Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: selftest: Enhance handling WRMSR ICR register in x2APIC mode
From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Jun 23 2022 - 16:34:37 EST
+Venkatesh
On Thu, Jun 23, 2022, Chao Gao wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 05:45:11PM +0800, Zeng Guang wrote:
> >Hardware would directly write x2APIC ICR register instead of software
> >emulation in some circumstances, e.g when Intel IPI virtualization is
> >enabled. This behavior requires normal reserved bits checking to ensure
> >them input as zero, otherwise it will cause #GP. So we need mask out
> >those reserved bits from the data written to vICR register.
>
> OK. One open is:
>
> Current KVM doesn't emulate this #GP. Is there any historical reason?
> if no, we will fix KVM and add some tests to verify this #GP is
> correctly emulated.
It's a bug. There are patches posted[*], but they need to be refreshed to fix a
rebase goof.
Venkatesh, are you planning on sending a v3 soonish?
[*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220525173933.1611076-1-venkateshs@xxxxxxxxxxxx