Re: [PATCH v4 05/32] KVM: x86: Don't inhibit APICv/AVIC on xAPIC ID "change" if APIC is disabled

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Thu Dec 08 2022 - 16:54:24 EST


On Sat, 2022-10-01 at 00:58 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Don't inhibit APICv/AVIC due to an xAPIC ID mismatch if the APIC is
> hardware disabled. The ID cannot be consumed while the APIC is disabled,
> and the ID is guaranteed to be set back to the vcpu_id when the APIC is
> hardware enabled (architectural behavior correctly emulated by KVM).
>
> Fixes: 3743c2f02517 ("KVM: x86: inhibit APICv/AVIC on changes to APIC ID or APIC base")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> index 5de1c7aa1ce9..67260f7ce43a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> @@ -2072,6 +2072,9 @@ static void kvm_lapic_xapic_id_updated(struct kvm_lapic *apic)
> {
> struct kvm *kvm = apic->vcpu->kvm;
>
> + if (!kvm_apic_hw_enabled(apic))
> + return;
> +
> if (KVM_BUG_ON(apic_x2apic_mode(apic), kvm))
> return;
>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky