Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: fix APIC page invalidation

From: Fabian Grünbichler
Date: Fri Dec 01 2017 - 07:21:23 EST


On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 07:05:45PM +0100, Radim KrÄmÃÅ wrote:
> Implementation of the unpinned APIC page didn't update the VMCS address
> cache when invalidation was done through range mmu notifiers.
> This became a problem when the page notifier was removed.
>
> Re-introduce the arch-specific helper and call it from ...range_start.
>
> Fixes: 38b9917350cb ("kvm: vmx: Implement set_apic_access_page_addr")
> Fixes: 369ea8242c0f ("mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic v2")
> Signed-off-by: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the fast reaction!

Some initial test rounds with just Patch 1 applied on top of 4.13.8 show
no blue screens, will do more tests also with 4.14.3 on Monday and
report back.

4.15-rc1 crashes for unrelated reasons, but I can re-run the tests once
a stable-enough rc has been cut..