The AVIC does not support guest use of the x2APIC interface. Currently,
KVM simply chooses to squash the x2APIC feature in the guest's CPUID
If the AVIC is enabled. Doing so prevents KVM from running a guest
with greater than 255 vCPUs, as such a guest necessitates the use
of the x2APIC interface.
Instead, inhibit AVIC enablement on a per-VM basis whenever the x2APIC
feature is set in the guest's CPUID. Since this changes the behavior of
KVM as seen by userspace, add a module parameter, avic_per_vm, to opt-in
for the new behavior. If this parameter is set, report x2APIC as
available on KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID. Without opt-in, continue to
suppress x2APIC from the guest's CPUID.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Parent commit: a93236fcbe1d ("KVM: s390: rstify new ioctls in api.rst")
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 98959e8cd448..9d40132a3ae2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -890,6 +890,7 @@ enum kvm_irqchip_mode {
#define APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_NESTED 2
#define APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_IRQWIN 3
#define APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_PIT_REINJ 4
+#define APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_X2APIC 5
struct kvm_arch {
unsigned long n_used_mmu_pages;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index ad3f5b178a03..95c03c75f51a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -382,6 +382,10 @@ module_param(sev, int, 0444);
static bool __read_mostly dump_invalid_vmcb = 0;
module_param(dump_invalid_vmcb, bool, 0644);
+/* enable/disable opportunistic use of the AVIC on a per-VM basis */
+static bool __read_mostly avic_per_vm;
+module_param(avic_per_vm, bool, 0444);
+
static u8 rsm_ins_bytes[] = "\x0f\xaa";
static void svm_set_cr0(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr0);
@@ -6027,7 +6031,15 @@ static void svm_cpuid_update(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (!kvm_vcpu_apicv_active(vcpu))
return;
- guest_cpuid_clear(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_X2APIC);
+ /*
+ * AVIC does not work with an x2APIC mode guest. If the X2APIC feature
+ * is exposed to the guest, disable AVIC.
+ */
+ if (avic_per_vm && guest_cpuid_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_X2APIC))
+ kvm_request_apicv_update(vcpu->kvm, false,
+ APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_X2APIC);
+ else
+ guest_cpuid_clear(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_X2APIC);
/*
* Currently, AVIC does not work with nested virtualization.
@@ -6044,7 +6056,7 @@ static void svm_set_supported_cpuid(u32 func, struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry)
{
switch (func) {
case 0x1:
- if (avic)
+ if (avic && !avic_per_vm)
entry->ecx &= ~F(X2APIC);
break;
case 0x80000001:
@@ -7370,7 +7382,8 @@ static bool svm_check_apicv_inhibit_reasons(ulong bit)
BIT(APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_HYPERV) |
BIT(APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_NESTED) |
BIT(APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_IRQWIN) |
- BIT(APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_PIT_REINJ);
+ BIT(APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_PIT_REINJ) |
+ BIT(APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_X2APIC);
return supported & BIT(bit);
}
--
2.25.1.481.gfbce0eb801-goog
