linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] KVM: nSVM: few fixes for the nested migration

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Message-ID: <358f9624-eb77-5449-845c-c92676fed8ed@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 3 May 2021 16:03:01 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "open list:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" 
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Cathy Avery <cavery@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] KVM: nSVM: few fixes for the nested migration

On 03/05/21 14:54, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Those are few fixes for issues I uncovered by doing variants of a
> synthetic migration test I just created:
> 
> I modified the qemu, such that on each vm pause/resume cycle,
> just prior to resuming a vCPU, qemu reads its KVM state,
> then (optionaly) resets this state by uploading a
> dummy reset state to KVM, and then it uploads back to KVM,
> the state that this vCPU had before.
> 
> I'll try to make this test upstreamable soon, pending few details
> I need to figure out.
> 
> Last patch in this series is for false positive warning
> that I have seen lately when setting the nested state,
> in nested_svm_vmexit, where it expects the vmcb01 to have
> VMRUN vmexit, which is not true after nested migration,
> as it is not fully initialized.
> If you prefer the warning can be removed instead.
> 
> Best regards,
> 	Maxim Levitsky
> 
> Maxim Levitsky (5):
>    KVM: nSVM: fix a typo in svm_leave_nested
>    KVM: nSVM: fix few bugs in the vmcb02 caching logic
>    KVM: nSVM: leave the guest mode prior to loading a nested state
>    KVM: nSVM: force L1's GIF to 1 when setting the nested state
>    KVM: nSVM: set a dummy exit reason in L1 vmcb when loading the nested
>      state
> 
>   arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  1 +
>   arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c       | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>   arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c          |  4 ++--
>   3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 

Queued patches 1-3.

Paolo