vmx/hap: optimize CR4 trapping

There a bunch of bits in CR4 that should be allowed to be set directly
by the guest without requiring Xen intervention, currently this is
already done by passing through guest writes into the CR4 used when
running in non-root mode, but taking an expensive vmexit in order to
do so.

xenalyze reports the following when running a PV guest in shim mode:

 CR_ACCESS             3885950  6.41s 17.04%  3957 cyc { 2361| 3378| 7920}
   cr4  3885940  6.41s 17.04%  3957 cyc { 2361| 3378| 7920}
   cr3        1  0.00s  0.00%  3480 cyc { 3480| 3480| 3480}
     *[  0]        1  0.00s  0.00%  3480 cyc { 3480| 3480| 3480}
   cr0        7  0.00s  0.00%  7112 cyc { 3248| 5960|17480}
   clts        2  0.00s  0.00%  4588 cyc { 3456| 5720| 5720}

After this change this turns into:

 CR_ACCESS                  12  0.00s  0.00%  9972 cyc { 3680|11024|24032}
   cr4        2  0.00s  0.00% 17528 cyc {11024|24032|24032}
   cr3        1  0.00s  0.00%  3680 cyc { 3680| 3680| 3680}
     *[  0]        1  0.00s  0.00%  3680 cyc { 3680| 3680| 3680}
   cr0        7  0.00s  0.00%  9209 cyc { 4184| 7848|17488}
   clts        2  0.00s  0.00%  8232 cyc { 5352|11112|11112}

Note that this optimized trapping is currently only applied to guests
running with HAP on Intel hardware. If using shadow paging more CR4
bits need to be unconditionally trapped, which makes this approach
unlikely to yield any important performance improvements.

Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
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Roger Pau Monné authored and Jan Beulich committed 2018-02-27 14:10:33 +01:00
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@@ -1165,6 +1165,7 @@ static int construct_vmcs(struct vcpu *v)
__vmwrite(CR0_GUEST_HOST_MASK, ~0UL);
__vmwrite(CR4_GUEST_HOST_MASK, ~0UL);
v->arch.hvm_vmx.cr4_host_mask = ~0UL;
__vmwrite(PAGE_FAULT_ERROR_CODE_MASK, 0);
__vmwrite(PAGE_FAULT_ERROR_CODE_MATCH, 0);
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@@ -1684,6 +1684,36 @@ static void vmx_update_guest_cr(struct vcpu *v, unsigned int cr)
}
__vmwrite(GUEST_CR4, v->arch.hvm_vcpu.hw_cr[4]);
if ( !paging_mode_hap(v->domain) )
/*
* Shadow path has not been optimized because it requires
* unconditionally trapping more CR4 bits, at which point the
* performance benefit of doing this is quite dubious.
*/
v->arch.hvm_vmx.cr4_host_mask = ~0UL;
else
{
/*
* Update CR4 host mask to only trap when the guest tries to set
* bits that are controlled by the hypervisor.
*/
v->arch.hvm_vmx.cr4_host_mask = HVM_CR4_HOST_MASK | X86_CR4_PKE |
~hvm_cr4_guest_valid_bits(v, 0);
v->arch.hvm_vmx.cr4_host_mask |= v->arch.hvm_vmx.vmx_realmode ?
X86_CR4_VME : 0;
v->arch.hvm_vmx.cr4_host_mask |= !hvm_paging_enabled(v) ?
(X86_CR4_PSE | X86_CR4_SMEP |
X86_CR4_SMAP)
: 0;
if ( v->domain->arch.monitor.write_ctrlreg_enabled &
monitor_ctrlreg_bitmask(VM_EVENT_X86_CR4) )
v->arch.hvm_vmx.cr4_host_mask |=
~v->domain->arch.monitor.write_ctrlreg_mask[VM_EVENT_X86_CR4];
}
__vmwrite(CR4_GUEST_HOST_MASK, v->arch.hvm_vmx.cr4_host_mask);
break;
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@@ -3512,6 +3542,15 @@ void vmx_vmexit_handler(struct cpu_user_regs *regs)
if ( paging_mode_hap(v->domain) )
{
/*
* Xen allows the guest to modify some CR4 bits directly, update cached
* values to match.
*/
__vmread(GUEST_CR4, &v->arch.hvm_vcpu.hw_cr[4]);
v->arch.hvm_vcpu.guest_cr[4] &= v->arch.hvm_vmx.cr4_host_mask;
v->arch.hvm_vcpu.guest_cr[4] |= v->arch.hvm_vcpu.hw_cr[4] &
~v->arch.hvm_vmx.cr4_host_mask;
__vmread(GUEST_CR3, &v->arch.hvm_vcpu.hw_cr[3]);
if ( vmx_unrestricted_guest(v) || hvm_paging_enabled(v) )
v->arch.hvm_vcpu.guest_cr[3] = v->arch.hvm_vcpu.hw_cr[3];
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@@ -1100,6 +1100,8 @@ static void load_shadow_guest_state(struct vcpu *v)
cr_read_shadow = (get_vvmcs(v, GUEST_CR4) & ~cr_gh_mask) |
(get_vvmcs(v, CR4_READ_SHADOW) & cr_gh_mask);
__vmwrite(CR4_READ_SHADOW, cr_read_shadow);
/* Add the nested host mask to the one set by vmx_update_guest_cr. */
__vmwrite(CR4_GUEST_HOST_MASK, cr_gh_mask | v->arch.hvm_vmx.cr4_host_mask);
/* TODO: CR3 target control */
}
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@@ -189,10 +189,11 @@ int arch_monitor_domctl_event(struct domain *d,
ad->monitor.write_ctrlreg_enabled &= ~ctrlreg_bitmask;
}
if ( VM_EVENT_X86_CR3 == mop->u.mov_to_cr.index )
if ( VM_EVENT_X86_CR3 == mop->u.mov_to_cr.index ||
VM_EVENT_X86_CR4 == mop->u.mov_to_cr.index )
{
struct vcpu *v;
/* Latches new CR3 mask through CR0 code. */
/* Latches new CR3 or CR4 mask through CR0 code. */
for_each_vcpu ( d, v )
hvm_update_guest_cr(v, 0);
}
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@@ -165,6 +165,9 @@ struct arch_vmx_struct {
struct page_info *pml_pg;
/* Bitmask of trapped CR4 bits. */
unsigned long cr4_host_mask;
/*
* Before it is blocked, vCPU is added to the per-cpu list.
* VT-d engine can send wakeup notification event to the
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