Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: VMX: Extend VMX's #AC handding

[Sean Christopherson]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 12:57:51PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> > On Jan 31, 2020, at 12:18 PM, Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > This is essentially what I proposed a while back.  KVM would allow enabling
> > split-lock #AC in the guest if and only if SMT is disabled or the enable bit
> > is per-thread, *or* the host is in "warn" mode (can live with split-lock #AC
> > being randomly disabled/enabled) and userspace has communicated to KVM that
> > it is pinning vCPUs.
> 
> How about covering the actual sensible case: host is set to fatal?  In this
> mode, the guest gets split lock detection whether it wants it or not. How do
> we communicate this to the guest?

KVM doesn't advertise split-lock #AC to the guest and returns -EFAULT to the
userspace VMM if the guest triggers a split-lock #AC.

Effectively the same behavior as any other userspace process, just that KVM
explicitly returns -EFAULT instead of the process getting a SIGBUS.