On 13/08/19 15:54, Adalbert Lazăr wrote: > Leaving kvm_vcpu_block() in order to handle a request such as 'pause', > would cause the vCPU to enter the guest when resumed. Most of the > time this does not appear to be an issue, but during early boot it > can happen for a non-boot vCPU to start executing code from areas that > first needed to be set up by vCPU #0. > > In a particular case, vCPU #1 executed code which resided in an area > not covered by a memslot, which caused an EPT violation that got > turned in mmu_set_spte() into a MMIO request that required emulation. > Unfortunatelly, the emulator tripped, exited to userspace and the VM > was aborted. Okay, this makes sense. Maybe you want to handle KVM_REQ_INTROSPECTION in vcpu_run rather than vcpu_enter_guest? Paolo