On 01/02/2018 12:50, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> Guests on new hypersiors might set KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_PF_VMEXIT
> bit when enabling async_PF, but this bit is reserved on old hypervisors,
> which results in a failure upon migration.
>
> Guests at least expect that KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_PF_VMEXIT might not
> be present when booting, so we allow userspace to handle migration
> compatibility by adding a KVM CPUID flag that determines the presence of
> KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_PF_VMEXIT.
>
> Fixes: 52a5c155cf79 ("KVM: async_pf: Let guest support delivery of async_pf from guest mode")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
This has to be documented in Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt.
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 4c3103f449a3..c16740a06f0c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -2139,8 +2139,10 @@ static int kvm_pv_enable_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 data)
> {
> gpa_t gpa = data & ~0x3f;
>
> - /* Bits 3:5 are reserved, Should be zero */
> - if (data & 0x38)
> + /* Bits 3:5 are reserved, Should be zero. */
> + if (data & 0x38 ||
> + (data & KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_PF_VMEXIT &&
> + !guest_kvm_cpuid_has(vcpu, KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_VMEXIT)))
> return 1;
>
> vcpu->arch.apf.msr_val = data;
>
This check will break migration if the source guest and host both have
the recent kernels which support KVM_ASYNC_PF_DELIVERY_AS_PF_VMEXIT, so
I am not sure about it. Otherwise, the patch is okay!
Thanks,
Paolo