KVM: x86/MMU: Allow NX huge pages to be disabled on a per-vm basis

In some cases, the NX hugepage mitigation for iTLB multihit is not
needed for all guests on a host. Allow disabling the mitigation on a
per-VM basis to avoid the performance hit of NX hugepages on trusted
workloads.

In order to disable NX hugepages on a VM, ensure that the userspace
actor has permission to reboot the system. Since disabling NX hugepages
would allow a guest to crash the system, it is similar to reboot
permissions.

Ideally, KVM would require userspace to prove it has access to KVM's
nx_huge_pages module param, e.g. so that userspace can opt out without
needing full reboot permissions.  But getting access to the module param
file info is difficult because it is buried in layers of sysfs and module
glue. Requiring CAP_SYS_BOOT is sufficient for all known use cases.

Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220613212523.3436117-9-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
index 7569b4ec199c..a36e78710382 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
@@ -1166,6 +1166,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_resize_hpt {
 #define KVM_CAP_S390_PROTECTED_DUMP 217
 #define KVM_CAP_X86_TRIPLE_FAULT_EVENT 218
 #define KVM_CAP_X86_NOTIFY_VMEXIT 219
+#define KVM_CAP_VM_DISABLE_NX_HUGE_PAGES 220
 
 #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING