KVM: nVMX: Add support for activity state HLT

We can easily emulate the HLT activity state for L1: If it decides that
L2 shall be halted on entry, just invoke the normal emulation of halt
after switching to L2. We do not depend on specific host features to
provide this, so we can expose the capability unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
index 966502d4682eeaf0c61b34b1b186e48cfdedf4fe..2067264fb7f5d1d78c8b85fcc6b7021a17f73869 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@
 
 #define VMX_MISC_PREEMPTION_TIMER_RATE_MASK    0x0000001f
 #define VMX_MISC_SAVE_EFER_LMA                 0x00000020
+#define VMX_MISC_ACTIVITY_HLT                  0x00000040
 
 /* VMCS Encodings */
 enum vmcs_field {

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 1024689ac7179ac2dd0e85d390df410e2a06f3dd..f90320b204a917c61fcbb16178d3d21287eccc2d 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -2340,6 +2340,7 @@ static __init void nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(void)
        rdmsr(MSR_IA32_VMX_MISC, nested_vmx_misc_low, nested_vmx_misc_high);
        nested_vmx_misc_low &= VMX_MISC_PREEMPTION_TIMER_RATE_MASK |
                VMX_MISC_SAVE_EFER_LMA;
+       nested_vmx_misc_low |= VMX_MISC_ACTIVITY_HLT;
        nested_vmx_misc_high = 0;
 }
 
@@ -7938,7 +7939,8 @@ static int nested_vmx_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool launch)
                return 1;
        }
 
-       if (vmcs12->guest_activity_state != GUEST_ACTIVITY_ACTIVE) {
+       if (vmcs12->guest_activity_state != GUEST_ACTIVITY_ACTIVE &&
+           vmcs12->guest_activity_state != GUEST_ACTIVITY_HLT) {
                nested_vmx_failValid(vcpu, VMXERR_ENTRY_INVALID_CONTROL_FIELD);
                return 1;
        }
@@ -8067,6 +8069,9 @@ static int nested_vmx_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool launch)
 
        prepare_vmcs02(vcpu, vmcs12);
 
+       if (vmcs12->guest_activity_state == GUEST_ACTIVITY_HLT)
+               return kvm_emulate_halt(vcpu);
+
        /*
         * Note no nested_vmx_succeed or nested_vmx_fail here. At this point
         * we are no longer running L1, and VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME has not yet