Thanks!

Merged these to master at 15bc690a05ea..e518d512457c (from, to]

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Barret



On 2016-06-08 at 15:01 "Ronald G. Minnich" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Set the SHADOW register to 0, and set the GUEST_HOST_MASK
> to CR4_VMXE. This ensures that the guest can set the
> CR4_VMXE in its CR4 copy to 0, which Linux wants to do.
> This eliminates the patch we used to need in Linux
> in the early startup assembly code (head_64.S).
> 
> Change-Id: I8ee64a5485abef1b5c1d8b07a705f0642335a038
> Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kern/arch/x86/vmm/intel/vmx.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kern/arch/x86/vmm/intel/vmx.c b/kern/arch/x86/vmm/intel/vmx.c
> index 5a93c5a..5fc9bb9 100644
> --- a/kern/arch/x86/vmm/intel/vmx.c
> +++ b/kern/arch/x86/vmm/intel/vmx.c
> @@ -860,7 +860,11 @@ static int vmx_setup_initial_guest_state(struct proc *p,
>                               X86_CR0_MP | X86_CR0_ET | X86_CR0_NE);
>       vmcs_writel(GUEST_CR3, rcr3());
>       vmcs_writel(GUEST_CR4, cr4);
> -     vmcs_writel(CR4_READ_SHADOW, cr4);
> +     /* The only bits that matter in this shadow are those that are
> +      * set in CR4_GUEST_HOST_MASK.  TODO: do we need to separate
> +      * the setting of this value from that of
> +      * CR4_GUEST_HOST_MASK? */
> +     vmcs_writel(CR4_READ_SHADOW, 0);
>       vmcs_writel(GUEST_IA32_EFER, EFER_LME | EFER_LMA |
>                               EFER_SCE /*| EFER_FFXSR */ );
>       vmcs_writel(GUEST_GDTR_BASE, 0);
> @@ -1096,7 +1100,17 @@ static void vmx_setup_vmcs(struct guest_pcore *gpc)
>       vmcs_write32(VM_ENTRY_CONTROLS, vmcs_config.vmentry_ctrl);
>  
>       vmcs_writel(CR0_GUEST_HOST_MASK, 0);    // ~0ul);
> -     vmcs_writel(CR4_GUEST_HOST_MASK, 0);    // ~0ul);
> +
> +     /* Mask some bits in CR4 as host-owned by setting them in this
> +      * VMCS entry.  For example, for now, we mark the CR4_VMXE bit
> +      * as host owned.  Right now, when Linux boots, it wants to
> +      * set CR4_VMXE to 0 at first, which is fine -- we do not want
> +      * to think about nested virtualization yet. But if we don't
> +      * mark this bit as host owned we get a VMEXIT. Marking
> +      * CR4_VMXE as host owned means that the writes will succeed
> +      * with no vmexit if the value written matches the
> +      * corresponding bit in the shadow register. */
> +     vmcs_writel(CR4_GUEST_HOST_MASK, CR4_VMXE);
>  
>       //kvm_write_tsc(&vmx->gpc, 0);
>       vmcs_writel(TSC_OFFSET, 0);

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