https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206877 Bug ID: 206877 Summary: Nested virt on AMD (and probably older Intel) doesn't work with ignore_msrs=Y on L0 (fails with UMWAIT error) Product: Virtualization Version: unspecified Kernel Version: 5.6.0-rc6 Hardware: i386 OS: Linux Tree: Mainline Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: kvm Assignee: virtualization_kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: s.reiter@xxxxxxxxxxx Regression: No I'm not sure if this is a supported configuration, but since the commit mentioned below nested virtualization on AMD when the host has 'ignore_msrs=Y' is broken. QEMU fails with: kvm: error: failed to set MSR 0xe1 to 0x0 kvm: /qemu/target/i386/kvm.c:2947: kvm_put_msrs: Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed. If this is supposed to work, it's a regression from 6e3ba4abcea5 ("KVM: vmx: Emulate MSR IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL"), I can confirm that reverting this commit for the guest kernel makes everything work again. Ignoring UMWAIT in QEMU (kvm_get_supported_msrs) does the trick too. I *think* this happens since MSR_IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL (in msrs_to_save_all) is added to the guest CPUID with the only condition being that 'rdmsr_safe' in 'kvm_init_msr_list' succeeds - which it does, since the host ignores it. However, since the CPU doesn't actually support UMWAIT (in my case since it's an AMD chip, but I suppose the same happens on older Intel ones) the MSR set for the L2 guest fails. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.
