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    KVM: nVMX: Open a window for pending nested VMX preemption timer · d2060bd4
    Sean Christopherson authored
    Add a kvm_x86_ops hook to detect a nested pending "hypervisor timer" and
    use it to effectively open a window for servicing the expired timer.
    Like pending SMIs on VMX, opening a window simply means requesting an
    immediate exit.
    
    This fixes a bug where an expired VMX preemption timer (for L2) will be
    delayed and/or lost if a pending exception is injected into L2.  The
    pending exception is rightly prioritized by vmx_check_nested_events()
    and injected into L2, with the preemption timer left pending.  Because
    no window opened, L2 is free to run uninterrupted.
    
    Fixes: f4124500
    
     ("KVM: nVMX: Fully emulate preemption timer")
    Reported-by: default avatarJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
    Cc: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
    Cc: Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
    Message-Id: <20200423022550.15113-3-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
    [Check it in kvm_vcpu_has_events too, to ensure that the preemption
     timer is serviced promptly even if the vCPU is halted and L1 is not
     intercepting HLT. - Paolo]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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