linux-kernel - [PATCH 6/6] x86/kvm: add boot parameter for setting max number of vcpus per guest

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Date:   Thu,  1 Jul 2021 17:41:05 +0200
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] x86/kvm: add boot parameter for setting max number of vcpus per guest

Today the maximum number of vcpus of a kvm guest is set via a #define
in a header file.

In order to support higher vcpu numbers for guests without generally
increasing the memory consumption of guests on the host especially on
very large systems add a boot parameter for specifying the number of
allowed vcpus for guests.

The default will still be the current setting of 288. The value 0 has
the special meaning to limit the number of possible vcpus to the
number of possible cpus of the host.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 ++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h                 |  5 ++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                              |  7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 99bfa53a2bbd..8eb856396ffa 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2373,6 +2373,16 @@
 			guest can't have more vcpus than the set value + 1.
 			Default: 1023
 
+	kvm.max_vcpus=	[KVM,X86] Set the maximum allowed numbers of vcpus per
+			guest. The special value 0 sets the limit to the number
+			of physical cpus possible on the host (including not
+			yet hotplugged cpus). Higher values will result in
+			slightly higher memory consumption per guest. Depending
+			on the value and the virtual topology the maximum
+			allowed vcpu-id might need to be raised, too (see
+			kvm.max_vcpu_id parameter).
+			Default: 288
+
 	l1tf=           [X86] Control mitigation of the L1TF vulnerability on
 			      affected CPUs
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 39cbc4b6bffb..65ae82a5d444 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@
 
 #define __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VCPU_DEBUGFS
 
-#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS 288
+#define KVM_DEFAULT_MAX_VCPUS 288
+#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS max_vcpus
 #define KVM_SOFT_MAX_VCPUS 240
 #define KVM_DEFAULT_MAX_VCPU_ID 1023
 #define KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID max_vcpu_id
@@ -1509,6 +1510,8 @@ extern u64  kvm_max_tsc_scaling_ratio;
 extern u64  kvm_default_tsc_scaling_ratio;
 /* bus lock detection supported? */
 extern bool kvm_has_bus_lock_exit;
+/* maximum number of vcpus per guest */
+extern unsigned int max_vcpus;
 /* maximum vcpu-id */
 extern unsigned int max_vcpu_id;
 /* per cpu vcpu bitmasks (disable preemption during usage) */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index a9b0bb2221ea..888c4507504d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ module_param(force_emulation_prefix, bool, S_IRUGO);
 int __read_mostly pi_inject_timer = -1;
 module_param(pi_inject_timer, bint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
 
+unsigned int __read_mostly max_vcpus = KVM_DEFAULT_MAX_VCPUS;
+module_param(max_vcpus, uint, S_IRUGO);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(max_vcpus);
+
 unsigned int __read_mostly max_vcpu_id = KVM_DEFAULT_MAX_VCPU_ID;
 module_param(max_vcpu_id, uint, S_IRUGO);
 
@@ -10648,6 +10652,9 @@ int kvm_arch_hardware_setup(void *opaque)
 	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES))
 		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_XSS, host_xss);
 
+	if (max_vcpus == 0)
+		max_vcpus = num_possible_cpus();
+
 	kvm_pcpu_vcpu_mask = __alloc_percpu(KVM_VCPU_MASK_SZ,
 					    sizeof(unsigned long));
 	kvm_hv_vp_bitmap = __alloc_percpu(KVM_HV_VPMAP_SZ, sizeof(u64));
-- 
2.26.2