Re: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Keep intercepting task switching with NPT enabled

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On 10/18/2011 06:35 PM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:23:11PM -0400, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > AMD processors apparently have a bug in the hardware task switching
> > support when NPT is enabled. If the task switch triggers a NPF, we can
> > get wrong EXITINTINFO along with that fault. On resume, spurious
> > exceptions may then be injected into the guest.
> > 
> > We were able to reproduce this bug when our guest triggered #SS and the
> > handler were supposed to run over a separate task with not yet touched
> > stack pages.
> > 
> > Work around the issue by continuing to emulate task switches even in
> > NPT mode.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
>

Will there be an erratum published for this bug?  Are all processors
affected?

I'd like to limit this to just the buggy processors, if and when fixed
processors become available.

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