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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c index 2e08b2a45361..c0fd7e049b4e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c @@ -161,6 +161,18 @@ bool make_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, if (!prefetch) spte |= spte_shadow_accessed_mask(spte); + /* + * For simplicity, enforce the NX huge page mitigation even if not + * strictly necessary. KVM could ignore the mitigation if paging is + * disabled in the guest, as the guest doesn't have an page tables to + * abuse. But to safely ignore the mitigation, KVM would have to + * ensure a new MMU is loaded (or all shadow pages zapped) when CR0.PG + * is toggled on, and that's a net negative for performance when TDP is + * enabled. When TDP is disabled, KVM will always switch to a new MMU + * when CR0.PG is toggled, but leveraging that to ignore the mitigation + * would tie make_spte() further to vCPU/MMU state, and add complexity + * just to optimize a mode that is anything but performance critical. + */ if (level > PG_LEVEL_4K && (pte_access & ACC_EXEC_MASK) && is_nx_huge_page_enabled(vcpu->kvm)) { pte_access &= ~ACC_EXEC_MASK; |