linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: selftest: Enhance handling WRMSR ICR register in x2APIC mode

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Date:   Fri, 24 Jun 2022 10:55:05 +0800
From:   Zeng Guang <guang.zeng@...el.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        "Gao, Chao" <chao.gao@...el.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: selftest: Enhance handling WRMSR ICR register in
 x2APIC mode


On 6/24/2022 4:34 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> +Venkatesh
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2022, Chao Gao wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 05:45:11PM +0800, Zeng Guang wrote:
>>> Hardware would directly write x2APIC ICR register instead of software
>>> emulation in some circumstances, e.g when Intel IPI virtualization is
>>> enabled. This behavior requires normal reserved bits checking to ensure
>>> them input as zero, otherwise it will cause #GP. So we need mask out
>>> those reserved bits from the data written to vICR register.
>> OK. One open is:
>>
>> Current KVM doesn't emulate this #GP. Is there any historical reason?
>> if no, we will fix KVM and add some tests to verify this #GP is
>> correctly emulated.
> It's a bug.  There are patches posted[*], but they need to be refreshed to fix a
> rebase goof.
>
> Venkatesh, are you planning on sending a v3 soonish?
>
> [*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220525173933.1611076-1-venkateshs@chromium.org

This patch set doesn't emulate hardware behavior precisely . Actually 
#GP will
happen only if any of reserved bit ( bit[31:20],bit[17:16],bit[13]) is 
1-setting
in x2apic mode. Other bits including bit[12] won't have any impact. For 
xapic
mode, it doesn't have this restriction.