This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: VMX: clear vmx_x86_ops.sync_pir_to_irr if APICv is disabled to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kvm-vmx-clear-vmx_x86_ops.sync_pir_to_irr-if-apicv-i.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit aff57bd1c1bda4b2f0b4c5d92854f837fec88a0e Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Nov 30 07:36:41 2021 -0500 KVM: VMX: clear vmx_x86_ops.sync_pir_to_irr if APICv is disabled [ Upstream commit e90e51d5f01d2baae5dcce280866bbb96816e978 ] There is nothing to synchronize if APICv is disabled, since neither other vCPUs nor assigned devices can set PIR.ON. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c index dacdf2395f01a..4e212f04268bb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c @@ -7776,10 +7776,10 @@ static __init int hardware_setup(void) ple_window_shrink = 0; } - if (!cpu_has_vmx_apicv()) { + if (!cpu_has_vmx_apicv()) enable_apicv = 0; + if (!enable_apicv) vmx_x86_ops.sync_pir_to_irr = NULL; - } if (cpu_has_vmx_tsc_scaling()) { kvm_has_tsc_control = true;