linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 12/14] KVM: x86: add a flag to disable KVM x2apic broadcast quirk

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:14:13 +0200
From:	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	"Lan, Tianyu" <tianyu.lan@...el.com>,
	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
	Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 12/14] KVM: x86: add a flag to disable KVM x2apic
 broadcast quirk

2016-07-13 10:38+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 12/07/2016 22:09, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>> @@ -619,14 +619,17 @@ static bool kvm_apic_match_logical_addr(struct kvm_lapic *apic, u32 mda)
>>  /* KVM APIC implementation has two quirks
>>   *  - dest always begins at 0 while xAPIC MDA has offset 24,
>>   *  - IOxAPIC messages have to be delivered (directly) to x2APIC.
>> + *
>> + * The broadcast quirk can be disabled with KVM_CAP_X2APIC_API.
> 
> --verbose version:
> 
>  /* KVM APIC implementation has two quirks
> - *  - dest always begins at 0 while xAPIC MDA has offset 24,
> - *  - IOxAPIC messages have to be delivered (directly) to x2APIC.
> + *  - dest always begins at 0 while xAPIC MDA has offset 24.  This is
> + *    just a quirk in the API and is not problematic.
>   *
> - * The broadcast quirk can be disabled with KVM_CAP_X2APIC_API.
> + *  - in-kernel IOAPIC messages have to be delivered directly to
> + *    x2APIC, because the kernel does not support interrupt remapping.
> + *    In order to support broadcast without interrupt remapping, x2APIC
> + *    rewrites the destination of non-IPI messages (and also of IPIs sent
> + *    from xAPIC-mode LAPICs) from APIC_BROADCAST to X2APIC_BROADCAST.

KVM doesn't do the operation in parentheses since 394457a928e0 ("KVM:
x86: some apic broadcast modes does not work").

Following patches added only !ipi case (I already regret posting them).

> + *
> + * The broadcast quirk can be disabled with KVM_CAP_X2APIC_API.  This is
> + * important when userspace wants to use x2APIC-format MSIs, because
> + * APIC_BROADCAST (0xff) is a legal route for "cluster 0, CPUs 0-7".
>   */
> 
> Sounds good?

Except that one bit.  (Code alone really can't explain the what happens
here.)