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Ladi Prosek 6ed071f051 KVM: x86: fix emulation of RSM and IRET instructions
On AMD, the effect of set_nmi_mask called by emulate_iret_real and em_rsm
on hflags is reverted later on in x86_emulate_instruction where hflags are
overwritten with ctxt->emul_flags (the kvm_set_hflags call). This manifests
as a hang when rebooting Windows VMs with QEMU, OVMF, and >1 vcpu.

Instead of trying to merge ctxt->emul_flags into vcpu->arch.hflags after
an instruction is emulated, this commit deletes emul_flags altogether and
makes the emulator access vcpu->arch.hflags using two new accessors. This
way all changes, on the emulator side as well as in functions called from
the emulator and accessing vcpu state with emul_to_vcpu, are preserved.

More details on the bug and its manifestation with Windows and OVMF:

  It's a KVM bug in the interaction between SMI/SMM and NMI, specific to AMD.
  I believe that the SMM part explains why we started seeing this only with
  OVMF.

  KVM masks and unmasks NMI when entering and leaving SMM. When KVM emulates
  the RSM instruction in em_rsm, the set_nmi_mask call doesn't stick because
  later on in x86_emulate_instruction we overwrite arch.hflags with
  ctxt->emul_flags, effectively reverting the effect of the set_nmi_mask call.
  The AMD-specific hflag of interest here is HF_NMI_MASK.

  When rebooting the system, Windows sends an NMI IPI to all but the current
  cpu to shut them down. Only after all of them are parked in HLT will the
  initiating cpu finish the restart. If NMI is masked, other cpus never get
  the memo and the initiating cpu spins forever, waiting for
  hal!HalpInterruptProcessorsStarted to drop. That's the symptom we observe.

Fixes: a584539b24 ("KVM: x86: pass the whole hflags field to emulator and back")
Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek <lprosek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-04-27 16:54:09 +02:00
arch KVM: x86: fix emulation of RSM and IRET instructions 2017-04-27 16:54:09 +02:00
block blk-mq-sched: don't run the queue async from blk_mq_try_issue_directly() 2017-03-14 11:51:59 -06:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets 2017-03-09 18:23:27 -08:00
Documentation KVM: s390: MSA8 feature for guests 2017-04-27 14:11:07 +02:00
drivers KVM: s390: Guarded storage fixup and keyless subset mode 2017-04-21 12:47:47 +02:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs Merge branch 'x86/process' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into HEAD 2017-04-21 11:55:06 +02:00
include KVM: mark requests that need synchronization 2017-04-27 14:36:44 +02:00
init Change get_random_{int,log} to use the CRNG used by /dev/urandom and 2017-03-11 09:08:47 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-18 08:33:44 -07:00
lib mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mm mm, swap: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in free_swap_slot() 2017-03-21 14:13:19 -07:00
net NFS client fixes for 4.11 2017-03-17 14:16:22 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
scripts x86/syscalls/32: Ignore arch_prctl for other architectures 2017-03-24 14:13:55 +01:00
security Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
sound scripts/spelling.txt: add "disble(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
tools s390: kvm: Cpu model support for msa6, msa7 and msa8 2017-04-26 14:19:01 +02:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM: mark requests that need synchronization 2017-04-27 14:36:44 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
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Makefile Linux 4.11-rc3 2017-03-19 19:09:39 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.