Re: [PATCH v2 16/21] KVM: x86: Evaluate ability to inject SMI/NMI/IRQ after potential VM-Exit

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Wed Jul 06 2022 - 08:05:48 EST


On Tue, 2022-06-14 at 20:47 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Determine whether or not new events can be injected after checking nested
> events. If a VM-Exit occurred during nested event handling, any previous
> event that needed re-injection is gone from's KVM perspective; the event
> is captured in the vmc*12 VM-Exit information, but doesn't exist in terms
> of what needs to be done for entry to L1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 930de833aa2b..1a301a1730a5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -9502,7 +9502,7 @@ static void kvm_inject_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>
> static int inject_pending_event(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool *req_immediate_exit)
> {
> - bool can_inject = !kvm_event_needs_reinjection(vcpu);
> + bool can_inject;
> int r;
>
> /*
> @@ -9567,7 +9567,13 @@ static int inject_pending_event(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool *req_immediate_exit)
> if (r < 0)
> goto out;
>
> - /* try to inject new event if pending */
> + /*
> + * New events, other than exceptions, cannot be injected if KVM needs
> + * to re-inject a previous event. See above comments on re-injecting
> + * for why pending exceptions get priority.
> + */
> + can_inject = !kvm_event_needs_reinjection(vcpu);
> +
> if (vcpu->arch.exception.pending) {
> /*
> * Fault-class exceptions, except #DBs, set RF=1 in the RFLAGS

Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky