Hello all,

Recently, I met a werid question when i run a VM in the following platfrom:

Vmware Vsphere 6.0/6.5

   |-- centos 7.3 nested VM (with qemu 2.8, kmod 4.4.11, seabios 1.10)

        |-- VM (with virtio-scsi controller, modern mode)

I  deeply analyze the code, and i found that:

Seabios calltrace: 

scsi_drive_setup

   |-- cdb_get_inquiry

        |-- virtio_scsi_process_op

             |-- vring_kick

                  |-- writew  (hang here, mmio write, never return...)

Kmod calltrace:

handle_EPT_MISCONFIG

    |--kvm_io_bus_write

        |-- kvm_iodevice_write (fast mmio through ioeventfd to trigger qemu)

             |-- vcpu_run

                  |-- vcpu_enter_guest

Qemu calltrace:

os_host_main_loop_wait

      |--glib_pollfds_poll

          |-- aio_dispatch

               |-- vritio_scsi_handle_cmd_vq

                   |--virtio_scsi_pop_req

                       |-- virtqueue_pop

                            |--virtio_queue_empty 

Then, kmod falls in infinite loop in handle EPT_MISCONFIG.

As far as i know, when kvm enters guest after handling EPT_MISCONFIG, seabios should return

from mmio write and wait for virtio backend(qemu) to handle this mmio writing.

What puzzles me:

1) i can not understand why kvm runs in infinite loop and seabios does not return from writew.

2) kvm nested kvm is ok. But vmware nested kvm is not ok. This problem has anything related

    with vmware?

Looking forward for directions...