Hi Bambang, thanks a lot for your testing! I'll need you to test one
more kernel to be 100% sure of the issue and be able to fix it. Let me
elaborate on what's happening.
So, since kernel 4.15.0-136 we included a very complex KVM fix for a
kind of "race" in interrupt window triggered by David Woodhouse [0] and
analyzed by some members of KVM community (causing a live-lock - I
suggest reading [0], very informative thread). The fix was proposed in
the form of a patch series containing 2 patches [1] from Paolo Bonzini.
This was merged in Ubuntu though the stable tree, in the form of the
following commit:
71cc849b7093 ("KVM: x86: Fix split-irqchip vs interrupt injection window
request") [2]
The problem is that such commit has a companion required commit, which
was not proposed in the stable tree. In fact, there was a confusion
among KVM community and the stable maintainer [3], due to the lack of
such missing commit - because of that, the series was removed from
stable trees 4.14.y and 4.9.y, but the solo commit was merged alone in
Ubuntu kernel 4.15.
My theory is that this commit alone is causing an odd behavior
(specially since dosemu2 seems to make use of leagacy PIC instead of
APIC), so the fix would be to merge the companion commit in Ubuntu tree:
72c3bcdcda49 ("KVM: x86: handle !lapic_in_kernel case in
kvm_cpu_*_extint") [4]
It's interesting to note that after the stable confusion in [3], both
commits were removed from 4.9.y and 4.14.y trees - I intend to submit
both to 4.14.y tree after the next test, as well as merge it on Ubuntu
kernel.
I'll defer the test for next comment, in order to not pollute this one (which
is already big and a bit over-detailed).
Cheers,
Guilherme
[0]
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/[email protected]/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/[email protected]/
[2] http://git.kernel.org/linus/71cc849b70
[3]
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/[email protected]/
[4] http://git.kernel.org/linus/72c3bcdcda
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