Hyper-V 2016 on KVM with SynIC enabled doesn't boot with the following trace: kvm_entry: vcpu 0 kvm_exit: reason MSR_WRITE rip 0xfffff8000131c1e5 info 0 0 kvm_hv_synic_set_msr: vcpu_id 0 msr 0x40000090 data 0x10000 host 0 kvm_msr: msr_write 40000090 = 0x10000 (#GP) kvm_inj_exception: #GP (0x0) KVM acts according to the following statement from TLFS: " 11.8.4 SINTx Registers ... Valid values for vector are 16-255 inclusive. Specifying an invalid vector number results in #GP. " However, I checked and genuine Hyper-V doesn't #GP when we write 0x10000 to SINTx. I checked with Microsoft and they confirmed that if either the Masked bit (bit 16) or the Polling bit (bit 18) is set to 1, then they ignore the value of Vector. Make KVM act accordingly. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v1: - Drop 'polling' bit check for now as we don't support this mode. We'll need to bring some form of this check back when polling mode is implemented [Roman Kagan]. - Add a comment explaining "!host && !masked" in synic_set_sint() --- arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c b/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c index 6d14f808145d..b390a4d9ea14 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c @@ -95,9 +95,17 @@ static int synic_set_sint(struct kvm_vcpu_hv_synic *synic, int sint, u64 data, bool host) { int vector, old_vector; + bool masked; vector = data & HV_SYNIC_SINT_VECTOR_MASK; - if (vector < HV_SYNIC_FIRST_VALID_VECTOR && !host) + masked = data & HV_SYNIC_SINT_MASKED; + + /* + * Valid vectors are 16-255, however, nested Hyper-V attempts to write + * default '0x10000' value on boot and this should not #GP. We need to + * allow zero-initing the register from host as well. + */ + if (vector < HV_SYNIC_FIRST_VALID_VECTOR && !host && !masked) return 1; /* * Guest may configure multiple SINTs to use the same vector, so -- 2.14.3