On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 17:51 +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> Currently, NMI interrupt is blindly sent to all the vCPUs when NMI
> button event happens. This doesn't properly emulate real hardware on
> which NMI button event triggers LINT1. Because of this, NMI is sent to
> the processor even when LINT1 is masked in LVT. For example, this
> causes the problem that kdump initiated by NMI sometimes doesn't work
> on KVM, because kdump assumes NMI is masked on CPUs other than CPU0.
>
> With this patch, we introduce introduce KVM_SET_LINT1,
> and we can use KVM_SET_LINT1 to correctly emulate NMI button
> without change the old KVM_NMI behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
It could use a documentation update as well.
> arch/x86/kvm/irq.h | 1 +
> arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 7 +++++++
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 ++++++++
> include/linux/kvm.h | 3 +++
> 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h b/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
> index 53e2d08..0c96315 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/irq.h
> @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ void kvm_pic_reset(struct kvm_kpic_state *s);
> void kvm_inject_pending_timer_irqs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> void kvm_inject_apic_timer_irqs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> void kvm_apic_nmi_wd_deliver(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> +void kvm_apic_lint1_deliver(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> void __kvm_migrate_apic_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> void __kvm_migrate_pit_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> void __kvm_migrate_timers(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> index 57dcbd4..87fe36a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> @@ -1039,6 +1039,13 @@ void kvm_apic_nmi_wd_deliver(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> kvm_apic_local_deliver(apic, APIC_LVT0);
> }
>
> +void kvm_apic_lint1_deliver(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> + struct kvm_lapic *apic = vcpu->arch.apic;
> +
> + kvm_apic_local_deliver(apic, APIC_LVT1);
> +}
> +
> static struct kvm_timer_ops lapic_timer_ops = {
> .is_periodic = lapic_is_periodic,
> };
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 84a28ea..fccd094 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -2077,6 +2077,7 @@ int kvm_dev_ioctl_check_extension(long ext)
> case KVM_CAP_XSAVE:
> case KVM_CAP_ASYNC_PF:
> case KVM_CAP_GET_TSC_KHZ:
> + case KVM_CAP_SET_LINT1:
> r = 1;
> break;
> case KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO:
> @@ -3264,6 +3265,13 @@ long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
>
> goto out;
> }
> + case KVM_SET_LINT1: {
> + r = -EINVAL;
> + if (!irqchip_in_kernel(vcpu->kvm))
> + goto out;
> + r = 0;
> + kvm_apic_lint1_deliver(vcpu);
We simply ignore the return value of kvm_apic_local_deliver() and assume
it always works. why?
--
Sasha.
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