The SVM DecodeAssists feature provides decode state for selected VM-Exits. KVM currently does not expose this feature to L1. Some L1 hypervisors may therefore treat the platform's SVM support as incomplete.
In practice, this was observed with Hyper-V running on top of KVM. Hyper-V appears to require DecodeAssists before enabling nested SVM for its guests. Virtualizing the feature lets users enable Hyper-V virtualization features inside a Windows VM when needed, e.g. to run QEMU/KVM in WSL. Without DecodeAssists, Hyper-V does not enable nested SVM because DecodeAssists is missing from KVM's virtual SVM model. Virtualize DecodeAssists for nested SVM. Propagate instruction bytes from VMCB02 for hardware-originated data #NPF and intercepted data #PF VM-Exits. For KVM-generated exits, synthesize the architectural EXITINFO state and use matching bytes from the emulator when available, fetching missing bytes through L2's address translation only as a fallback. Do not use the fallback for SEV guests, whose encrypted memory cannot provide plaintext instruction bytes to KVM. The selftest coverage in this version is intentionally broad and may be more extensive than necessary. Some redundant cases can be removed in a later revision, but for now the series provides a comprehensive test set for users to exercise hardware-reflected, KVM-synthesized, userspace-injected, and boundary cases. The selftest has been run with kvm.force_emulation_prefix both disabled and enabled. Changes since v2: - Rebase onto kvm-x86/next. - Track hardware-provided instruction bytes independently of the VMCB02 exit code, and preserve the bytes when L0 handles an intercepted #PF before reflecting it to L1. - Select the instruction-byte source using host-owned VMCB02 state instead of control fields in guest-owned VMCB12. - Record whether a queued #PF VM-Exit has a matching emulator context, so userspace-injected #PF exits do not consume stale emulator bytes. - Stop fallback instruction fetches at noncanonical addresses and at the 32-bit linear-address boundary. - Extend the selftest with regression coverage for replacing a hardware #NPF with a synthesized #NPF and for userspace-injected #PF during emulation, and harden its page layout and ucall handling. v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Tina Zhang (9): KVM: x86: Add helper to provide intercept linear addresses KVM: nSVM: Synthesize DecodeAssists EXITINFO for emulated intercepts KVM: nSVM: Track hardware-provided instruction bytes KVM: nSVM: Propagate hardware DecodeAssist bytes to VMCB12 KVM: x86: Track emulator-originated nested #PF VM-Exits KVM: nSVM: Use emulator bytes for synthesized nested #NPF/#PF KVM: nSVM: Fetch missing DecodeAssist bytes for synthesized #NPF/#PF KVM: nSVM: Advertise DecodeAssists to L1 KVM: selftests: Add nested SVM DecodeAssists test arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 29 +- arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 181 +++- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 72 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 20 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 33 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm | 1 + .../selftests/kvm/include/x86/processor.h | 1 + .../kvm/x86/svm_nested_decode_assists_test.c | 791 ++++++++++++++++++ 10 files changed, 1100 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/svm_nested_decode_assists_test.c base-commit: 567329869b9c75c9d3df74b35fe10af9b51c479d -- 2.43.7
