kvm: Improve reporting of fatal errors

Report KVM_EXIT_UNKNOWN, KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY, and KVM_EXIT_EXCEPTION
with more details to stderr. The latter two are so far x86-only, so move
them into the arch-specific handler. Integrate the Intel real mode
warning on KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY that qemu-kvm carries, but actually
restrict it to Intel CPUs. Moreover, always dump the CPU state in case
we fail.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/target-i386/kvm.c b/target-i386/kvm.c
index 6b4abaa6c0..0ba13fc55d 100644
--- a/target-i386/kvm.c
+++ b/target-i386/kvm.c
@@ -1525,8 +1525,19 @@ static int kvm_handle_halt(CPUState *env)
     return 1;
 }
 
+static bool host_supports_vmx(void)
+{
+    uint32_t ecx, unused;
+
+    host_cpuid(1, 0, &unused, &unused, &ecx, &unused);
+    return ecx & CPUID_EXT_VMX;
+}
+
+#define VMX_INVALID_GUEST_STATE 0x80000021
+
 int kvm_arch_handle_exit(CPUState *env, struct kvm_run *run)
 {
+    uint64_t code;
     int ret = 0;
 
     switch (run->exit_reason) {
@@ -1537,6 +1548,28 @@ int kvm_arch_handle_exit(CPUState *env, struct kvm_run *run)
     case KVM_EXIT_SET_TPR:
         ret = 1;
         break;
+    case KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY:
+        code = run->fail_entry.hardware_entry_failure_reason;
+        fprintf(stderr, "KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x%" PRIx64 "\n",
+                code);
+        if (host_supports_vmx() && code == VMX_INVALID_GUEST_STATE) {
+            fprintf(stderr,
+                    "\nIf you're runnning a guest on an Intel machine without "
+                        "unrestricted mode\n"
+                    "support, the failure can be most likely due to the guest "
+                        "entering an invalid\n"
+                    "state for Intel VT. For example, the guest maybe running "
+                        "in big real mode\n"
+                    "which is not supported on less recent Intel processors."
+                        "\n\n");
+        }
+        ret = -1;
+        break;
+    case KVM_EXIT_EXCEPTION:
+        fprintf(stderr, "KVM: exception %d exit (error code 0x%x)\n",
+                run->ex.exception, run->ex.error_code);
+        ret = -1;
+        break;
     default:
         fprintf(stderr, "KVM: unknown exit reason %d\n", run->exit_reason);
         ret = -1;