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> index 4e741ff27af3..96aa930536b1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> @@ -2327,4 +2327,15 @@ static inline void kvm_account_pgtable_pages(void 
> *virt, int nr)
>  /* Max number of entries allowed for each kvm dirty ring */
>  #define  KVM_DIRTY_RING_MAX_ENTRIES  65536
>
> +static inline void kvm_prepare_memory_fault_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> +                                                gpa_t gpa, gpa_t size)
> +{
> +       vcpu->run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT;
> +       vcpu->run->memory_fault.gpa = gpa;
> +       vcpu->run->memory_fault.size = size;
> +
> +       /* Flags are not (yet) defined or communicated to userspace. */
> +       vcpu->run->memory_fault.flags = 0;
> +}
> +
>  #endif
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> index 308cc70bd6ab..59010a685007 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
> @@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ struct kvm_xen_exit {
>  #define KVM_EXIT_RISCV_CSR        36
>  #define KVM_EXIT_NOTIFY           37
>  #define KVM_EXIT_LOONGARCH_IOCSR  38
> +#define KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT     39
>
>  /* For KVM_EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR */
>  /* Emulate instruction failed. */
> @@ -528,6 +529,12 @@ struct kvm_run {
>  #define KVM_NOTIFY_CONTEXT_INVALID     (1 << 0)
>                         __u32 flags;
>                 } notify;
> +               /* KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT */
> +               struct {
> +                       __u64 flags;
> +                       __u64 gpa;
> +                       __u64 size;
> +               } memory_fault;
>                 /* Fix the size of the union. */
>                 char padding[256];
>         };
> @@ -1212,6 +1219,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_resize_hpt {
>  #define KVM_CAP_ARM_SUPPORTED_BLOCK_SIZES 229
>  #define KVM_CAP_ARM_SUPPORTED_REG_MASK_RANGES 230
>  #define KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY2 231
> +#define KVM_CAP_MEMORY_FAULT_INFO 232
>
>  #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING
>
> --
> 2.39.1
>
>

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