Re: [visorchipset] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

[Romer, Benjamin M]

On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 10:53 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> > Fengguang,
> > 
> > I ran your script against freshly-checked-out source from staging-next, and was not able to reproduce the error with it. My boot log is attached. I noticed that your log did not have "Hypervisor detected: KVM" in the trace. The KVM options in your script also differ substantially from the ones shown at the end of your trace...
>  
> > When I reran your script with the "-cpu Haswell,+smep,+smap" option I was able to get the same result as you. IMHO KVM should not be setting this bit if it's emulating bare metal.
> 
> Sorry.. We tried to provide a simplified reproduce script and in your
> case, it has a significant mismatch with the real KVM options. We'll
> fix it, thanks for pointing it out!
> 
> Thanks,
> Fengguang

That will be helpful, and as I mentioned, I can reproduce your results,
but I'm still not sure why a virtualized processor is giving an invalid
opcode fault on a vmcall. The Intel documentation is pretty specific
about this - IF not in VMX operation THEN #UD; ELSIF in VMX non-root
operation THEN VM exit.

Either KVM should be saying "I'm a real processor and not a virtual CPU,
really!" - in which case, the hypervisor bit should be off and vmcalls
should cause an invalid opcode fault, or, KVM should be saying "I'm a
vritualized processor!" and setting the hypervisor bit, and doing a
vmexit on vmcall instead. This seems like a KVM bug to me.

-- Ben