On 23/05/20 18:14, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > On my AMD machine I noticed that I can't start any nested guests, > because nested KVM (everything from master git branches) complains > that it can't find msr MSR_IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL which my system doesn't support > at all anyway. > > I traced it to the recently added UMWAIT support to qemu and kvm. > The kvm portion exposed the new MSR in KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST without > checking that it the underlying feature is supported in CPUID. > It happened to work when non nested because as a precation kvm, > tries to read each MSR on host before adding it to that list, > and when read gets a #GP it ignores it. > > When running nested, the L1 hypervisor can be set to ignore unknown > msr read/writes (I need this for some other guests), thus this safety > check doesn't work anymore. > > V2: * added a patch to setup correctly the X86_FEATURE_WAITPKG kvm capability > * dropped the cosmetic fix patch as it is now fixed in kvm/queue > > Best regards, > Maxim Levitsky > > Maxim Levitsky (2): > kvm/x86/vmx: enable X86_FEATURE_WAITPKG in KVM capabilities > kvm/x86: don't expose MSR_IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL unconditionally > > arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 3 +++ > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 ++++ > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) > Queued for 5.7, thanks (with cosmetic touches to the commit message, and moving the "case" earlier to avoid conflicts). Paolo
