From: "Pratik R. Sampat" <prsampat@amd.com>
To: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, <x86@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <tglx@kernel.org>, <mingo@redhat.com>, <bp@alien8.de>,
<dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, <seanjc@google.com>,
<pbonzini@redhat.com>, <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
<kim.phillips@amd.com>, <nikunj@amd.com>, <michael.roth@amd.com>,
<ashish.kalra@amd.com>, <prsampat@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: SVM: Re-queue events that were never injected
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:55:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d946de080e3dd34844a665c167179e4910fdc9d4.1789399214.git.prsampat@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1789399214.git.prsampat@amd.com>
When injecting an event into the guest via the event_inj field, a
non-zero event_inj value on #VMEXIT means that the hardware was not able
to inject the event into the guest. This used to only occur for the
VMEXIT_INVALID intercept code, which was a fatal error and resulted in
the guest being torn down.
Enhanced SMT Protection (ESMTP) invalidates that assumption. When ESMTP
is enabled, VMRUN doesn't enter guest mode immediately; it stalls at a
synchronization point until every sibling thread is either idle or has
executed VMRUN for a legal sibling vCPU. If an ESMTP timeout / illegal
sibling exit / interrupt arrives while VMRUN is stalled, VMRUN can now
terminate with the corresponding #VMEXIT intercept code, without
entering guest mode, and thus without injecting the event.
For example, on a 2-way SMT core running vCPU0 on thread 0 and vCPU1 on
thread 1:
Thread 0 (vCPU0) Thread 1 (vCPU1)
---------------- ----------------
Interrupt A injected to the guest in host
VMRUN |
| |
v |
Stall waiting for sibling |
| |
| host INTR arrives on thread 0 |
| while it waits |
| |
v |
#VMEXIT v
Interrupt B injected to the guest idle
VMRUN
In this case injecting interrupt B clobbers the last event. Interrupt A
is never delivered and lost forvever.
Therefore, in preparation for ESMTP support, accommodate for potentially
lost interrupts by detecting an undelivered injected event and
re-queuing it so as not to lose the event.
svm_cancel_injection() already recovers a staged event this way and
becomes redundant, so fold it in.
Signed-off-by: Pratik R. Sampat <prsampat@amd.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index 7d59d301e1e5..5d15c706e43b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -4340,6 +4340,7 @@ static void svm_complete_interrupts(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
u8 vector;
int type;
+ struct vmcb_control_area *control = &svm->vmcb->control;
u32 exitintinfo = svm->vmcb->control.exit_int_info;
bool nmi_l1_to_l2 = svm->nmi_l1_to_l2;
bool soft_int_injected = svm->soft_int_injected;
@@ -4347,6 +4348,27 @@ static void svm_complete_interrupts(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
svm->nmi_l1_to_l2 = false;
svm->soft_int_injected = false;
+ /*
+ * Hardware clears EVENTINJ field when it injects an event.
+ * A non-empty EVENTINJ on #VMEXIT means the vCPU never entered guest
+ * mode, and thus that the event was never delivered. Migrate the event
+ * to EXITINTINFO so that it's requeued instead of being dropped.
+ *
+ * An undelivered event doesn't imply a fatal VMEXIT_INVALID. With
+ * Enhanced SMT Protection, VMRUN may exit with an ordinary #VMEXIT
+ * without having injected that event into the guest.
+ *
+ * Clobbering EXITINTINFO is safe precisely because the vCPU never
+ * entered guest mode.
+ */
+ if (control->event_inj) {
+ control->exit_int_info = control->event_inj;
+ control->exit_int_info_err = control->event_inj_err;
+ control->event_inj = 0;
+
+ exitintinfo = control->exit_int_info;
+ }
+
/*
* If we've made progress since setting awaiting_iret_completion, we've
* executed an IRET and can allow NMI injection.
@@ -4410,11 +4432,14 @@ static void svm_complete_interrupts(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
static void svm_cancel_injection(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
- struct vmcb_control_area *control = &svm->vmcb->control;
- control->exit_int_info = control->event_inj;
- control->exit_int_info_err = control->event_inj_err;
- control->event_inj = 0;
+ /*
+ * EXITINTINFO is stale as it holds the event from the previous #VMEXIT
+ * (or from the last time the current VMCB was run). Invalidate it so
+ * that svm_complete_interrupts() requeues if and only if KVM staged an
+ * event in EVENTINJ.
+ */
+ svm->vmcb->control.exit_int_info = 0;
svm_complete_interrupts(vcpu);
}
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-14 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-14 16:55 [PATCH 0/3] Introduce Enhanced SMT Protection for SEV-SNP Pratik R. Sampat
2026-09-14 16:55 ` Pratik R. Sampat [this message]
2026-09-21 13:16 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: SVM: Re-queue events that were never injected Sean Christopherson
2026-09-22 20:45 ` Pratik R. Sampat
2026-09-14 16:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: SVM: Add host support for Enhanced SMT Protection Pratik R. Sampat
2026-09-16 19:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2026-09-17 15:07 ` Pratik R. Sampat
2026-09-14 16:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/sev: Add guest " Pratik R. Sampat
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