Re: AVIC related warning in enable_irq_window

[Suravee Suthikulpanit]

Paolo / Maxim,

On 5/2/20 11:42 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 02/05/20 15:58, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > The AVIC is disabled by svm_toggle_avic_for_irq_window, which calls
> > kvm_request_apicv_update, which broadcasts the KVM_REQ_APICV_UPDATE vcpu request,
> > however it doesn't broadcast it to CPU on which now we are running, which seems OK,
> > because the code that handles that broadcast runs on each VCPU entry, thus
> > when this CPU will enter guest mode it will notice and disable the AVIC.
> >
> > However later in svm_enable_vintr, there is test 'WARN_ON(kvm_vcpu_apicv_active(&svm->vcpu));'
> > which is still true on current CPU because of the above.
> Good point!  We can just remove the WARN_ON I think.  Can you send a patch?

Instead, as an alternative to remove the WARN_ON(), would it be better to just explicitly
calling kvm_vcpu_update_apicv(vcpu) to update the apicv_active flag right after
kvm_request_apicv_update()?

Thanks,
Suravee