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SubjectRe: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: vNMI pending bit is V_NMI_PENDING_MASK not V_NMI_BLOCKING_MASK
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On 19.05.2023 17:51, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2023, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>> From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
>>
>> While testing Hyper-V enabled Windows Server 2019 guests on Zen4 hardware
>> I noticed that with vCPU count large enough (> 16) they sometimes froze at
>> boot.
>> With vCPU count of 64 they never booted successfully - suggesting some kind
>> of a race condition.
>>
>> Since adding "vnmi=0" module parameter made these guests boot successfully
>> it was clear that the problem is most likely (v)NMI-related.
>>
>> Running kvm-unit-tests quickly showed failing NMI-related tests cases, like
>> "multiple nmi" and "pending nmi" from apic-split, x2apic and xapic tests
>> and the NMI parts of eventinj test.
>>
>> The issue was that once one NMI was being serviced no other NMI was allowed
>> to be set pending (NMI limit = 0), which was traced to
>> svm_is_vnmi_pending() wrongly testing for the "NMI blocked" flag rather
>> than for the "NMI pending" flag.
>>
>> Fix this by testing for the right flag in svm_is_vnmi_pending().
>> Once this is done, the NMI-related kvm-unit-tests pass successfully and
>> the Windows guest no longer freezes at boot.
>>
>> Fixes: fa4c027a7956 ("KVM: x86: Add support for SVM's Virtual NMI")
>> Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
>

I can't see this in kvm/kvm.git trees or the kvm-x86 ones on GitHub -
is this patch planned to be picked up for -rc5 soon?

Technically, just knowing the final commit id would be sufficit for my
purposes.

Thanks,
Maciej

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