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| author | Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> | 2018-08-23 13:56:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> | 2018-08-30 16:20:43 +0200 |
| commit | 472faffacd9032164f611f56329d0025ddca55b5 (patch) | |
| tree | e5736e0d6726d13b7969e55a8a9e8d9a0c931f51 /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 384bf2218e96f57118270945b1841e4dbbe9e352 (diff) | |
KVM: x86: Default to not allowing emulation retry in kvm_mmu_page_fault
Effectively force kvm_mmu_page_fault() to opt-in to allowing retry to
make it more obvious when and why it allows emulation to be retried.
Previously this approach was less convenient due to retry and
re-execute behavior being controlled by separate flags that were also
inverted in their implementations (opt-in versus opt-out).
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index 0246a1ea7f55..01fb8701ccd0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -5217,7 +5217,7 @@ static int make_mmu_pages_available(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) int kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t cr2, u64 error_code, void *insn, int insn_len) { - int r, emulation_type = EMULTYPE_ALLOW_RETRY; + int r, emulation_type = 0; enum emulation_result er; bool direct = vcpu->arch.mmu.direct_map; @@ -5230,10 +5230,8 @@ int kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t cr2, u64 error_code, r = RET_PF_INVALID; if (unlikely(error_code & PFERR_RSVD_MASK)) { r = handle_mmio_page_fault(vcpu, cr2, direct); - if (r == RET_PF_EMULATE) { - emulation_type = 0; + if (r == RET_PF_EMULATE) goto emulate; - } } if (r == RET_PF_INVALID) { @@ -5260,8 +5258,16 @@ int kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t cr2, u64 error_code, return 1; } - if (mmio_info_in_cache(vcpu, cr2, direct)) - emulation_type = 0; + /* + * vcpu->arch.mmu.page_fault returned RET_PF_EMULATE, but we can still + * optimistically try to just unprotect the page and let the processor + * re-execute the instruction that caused the page fault. Do not allow + * retrying MMIO emulation, as it's not only pointless but could also + * cause us to enter an infinite loop because the processor will keep + * faulting on the non-existent MMIO address. + */ + if (!mmio_info_in_cache(vcpu, cr2, direct)) + emulation_type = EMULTYPE_ALLOW_RETRY; emulate: /* * On AMD platforms, under certain conditions insn_len may be zero on #NPF. |