KVM: VMX: Unconditionally allocate root VMCSes during boot CPU bringup

Allocate the root VMCS (misleading called "vmxarea" and "kvm_area" in KVM)
for each possible CPU during early boot CPU bringup, before early TDX
initialization, so that TDX can eventually do VMXON on-demand (to make
SEAMCALLs) without needing to load kvm-intel.ko.  Allocate the pages early
on, e.g. instead of trying to do so on-demand, to avoid having to juggle
allocation failures at runtime.

Opportunistically rename the per-CPU pointers to better reflect the role
of the VMCS.  Use Intel's "root VMCS" terminology, e.g. from various VMCS
patents[1][2] and older SDMs, not the more opaque "VMXON region" used in
recent versions of the SDM.  While it's possible the VMCS passed to VMXON
no longer serves as _the_ root VMCS on modern CPUs, it is still in effect
a "root mode VMCS", as described in the patents.

Link: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/c7/e4/32/d7a7def5580667/WO2013101191A1.pdf [1]
Link: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/13/f6/8d/1361fab8c33373/US20080163205A1.pdf [2]
Tested-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260214012702.2368778-5-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
This commit is contained in:
Sean Christopherson 2026-02-13 17:26:50 -08:00
parent a1450a8156
commit 405b7c2793
4 changed files with 89 additions and 55 deletions

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@ -2,10 +2,21 @@
#ifndef _ASM_X86_VIRT_H
#define _ASM_X86_VIRT_H
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/percpu-defs.h>
#include <asm/reboot.h>
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM_X86)
extern bool virt_rebooting;
void __init x86_virt_init(void);
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM_INTEL)
DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct vmcs *, root_vmcs);
#endif
#else
static __always_inline void x86_virt_init(void) {}
#endif
#endif /* _ASM_X86_VIRT_H */

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@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
#include <asm/traps.h>
#include <asm/sev.h>
#include <asm/tdx.h>
#include <asm/virt.h>
#include <asm/posted_intr.h>
#include <asm/runtime-const.h>
@ -2151,6 +2152,7 @@ static __init void identify_boot_cpu(void)
cpu_detect_tlb(&boot_cpu_data);
setup_cr_pinning();
x86_virt_init();
tsx_init();
tdx_init();
lkgs_init();

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@ -580,7 +580,6 @@ noinline void invept_error(unsigned long ext, u64 eptp)
vmx_insn_failed("invept failed: ext=0x%lx eptp=%llx\n", ext, eptp);
}
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vmcs *, vmxarea);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vmcs *, current_vmcs);
/*
* We maintain a per-CPU linked-list of VMCS loaded on that CPU. This is needed
@ -2934,6 +2933,9 @@ static bool __kvm_is_vmx_supported(void)
return false;
}
if (!per_cpu(root_vmcs, cpu))
return false;
return true;
}
@ -3008,7 +3010,7 @@ static int kvm_cpu_vmxon(u64 vmxon_pointer)
int vmx_enable_virtualization_cpu(void)
{
int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
u64 phys_addr = __pa(per_cpu(vmxarea, cpu));
u64 phys_addr = __pa(per_cpu(root_vmcs, cpu));
int r;
if (cr4_read_shadow() & X86_CR4_VMXE)
@ -3129,47 +3131,6 @@ int alloc_loaded_vmcs(struct loaded_vmcs *loaded_vmcs)
return -ENOMEM;
}
static void free_kvm_area(void)
{
int cpu;
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
free_vmcs(per_cpu(vmxarea, cpu));
per_cpu(vmxarea, cpu) = NULL;
}
}
static __init int alloc_kvm_area(void)
{
int cpu;
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
struct vmcs *vmcs;
vmcs = alloc_vmcs_cpu(false, cpu, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vmcs) {
free_kvm_area();
return -ENOMEM;
}
/*
* When eVMCS is enabled, alloc_vmcs_cpu() sets
* vmcs->revision_id to KVM_EVMCS_VERSION instead of
* revision_id reported by MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC.
*
* However, even though not explicitly documented by
* TLFS, VMXArea passed as VMXON argument should
* still be marked with revision_id reported by
* physical CPU.
*/
if (kvm_is_using_evmcs())
vmcs->hdr.revision_id = vmx_basic_vmcs_revision_id(vmcs_config.basic);
per_cpu(vmxarea, cpu) = vmcs;
}
return 0;
}
static void fix_pmode_seg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int seg,
struct kvm_segment *save)
{
@ -8566,8 +8527,6 @@ void vmx_hardware_unsetup(void)
if (nested)
nested_vmx_hardware_unsetup();
free_kvm_area();
}
void vmx_vm_destroy(struct kvm *kvm)
@ -8870,10 +8829,6 @@ __init int vmx_hardware_setup(void)
return r;
}
r = alloc_kvm_area();
if (r)
goto err_kvm_area;
kvm_set_posted_intr_wakeup_handler(pi_wakeup_handler);
/*
@ -8900,11 +8855,6 @@ __init int vmx_hardware_setup(void)
kvm_caps.inapplicable_quirks &= ~KVM_X86_QUIRK_IGNORE_GUEST_PAT;
return 0;
err_kvm_area:
if (nested)
nested_vmx_hardware_unsetup();
return r;
}
void vmx_exit(void)

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@ -1,7 +1,78 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/kvm_types.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <asm/perf_event.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/virt.h>
#include <asm/vmx.h>
__visible bool virt_rebooting;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM(virt_rebooting);
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM_INTEL)
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vmcs *, root_vmcs);
EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(root_vmcs);
static __init void x86_vmx_exit(void)
{
int cpu;
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
free_page((unsigned long)per_cpu(root_vmcs, cpu));
per_cpu(root_vmcs, cpu) = NULL;
}
}
static __init int x86_vmx_init(void)
{
u64 basic_msr;
u32 rev_id;
int cpu;
if (!cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_VMX))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
rdmsrq(MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC, basic_msr);
/* IA-32 SDM Vol 3B: VMCS size is never greater than 4kB. */
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(vmx_basic_vmcs_size(basic_msr) > PAGE_SIZE))
return -EIO;
/*
* Even if eVMCS is enabled (or will be enabled?), and even though not
* explicitly documented by TLFS, the root VMCS passed to VMXON should
* still be marked with the revision_id reported by the physical CPU.
*/
rev_id = vmx_basic_vmcs_revision_id(basic_msr);
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
int node = cpu_to_node(cpu);
struct page *page;
struct vmcs *vmcs;
page = __alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
if (!page) {
x86_vmx_exit();
return -ENOMEM;
}
vmcs = page_address(page);
vmcs->hdr.revision_id = rev_id;
per_cpu(root_vmcs, cpu) = vmcs;
}
return 0;
}
#else
static __init int x86_vmx_init(void) { return -EOPNOTSUPP; }
#endif
void __init x86_virt_init(void)
{
x86_vmx_init();
}