From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
To: Wei Huang <wei.huang2@amd.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>, Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: Add emulation support for #GP triggered by VM instructions
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:42:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b55adffa276851ec2c68d1c185d1581d903f2a1.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d324a3d-8c33-bb6c-13f3-e60310a54b13@amd.com>
On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 23:15 -0600, Wei Huang wrote:
>
> On 1/12/21 12:58 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > Andrew Cooper points out that there may be a nicer workaround. Make
> > sure that the SMRAM and HT region (FFFD00000000 - FFFFFFFFFFFF) are
> > marked as reserved in the guest, too.
>
> In theory this proposed solution can avoid intercepting #GP. But in
> reality SMRAM regions can be different on different machines. So this
> solution can break after VM migration.
>
I should add to this, that on my 3970X,
I just noticed that the problematic SMRAM region moved on
its own (likely due to the fact that I moved some pcie cards around recently).
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-14 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-12 6:37 [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: Add emulation support for #GP triggered by VM instructions Wei Huang
2021-01-12 6:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: SVM: Add support for VMCB address check change Wei Huang
2021-01-12 19:18 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-14 11:39 ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-01-14 12:04 ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-01-12 11:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: Add emulation support for #GP triggered by VM instructions Maxim Levitsky
2021-01-12 21:05 ` Wei Huang
2021-01-12 12:15 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-01-12 15:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-01-12 15:17 ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-01-12 15:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-01-12 15:46 ` Bandan Das
2021-01-12 15:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-01-12 17:56 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-13 4:55 ` Wei Huang
2021-01-12 21:50 ` Wei Huang
2021-01-12 14:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-12 17:42 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-13 12:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-15 7:00 ` Wei Huang
2021-01-17 18:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-12 17:36 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-12 17:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-12 18:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-01-13 5:15 ` Wei Huang
2021-01-14 11:42 ` Maxim Levitsky [this message]
2021-01-13 5:03 ` Wei Huang
2021-01-13 12:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-12 19:40 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-12 20:00 ` Bandan Das
2021-01-14 11:47 ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-01-14 17:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-01-14 11:55 ` Maxim Levitsky
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