[PATCH v2 1/7] KVM: x86: Move "ack" phase of local APIC IRQ delivery to separate API

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Fri Sep 06 2024 - 00:34:45 EST


Split the "ack" phase, i.e. the movement of an interrupt from IRR=>ISR,
out of kvm_get_apic_interrupt() and into a separate API so that nested
VMX can acknowledge a specific interrupt _after_ emulating a VM-Exit from
L2 to L1.

To correctly emulate nested posted interrupts while APICv is active, KVM
must:

1. find the highest pending interrupt.
2. check if that IRQ is L2's notification vector
3. emulate VM-Exit if the IRQ is NOT the notification vector
4. ACK the IRQ in L1 _after_ VM-Exit

When APICv is active, the process of moving the IRQ from the IRR to the
ISR also requires a VMWRITE to update vmcs01.GUEST_INTERRUPT_STATUS.SVI,
and so acknowledging the interrupt before switching to vmcs01 would result
in marking the IRQ as in-service in the wrong VMCS.

KVM currently fudges around this issue by doing kvm_get_apic_interrupt()
smack dab in the middle of emulating VM-Exit, but that hack doesn't play
nice with nested posted interrupts, as notification vector IRQs don't
trigger a VM-Exit in the first place.

Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index a7172ba59ad2..ff63ef8163a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -2924,14 +2924,13 @@ void kvm_inject_apic_timer_irqs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
}
}

-int kvm_get_apic_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+void kvm_apic_ack_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int vector)
{
- int vector = kvm_apic_has_interrupt(vcpu);
struct kvm_lapic *apic = vcpu->arch.apic;
u32 ppr;

- if (vector == -1)
- return -1;
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(vector < 0 || !apic))
+ return;

/*
* We get here even with APIC virtualization enabled, if doing
@@ -2959,6 +2958,16 @@ int kvm_get_apic_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
__apic_update_ppr(apic, &ppr);
}

+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_apic_ack_interrupt);
+
+int kvm_get_apic_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ int vector = kvm_apic_has_interrupt(vcpu);
+
+ if (vector != -1)
+ kvm_apic_ack_interrupt(vcpu, vector);
+
return vector;
}

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h
index 7ef8ae73e82d..db80a2965b9c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ int kvm_create_lapic(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_free_lapic(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);

int kvm_apic_has_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
+void kvm_apic_ack_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int vector);
int kvm_apic_accept_pic_intr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
int kvm_get_apic_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
int kvm_apic_accept_events(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
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