KVM: nVMX: Remove unnecessary TLB flushes on L1<->L2 switches when L1 use apic-access-page
According to Intel SDM section 28.3.3.3/28.3.3.4 Guidelines for Use
of the INVVPID/INVEPT Instruction, the hypervisor needs to execute
INVVPID/INVEPT X in case CPU executes VMEntry with VPID/EPTP X and
either: "Virtualize APIC accesses" VM-execution control was changed
from 0 to 1, OR the value of apic_access_page was changed.
In the nested case, the burden falls on L1, unless L0 enables EPT in
vmcs02 but L1 enables neither EPT nor VPID in vmcs12. For this reason
prepare_vmcs02() and load_vmcs12_host_state() have special code to
request a TLB flush in case L1 does not use EPT but it uses
"virtualize APIC accesses".
This special case however is not necessary. On a nested vmentry the
physical TLB will already be flushed except if all the following apply:
* L0 uses VPID
* L1 uses VPID
* L0 can guarantee TLB entries populated while running L1 are tagged
differently than TLB entries populated while running L2.
If the first condition is false, the processor will flush the TLB
on vmentry to L2. If the second or third condition are false,
prepare_vmcs02() will request KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH. However, even
if both are true, no extra TLB flush is needed to handle the APIC
access page:
* if L1 doesn't use VPID, the second condition doesn't hold and the
TLB will be flushed anyway.
* if L1 uses VPID, it has to flush the TLB itself with INVVPID and
section 28.3.3.3 doesn't apply to L0.
* even INVEPT is not needed because, if L0 uses EPT, it uses different
EPTP when running L2 than L1 (because guest_mode is part of mmu-role).
In this case SDM section 28.3.3.4 doesn't apply.
Similarly, examining nested_vmx_vmexit()->load_vmcs12_host_state(),
one could note that L0 won't flush TLB only in cases where SDM sections
28.3.3.3 and 28.3.3.4 don't apply. In particular, if L0 uses different
VPIDs for L1 and L2 (i.e. vmx->vpid != vmx->nested.vpid02), section
28.3.3.3 doesn't apply.
Thus, remove this flush from prepare_vmcs02() and nested_vmx_vmexit().
Side-note: This patch can be viewed as removing parts of commit
fb6c81984313 ("kvm: vmx: Flush TLB when the APIC-access address changes”)
that is not relevant anymore since commit
1313cc2bd8f6 ("kvm: mmu: Add guest_mode to kvm_mmu_page_role”).
i.e. The first commit assumes that if L0 use EPT and L1 doesn’t use EPT,
then L0 will use same EPTP for both L0 and L1. Which indeed required
L0 to execute INVEPT before entering L2 guest. This assumption is
not true anymore since when guest_mode was added to mmu-role.
Reviewed-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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