Re: [PATCH 8/9] KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL

[Jim Mattson]

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 9:29 AM, David Woodhouse <d...@amazon.co.uk> wrote:

> @@ -8946,6 +9017,27 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu 
> *vcpu)
>  #endif
>               );
>
> +       /*
> +        * We do not use IBRS in the kernel. If this vCPU has used the
> +        * SPEC_CTRL MSR it may have left it on; save the value and
> +        * turn it off. This is much more efficient than blindly adding
> +        * it to the atomic save/restore list. Especially as the former
> +        * (Saving guest MSRs on vmexit) doesn't even exist in KVM.
> +        *
> +        * For non-nested case:
> +        * If the L01 MSR bitmap does not intercept the MSR, then we need to
> +        * save it.
> +        *
> +        * For nested case:
> +        * If the L02 MSR bitmap does not intercept the MSR, then we need to
> +        * save it.
> +        */
> +       if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
> +               rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
> +
> +       if (vmx->spec_ctrl)
> +               wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
> +

Again, we haven't verified host support for this MSR. Perhaps this
should be something like:

if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL)
    && !rdmsrl_safe(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, &vmx->spec_ctrl) && vmx->spec_ctrl)
        wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);