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Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix the NMI IDT-vectoring info handling

From Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix the NMI IDT-vectoring info handling
Date 2016-09-22 11:40 +0200
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On 22/09/2016 05:34, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> -	if (vmx->rmode.vm86_active) {
> -		if (kvm_inject_realmode_interrupt(vcpu, NMI_VECTOR, 0) != EMULATE_DONE)
> -			kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT, vcpu);
> -		return;
> +		++vcpu->stat.nmi_injections;
> +		vmx->nmi_known_unmasked = false;
> +		if (vmx->rmode.vm86_active) {
> +			if (kvm_inject_realmode_interrupt(vcpu, NMI_VECTOR, 0) != EMULATE_DONE)
> +				kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT, vcpu);
> +			return;
> +		}
>  	}
>  	vmcs_write32(VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD,
>  			INTR_TYPE_NMI_INTR | INTR_INFO_VALID_MASK | NMI_VECTOR);

Hi,

the patch is mostly okay but the "if (vmx->rmode.vm86_active)" part
should be done also if the VCPU is in guest mode.  See
vmx_queue_exception for a similar example.

I would like to know which processors lack virtual NMI support.  I'd
rather rip that code out...

Thanks,

Paolo

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[PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix the NMI IDT-vectoring info handling Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 05:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix the NMI IDT-vectoring info handling Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-09-22 11:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix the NMI IDT-vectoring info handling Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 11:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix the NMI IDT-vectoring info handling Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> - 2016-09-22 12:10 +0200

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