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authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2021-03-04 18:16:37 -0800
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2021-03-05 08:33:15 -0500
commit99840a75454b66d69d2a450ab04e6438d75eba48 (patch)
tree572c8e408b2e4791aaca75e5bea734566e52c194 /arch
parentbeda430177f56656e7980dcce93456ffaa35676b (diff)
downloadlinux-99840a75454b66d69d2a450ab04e6438d75eba48.tar.bz2
KVM: SVM: Connect 'npt' module param to KVM's internal 'npt_enabled'
Directly connect the 'npt' param to the 'npt_enabled' variable so that runtime adjustments to npt_enabled are reflected in sysfs. Move the !PAE restriction to a runtime check to ensure NPT is forced off if the host is using 2-level paging, and add a comment explicitly stating why NPT requires a 64-bit kernel or a kernel with PAE enabled. Opportunistically switch the param to octal permissions. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-Id: <20210305021637.3768573-1-seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c25
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index baee91c1e936..58a45bb139f8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -115,13 +115,6 @@ static const struct svm_direct_access_msrs {
{ .index = MSR_INVALID, .always = false },
};
-/* enable NPT for AMD64 and X86 with PAE */
-#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_X86_PAE)
-bool npt_enabled = true;
-#else
-bool npt_enabled;
-#endif
-
/*
* These 2 parameters are used to config the controls for Pause-Loop Exiting:
* pause_filter_count: On processors that support Pause filtering(indicated
@@ -170,9 +163,12 @@ module_param(pause_filter_count_shrink, ushort, 0444);
static unsigned short pause_filter_count_max = KVM_SVM_DEFAULT_PLE_WINDOW_MAX;
module_param(pause_filter_count_max, ushort, 0444);
-/* allow nested paging (virtualized MMU) for all guests */
-static int npt = true;
-module_param(npt, int, S_IRUGO);
+/*
+ * Use nested page tables by default. Note, NPT may get forced off by
+ * svm_hardware_setup() if it's unsupported by hardware or the host kernel.
+ */
+bool npt_enabled = true;
+module_param_named(npt, npt_enabled, bool, 0444);
/* allow nested virtualization in KVM/SVM */
static int nested = true;
@@ -988,10 +984,15 @@ static __init int svm_hardware_setup(void)
goto err;
}
- if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NPT))
+ /*
+ * KVM's MMU doesn't support using 2-level paging for itself, and thus
+ * NPT isn't supported if the host is using 2-level paging since host
+ * CR4 is unchanged on VMRUN.
+ */
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64) && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_PAE))
npt_enabled = false;
- if (npt_enabled && !npt)
+ if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NPT))
npt_enabled = false;
kvm_configure_mmu(npt_enabled, get_max_npt_level(), PG_LEVEL_1G);