From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: seanjc@google.com,jmattson@google.com,naveen@kernel.org,pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: SVM: Initialize AVIC VMCB fields if AVIC is enabled with" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:25:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026031622-prolonged-john-01eb@gregkh> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 3989a6d036c8ec82c0de3614bed23a1dacd45de5
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026031622-prolonged-john-01eb@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 3989a6d036c8ec82c0de3614bed23a1dacd45de5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 11:07:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Initialize AVIC VMCB fields if AVIC is enabled with
in-kernel APIC
Initialize all per-vCPU AVIC control fields in the VMCB if AVIC is enabled
in KVM and the VM has an in-kernel local APIC, i.e. if it's _possible_ the
vCPU could activate AVIC at any point in its lifecycle. Configuring the
VMCB if and only if AVIC is active "works" purely because of optimizations
in kvm_create_lapic() to speculatively set apicv_active if AVIC is enabled
*and* to defer updates until the first KVM_RUN. In quotes because KVM
likely won't do the right thing if kvm_apicv_activated() is false, i.e. if
a vCPU is created while APICv is inhibited at the VM level for whatever
reason. E.g. if the inhibit is *removed* before KVM_REQ_APICV_UPDATE is
handled in KVM_RUN, then __kvm_vcpu_update_apicv() will elide calls to
vendor code due to seeing "apicv_active == activate".
Cleaning up the initialization code will also allow fixing a bug where KVM
incorrectly leaves CR8 interception enabled when AVIC is activated without
creating a mess with respect to whether AVIC is activated or not.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 67034bb9dd5e ("KVM: SVM: Add irqchip_split() checks before enabling AVIC")
Fixes: 6c3e4422dd20 ("svm: Add support for dynamic APICv")
Reviewed-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) <naveen@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203190711.458413-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
index f92214b1a938..44e07c27b190 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ void avic_init_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm, struct vmcb *vmcb)
vmcb->control.avic_physical_id = __sme_set(__pa(kvm_svm->avic_physical_id_table));
vmcb->control.avic_vapic_bar = APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE;
- if (kvm_apicv_activated(svm->vcpu.kvm))
+ if (kvm_vcpu_apicv_active(&svm->vcpu))
avic_activate_vmcb(svm);
else
avic_deactivate_vmcb(svm);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index 8f8bc863e214..7806321c37bc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ static void init_vmcb(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool init_event)
if (guest_cpu_cap_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_ERAPS))
svm->vmcb->control.erap_ctl |= ERAP_CONTROL_ALLOW_LARGER_RAP;
- if (kvm_vcpu_apicv_active(vcpu))
+ if (enable_apicv && irqchip_in_kernel(vcpu->kvm))
avic_init_vmcb(svm, vmcb);
if (vnmi)
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2026-03-16 15:25 gregkh [this message]
2026-03-16 19:12 ` [PATCH 5.10.y] KVM: SVM: Initialize AVIC VMCB fields if AVIC is enabled with in-kernel APIC Sasha Levin
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