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Message-ID: <169327846893.3063999.9479426554624511592.b4-ty@google.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:11:21 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Like Xu <like.xu.linux@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Refresh available regs and IDT vectoring info
before NMI handling
On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 18:45:32 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Reset the mask of available "registers" and refresh the IDT vectoring
> info snapshot in vmx_vcpu_enter_exit(), before KVM potentially handles a
> an NMI VM-Exit. One of the "registers" that KVM VMX lazily loads is the
> vmcs.VM_EXIT_INTR_INFO field, which is holds the vector+type on "exception
> or NMI" VM-Exits, i.e. is needed to identify NMIs. Clearing the available
> registers bitmask after handling NMIs results in KVM querying info from
> the last VM-Exit that read vmcs.VM_EXIT_INTR_INFO, and leads to both
> missed NMIs and spurious NMIs in the host.
>
> [...]
Applied to kvm-x86 vmx, gonna try to squeeze this into the initial 6.6 pull
request as I got confirmation from another reporter that this fixed their
problem[*]. I'll make sure to make note of this patch in the pull request to
Paolo, worst case scenario I'll drop this one commit if Paolo spots something.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/SY4P282MB10841E53BAF421675FCE991D9DE0A@SY4P282MB1084.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/
[1/1] KVM: VMX: Refresh available regs and IDT vectoring info before NMI handling
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/50011c2a2457
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