Commit 1e58e5e5 authored Oct 17, 2018 by Paolo Bonzini

KVM: VMX: enable nested virtualization by default



With live migration support and finally a good solution for exception
event injection, nested VMX should be ready for having a stable userspace
ABI.  The results of syzkaller fuzzing are not perfect but not horrible
either (and might be partially due to running on GCE, so that effectively
we're testing three-level nesting on a fork of upstream KVM!).  Enabling
it by default seems like a nice way to conclude the 4.20 pull request. :)

Unfortunately, enabling nested SVM in 2009 (commit 4b6e4dca) was a
bit premature.  However, until live migration support is in place we can
reasonably expect that it does not offer much in terms of ABI guarantees.
Therefore we are still in time to break things and conform as much as
possible to the interface used for VMX.

Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Suggested-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Celebrated-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Celebrated-by: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Celebrated-by: Wincy Van <fanwenyi0529@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

parent 43ce76ce

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ module_param_named(enable_shadow_vmcs, enable_shadow_vmcs, bool, S_IRUGO);
		* VMX and be a hypervisor for its own guests. If nested=0, guests may not
		* use VMX instructions.
		*/
		static bool __read_mostly nested = 0;
		static bool __read_mostly nested = 1;
		module_param(nested, bool, S_IRUGO);

		static bool __read_mostly nested_early_check = 0;

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