Re: [PATCH 0/4] KVM: nVMX: Fix migration of nested guests when eVMCS is in use

Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-05-03T15:52:18Z

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 03/05/21 17:08, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> Win10 guests with WSL2 enabled sometimes crash on migration when
>> enlightened VMCS was used. The condition seems to be induced by the
>> situation when L2->L1 exit is caused immediately after migration and
>> before L2 gets a chance to run (e.g. when there's an interrupt pending).
>
> Interesting, I think it gets to nested_vmx_vmexit before
>
> if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES, vcpu)) {
> if (unlikely(!kvm_x86_ops.nested_ops->get_nested_state_pages(vcpu))) {
> r = 0;
> goto out;
> }
> }
>
> due to the infamous calls to check_nested_events that are scattered
> through KVM?

Yea,

vcpu_run() -> kvm_vcpu_running() -> vmx_check_nested_events() if I
remember it correctly.

--
Vitaly