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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Tianyi Liu <i.pear@outlook.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Fix NMI event loss
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 07:04:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZOypc+LeHdE5u0MC@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SY4P282MB10841E53BAF421675FCE991D9DE0A@SY4P282MB1084.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023, Tianyi Liu wrote:
> Hi, Sean:
> 
> I have found that in the latest version of the kernel, some PMU events are
> being lost. I used bisect and found out the breaking commit [1], which
> moved the handling of NMI events from `handle_exception_irqoff` to
> `vmx_vcpu_enter_exit`.
> 
> If I revert this part as done in this patch, it works correctly. However,
> I'm not really familiar with KVM, and I'm not sure about the intent behind
> the original patch [1].

FWIW, the goal was to invoke vmx_do_nmi_irqoff() before leaving the "noinstr"
region.  I messed up and forgot that vmx_get_intr_info() relied on metadata being
reset after VM-Exit :-/

> Could you please take a look on this? Thanks a lot.

Please try this patch, it should fix the problem but I haven't fully tested it
against an affected workload yet.  I'll do that later today.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230825014532.2846714-1-seanjc@google.com

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-28 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-28  9:07 [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Fix NMI event loss Tianyi Liu
2023-08-28 14:04 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2023-08-28 15:53   ` Tianyi Liu

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