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authorSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>2019-06-13 10:22:23 -0700
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2019-06-19 16:11:53 +0200
commitb6b80c78af838bef17501416d5d383fedab0010a (patch)
tree76b590a99b933501b98e51585cf6f2d42fc3c8d1 /arch
parent6ca00dfafda731d6eafdc164326e7336cdf42d74 (diff)
downloadlinux-b6b80c78af838bef17501416d5d383fedab0010a.tar.bz2
KVM: x86/mmu: Allocate PAE root array when using SVM's 32-bit NPT
SVM's Nested Page Tables (NPT) reuses x86 paging for the host-controlled page walk. For 32-bit KVM, this means PAE paging is used even when TDP is enabled, i.e. the PAE root array needs to be allocated. Fixes: ee6268ba3a68 ("KVM: x86: Skip pae_root shadow allocation if tdp enabled") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Jiri Palecek <jpalecek@web.de> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c16
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 1e9ba81accba..d3c3d5e5ffd4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -5602,14 +5602,18 @@ static int alloc_mmu_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
struct page *page;
int i;
- if (tdp_enabled)
- return 0;
-
/*
- * When emulating 32-bit mode, cr3 is only 32 bits even on x86_64.
- * Therefore we need to allocate shadow page tables in the first
- * 4GB of memory, which happens to fit the DMA32 zone.
+ * When using PAE paging, the four PDPTEs are treated as 'root' pages,
+ * while the PDP table is a per-vCPU construct that's allocated at MMU
+ * creation. When emulating 32-bit mode, cr3 is only 32 bits even on
+ * x86_64. Therefore we need to allocate the PDP table in the first
+ * 4GB of memory, which happens to fit the DMA32 zone. Except for
+ * SVM's 32-bit NPT support, TDP paging doesn't use PAE paging and can
+ * skip allocating the PDP table.
*/
+ if (tdp_enabled && kvm_x86_ops->get_tdp_level(vcpu) > PT32E_ROOT_LEVEL)
+ return 0;
+
page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_DMA32);
if (!page)
return -ENOMEM;