Re: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: fix cr8 intercept window

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 13/03/2014 18:08, Radim Krčmář ha scritto:
> > I agree that old code is wrong and the patch looks correct, but I only
> > see how the bug may cause pending IRR to not be delivered in time,
> > not how interrupt can disrupt a higher priority task.

Right.  Also, on SMP guests the effect would likely be just a deadlock
if a lower-priority ISR interrupted a higher priority task and accessed 
shared data (since you need anyway a spinlock in addition to raising the 
IRQL).

A more likely explanation is that if the remote processor delays an IPI 
too much, it will have a stable TLB entry.  The resulting random 
corruption of paged memory is compatible with the BAD_POOL_HEADER error 
codes that Radim observed.

> Paolo, can you change the last sentence to ", which means we don't
> inject pending IRR immediately."?  (or do we just forget it?)

It's already in Linus's tree.

Paolo