Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: VMX: Handle #MCs on VM-Enter/TD-Enter outside of the fastpath

Tony Lindgren
2025-11-19T06:11:45Z

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 02:23:26PM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Handle Machine Checks (#MC) that happen on VM-Enter (VMX or TDX) outside
> of KVM's fastpath so that as much host state as possible is re-loaded
> before invoking the kernel's #MC handler. The only requirement is that
> KVM invokes the #MC handler before enabling IRQs (and even that could
> _probably_ be related to handling #MCs before enabling preemption).
>
> Waiting to handle #MCs until "more" host state is loaded hardens KVM
> against flaws in the #MC handler, which has historically been quite
> brittle. E.g. prior to commit 5567d11c21a1 ("x86/mce: Send #MC singal from
> task work"), the #MC code could trigger a schedule() with IRQs and
> preemption disabled. That led to a KVM hack-a-fix in commit 1811d979c716
> ("x86/kvm: move kvm_load/put_guest_xcr0 into atomic context").
>
> Note, vmx_handle_exit_irqoff() is common to VMX and TDX guests.

Reviewed-by: Tony Lindgren <tony.lindgren@linux.intel.com>