Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: VMX: fix handling inv{ept,vpid} and nested RHEL6 KVM

From: David Matlack
Date: Fri Mar 18 2016 - 13:42:29 EST


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Patches 1 and 2 fix two cases where a guest could hang at 100% CPU
> due to mis-emulation of a failing invept or invvpid.

Will you be sending out kvm-unit-test test cases for these?

>
> Patch 3 works around a bug in RHEL6 KVM, which is exposed by nested
> VPID support; RHEL6 KVM uses single-context invvpid unconditionally,
> but until now KVM did not provide it.
>
> Paolo
>

For the series,

Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Paolo Bonzini (3):
> KVM: VMX: avoid guest hang on invalid invept instruction
> KVM: VMX: avoid guest hang on invalid invvpid instruction
> KVM: VMX: fix nested vpid for old KVM guests
>
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
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> 1.8.3.1
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