KVM: X86: Fix failure to boost kernel lock holder candidate in SEV-ES guests
authorWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Thu, 22 Apr 2021 08:34:19 +0000 (16:34 +0800)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:19:28 +0000 (05:19 -0400)
commitb86bb11e3a79ac0db9a6786b1fe80f74321cb076
tree26b73b76b76c5c681ee7e4e47d5ef3d955fd9b95
parent2f15d027c05fac406decdb5eceb9ec0902b68f53
KVM: X86: Fix failure to boost kernel lock holder candidate in SEV-ES guests

Commit f1c6366e3043 ("KVM: SVM: Add required changes to support intercepts under
SEV-ES") prevents hypervisor accesses guest register state when the guest is
running under SEV-ES. The initial value of vcpu->arch.guest_state_protected
is false, it will not be updated in preemption notifiers after this commit which
means that the kernel spinlock lock holder will always be skipped to boost. Let's
fix it by always treating preempted is in the guest kernel mode, false positive
is better than skip completely.

Fixes: f1c6366e3043 (KVM: SVM: Add required changes to support intercepts under SEV-ES)
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Message-Id: <1619080459-30032-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c