Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: nVMX: fixes to nested virt interrupt injection

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Fri Jul 28 2017 - 05:07:28 EST


2017-07-28 16:24 GMT+08:00 Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 09:03 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> With these two patches, KVM does not blindly pass the exit interruption
>> info and exit qualification from the vmcs02 and vmcs12 when injecting
>> an exception. There were two spots where this was done, namely
>> nested_vmx_check_exception and vmx_inject_page_fault_nested.
>>
>> Patch 1 avoids writing the vmcs02's VM_EXIT_INTR_ERROR_CODE field,
>> which as Jim noticed isn't possible on pre-Haswell machines, but
>> otherwise has no semantic effect.
>>
>> Patch 2 is the actual bugfix.
>
> I was looking into oodles of lapic_timer.hv_timer_in_use warnings in
> RT, introduced by KVM: LAPIC: Fix lapic timer injection delay, when I
> noticed this post. Happily, I can report that they are history.

Yeah, it is fixed in the kvm/queue.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git/commit/?h=queue&id=1d518c6820daf4e00d29adfba980aee05f605f0f

Regards,
Wanpeng Li