[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] x86/vmx: fix vmentry failure with TSX bits in LBR
> From: Sergey Dyasli [mailto:sergey.dyasli@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:33 PM > > During VM entry, H/W will automatically load guest's MSRs from MSR-load > area in the same way as they would be written by WRMSR. > > However, under the following conditions: > > 1. LBR (Last Branch Record) MSRs were placed in the MSR-load area > 2. Address format of LBR includes TSX bits 61:62 > 3. CPU has TSX support disabled > > VM entry will fail with a message in the log similar to: > > (XEN) [ 97.239514] d1v0 vmentry failure (reason 0x80000022): MSR > loading (entry > 3) > (XEN) [ 97.239516] msr 00000680 val 1fff800000102e60 (mbz 0) > > This happens because of the following behaviour: > > - When capturing branches, LBR H/W will always clear bits 61:62 > regardless of the sign extension > - For WRMSR, bits 61:62 are considered the part of the sign extension > > This bug affects only certain pCPUs (e.g. Haswell) with vCPUs that > use LBR. Fix it by sign-extending TSX bits in all LBR entries during > VM entry in affected cases. > > LBR MSRs are currently not Live Migrated. In order to implement such > functionality, the MSR levelling work has to be done first because > hosts can have different LBR formats. > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Dyasli <sergey.dyasli@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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