Re: [PATCH v3] KVM: x86: Add x2APIC "features" to control EOI broadcast suppression

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2025-12-02 at 07:42 -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> 
> The issue is that KVM "enables" SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST in that the feature is
> exposed to the guest and can be enabled in local APICs, and that's one of the
> behaviors/configurations I want to preserve so that guests don't observe a feature
> change.  Having an on/off switch doesn't work because KVM isn't fully disabling
> the feature, nor is KVM fully enabling the feature.  It's a weird, half-baked
> state, hence the QUIRK.
> 
> More importantly, we can't use ENABLE bits because I want to preserve existing
> behavior exactly as-is.  I.e. userspace needs to opt-in to disabling
> SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST and/or to disabling IGNORE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST_QUIRK.

To respond to that part directly...

The legacy behaviour we need to preserve is neither fully enabled, nor
fully disabled. I agree that the default needs to remain this weird
half-baked quirk.

But now we are giving userspace a chance to explicitly choose either a
proper ENABLE or a proper DISABLE, and isn't that what those flags
should be called?

You have ENABLE, you have DISABLE, and you have a warning that you
probably ought to choose one of them because the default you get
otherwise is weirdly broken (but there for legacy compatibility).

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