Re: [KVM] 816be9e9be: kernel-selftests.kvm.smm_test.fail

[Sean Christopherson]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021, kernel test robot wrote:
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> Greeting,
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> FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-9):
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> commit: 816be9e9be8d2e19dcea35fbec06f00cd5749fed ("KVM: nVMX: Don't evaluate "emulation required" on nested VM-Exit")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
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> in testcase: kernel-selftests
> version: kernel-selftests-x86_64-d0cba0d1-1_20210907
> with following parameters:
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> 	group: kvm
> 	ucode: 0xe2
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> test-description: The kernel contains a set of "self tests" under the tools/testing/selftests/ directory. These are intended to be small unit tests to exercise individual code paths in the kernel.
> test-url: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kselftest.txt
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> on test machine: 8 threads Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 28G memory
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> caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
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> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>

Maxim has a fix in the works.