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KVM: selftests: x86: Avoid using SSE/AVX instructions
authorVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:44:22 +0000 (17:44 +0200)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:10:27 +0000 (12:10 -0400)
commit9a400068a1586bc4f10ee8b0443527de27d8834c
treec5bda3c08283a5786f48b7fc7092aef58e6e98ab
parentf559b2e9c5c5308850544ab59396b7d53cfc67bd
KVM: selftests: x86: Avoid using SSE/AVX instructions

Some distros switched gcc to '-march=x86-64-v3' by default and while it's
hard to find a CPU which doesn't support it today, many KVM selftests fail
with

  ==== Test Assertion Failure ====
    lib/x86_64/processor.c:570: Unhandled exception in guest
    pid=72747 tid=72747 errno=4 - Interrupted system call
    Unhandled exception '0x6' at guest RIP '0x4104f7'

The failure is easy to reproduce elsewhere with

   $ make clean && CFLAGS='-march=x86-64-v3' make -j && ./x86_64/kvm_pv_test

The root cause of the problem seems to be that with '-march=x86-64-v3' GCC
uses AVX* instructions (VMOVQ in the example above) and without prior
XSETBV() in the guest this results in #UD. It is certainly possible to add
it there, e.g. the following saves the day as well:

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240920154422.2890096-1-vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile