Re: nVMX regression v3.13+, bisected

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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:27:17PM +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 26.02.2014 21:25, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

[. . .]

> >>
> >> I bisected this and ended up on the following commit which, when reverted made
> >> the launch work again:
> >>
> >> Author: Anthoine Bourgeois <bourgeois@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date:   Wed Nov 13 11:45:37 2013 +0100
> >>
> >>     kvm, vmx: Fix lazy FPU on nested guest
> >>
> >>     If a nested guest does a NM fault but its CR0 doesn't contain the TS
> >>     flag (because it was already cleared by the guest with L1 aid) then we
> >>     have to activate FPU ourselves in L0 and then continue to L2. If TS flag
> >>     is set then we fallback on the previous behavior, forward the fault to
> >>     L1 if it asked for.
> >>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Anthoine Bourgeois <bourgeois@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> The condition to exit to L0 seems to be according to what the description says.
> >> Could it be that the handling in L0 is doing something wrong?
> > 
> > Thanks, I'll look at it tomorrow or Friday.
> > 
> > Paolo
> > 
> Great thanks. And maybe it helps if I actually add the link to the bug report as
> I had intended... :-P
> 
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1278531

Yes, I'm seeing something similar[*] in a consistent manner with minimal
Fedora installs on L0, L1 and L2, but couldn't manage time to do the
bisecting. I thought this would be my first bisecting exercise, but you
already beat me to it.


  [*] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69491#c7



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