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H A Dnested.cdiff 4b639a9f82fcf15497d1613a29aa1df798a24029 Wed Jul 07 14:51:00 CEST 2021 Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> KVM: SVM: add module param to control the #SMI interception

In theory there are no side effects of not intercepting #SMI,
because then #SMI becomes transparent to the OS and the KVM.

Plus an observation on recent Zen2 CPUs reveals that these
CPUs ignore #SMI interception and never deliver #SMI VMexits.

This is also useful to test nested KVM to see that L1
handles #SMIs correctly in case when L1 doesn't intercept #SMI.

Finally the default remains the same, the SMI are intercepted
by default thus this patch doesn't have any effect unless
non default module param value is used.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210707125100.677203-4-mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
H A Dsvm.hdiff 4b639a9f82fcf15497d1613a29aa1df798a24029 Wed Jul 07 14:51:00 CEST 2021 Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> KVM: SVM: add module param to control the #SMI interception

In theory there are no side effects of not intercepting #SMI,
because then #SMI becomes transparent to the OS and the KVM.

Plus an observation on recent Zen2 CPUs reveals that these
CPUs ignore #SMI interception and never deliver #SMI VMexits.

This is also useful to test nested KVM to see that L1
handles #SMIs correctly in case when L1 doesn't intercept #SMI.

Finally the default remains the same, the SMI are intercepted
by default thus this patch doesn't have any effect unless
non default module param value is used.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210707125100.677203-4-mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
H A Dsvm.cdiff 4b639a9f82fcf15497d1613a29aa1df798a24029 Wed Jul 07 14:51:00 CEST 2021 Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> KVM: SVM: add module param to control the #SMI interception

In theory there are no side effects of not intercepting #SMI,
because then #SMI becomes transparent to the OS and the KVM.

Plus an observation on recent Zen2 CPUs reveals that these
CPUs ignore #SMI interception and never deliver #SMI VMexits.

This is also useful to test nested KVM to see that L1
handles #SMIs correctly in case when L1 doesn't intercept #SMI.

Finally the default remains the same, the SMI are intercepted
by default thus this patch doesn't have any effect unless
non default module param value is used.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210707125100.677203-4-mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>