Re: [PATCH stable v5.4+ 1/3] x86/kvm: Teardown PV features on boot CPU as well

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 20/05/2021 12:47, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 20/05/21 14:56, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> commit 8b79feffeca28c5459458fe78676b081e87c93a4 upstream.
>>
>> Various PV features (Async PF, PV EOI, steal time) work through memory
>> shared with hypervisor and when we restore from hibernation we must
>> properly teardown all these features to make sure hypervisor doesn't
>> write to stale locations after we jump to the previously hibernated kernel
>> (which can try to place anything there). For secondary CPUs the job is
>> already done by kvm_cpu_down_prepare(), register syscore ops to do
>> the same for boot CPU.
>>
>> Krzysztof:
>> This fixes memory corruption visible after second resume from
>> hibernation:
> 
> Hi, you should include a cover letter detailing the differences between 
> the original patches and the backport.
> 
> (I'll review it anyway, but it would have helped).

My bad, I actually was not aware that backport differs that much. I can
describe in v2.

The patch context looks quite a different and now I see
kvm_guest_cpu_offline() ends up within CONFIG_SMP for unclear reasons.
Let me try to fix it in v2.


Best regards,
Krzysztof