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Sean Christopherson 1383279c64 KVM: x86: Allow guest to set EFER.NX=1 on non-PAE 32-bit kernels 
Remove an ancient restriction that disallowed exposing EFER.NX to the
guest if EFER.NX=0 on the host, even if NX is fully supported by the CPU.
The motivation of the check, added by commit 2cc51560ae ("KVM: VMX:
Avoid saving and restoring msr_efer on lightweight vmexit"), was to rule
out the case of host.EFER.NX=0 and guest.EFER.NX=1 so that KVM could run
the guest with the host's EFER.NX and thus avoid context switching EFER
if the only divergence was the NX bit.

Fast forward to today, and KVM has long since stopped running the guest
with the host's EFER.NX.  Not only does KVM context switch EFER if
host.EFER.NX=1 && guest.EFER.NX=0, KVM also forces host.EFER.NX=0 &&
guest.EFER.NX=1 when using shadow paging (to emulate SMEP).  Furthermore,
the entire motivation for the restriction was made obsolete over a decade
ago when Intel added dedicated host and guest EFER fields in the VMCS
(Nehalem timeframe), which reduced the overhead of context switching EFER
from 400+ cycles (2 * WRMSR + 1 * RDMSR) to a mere ~2 cycles.

In practice, the removed restriction only affects non-PAE 32-bit kernels,
as EFER.NX is set during boot if NX is supported and the kernel will use
PAE paging (32-bit or 64-bit), regardless of whether or not the kernel
will actually use NX itself (mark PTEs non-executable).

Alternatively and/or complementarily, startup_32_smp() in head_32.S could
be modified to set EFER.NX=1 regardless of paging mode, thus eliminating
the scenario where NX is supported but not enabled.  However, that runs
the risk of breaking non-KVM non-PAE kernels (though the risk is very,
very low as there are no known EFER.NX errata), and also eliminates an
easy-to-use mechanism for stressing KVM's handling of guest vs. host EFER
across nested virtualization transitions.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210805183804.1221554-1-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
 		2021-08-13 03:20:17 -04:00
Documentation docs: virt: kvm: api.rst: replace some characters 2021-07-26 08:26:06 -04:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
arch KVM: x86: Allow guest to set EFER.NX=1 on non-PAE 32-bit kernels 2021-08-13 03:20:17 -04:00
block block-5.14-2021-07-08 2021-07-09 12:05:33 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-07-09 11:00:44 -07:00
drivers ARM: SoC fixes for v5.14 2021-07-17 15:58:24 -07:00
fs Fixes for 5.14-rc: 2021-07-18 11:27:25 -07:00
include ARM: SoC fixes for v5.14 2021-07-17 15:58:24 -07:00
init Revert "mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects" 2021-07-17 13:27:00 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -07:00
kernel tracing: Fix the histogram logic from possibly crashing the kernel 2021-07-17 12:36:51 -07:00
lib lib/test_hmm: remove set but unused page variable 2021-07-15 10:13:49 -07:00
mm Revert "mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects" 2021-07-17 13:27:00 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
samples Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.14 2021-07-18 11:10:30 -07:00
security asm-generic/unaligned: Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper 2021-07-02 12:43:40 -07:00
sound ASoC: Mediatek: MT8183: Fix fall-through warning for Clang 2021-07-13 14:58:18 -05:00
tools KVM: selftests: fix hyperv_clock test 2021-08-04 09:43:03 -04:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Do not leak memory for duplicate debugfs directories 2021-08-04 06:02:03 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
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.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap m68k updates for v5.14 2021-06-28 14:01:03 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS IOMMU Fixes for Linux v5.14-rc1 2021-07-15 11:50:15 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.14-rc2 2021-07-18 14:13:49 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.