From 831a3011294d9aa284afae9194619893d454d708 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Christopherson Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 07:40:51 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Modify only RSP when creating a placeholder for guest's RCX In the vCPU-run asm blob, the guest's RCX is temporarily saved onto the stack after VM-Exit as the exit flow must first load a register with a pointer to the vCPU's save area in order to save the guest's registers. RCX is arbitrarily designated as the scratch register. Since the stack usage is to (1)save host, (2)save guest, (3)load host and (4)load guest, the code can't conform to the stack's natural FIFO semantics, i.e. it can't simply do PUSH/POP. Regardless of whether it is done for the host's value or guest's value, at some point the code needs to access the stack using a non-traditional method, e.g. MOV instead of POP. vCPU-run opts to create a placeholder on the stack for guest's RCX (by adjusting RSP) and saves RCX to its place immediately after VM-Exit (via MOV). In other words, the purpose of the first 'PUSH RCX' at the start of the vCPU-run asm blob is to adjust RSP down, i.e. there's no need to actually access memory. Use 'SUB $wordsize, RSP' instead of 'PUSH RCX' to make it more obvious that the intent is simply to create a gap on the stack for the guest's RCX. Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c index 10fee67a6dcd..cb0dd17c31c6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c @@ -6378,7 +6378,7 @@ static void __vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) asm( /* Store host registers */ "push %%" _ASM_DX "; push %%" _ASM_BP ";" - "push %%" _ASM_CX " \n\t" /* placeholder for guest rcx */ + "sub $%c[wordsize], %%" _ASM_SP "\n\t" /* placeholder for guest RCX */ "push %%" _ASM_CX " \n\t" "sub $%c[wordsize], %%" _ASM_SP "\n\t" /* temporarily adjust RSP for CALL */ "cmp %%" _ASM_SP ", %c[host_rsp](%%" _ASM_CX ") \n\t" -- 2.30.2