linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] KVM: VMX: Update PID-pointer table entry when APIC ID is changed

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Date:   Mon, 17 Jan 2022 11:17:52 +0800
From:   Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>
To:     Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Zeng Guang <guang.zeng@...el.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        Jethro Beekman <jethro@...tanix.com>,
        "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@...el.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Hu, Robert" <robert.hu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] KVM: VMX: Update PID-pointer table entry when
 APIC ID is changed

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 10:17:34AM +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>On Fri, 2022-01-14 at 10:58 +0800, Chao Gao wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 10:19:21PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>> > > Both Intel and AMD's PRM also state that changing APIC ID is implementation
>> > > dependent.
>> > >  
>> > > I vote to forbid changing apic id, at least in the case any APIC acceleration
>> > > is used, be that APICv or AVIC.
>> > 
>> > That has my vote as well.  For IPIv in particular there's not much concern with
>> > backwards compability, i.e. we can tie the behavior to enable_ipiv.
>Great!
>> 
>> Hi Sean and Levitsky,
>> 
>> Let's align on the implementation.
>> 
>> To disable changes for xAPIC ID when IPIv/AVIC is enabled:
>> 
>> 1. introduce a variable (forbid_apicid_change) for this behavior in kvm.ko
>> and export it so that kvm-intel, kvm-amd can set it when IPIv/AVIC is
>> enabled. To reduce complexity, this variable is a module level setting.
>> 
>> 2. when guest attempts to change xAPIC ID but it is forbidden, KVM prints
>> a warning on host and injects a #GP to guest.
>> 
>> 3. remove AVIC code that deals with changes to xAPIC ID.
>> 
>
>I have a patch for both, I attached them.

Looks good to me. We will drop this patch and rely on the first attached patch
to forbid guest from changing xAPIC ID.

>I haven't tested either of these patches that much other than a smoke test,
>but I did test all of the guests I  have and none broke in regard to boot.
>
>I will send those patches as part of larger patch series that implements
>nesting for AVIC. I hope to do this next week.

Thanks.