linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: remove side effects from nested_vmx_exit

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Date:   Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:59:13 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Cc:     sean.j.christopherson@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: remove side effects from
 nested_vmx_exit_reflected

On 18/03/20 11:52, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> The only functional difference seems to be that we're now doing
> nested_mark_vmcs12_pages_dirty() in vmx->fail case too and this seems
> superfluous: we failed to enter L2 so 'special' pages should remain
> intact (right?) but this should be an uncommon case.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>

I'm not entirely sure if the PID could be written before the processor
decrees a vmfail.  It doesn't really hurt anyway as you say though.
Thanks for the review!

Paolo