Commit e64a8508 authored by Liran Alon's avatar Liran Alon Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: VMX: Consume pending LAPIC INIT event when exit on INIT_SIGNAL 

Intel SDM section 25.2 OTHER CAUSES OF VM EXITS specifies the following
on INIT signals: "Such exits do not modify register state or clear pending
events as they would outside of VMX operation."

When commit 4b9852f4 ("KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states")
was applied, I interepted above Intel SDM statement such that
INIT_SIGNAL exit don’t consume the LAPIC INIT pending event.

However, when Nadav Amit run matching kvm-unit-test on a bare-metal
machine, it turned out my interpetation was wrong. i.e. INIT_SIGNAL
exit does consume the LAPIC INIT pending event.
(See: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg196757.html

)

Therefore, fix KVM code to behave as observed on bare-metal.

Fixes: 4b9852f4 ("KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states")
Reported-by: default avatarNadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJoao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLiran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 27cbe7d6

arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c

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@@ -3463,6 +3463,7 @@ static int vmx_check_nested_events(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool external_intr) 
		test_bit(KVM_APIC_INIT, &apic->pending_events)) {

		if (block_nested_events)

			return -EBUSY;

		clear_bit(KVM_APIC_INIT, &apic->pending_events);

		nested_vmx_vmexit(vcpu, EXIT_REASON_INIT_SIGNAL, 0, 0);

		return 0;

	}