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According to the Intel SDM, software cannot rely on the current VMCS to be coherent after a VMXOFF or shutdown. So this is a valid way to handle VMCS12 flushes. 24.11.1 Software Use of Virtual-Machine Control Structures ... If a logical processor leaves VMX operation, any VMCSs active on that logical processor may be corrupted (see below). To prevent such corruption of a VMCS that may be used either after a return to VMX operation or on another logical processor, software should execute VMCLEAR for that VMCS before executing the VMXOFF instruction or removing power from the processor (e.g., as part of a transition to the S3 and S4 power states). ... This fixes a "suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!" warning during kvm_vm_release() because nested_release_vmcs12() calls kvm_vcpu_write_guest_page() without holding kvm->srcu. Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.