[PATCH v3 03/28] hw/xen: select kernel mode for per-vCPU event channel upcall vector

David Woodhouse
2023-10-25T14:52:06Z

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

A guest which has configured the per-vCPU upcall vector may set the
HVM_PARAM_CALLBACK_IRQ param to fairly much anything other than zero.

For example, Linux v6.0+ after commit b1c3497e604 ("x86/xen: Add support
for HVMOP_set_evtchn_upcall_vector") will just do this after setting the
vector:

/* Trick toolstack to think we are enlightened. */
if (!cpu)
rc = xen_set_callback_via(1);

That's explicitly setting the delivery to GSI#1, but it's supposed to be
overridden by the per-vCPU vector setting. This mostly works in Qemu
*except* for the logic to enable the in-kernel handling of event channels,
which falsely determines that the kernel cannot accelerate GSI delivery
in this case.

Add a kvm_xen_has_vcpu_callback_vector() to report whether vCPU#0 has
the vector set, and use that in xen_evtchn_set_callback_param() to
enable the kernel acceleration features even when the param *appears*
to be set to target a GSI.

Preserve the Xen behaviour that when HVM_PARAM_CALLBACK_IRQ is set to
*zero* the event channel delivery is disabled completely. (Which is
what that bizarre guest behaviour is working round in the first place.)

Fixes: 91cce756179 ("hw/xen: Add xen_evtchn device for event channel emulation")
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
---
hw/i386/kvm/xen_evtchn.c | 6 ++++++
include/sysemu/kvm_xen.h | 1 +
target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hw/i386/kvm/xen_evtchn.c b/hw/i386/kvm/xen_evtchn.c
index a731738411..3d6f4b4a0a 100644
--- a/hw/i386/kvm/xen_evtchn.c
+++ b/hw/i386/kvm/xen_evtchn.c
@@ -490,6 +490,12 @@ int xen_evtchn_set_callback_param(uint64_t param)
break;
}

+ /* If the guest has set a per-vCPU callback vector, prefer that. */
+ if (gsi && kvm_xen_has_vcpu_callback_vector()) {
+ in_kernel = kvm_xen_has_cap(EVTCHN_SEND);
+ gsi = 0;
+ }
+
if (!ret) {
/* If vector delivery was turned *off* then tell the kernel */
if ((s->callback_param >> CALLBACK_VIA_TYPE_SHIFT) ==
diff --git a/include/sysemu/kvm_xen.h b/include/sysemu/kvm_xen.h
index 595abfbe40..961c702c4e 100644
--- a/include/sysemu/kvm_xen.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/kvm_xen.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
int kvm_xen_soft_reset(void);
uint32_t kvm_xen_get_caps(void);
void *kvm_xen_get_vcpu_info_hva(uint32_t vcpu_id);
+bool kvm_xen_has_vcpu_callback_vector(void);
void kvm_xen_inject_vcpu_callback_vector(uint32_t vcpu_id, int type);
void kvm_xen_set_callback_asserted(void);
int kvm_xen_set_vcpu_virq(uint32_t vcpu_id, uint16_t virq, uint16_t port);
diff --git a/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c b/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c
index 7c504d9fa4..75b2c557b9 100644
--- a/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c
+++ b/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c
@@ -424,6 +424,13 @@ void kvm_xen_set_callback_asserted(void)
}
}

+bool kvm_xen_has_vcpu_callback_vector(void)
+{
+ CPUState *cs = qemu_get_cpu(0);
+
+ return cs && !!X86_CPU(cs)->env.xen_vcpu_callback_vector;
+}
+
void kvm_xen_inject_vcpu_callback_vector(uint32_t vcpu_id, int type)
{
CPUState *cs = qemu_get_cpu(vcpu_id);
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