[PATCH 00/26] KVM: vfio: Hide KVM internals from others

Sean Christopherson seanjc at google.com
Fri Sep 15 17:30:52 PDT 2023


This is a borderline RFC series to hide KVM's internals from the rest of
the kernel, where "internals" means data structures, enums, #defines,
APIs, etc. that are intended to be KVM-only, but are exposed everywhere
due to kvm_host.h (and other headers) living in the global include paths.

The motiviation for hiding KVM's internals is to allow *safely* loading a
"new" KVM module without having to reboot the host.  Where "new" doesn't
have to be strictly newer, just a different incarnation of KVM.  Hiding
KVM's internals means those assets can change across KVM instances without
breaking things, e.g. would allow modifying the layout of struct kvm_vcpu
to introduce new fields related to a new feature or mitigation for hardware
bugs.

The end goal for all of this is to allow loading and running multiple
instances of KVM (the module) simultaneously on a single host, e.g. to
deploy fixes, mitigations, and/or new features without having to drain
all VMs from the host.

For now, the immediate goal is to get KVM to a state where KVM x86 doesn't
expose anything to the broader world that isn't intended for external
consumption, e.g. the page write-tracking APIs used by KVM-GT.

I say this is borderline RFC because I don't think I've "formally" proposed
the idea of hiding KVM internals before now.  I decided not to tag this RFC
because the changes ended up being not _that_ invasive, and everything
before the last six patches is worthwhile even if hiding internals is
ultimately rejected (IMO).

This would ideally be ~5 separate series, and I certainly have no objection
if that's how we want to get this stuff merged.  E.g. (1) VFIO cleanups,
(2) drop HAVE_KVM, (3) clean up makefiles, (4) x86 perf cleanup, and
(5) final push for hiding state.  The HAVE_KVM and virt/kvm include stuff
isn't strictly necessary, but I included them here because they're
relatively minor (in the grand scheme).

We've explore several alternatives to the #ifdef __KVM__ approach, and
they all sucked, hard.  What I really wanted (and still want) to do, is to
bury the bulk of kvm_host.h (and other KVM headers) in virt/kvm, but every
attempt to do that ended in flames.  Even with the __KVM__ guards in place,
each architecture's kvm_host.h is too intertwined with the common kvm_host.h,
and trying to extract small-ish pieces just doesn't work (each patch
inevitably snowballed into a gigantic beast).

The other idea we considered (which I thought of, and feel dirty for even
proposing it internally), is to move all headers under virt/kvm, add
virt/kvm/include to the global header path, and then have KVM x86 omit
virt/kvm/include when configured to hide KVM internals.  I hate this idea
because it sets a bad precedent, and requires a lot of file movement
without providing any benefit to other architectures.  E.g. I hope that
guarding KVM internals with #ifdef __KVM__ will allow us to slowly clean
things up so that some day KVM only exposes a handful of APIs to the rest
of the kernel (probably a pipe dream).

Anish Ghulati (1):
  KVM: arm64: Move arm_{psci,hypercalls}.h to an internal KVM path

Sean Christopherson (25):
  vfio: Wrap KVM helpers with CONFIG_KVM instead of CONFIG_HAVE_KVM
  vfio: Move KVM get/put helpers to colocate it with other KVM related
    code
  virt: Declare and define vfio_file_set_kvm() iff CONFIG_KVM is enabled
  vfio: Add struct to hold KVM assets and dedup group vs. iommufd code
  vfio: KVM: Pass get/put helpers from KVM to VFIO, don't do circular
    lookup
  KVM: Drop CONFIG_KVM_VFIO and just look at KVM+VFIO
  x86/idt: Wrap KVM logic with CONFIG_KVM instead of CONFIG_HAVE_KVM
  KVM: x86: Stop selecting and depending on HAVE_KVM
  KVM: arm64: Stop selecting and depending on HAVE_KVM
  KVM: s390: Stop selecting and depending on HAVE_KVM
  KVM: MIPS: Make HAVE_KVM a MIPS-only Kconfig
  KVM: arm64: Include KVM headers to get forward declarations
  KVM: arm64: Move ARM specific headers in include/kvm to arch directory
  KVM: Move include/kvm/iodev.h to include/linux as kvm_iodev.h
  KVM: MIPS: Stop adding virt/kvm to the arch include path
  KVM: PPC: Stop adding virt/kvm to the arch include path
  KVM: s390: Stop adding virt/kvm to the arch include path
  KVM: Standardize include paths across all architectures
  perf/x86: KVM: Have perf define a dedicated struct for getting guest
    PEBS data
  entry/kvm: Drop @vcpu param from arch_xfer_to_guest_mode_handle_work()
  entry/kvm: KVM: Move KVM details related to signal/-EINTR into KVM
    proper
  KVM: arm64: Move and consolidate "public" functions in asm/kvm_host.h
  powerpc/xics: Move declaration of xics_wake_cpu() out of kvm_ppc.h
  KVM: PPC: Rearrange code in kvm_ppc.h to isolate "public" information
  KVM: Hide KVM internal data structures and values from kernel at-large

