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When synthensizing a nested VM-Exit due to an external interrupt, pend a
nested posted interrupt if the external interrupt vector matches L2's PI
notification vector, i.e. if the interrupt is a PI notification for L2.
This fixes a bug where KVM will incorrectly inject VM-Exit instead of
processing nested posted interrupt when IPI virtualization is enabled.
Per the SDM, detection of the notification vector doesn't occur until the
interrupt is acknowledge and deliver to the CPU core.
If the external-interrupt exiting VM-execution control is 1, any unmasked
external interrupt causes a VM exit (see Section 26.2). If the "process
posted interrupts" VM-execution control is also 1, this behavior is
changed and the processor handles an external interrupt as follows:
1. The local APIC is acknowledged; this provides the processor core
with an interrupt vector, called here the physical vector.
2. If the physical vector equals the posted-interrupt notification
vector, the logical processor continues to the next step. Otherwise,
a VM exit occurs as it would normally due to an external interrupt;
the vector is saved in the VM-exit interruption-information field.
For the most part, KVM has avoided problems because a PI NV for L2 that
arrives will L2 is active will be processed by hardware, and KVM checks
for a pending notification vector during nested VM-Enter. Thus, to hit
the bug, the PI NV interrupt needs to sneak its way into L1's vIRR while
L2 is active.
Without IPI virtualization, the scenario is practically impossible to hit,
modulo L1 doing weird things (see below), as the ordering between
vmx_deliver_posted_interrupt() and nested VM-Enter effectively guarantees
that either the sender will see the vCPU as being in_guest_mode(), or the
receiver will see the interrupt in its vIRR.
With IPI virtualization, introduced by commit
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.