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authorAndre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>2010-04-11 17:07:28 -0400
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-05-17 05:17:38 -0400
commit6bc31bdc55cad6609b1610b4cecad312664f2808 (patch)
tree82a78a5a8ee0b4202b782e695bad3745ef98a65f /arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
parentf7a711971edd952352a89698db1d36f469e25f77 (diff)
KVM: SVM: implement NEXTRIPsave SVM feature
On SVM we set the instruction length of skipped instructions to hard-coded, well known values, which could be wrong when (bogus, but valid) prefixes (REX, segment override) are used. Newer AMD processors (Fam10h 45nm and better, aka. PhenomII or AthlonII) have an explicit NEXTRIP field in the VMCB containing the desired information. Since it is cheap to do so, we use this field to override the guessed value on newer processors. A fix for older CPUs would be rather expensive, as it would require to fetch and partially decode the instruction. As the problem is not a security issue and needs special, handcrafted code to trigger (no compiler will ever generate such code), I omit a fix for older CPUs. If someone is interested, I have both a patch for these CPUs as well as demo code triggering this issue: It segfaults under KVM, but runs perfectly on native Linux. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/svm.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/svm.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index e9f79619e185..64b7f60dc5b8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
44#define SEG_TYPE_LDT 2 44#define SEG_TYPE_LDT 2
45#define SEG_TYPE_BUSY_TSS16 3 45#define SEG_TYPE_BUSY_TSS16 3
46 46
47#define SVM_FEATURE_NPT (1 << 0) 47#define SVM_FEATURE_NPT (1 << 0)
48#define SVM_FEATURE_LBRV (1 << 1) 48#define SVM_FEATURE_LBRV (1 << 1)
49#define SVM_FEATURE_SVML (1 << 2) 49#define SVM_FEATURE_SVML (1 << 2)
50#define SVM_FEATURE_NRIP (1 << 3) 50#define SVM_FEATURE_NRIP (1 << 3)
51#define SVM_FEATURE_PAUSE_FILTER (1 << 10) 51#define SVM_FEATURE_PAUSE_FILTER (1 << 10)
52 52
53#define NESTED_EXIT_HOST 0 /* Exit handled on host level */ 53#define NESTED_EXIT_HOST 0 /* Exit handled on host level */
54#define NESTED_EXIT_DONE 1 /* Exit caused nested vmexit */ 54#define NESTED_EXIT_DONE 1 /* Exit caused nested vmexit */
@@ -320,6 +320,9 @@ static void skip_emulated_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
320{ 320{
321 struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu); 321 struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
322 322
323 if (svm->vmcb->control.next_rip != 0)
324 svm->next_rip = svm->vmcb->control.next_rip;
325
323 if (!svm->next_rip) { 326 if (!svm->next_rip) {
324 if (emulate_instruction(vcpu, 0, 0, EMULTYPE_SKIP) != 327 if (emulate_instruction(vcpu, 0, 0, EMULTYPE_SKIP) !=
325 EMULATE_DONE) 328 EMULATE_DONE)