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David Matlack authored
According to the Intel SDM, software cannot rely on the current VMCS to be coherent after a VMXOFF or shutdown. So this is a valid way to handle VMCS12 flushes. 24.11.1 Software Use of Virtual-Machine Control Structures ... If a logical processor leaves VMX operation, any VMCSs active on that logical processor may be corrupted (see below). To prevent such corruption of a VMCS that may be used either after a return to VMX operation or on another logical processor, software should execute VMCLEAR for that VMCS before executing the VMXOFF instruction or removing power from the processor (e.g., as part of a transition to the S3 and S4 power states). ... This fixes a "suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!" warning during kvm_vm_release() because nested_release_vmcs12() calls kvm_vcpu_write_guest_page() without holding kvm->srcu. Signed-off-by:
David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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