On 09/11/17 14:49, Jan Beulich wrote:
> See the code comment being added for why we need this.
> 
> Reported-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhi...@citrix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
> 
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
> @@ -479,7 +479,13 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_destroy(struct vcpu
>       * we should disable PML manually here. Note that vmx_vcpu_destroy is 
> called
>       * prior to vmx_domain_destroy so we need to disable PML for each vcpu
>       * separately here.
> +     *
> +     * Before doing that though, flush all state for the vCPU previously 
> having
> +     * run on the current CPU, so that this flushing of state won't happen 
> from
> +     * the TLB flush IPI handler behind the back of a vmx_vmcs_enter() /
> +     * vmx_vmcs_exit() section.
>       */
> +    sync_local_execstate();
>      vmx_vcpu_disable_pml(v);
>      vmx_destroy_vmcs(v);
>      passive_domain_destroy(v);
> 

Reviewed-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhi...@citrix.com>

Igor

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