Intel SDM section 25.2 OTHER CAUSES OF VM EXITS specifies the following
on INIT signals: "Such exits do not modify register state or clear pending
events as they would outside of VMX operation."
When commit
4b9852f4f389 ("KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states")
was applied, I interepted above Intel SDM statement such that
INIT_SIGNAL exit don’t consume the LAPIC INIT pending event.
However, when Nadav Amit run matching kvm-unit-test on a bare-metal
machine, it turned out my interpetation was wrong. i.e. INIT_SIGNAL
exit does consume the LAPIC INIT pending event.
(See: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg196757.html)
Therefore, fix KVM code to behave as observed on bare-metal.
Fixes: 4b9852f4f389 ("KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states")
Reported-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
test_bit(KVM_APIC_INIT, &apic->pending_events)) {
if (block_nested_events)
return -EBUSY;
+ clear_bit(KVM_APIC_INIT, &apic->pending_events);
nested_vmx_vmexit(vcpu, EXIT_REASON_INIT_SIGNAL, 0, 0);
return 0;
}