On Wed, 2022-08-31 at 00:34 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Disable the optimized APIC logical map if a logical ID covers multiple
> MDAs, i.e. if a vCPU has multiple bits set in its ID. In logical mode,
> events match if "ID & MDA != 0", i.e. creating an entry for only the
> first bit can cause interrupts to be missed.
>
> Note, creating an entry for every bit is also wrong as KVM would generate
> IPIs for every matching bit. It would be possible to teach KVM to play
> nice with this edge case, but it is very much an edge case and probably
> not used in any real world OS, i.e. it's not worth optimizing.
>
> Use an impossible value for the "mode" to effectively designate that it's
> disabled. Don't bother adding a dedicated "invalid" value, the mode
> handling will be cleaned up in the future and it would take just as much
> effort to explain what value is "safe" at this time.
>
> Fixes: 1e08ec4a130e ("KVM: optimize apic interrupt delivery")
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 11 +++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> index 9dda989a1cf0..82278acae95b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> @@ -300,8 +300,15 @@ void kvm_recalculate_apic_map(struct kvm *kvm)
> if (!kvm_apic_map_get_logical_dest(new, ldr, &cluster, &mask))
> continue;
>
> - if (mask)
> - cluster[ffs(mask) - 1] = apic;
> + if (!mask)
> + continue;
> +
> + if (!is_power_of_2(mask)) {
> + new->mode = KVM_APIC_MODE_XAPIC_FLAT |
> + KVM_APIC_MODE_XAPIC_CLUSTER;
> + continue;
> + }
> + cluster[ffs(mask) - 1] = apic;
> }
> out:
> old = rcu_dereference_protected(kvm->arch.apic_map,
I was about to complain about the abuse of the invalid mode,
but I see that this is fixed in later patch as it is said in the commit
description, so no complains.
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky