[PATCH] KVM: lapic: stop advertising DIRECTED_EOI when in-kernel IOAPIC is in use

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Fri Feb 09 2018 - 08:01:41 EST


Devices which use level-triggered interrupts under Windows 2016 with
Hyper-V role enabled don't work: Windows disables EOI broadcast in SPIV
unconditionally. Our in-kernel IOAPIC implementation emulates an old IOAPIC
version which has no EOI register so EOI never happens.

The issue was discovered and discussed a while ago:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg148098.html

While this is a guest OS bug (it should check that IOAPIC has the required
capabilities before disabling EOI broadcast) we can workaround it in KVM:
advertising DIRECTED_EOI with in-kernel IOAPIC makes little sense anyway.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
- Radim's suggestion was to disable DIRECTED_EOI unconditionally but I'm not
that radical :-) In theory, we may have multiple IOAPICs in userspace in
future and DIRECTED_EOI can be leveraged.
---
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index 924ac8ce9d50..5339287fee63 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -321,8 +321,16 @@ void kvm_apic_set_version(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (!lapic_in_kernel(vcpu))
return;

+ /*
+ * KVM emulates 82093AA datasheet (with in-kernel IOAPIC implementation)
+ * which doesn't have EOI register; Some buggy OSes (e.g. Windows with
+ * Hyper-V role) disable EOI broadcast in lapic not checking for IOAPIC
+ * version first and level-triggered interrupts never get EOIed in
+ * IOAPIC.
+ */
feat = kvm_find_cpuid_entry(apic->vcpu, 0x1, 0);
- if (feat && (feat->ecx & (1 << (X86_FEATURE_X2APIC & 31))))
+ if (feat && (feat->ecx & (1 << (X86_FEATURE_X2APIC & 31))) &&
+ !ioapic_in_kernel(vcpu->kvm))
v |= APIC_LVR_DIRECTED_EOI;
kvm_lapic_set_reg(apic, APIC_LVR, v);
}
--
2.14.3