linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 13/28] KVM: SVM: Document that vCPU ID == APIC ID in AVIC kick fastpatch

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Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2022 23:31:19 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@...cle.com>,
        Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>,
        Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>,
        Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 13/28] KVM: SVM: Document that vCPU ID == APIC ID in AVIC
 kick fastpatch

Document that AVIC is inhibited if any vCPU's APIC ID diverges from its
vCPU ID, i.e. that there's no need to check for a destination match in
the AVIC kick fast path.

Opportunistically tweak comments to remove "guest bug", as that suggests
KVM is punting on error handling, which is not the case.  Targeting a
non-existent vCPU or no vCPUs _may_ be a guest software bug, but whether
or not it's a guest bug is irrelevant.  Such behavior is architecturally
legal and thus needs to faithfully emulated by KVM (and it is).

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
index 605c36569ddf..40a1ea21074d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
@@ -368,8 +368,8 @@ static int avic_kick_target_vcpus_fast(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_lapic *source
 			cluster = (dest >> 4) << 2;
 		}
 
+		/* Nothing to do if there are no destinations in the cluster. */
 		if (unlikely(!bitmap))
-			/* guest bug: nobody to send the logical interrupt to */
 			return 0;
 
 		if (!is_power_of_2(bitmap))
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static int avic_kick_target_vcpus_fast(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_lapic *source
 			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(index != logid_index))
 				return -EINVAL;
 
-			/* guest bug: non existing/reserved logical destination */
+			/* Nothing to do if the logical destination is invalid. */
 			if (unlikely(!(logid_entry & AVIC_LOGICAL_ID_ENTRY_VALID_MASK)))
 				return 0;
 
@@ -406,9 +406,13 @@ static int avic_kick_target_vcpus_fast(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_lapic *source
 		}
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * KVM inhibits AVIC if any vCPU ID diverges from the vCPUs APIC ID,
+	 * i.e. APIC ID == vCPU ID.  Once again, nothing to do if the target
+	 * vCPU doesn't exist.
+	 */
 	target_vcpu = kvm_get_vcpu_by_id(kvm, l1_physical_id);
 	if (unlikely(!target_vcpu))
-		/* guest bug: non existing vCPU is a target of this IPI*/
 		return 0;
 
 	target_vcpu->arch.apic->irr_pending = true;
-- 
2.37.3.968.ga6b4b080e4-goog