Initilization of L2 guest with -cpu host, on L1 guest with -cpu host 
triggers:

(qemu) KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x7
...
nested_vmx_run: VMCS MSR_{LOAD,STORE} unsupported

Nested VMX MSR load/store support is not sufficient to 
allow perf for L2 guest.

Until properly fixed, trap CPUID and disable function 0xA.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
index e28d798..976e3a5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
@@ -774,6 +774,12 @@ void kvm_cpuid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 *eax, u32 *ebx, 
u32 *ecx, u32 *edx)
        if (!best)
                best = check_cpuid_limit(vcpu, function, index);
 
+       /*
+        * Perfmon not yet supported for L2 guest.
+        */
+       if (is_guest_mode(vcpu) && function == 0xa)
+               best = NULL;
+
        if (best) {
                *eax = best->eax;
                *ebx = best->ebx;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index e8f08e9..2ab5047 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -6986,6 +6986,8 @@ static bool nested_vmx_exit_handled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
        case EXIT_REASON_TASK_SWITCH:
                return 1;
        case EXIT_REASON_CPUID:
+               if (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RAX) == 0xa)
+                       return 0;
                return 1;
        case EXIT_REASON_HLT:
                return nested_cpu_has(vmcs12, CPU_BASED_HLT_EXITING);
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