On 18/09/2015 15:39, Igor Mammedov wrote: > When INIT/SIPI sequence is sent to VCPU which before that > was in use by OS, VMRUN might fail with: > > KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0xffffffff > EAX=00000000 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000000 EDX=000006d3 > ESI=00000000 EDI=00000000 EBP=00000000 ESP=00000000 > EIP=00000000 EFL=00000002 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 > ES =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 > CS =9a00 0009a000 0000ffff 00009a00 > [...] > CR0=60000010 CR2=b6f3e000 CR3=01942000 CR4=000007e0 > [...] > EFER=0000000000000000 > > with corresponding SVM error: > KVM: FAILED VMRUN WITH VMCB: > [...] > cpl: 0 efer: 0000000000001000 > cr0: 0000000080010010 cr2: 00007fd7fe85bf90 > cr3: 0000000187d0c000 cr4: 0000000000000020 > [...] > > What happens is that VCPU state right after offlinig: > CR0: 0x80050033 EFER: 0xd01 CR4: 0x7e0 > -> long mode with CR3 pointing to longmode page tables > > and when VCPU gets INIT/SIPI following transition happens > CR0: 0 -> 0x60000010 EFER: 0x0 CR4: 0x7e0 > -> paging disabled with stale CR3 > > However SVM under the hood puts VCPU in Paged Real Mode* > which effectively translates CR0 0x60000010 -> 80010010 after > > svm_vcpu_reset() > -> init_vmcb() > -> kvm_set_cr0() > -> svm_set_cr0() > > but from kvm_set_cr0() perspective CR0: 0 -> 0x60000010 > only caching bits are changed and > commit d81135a57aa6 > ("KVM: x86: do not reset mmu if CR0.CD and CR0.NW are changed")' > regressed svm_vcpu_reset() which relied on MMU being reset. > > As result VMRUN after svm_vcpu_reset() tries to run > VCPU in Paged Real Mode with stale MMU context (longmode page tables), > which causes some AMD CPUs** to bail out with VMEXIT_INVALID. > > Fix issue by unconditionally resetting MMU context > at init_vmcb() time. > > -- > * AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual, > Volume 2: System Programming, rev: 3.25 > 15.19 Paged Real Mode > ** Opteron 1216 > > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c > index fdb8cb6..89173af 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c > @@ -1264,6 +1264,7 @@ static void init_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm, bool init_event) > * It also updates the guest-visible cr0 value. > */ > (void)kvm_set_cr0(&svm->vcpu, X86_CR0_NW | X86_CR0_CD | X86_CR0_ET); > + kvm_mmu_reset_context(&svm->vcpu); > > save->cr4 = X86_CR4_PAE; > /* rdx = ?? */ > Thanks. Unfortunately I have just sent a pull request to Linus, but I'll add Fixes: d81135a57aa6 Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and send it out next week. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html