Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Do not mask LVTPC when handling a PMI on AMD platforms

From: Sandipan Das
Date: Thu Mar 07 2024 - 00:39:47 EST


On 3/5/2024 2:19 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2024, Jim Mattson wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 11:44 PM Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> On AMD and Hygon platforms, the local APIC does not automatically set
>>> the mask bit of the LVTPC register when handling a PMI and there is
>>> no need to clear it in the kernel's PMI handler.
>>
>> I don't know why it didn't occur to me that different x86 vendors
>> wouldn't agree on this specification. :)
>
> Because you're sane? :-D
>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
>>> index 3242f3da2457..0959a887c306 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
>>> @@ -2768,7 +2768,7 @@ int kvm_apic_local_deliver(struct kvm_lapic *apic, int lvt_type)
>>> trig_mode = reg & APIC_LVT_LEVEL_TRIGGER;
>>>
>>> r = __apic_accept_irq(apic, mode, vector, 1, trig_mode, NULL);
>>> - if (r && lvt_type == APIC_LVTPC)
>>> + if (r && lvt_type == APIC_LVTPC && !guest_cpuid_is_amd_or_hygon(apic->vcpu))
>>
>> Perhaps we could use a positive predicate instead:
>> guest_cpuid_is_intel(apic->vcpu)?
>
> AFAICT, Zhaoxin follows intel behavior, so we'd theoretically have to allow for
> that too. The many checks of guest_cpuid_is_intel() in KVM suggest that no one
> actually cares about about correctly virtualizing Zhaoxin CPUs, but it's an easy
> enough problem to solve.
>
> I'm also very tempted to say KVM should cache the Intel vs. AMD vCPU model. E.g.
> if userspace does something weird with guest CPUID and puts CPUID.0x0 somewhere
> other than the zeroth entry, KVM's linear walk to find a CPUID entry will make
> this a pretty slow lookup.
>
> Then we could also encapsulate the gory details for Intel vs. Zhaoxin vs. Centaur,
> and AMD vs. Hygon, e.g.
>
> if (r && lvt_type == APIC_LVTPC &&
> apic->vcpu->arch.is_model_intel_compatible)

The following are excerpts from some changes that I have been working on. Instead
of a boolean flag, this saves the compatible vendor in kvm_vcpu_arch and tries
to match it against X86_VENDOR_* values. The goal is to replace
guest_cpuid_is_{intel,amd_or_hygon}() with
guest_vendor_is_compatible(vcpu, X86_VENDOR_{INTEL,AMD}). Is this viable?

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index d271ba20a0b2..c4ada5b12fc3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -1042,6 +1042,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HYPERV)
hpa_t hv_root_tdp;
#endif
+ u8 compat_vendor;
};

struct kvm_lpage_info {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
index adba49afb5fe..00170762e72a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
@@ -376,6 +376,13 @@ static void kvm_vcpu_after_set_cpuid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
kvm_hv_set_cpuid(vcpu, kvm_cpuid_has_hyperv(vcpu->arch.cpuid_entries,
vcpu->arch.cpuid_nent));

+ if (guest_cpuid_is_intel_compatible(vcpu))
+ vcpu->arch.compat_vendor = X86_VENDOR_INTEL;
+ else if (guest_cpuid_is_amd_or_hygon(vcpu))
+ vcpu->arch.compat_vendor = X86_VENDOR_AMD;
+ else
+ vcpu->arch.compat_vendor = X86_VENDOR_UNKNOWN;
+
/* Invoke the vendor callback only after the above state is updated. */
static_call(kvm_x86_vcpu_after_set_cpuid)(vcpu);

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h
index 856e3037e74f..8c73db586231 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h
@@ -120,6 +120,17 @@ static inline bool guest_cpuid_is_intel(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return best && is_guest_vendor_intel(best->ebx, best->ecx, best->edx);
}

+static inline bool guest_cpuid_is_intel_compatible(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *best;
+
+ best = kvm_find_cpuid_entry(vcpu, 0);
+ return best &&
+ (is_guest_vendor_intel(best->ebx, best->ecx, best->edx) ||
+ is_guest_vendor_centaur(best->ebx, best->ecx, best->edx) ||
+ is_guest_vendor_zhaoxin(best->ebx, best->ecx, best->edx));
+}
+
static inline int guest_cpuid_family(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *best;
@@ -142,6 +153,11 @@ static inline int guest_cpuid_model(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return x86_model(best->eax);
}

+static inline bool guest_vendor_is_compatible(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u8 vendor)
+{
+ return vcpu->arch.compat_vendor == vendor;
+}
+
static inline bool cpuid_model_is_consistent(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
return boot_cpu_data.x86_model == guest_cpuid_model(vcpu);