From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Yuki Shibuya <shibuya.yk@ncos.nec.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: zero apic_arb_prio on reset
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 12:57:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56374F98.4050502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1446216500-14267-1-git-send-email-rkrcmar@redhat.com>
On 30/10/2015 15:48, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> BSP doesn't get INIT so its apic_arb_prio isn't zeroed after reboot.
> BSP won't get lowest priority interrupts until other VCPUs get enough
> interrupts to match their pre-reboot apic_arb_prio.
>
> That behavior doesn't fit into KVM's round-robin-like interpretation of
> lowest priority delivery ... userspace should KVM_SET_LAPIC on reset, so
> just zero apic_arb_prio there.
>
> Reported-by: Yuki Shibuya <shibuya.yk@ncos.nec.co.jp>
> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> index 1b02c44c7b8b..08655020417d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> @@ -1924,6 +1924,8 @@ void kvm_apic_post_state_restore(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_EVENT, vcpu);
> if (ioapic_in_kernel(vcpu->kvm))
> kvm_rtc_eoi_tracking_restore_one(vcpu);
> +
> + vcpu->arch.apic_arb_prio = 0;
> }
>
> void __kvm_migrate_apic_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>
Applied, thanks.
Paolo
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2015-10-30 14:48 [PATCH] KVM: x86: zero apic_arb_prio on reset Radim Krčmář
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