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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)"
	<x86@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] KVM: x86: ignore SIPIs that are received while not in wait-for-sipi state
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 18:36:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62e9c59f-29a4-d69f-5d02-a5da11cdbd15@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201203143319.159394-2-mlevitsk@redhat.com>

On 03/12/20 15:33, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> In the commit 1c96dcceaeb3
> ("KVM: x86: fix apic_accept_events vs check_nested_events"),
> 
> we accidently started latching SIPIs that are received while the cpu is not
> waiting for them.
> 
> This causes vCPUs to never enter a halted state.
> 
> Fixes: 1c96dcceaeb3 ("KVM: x86: fix apic_accept_events vs check_nested_events")
> Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 15 ++++++++-------


Indeed, it was done by the xchg before that commit, even if 
vcpu->arch.mp_state != KVM_MP_STATE_INIT_RECEIVED.

Paolo


      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-03 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-03 14:33 [PATCH 0/1] Fix for a recent regression in kvm/queue (guest using 100% cpu time) Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-03 14:33 ` [PATCH 1/1] KVM: x86: ignore SIPIs that are received while not in wait-for-sipi state Maxim Levitsky
2020-12-03 17:36   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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