[PATCH RFC 1/2] KVM: nVMX: clear PIN_BASED_POSTED_INTR from nested pinbased_ctls only when apicv is globally disabled

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Thu Feb 20 2020 - 12:22:33 EST


When apicv is disabled on a vCPU (e.g. by enabling KVM_CAP_HYPERV_SYNIC*),
nothing happens to VMX MSRs on the already existing vCPUs, however, all new
ones are created with PIN_BASED_POSTED_INTR filtered out. This is very
confusing and results in the following picture inside the guest:

$ rdmsr -ax 0x48d
ff00000016
7f00000016
7f00000016
7f00000016

This is observed with QEMU and 4-vCPU guest: QEMU creates vCPU0, does
KVM_CAP_HYPERV_SYNIC2 and then creates the remaining three.

L1 hypervisor may only check CPU0's controls to find out what features
are available and it will be very confused later. Switch to setting
PIN_BASED_POSTED_INTR control based on global 'enable_apicv' setting.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 5 ++---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h | 3 +--
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 10 ++++------
4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
index 283bdb7071af..f486e2606247 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ extern bool __read_mostly enable_ept;
extern bool __read_mostly enable_unrestricted_guest;
extern bool __read_mostly enable_ept_ad_bits;
extern bool __read_mostly enable_pml;
+extern bool __read_mostly enable_apicv;
extern int __read_mostly pt_mode;

#define PT_MODE_SYSTEM 0
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 3589cd3c0fcc..d0462a035505 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -5949,8 +5949,7 @@ void nested_vmx_set_vmcs_shadowing_bitmap(void)
* bit in the high half is on if the corresponding bit in the control field
* may be on. See also vmx_control_verify().
*/
-void nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(struct nested_vmx_msrs *msrs, u32 ept_caps,
- bool apicv)
+void nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(struct nested_vmx_msrs *msrs, u32 ept_caps)
{
/*
* Note that as a general rule, the high half of the MSRs (bits in
@@ -5977,7 +5976,7 @@ void nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(struct nested_vmx_msrs *msrs, u32 ept_caps,
PIN_BASED_EXT_INTR_MASK |
PIN_BASED_NMI_EXITING |
PIN_BASED_VIRTUAL_NMIS |
- (apicv ? PIN_BASED_POSTED_INTR : 0);
+ (enable_apicv ? PIN_BASED_POSTED_INTR : 0);
msrs->pinbased_ctls_high |=
PIN_BASED_ALWAYSON_WITHOUT_TRUE_MSR |
PIN_BASED_VMX_PREEMPTION_TIMER;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h
index fc874d4ead0f..1c5fbff45d69 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ enum nvmx_vmentry_status {
};

void vmx_leave_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
-void nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(struct nested_vmx_msrs *msrs, u32 ept_caps,
- bool apicv);
+void nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(struct nested_vmx_msrs *msrs, u32 ept_caps);
void nested_vmx_hardware_unsetup(void);
__init int nested_vmx_hardware_setup(int (*exit_handlers[])(struct kvm_vcpu *));
void nested_vmx_set_vmcs_shadowing_bitmap(void);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 3be25ecae145..946c74e661e2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ module_param(emulate_invalid_guest_state, bool, S_IRUGO);
static bool __read_mostly fasteoi = 1;
module_param(fasteoi, bool, S_IRUGO);

-static bool __read_mostly enable_apicv = 1;
+bool __read_mostly enable_apicv = 1;
module_param(enable_apicv, bool, S_IRUGO);

/*
@@ -6757,8 +6757,7 @@ static int vmx_create_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)

if (nested)
nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(&vmx->nested.msrs,
- vmx_capability.ept,
- kvm_vcpu_apicv_active(vcpu));
+ vmx_capability.ept);
else
memset(&vmx->nested.msrs, 0, sizeof(vmx->nested.msrs));

@@ -6839,8 +6838,7 @@ static int __init vmx_check_processor_compat(void)
if (setup_vmcs_config(&vmcs_conf, &vmx_cap) < 0)
return -EIO;
if (nested)
- nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(&vmcs_conf.nested, vmx_cap.ept,
- enable_apicv);
+ nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(&vmcs_conf.nested, vmx_cap.ept);
if (memcmp(&vmcs_config, &vmcs_conf, sizeof(struct vmcs_config)) != 0) {
printk(KERN_ERR "kvm: CPU %d feature inconsistency!\n",
smp_processor_id());
@@ -7702,7 +7700,7 @@ static __init int hardware_setup(void)

if (nested) {
nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(&vmcs_config.nested,
- vmx_capability.ept, enable_apicv);
+ vmx_capability.ept);

r = nested_vmx_hardware_setup(kvm_vmx_exit_handlers);
if (r)
--
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