Re: [PATCH 00/24] KVM: nSVM: event fixes and migration support

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Wed May 20 2020 - 17:08:52 EST


On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 22:42 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 20/05/20 21:24, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > Patch 24 doesn't apply cleanly on top of kvm/queue, I appplied it manually,
> > due to missing KVM_STATE_NESTED_MTF_PENDING bit
> >
> > Also patch 22 needes ALIGN_UP which is not on mainline.
> > Probably in linux-next?
>
> Just replace it with ALIGN. (I tested it with memzero_user in
> arch/x86/kvm/ for convenience, and the lib/ patch ended up out of sync
> with the actual code).
That is exactly what I did.

>
> > With these fixes, I don't see #DE exceptions on a nested guest I try to run
> > however it still hangs, right around the time it tries to access PS/2 keyboard/mouse.
>
> IIRC you said that the bug appeared with the vintr rework, and then went
> from hang to #DE and now back to hang? And the hang is reported by L2,
> not L1?
Yes, and now the hang appears to be deterministic. The initial hang could happen
randomally. I remember that once the nested guest got to getty prompt even and hanged
on shutdown. Now hang is deterministic when kernel prints something about PS/2.
I will re-check this tomorrow.

>
> In order to debug the hang, a good start would be to understand if it
> also happens with vgif=0. This is because with vgif=1 we use VINTR
> intercepts even while GIF=0, so the whole thing is a bit more complicated.
I will check this tomorrow as well.


Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky

>
> Paolo
>