From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-Id: <20120510173136.374401782@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:32:12 -0700 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Avi Kivity Subject: [ 40/52] KVM: VMX: Fix delayed load of shared MSRs In-Reply-To: <20120510173229.GA5678@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.3-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Avi Kivity (cherry picked from commit 9ee73970c03edb68146ceb1ba2a7033c99a5e017) Shared MSRs (MSR_*STAR and related) are stored in both vmx->guest_msrs and in the CPU registers, but vmx_set_msr() only updated memory. Prior to 46199f33c2953, this didn't matter, since we called vmx_load_host_state(), which scheduled a vmx_save_host_state(), which re-synchronized the CPU state, but now we don't, so the CPU state will not be synchronized until the next exit to host userspace. This mostly affects nested vmx workloads, which play with these MSRs a lot. Fix by loading the MSR eagerly. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -2219,6 +2219,9 @@ static int vmx_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu * msr = find_msr_entry(vmx, msr_index); if (msr) { msr->data = data; + if (msr - vmx->guest_msrs < vmx->save_nmsrs) + kvm_set_shared_msr(msr->index, msr->data, + msr->mask); break; } ret = kvm_set_msr_common(vcpu, msr_index, data);