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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c index 94082169bb..856eef56b3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c @@ -387,7 +387,16 @@ static __always_inline void vmx_enable_fb_clear(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) static void vmx_update_fb_clear_dis(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) { - vmx->disable_fb_clear = (host_arch_capabilities & ARCH_CAP_FB_CLEAR_CTRL) && + /* + * Disable VERW's behavior of clearing CPU buffers for the guest if the + * CPU isn't affected by MDS/TAA, and the host hasn't forcefully enabled + * the mitigation. Disabling the clearing behavior provides a + * performance boost for guests that aren't aware that manually clearing + * CPU buffers is unnecessary, at the cost of MSR accesses on VM-Entry + * and VM-Exit. + */ + vmx->disable_fb_clear = !cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_CLEAR_CPU_BUF) && + (host_arch_capabilities & ARCH_CAP_FB_CLEAR_CTRL) && !boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_MDS) && !boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_TAA); @@ -7226,11 +7235,14 @@ static noinstr void vmx_vcpu_enter_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, guest_state_enter_irqoff(); - /* L1D Flush includes CPU buffer clear to mitigate MDS */ + /* + * L1D Flush includes CPU buffer clear to mitigate MDS, but VERW + * mitigation for MDS is done late in VMentry and is still + * executed in spite of L1D Flush. This is because an extra VERW + * should not matter much after the big hammer L1D Flush. + */ if (static_branch_unlikely(&vmx_l1d_should_flush)) vmx_l1d_flush(vcpu); - else if (static_branch_unlikely(&mds_user_clear)) - mds_clear_cpu_buffers(); else if (static_branch_unlikely(&mmio_stale_data_clear) && kvm_arch_has_assigned_device(vcpu->kvm)) mds_clear_cpu_buffers(); |