linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: ensure APICv is considered inactive if there is no APIC

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Date:   Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:39:24 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Ignat Korchagin <ignat@...udflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: ensure APICv is considered inactive if there is no
 APIC

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> kvm_vcpu_apicv_active() returns false if a virtual machine has no in-kernel
> local APIC, however kvm_apicv_activated might still be true if there are
> no reasons to disable APICv; in fact it is quite likely that there is none
> because APICv is inhibited by specific configurations of the local APIC
> and those configurations cannot be programmed.  This triggers a WARN:
> 
>    WARN_ON_ONCE(kvm_apicv_activated(vcpu->kvm) != kvm_vcpu_apicv_active(vcpu));
> 
> To avoid this, introduce another cause for APICv inhibition, namely the
> absence of an in-kernel local APIC.  This cause is enabled by default,
> and is dropped by either KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP or the enabling of
> KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP_SPLIT.
> 
> Reported-by: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@...udflare.com>
> Fixes: ee49a8932971 ("KVM: x86: Move SVM's APICv sanity check to common x86", 2021-10-22)
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 0ee1a039b490..e0aa4dd53c7f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -5740,6 +5740,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_enable_cap(struct kvm *kvm,
>  		smp_wmb();
>  		kvm->arch.irqchip_mode = KVM_IRQCHIP_SPLIT;
>  		kvm->arch.nr_reserved_ioapic_pins = cap->args[0];
> +		kvm_request_apicv_update(kvm, true, APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_ABSENT);
>  		r = 0;
>  split_irqchip_unlock:
>  		mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
> @@ -6120,6 +6121,7 @@ long kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp,
>  		/* Write kvm->irq_routing before enabling irqchip_in_kernel. */
>  		smp_wmb();
>  		kvm->arch.irqchip_mode = KVM_IRQCHIP_KERNEL;
> +		kvm_request_apicv_update(kvm, true, APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_ABSENT);

Blech, kvm_request_apicv_update() is very counter-intuitive, true == clear. :-/
Wrappers along the lines of kvm_{set,clear}_apicv_inhibit() would help a lot, and
would likely avoid a handful of newlines as well.  I'll send a patch on top of this,
unless you want to do it while pushing this one out.

>  	create_irqchip_unlock:
>  		mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
>  		break;
> @@ -8818,10 +8820,9 @@ static void kvm_apicv_init(struct kvm *kvm)
>  {
>  	init_rwsem(&kvm->arch.apicv_update_lock);
>  
> -	if (enable_apicv)
> -		clear_bit(APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_DISABLE,
> -			  &kvm->arch.apicv_inhibit_reasons);
> -	else
> +	set_bit(APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_ABSENT,
> +		&kvm->arch.apicv_inhibit_reasons);

Nit, this one fits on a single line.

> +	if (!enable_apicv)
>  		set_bit(APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_DISABLE,
>  			&kvm->arch.apicv_inhibit_reasons);
>  }
> -- 
> 2.31.1
>