KVM: x86: Add KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE kvm_run flag

When a vCPU is interrupted by a signal while running a nested guest,
KVM will exit to userspace with L2 state. However, userspace has no
way to know whether it sees L1 or L2 state (besides calling
KVM_GET_STATS_FD, which does not have a stable ABI).

This causes multiple problems:

The simplest one is L2 state corruption when userspace marks the sregs
as dirty. See this mailing list thread [1] for a complete discussion.

Another problem is that if userspace decides to continue by emulating
instructions, it will unknowingly emulate with L2 state as if L1
doesn't exist, which can be considered a weird guest escape.

Introduce a new flag, KVM_RUN_X86_GUEST_MODE, in the kvm_run data
structure, which is set when the vCPU exited while running a nested
guest.  Also introduce a new capability, KVM_CAP_X86_GUEST_MODE, to
advertise the functionality to userspace.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/[email protected]/T/#m280aadcb2e10ae02c191a7dc4ed4b711a74b1f55

Signed-off-by: Thomas Prescher <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Julian Stecklina <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>

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