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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: nVMX: fixes to nested virt interrupt injection
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On 28/07/2017 10:24, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 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.

This patch won't fix them. They are a race that comes and goes---but
yes, it's fixed.

Paolo

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