Hi All, Currently, we don't have a good way to check whether APICV is active on a VM. Normally, For AMD SVM AVIC, users either have to check for trace point, or using "perf kvm stat live" to catch AVIC-related #VMEXIT. For KVM, I would like to propose introducing a new IOCTL interface (i.e. KVM_GET_APICV_INFO), where user-space tools (e.g. QEMU monitor) can query run-time information of APICv for VM and vCPUs such as APICv inhibit reason flags. For QEMU, we can leverage the "info lapic" command, and append the APICV information after all LAPIC register information: For example: ----- Begin Snippet ----- (qemu) info lapic 0 dumping local APIC state for CPU 0 LVT0 0x00010700 active-hi edge masked ExtINT (vec 0) LVT1 0x00000400 active-hi edge NMI LVTPC 0x00010000 active-hi edge masked Fixed (vec 0) LVTERR 0x000000fe active-hi edge Fixed (vec 254) LVTTHMR 0x00010000 active-hi edge masked Fixed (vec 0) LVTT 0x000400ee active-hi edge tsc-deadline Fixed (vec 238) Timer DCR=0x0 (divide by 2) initial_count = 0 current_count = 0 SPIV 0x000001ff APIC enabled, focus=off, spurious vec 255 ICR 0x000000fd physical edge de-assert no-shorthand ICR2 0x00000005 cpu 5 (X2APIC ID) ESR 0x00000000 ISR (none) IRR (none) APR 0x00 TPR 0x00 DFR 0x0f LDR 0x00PPR 0x00 APICV vm inhibit: 0x10 <-- HERE APICV vcpu inhibit: 0 <-- HERE ------ End Snippet ------ Otherwise, we can have APICv-specific info command (e.g. info apicv). Any suggestions are much appreciated. Best Regards, Suravee
