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Liran Alon e51bfdb687 KVM: nVMX: Expose RDPMC-exiting only when guest supports PMU
Issue was discovered when running kvm-unit-tests on KVM running as L1 on
top of Hyper-V.

When vmx_instruction_intercept unit-test attempts to run RDPMC to test
RDPMC-exiting, it is intercepted by L1 KVM which it's EXIT_REASON_RDPMC
handler raise #GP because vCPU exposed by Hyper-V doesn't support PMU.
Instead of unit-test expectation to be reflected with EXIT_REASON_RDPMC.

The reason vmx_instruction_intercept unit-test attempts to run RDPMC
even though Hyper-V doesn't support PMU is because L1 expose to L2
support for RDPMC-exiting. Which is reasonable to assume that is
supported only in case CPU supports PMU to being with.

Above issue can easily be simulated by modifying
vmx_instruction_intercept config in x86/unittests.cfg to run QEMU with
"-cpu host,+vmx,-pmu" and run unit-test.

To handle issue, change KVM to expose RDPMC-exiting only when guest
supports PMU.

Reported-by: Saar Amar <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Mihai Carabas <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
2019-04-16 15:37:34 +02:00
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