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When a vCPU is interrupted by a signal while running a nested guest, KVM will exit to userspace with L2 state. However, userspace has no way to know whether it sees L1 or L2 state (besides calling KVM_GET_STATS_FD, which does not have a stable ABI). This causes multiple problems: The simplest one is L2 state corruption when userspace marks the sregs as dirty. See this mailing list thread [1] for a complete discussion. Another problem is that if userspace decides to continue by emulating instructions, it will unknowingly emulate with L2 state as if L1 doesn't exist, which can be considered a weird guest escape. Introduce a new flag, KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE, in the kvm_run data structure, which is set when the vCPU exited while running a nested guest. Also introduce a new capability, KVM_CAP_X86_GUEST_MODE, to advertise the functionality to userspace. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240416123558.212040-1-julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de/T/#m280aadcb2e10ae02c191a7dc4ed4b711a74b1f55 Signed-off-by: Thomas Prescher <thomas.prescher@cyberus-technology.de> Signed-off-by: Julian Stecklina <julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508132502.184428-1-julian.stecklina@cyberus-technology.de Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Linux kernel
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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.