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Revision 4f350c6dbcb9000e18907515ec8a7b205ac33c69 authored by Jim Mattson on 14 September 2017, 23:31:44 UTC, committed by Paolo Bonzini on 15 September 2017, 14:57:15 UTC
When emulating a nested VM-entry from L1 to L2, several control field
validation checks are deferred to the hardware. Should one of these
validation checks fail, vcpu_vmx_run will set the vmx->fail flag. When
this happens, the L2 guest state is not loaded (even in part), and
execution should continue in L1 with the next instruction after the
VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME.

The VMCS12 is not modified (except for the VM-instruction error
field), the VMCS12 MSR save/load lists are not processed, and the CPU
state is not loaded from the VMCS12 host area. Moreover, the vmcs02
exit reason is stale, so it should not be consulted for any reason.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Tip revision: 4f350c6dbcb9000e18907515ec8a7b205ac33c69 authored by Jim Mattson on 14 September 2017, 23:31:44 UTC
kvm: nVMX: Handle deferred early VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME failure properly
Tip revision: 4f350c6

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