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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/x86.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 70d42b50199a..58a72c7d3330 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -486,7 +486,14 @@ int kvm_set_apic_base(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_set_apic_base); -asmlinkage __visible noinstr void kvm_spurious_fault(void) +/* + * Handle a fault on a hardware virtualization (VMX or SVM) instruction. + * + * Hardware virtualization extension instructions may fault if a reboot turns + * off virtualization while processes are running. Usually after catching the + * fault we just panic; during reboot instead the instruction is ignored. + */ +noinstr void kvm_spurious_fault(void) { /* Fault while not rebooting. We want the trace. */ BUG_ON(!kvm_rebooting); |