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From: 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: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 11:53:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <904ecd64fb5d0ae3512bb595ea326383e4099d54.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e0678e3ce57f3972945d2523ca66b9bc1d1e720.camel@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2022-12-01 at 15:48 +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> 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

Seems that this patch got through the cracks,
pinging so someone else won't need to debug this
test too.

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky


      reply	other threads:[~2022-12-28  9:55 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
2022-12-28  9:53       ` mlevitsk [this message]

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