 MAINTAINERS                                   |   1 -
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                            |   1 -
 .../arm64/include/asm/kvm_arch_timer.h        |   2 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h          |   3 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h             |  57 ++--
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h              |   4 +
 .../arm64/include/asm/kvm_pmu.h               |   2 +
 .../arm64/include/asm/kvm_vgic.h              |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c               |   2 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig                        |   2 -
 arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile                       |   2 -
 arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c                   |   5 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c                          |   9 +-
 {include => arch/arm64}/kvm/arm_hypercalls.h  |   0
 {include => arch/arm64}/kvm/arm_psci.h        |   0
 arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c                        |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c                  |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile                   |   4 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/switch.h       |   4 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/Makefile              |   3 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c              |   4 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/Makefile               |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c               |   4 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c                   |   4 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c                     |   6 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/psci.c                         |   4 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/pvtime.c                       |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c                        |   3 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/trace_arm.h                    |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/trng.c                         |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-debug.c              |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c               |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-irqfd.c              |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-kvm-device.c         |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v2.c            |   4 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c            |   4 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c               |   6 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v2.c                 |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c                 |   2 +-
 arch/mips/include/asm/kvm_host.h              |   5 +-
 arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c                |   2 +
 arch/mips/kvm/Kconfig                         |   3 +
 arch/mips/kvm/Makefile                        |   2 -
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s.h         |   3 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s_64.h      |   2 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_booke.h          |   4 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h           |   7 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h            | 306 +++++++++---------
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/xics.h               |   3 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c             |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig                      |   1 -
 arch/powerpc/kvm/Makefile                     |   2 -
 arch/powerpc/kvm/mpic.c                       |   2 +-
 arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h             |   3 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c               |   1 +
 arch/riscv/kvm/Makefile                       |   2 -
 arch/riscv/kvm/aia_aplic.c                    |   2 +-
 arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c                    |   2 +-
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu.c                         |   2 +-
 arch/s390/Kconfig                             |   1 -
 arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h              |   7 +-
 arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c                |   1 +
 arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig                         |   2 -
 arch/s390/kvm/Makefile                        |   2 -
 arch/x86/Kconfig                              |   1 -
 arch/x86/events/core.c                        |   5 +-
 arch/x86/events/intel/core.c                  |  18 +-
 arch/x86/events/perf_event.h                  |   3 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h                |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h               |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/irq.h                    |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h            |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h               |  12 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h             |  12 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/idt.c                         |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/irq.c                         |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig                          |   3 -
 arch/x86/kvm/Makefile                         |   1 -
 arch/x86/kvm/i8254.h                          |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.h                         |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/irq.h                            |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h                          |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c                  |  16 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c                        |  11 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h                        |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                            |   3 +-
 drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c             |   1 +
 drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_ops.c             |   2 +
 drivers/vfio/device_cdev.c                    |   9 +-
 drivers/vfio/group.c                          |  18 +-
 drivers/vfio/vfio.h                           |  26 +-
 drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c                      | 139 ++++----
 include/linux/entry-kvm.h                     |  10 +-
 include/linux/kvm_host.h                      |  17 +-
 include/{kvm/iodev.h => linux/kvm_iodev.h}    |   0
 include/linux/kvm_types.h                     |   3 +
 include/linux/vfio.h                          |   6 +-
 include/trace/events/kvm.h                    |   5 +
 kernel/entry/kvm.c                            |  13 +-
 scripts/gdb/linux/constants.py.in             |   2 +-
 scripts/gdb/linux/interrupts.py               |   2 +-
 tools/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h      |   2 +-
 virt/kvm/Kconfig                              |   6 -
 virt/kvm/Makefile.kvm                         |   6 +-
 virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c                     |   3 +-
 virt/kvm/eventfd.c                            |   2 +-
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c                           |   3 +-
 virt/kvm/vfio.c                               |   9 +-
 virt/kvm/vfio.h                               |   2 +-
 109 files changed, 489 insertions(+), 440 deletions(-)
 rename include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h => arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arch_timer.h (98%)
 rename include/kvm/arm_pmu.h => arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pmu.h (99%)
 rename include/kvm/arm_vgic.h => arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_vgic.h (99%)
 rename {include => arch/arm64}/kvm/arm_hypercalls.h (100%)
 rename {include => arch/arm64}/kvm/arm_psci.h (100%)
 rename include/{kvm/iodev.h => linux/kvm_iodev.h} (100%)


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