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commit 6cd88243c7e03845a450795e134b488fc2afb736 upstream. If a vCPU is outside guest mode and is scheduled out, it might be in the process of making a memory access. A problem occurs if another vCPU uses the PV TLB flush feature during the period when the vCPU is scheduled out, and a virtual address has already been translated but has not yet been accessed, because this is equivalent to using a stale TLB entry. To avoid this, only report a vCPU as preempted if sure that the guest is at an instruction boundary. A rescheduling request will be delivered to the host physical CPU as an external interrupt, so for simplicity consider any vmexit *not* instruction boundary except for external interrupts. It would in principle be okay to report the vCPU as preempted also if it is sleeping in kvm_vcpu_block(): a TLB flush IPI will incur the vmentry/vmexit overhead unnecessarily, and optimistic spinning is also unlikely to succeed. However, leave it for later because right now kvm_vcpu_check_block() is doing memory accesses. Even though the TLB flush issue only applies to virtual memory address, it's very much preferrable to be conservative. Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> [OP: use VCPU_STAT() for debugfs entries] Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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