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Sometimes, a processor might execute an instruction while another processor is updating the page tables for that instruction's code page, but before the TLB shootdown completes. The interesting case happens if the page is in the TLB. In general, the processor will succeed in executing the instruction and nothing bad happens. However, what if the instruction is an MMIO access? If *that* happens, KVM invokes the emulator, and the emulator gets the updated page tables. If the update side had marked the code page as non present, the page table walk then will fail and so will x86_decode_insn. Unfortunately, even though kvm_fetch_guest_virt is correctly returning X86EMUL_PROPAGATE_FAULT, x86_decode_insn's caller treats the failure as a fatal error if the instruction cannot simply be reexecuted (as is the case for MMIO). And this in fact happened sometimes when rebooting Windows 2012r2 guests. Just checking ctxt->have_exception and injecting the exception if true is enough to fix the case. Thanks to Eduardo Habkost for helping in the debugging of this issue. Reported-by: Yanan Fu <yfu@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.