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authorMaxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>2020-09-21 13:38:05 +0300
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-09-24 13:35:07 -0400
commitee6fa053019478918ca15eadaa93e516ddb9da8d (patch)
tree573530d8d44b5c9a4a49fafdc6ab547e9cd307a4 /arch
parent18391e5e9cf59226354a864e5befa3c764eb8903 (diff)
KVM: x86: fix MSR_IA32_TSC read for nested migration
MSR reads/writes should always access the L1 state, since the (nested) hypervisor should intercept all the msrs it wants to adjust, and these that it doesn't should be read by the guest as if the host had read it. However IA32_TSC is an exception. Even when not intercepted, guest still reads the value + TSC offset. The write however does not take any TSC offset into account. This is documented in Intel's SDM and seems also to happen on AMD as well. This creates a problem when userspace wants to read the IA32_TSC value and then write it. (e.g for migration) In this case it reads L2 value but write is interpreted as an L1 value. To fix this make the userspace initiated reads of IA32_TSC return L1 value as well. Huge thanks to Dave Gilbert for helping me understand this very confusing semantic of MSR writes. Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200921103805.9102-2-mlevitsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.c17
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 67362607e396..e3fe1d126cc3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -3224,9 +3224,22 @@ int kvm_get_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info)
case MSR_IA32_POWER_CTL:
msr_info->data = vcpu->arch.msr_ia32_power_ctl;
break;
- case MSR_IA32_TSC:
- msr_info->data = kvm_scale_tsc(vcpu, rdtsc()) + vcpu->arch.tsc_offset;
+ case MSR_IA32_TSC: {
+ /*
+ * Intel SDM states that MSR_IA32_TSC read adds the TSC offset
+ * even when not intercepted. AMD manual doesn't explicitly
+ * state this but appears to behave the same.
+ *
+ * On userspace reads and writes, however, we unconditionally
+ * operate L1's TSC value to ensure backwards-compatible
+ * behavior for migration.
+ */
+ u64 tsc_offset = msr_info->host_initiated ? vcpu->arch.l1_tsc_offset :
+ vcpu->arch.tsc_offset;
+
+ msr_info->data = kvm_scale_tsc(vcpu, rdtsc()) + tsc_offset;
break;
+ }
case MSR_MTRRcap:
case 0x200 ... 0x2ff:
return kvm_mtrr_get_msr(vcpu, msr_info->index, &msr_info->data);