Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: x86: avoid simultaneous queueing of both IRQ and SMI

From: Radim KrÄmÃÅ
Date: Thu Jun 02 2016 - 10:19:10 EST


2016-06-01 22:25+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> This was reported as a vmentry failure while running Windows with SMM
> enabled. It's not that rare if your processor lacks APICv---it happens
> about 20-30% of the time while installing Windows 10.
>
> I now understand the interrupt injection code (especially
> complete_interrupts) better, and I also understand why the shortcut I took
> in SMI handling was a bad idea. In the end the code is somewhat simpler
> with the patch applied than before.
>
> The bug report is at https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/issues/91, but it
> also fixes other Windows failures that Laszlo had reported to me privately.

Applied, thanks.