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Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 17:11:16 +0800
From: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@...ux.intel.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@...group.com>, Kechen Lu <kechenl@...dia.com>,
 Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>, Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>,
 Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@...el.com>,
 Robert Hoo <robert.hoo.linux@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 33/49] KVM: x86: Advertise TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER in
 KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID



On 5/18/2024 1:39 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Advertise TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER via KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID when it's
> supported in hardware,

But it's using EMUL_F(TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER) below?

>   as the odds of a VMM emulating the local APIC in
> userspace, not emulating the TSC deadline timer, _and_ reflecting
> KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID back into KVM_SET_CPUID2 are extremely low.
>
> KVM has _unconditionally_ advertised X2APIC via CPUID since commit
> 0d1de2d901f4 ("KVM: Always report x2apic as supported feature"), and it
> is completely impossible for userspace to emulate X2APIC as KVM doesn't
> support forwarding the MSR accesses to userspace.  I.e. KVM has relied on
> userspace VMMs to not misreport local APIC capabilities for nearly 13
> years.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 9 ++++++---
>   arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c           | 4 ++--
>   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
> index 884846282d06..cb744a646de6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
> @@ -1804,15 +1804,18 @@ emulate them efficiently. The fields in each entry are defined as follows:
>            the values returned by the cpuid instruction for
>            this function/index combination
>   
> -The TSC deadline timer feature (CPUID leaf 1, ecx[24]) is always returned
> -as false, since the feature depends on KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP for local APIC
> -support.  Instead it is reported via::
> +x2APIC (CPUID leaf 1, ecx[21) and TSC deadline timer (CPUID leaf 1, ecx[24])
> +may be returned as true, but they depend on KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP for in-kernel
> +emulation of the local APIC.  TSC deadline timer support is also reported via::
>   
>     ioctl(KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION, KVM_CAP_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER)
>   
>   if that returns true and you use KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, or if you emulate the
>   feature in userspace, then you can enable the feature for KVM_SET_CPUID2.
>   
> +Enabling x2APIC in KVM_SET_CPUID2 requires KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP as KVM doesn't
> +support forwarding x2APIC MSR accesses to userspace, i.e. KVM does not support
> +emulating x2APIC in userspace.
>   
>   4.47 KVM_PPC_GET_PVINFO
>   -----------------------
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> index 699ce4261e9c..d1f427284ccc 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> @@ -680,8 +680,8 @@ void kvm_set_cpu_caps(void)
>   		F(FMA) | F(CX16) | 0 /* xTPR Update */ | F(PDCM) |
>   		F(PCID) | 0 /* Reserved, DCA */ | F(XMM4_1) |
>   		F(XMM4_2) | EMUL_F(X2APIC) | F(MOVBE) | F(POPCNT) |
> -		0 /* Reserved*/ | F(AES) | F(XSAVE) | 0 /* OSXSAVE */ | F(AVX) |
> -		F(F16C) | F(RDRAND)
> +		EMUL_F(TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER) | F(AES) | F(XSAVE) |
> +		0 /* OSXSAVE */ | F(AVX) | F(F16C) | F(RDRAND)
>   	);
>   
>   	kvm_cpu_cap_init(CPUID_1_EDX,