From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
To: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: restore special vmmcall code layout needed by the harness
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:48:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e0678e3ce57f3972945d2523ca66b9bc1d1e720.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0xjh3qk.fsf@ovpn-194-141.brq.redhat.com>
On Thu, 2022-12-01 at 10:28 +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > Commit 8fda37cf3d41 ("KVM: selftests: Stuff RAX/RCX with 'safe' values
> > > in vmmcall()/vmcall()", 2022-11-21) broke the svm_nested_soft_inject_test
> > > because it placed a "pop rbp" instruction after vmmcall. While this is
> > > correct and mimics what is done in the VMX case, this particular test
> > > expects a ud2 instruction right after the vmmcall, so that it can skip
> > > over it in the L1 part of the test.
> > >
> > > Inline a suitably-modified version of vmmcall() to restore the
> > > functionality of the test.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 8fda37cf3d41 ("KVM: selftests: Stuff RAX/RCX with 'safe' values in vmmcall()/vmcall()"
> > > Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> >
> > We really, really need to save/restore guest GPRs in L1 when handling exits from L2.
>
> +1, the amount of stuff we do to workaround the shortcoming (and time
> we waste debugging) is getting ridiculously high.
>
> > For now,
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> >
>
> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
>
I didn't notice this fix and also found this issue.
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-01 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-30 18:11 Paolo Bonzini
2022-11-30 22:56 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-12-01 9:28 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2022-12-01 13:48 ` Maxim Levitsky [this message]
2022-12-28 9:53 ` mlevitsk
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