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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>, Zeng Guang <guang.zeng@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] KVM: nVMX: Get to-be-acknowledge IRQ for nested VM-Exit at injection site
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 15:49:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ztjj8xrWMzzrlbtM@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240904210830.GA1229985@thelio-3990X>

On Wed, Sep 04, 2024, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> I bisected (log below) an issue with starting a nested guest that
> appears on two of my newer Intel test machines (but not a somewhat old
> laptop) when this change as commit 6f373f4d941b ("KVM: nVMX: Get
> to-be-acknowledge IRQ for nested VM-Exit at injection site") in -next is
> present in the host kernel.
> 
> I start a virtual machine with a full distribution using QEMU then start
> a nested virtual machine using QEMU with the same kernel and a much
> simpler Buildroot initrd, just to test the ability to run a nested
> guest. After this change, starting a nested guest results in no output
> from the nested guest and eventually the first guest restarts, sometimes
> printing a lockup message that appears to be caused from qemu-system-x86

*sigh*

It's not you, it's me.

I just bisected hangs in my nested setup to this same commit.  Apparently, I
completely and utterly failed at testing.

There isn't that much going on here, so knock wood, getting a root cause shouldn't
be terribly difficult.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-04 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-20  0:01 [PATCH 0/6] KVM: nVMX: Fix IPIv vs. nested posted interrupts Sean Christopherson
2024-07-20  0:01 ` [PATCH 1/6] KVM: nVMX: Get to-be-acknowledge IRQ for nested VM-Exit at injection site Sean Christopherson
2024-09-04 21:08   ` Nathan Chancellor
2024-09-04 22:49     ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2024-09-05  0:37       ` Sean Christopherson
2024-07-20  0:01 ` [PATCH 2/6] KVM: nVMX: Suppress external interrupt VM-Exit injection if there's no IRQ Sean Christopherson
2024-07-20  0:01 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: x86: Don't move VMX's nested PI notification vector from IRR to ISR Sean Christopherson
2024-07-20  0:01 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: nVMX: Track nested_vmx.posted_intr_nv as a signed int Sean Christopherson
2024-07-20  0:01 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: nVMX: Explicitly invalidate posted_intr_nv if PI is disabled at VM-Enter Sean Christopherson
2024-07-20  0:01 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: nVMX: Detect nested posted interrupt NV at nested VM-Exit injection Sean Christopherson
2024-07-23 14:49   ` Chao Gao
2024-07-23 17:43     ` Sean Christopherson
2024-07-22 12:55 ` [PATCH 0/6] KVM: nVMX: Fix IPIv vs. nested posted interrupts Chao Gao
2024-07-22 23:58   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-08-31  0:21 ` Sean Christopherson

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