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Sean Christopherson 2342080cd6 KVM: VMX: Store the host kernel's IDT base in a global variable 
Although the kernel may use multiple IDTs, KVM should only ever see the
"real" IDT, e.g. the early init IDT is long gone by the time KVM runs
and the debug stack IDT is only used for small windows of time in very
specific flows.

Before commit a547c6db4d ("KVM: VMX: Enable acknowledge interupt on
vmexit"), the kernel's IDT base was consumed by KVM only when setting
constant VMCS state, i.e. to set VMCS.HOST_IDTR_BASE.  Because constant
host state is done once per vCPU, there was ostensibly no need to cache
the kernel's IDT base.

When support for "ack interrupt on exit" was introduced, KVM added a
second consumer of the IDT base as handling already-acked interrupts
requires directly calling the interrupt handler, i.e. KVM uses the IDT
base to find the address of the handler.  Because interrupts are a fast
path, KVM cached the IDT base to avoid having to VMREAD HOST_IDTR_BASE.
Presumably, the IDT base was cached on a per-vCPU basis simply because
the existing code grabbed the IDT base on a per-vCPU (VMCS) basis.

Note, all post-boot IDTs use the same handlers for external interrupts,
i.e. the "ack interrupt on exit" use of the IDT base would be unaffected
even if the cached IDT somehow did not match the current IDT.  And as
for the original use case of setting VMCS.HOST_IDTR_BASE, if any of the
above analysis is wrong then KVM has had a bug since the beginning of
time since KVM has effectively been caching the IDT at vCPU creation
since commit a8b732ca01c ("[PATCH] kvm: userspace interface").

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-06-18 11:46:02 +02:00
arch KVM: VMX: Store the host kernel's IDT base in a global variable 2019-06-18 11:46:02 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix hang caused by freeze/unfreeze sequence 2019-05-23 10:25:26 -06:00
certs treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36 2019-05-24 17:27:11 +02:00
crypto treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 102 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00
Documentation kvm: x86: add host poll control msrs 2019-06-18 11:43:46 +02:00
drivers Fix a soft lockup regression when reading from /dev/random in early boot 2019-05-26 08:30:16 -07:00
fs Bug fixes (including a regression fix) for ext4. 2019-05-25 15:03:12 -07:00
include kvm: Convert kvm_lock to a mutex 2019-06-05 14:14:50 +02:00
init treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
ipc treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 52 2019-05-24 17:36:42 +02:00
kernel Make the GCC 9 warning for sub struct memset go away. 2019-05-26 13:49:40 -07:00
lib for-linus-20190524 2019-05-24 16:02:14 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 98 2019-05-24 17:37:54 +02:00
net SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 2 2019-05-24 14:31:58 -07:00
samples treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36 2019-05-24 17:27:11 +02:00
scripts Devicetree fixes for 5.2: 2019-05-24 15:16:46 -07:00
security SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 2 2019-05-24 14:31:58 -07:00
sound treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 119 2019-05-24 17:39:02 +02:00
tools kvm: selftests: introduce aarch64_vcpu_add_default 2019-06-05 14:14:45 +02:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt kvm: Convert kvm_lock to a mutex 2019-06-05 14:14:50 +02:00
.clang-format Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-17 11:26:25 -07:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
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.gitignore .gitignore: exclude .get_maintainer.ignore and .gitattributes 2019-05-18 11:49:54 +09:00
.mailmap A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS The usual smattering of fixes and tunings that came in too late for the 2019-05-26 13:45:15 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.2-rc2 2019-05-26 16:49:19 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

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 Restructured Text 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.