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Allow instrumentation in the VM-Fail path of __vmcs_readl() so that the
helper can be used in noinstr functions, e.g. to get the exit reason in
vmx_vcpu_enter_exit() in order to handle NMI VM-Exits in the noinstr
section. While allowing instrumentation isn't technically safe, KVM has
much bigger problems if VMREAD fails in a noinstr section.
Note, all other VMX instructions also allow instrumentation in their
VM-Fail paths for similar reasons, VMREAD was simply omitted by commit
3ebccdf373 ("x86/kvm/vmx: Move guest enter/exit into .noinstr.text")
because VMREAD wasn't used in a noinstr section at the time.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221213060912.654668-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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