From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix 'Spurious APIC interrupt (vector 0xFF) on CPU#n' issue
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:59:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230726135945.260841-1-mlevitsk@redhat.com> (raw)
Recently we found an issue which causes these error messages
to be sometimes logged if the guest has VFIO device attached:
'Spurious APIC interrupt (vector 0xFF) on CPU#0, should never happen'
It was traced to the incorrect APICv inhibition bug which started with
'KVM: x86: inhibit APICv/AVIC on changes to APIC ID or APIC base'
(All these issues are now fixed)
However, there are valid cases for the APICv to be inhibited and it should not
cause spurious interrupts to be injected to the guest.
After some debug, the root cause was found and it is that __kvm_apic_update_irr
doesn't set irr_pending which later triggers a int->unsigned char conversion
bug which leads to the wrong 0xFF injection.
This also leads to an unbounded delay in injecting the interrupt and hurts
performance.
In addition to that, I also noticed that __kvm_apic_update_irr is not atomic
in regard to IRR, which can lead to an even harder to debug bug.
V2: applied Paolo's feedback for the patch 1.
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
Maxim Levitsky (3):
KVM: x86: VMX: __kvm_apic_update_irr must update the IRR atomically
KVM: x86: VMX: set irr_pending in kvm_apic_update_irr
KVM: x86: check the kvm_cpu_get_interrupt result before using it
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++--------
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10 +++++++---
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
--
2.26.3
next reply other threads:[~2023-07-26 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-26 13:59 Maxim Levitsky [this message]
2023-07-26 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: x86: VMX: __kvm_apic_update_irr must update the IRR atomically Maxim Levitsky
2023-07-26 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: x86: VMX: set irr_pending in kvm_apic_update_irr Maxim Levitsky
2023-07-26 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: x86: check the kvm_cpu_get_interrupt result before using it Maxim Levitsky
2023-07-29 1:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix 'Spurious APIC interrupt (vector 0xFF) on CPU#n' issue Sean Christopherson
2023-07-29 14:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
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