Thread (113 messages) 113 messages, 9 authors, 2026-01-24

Re: [PATCH v3 17/62] KVM: SVM: Add enable_ipiv param, never set IsRunning if disabled

From: Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-06-19 11:45:47
Also in: kvm, kvmarm, linux-iommu, lkml

On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 03:45:20PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
From: Maxim Levitsky <redacted>

Let userspace "disable" IPI virtualization for AVIC via the enable_ipiv
module param, by never setting IsRunning.  SVM doesn't provide a way to
disable IPI virtualization in hardware, but by ensuring CPUs never see
IsRunning=1, every IPI in the guest (except for self-IPIs) will generate a
VM-Exit.
I think this is good to have regardless of the erratum. Not sure about VMX,
but does it make sense to intercept writes to the self-ipi MSR as well?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
To avoid setting the real IsRunning bit, while still allowing KVM to use
each vCPU's entry to update GA log entries, simply maintain a shadow of
the entry, without propagating IsRunning updates to the real table when
IPI virtualization is disabled.

Providing a way to effectively disable IPI virtualization will allow KVM
to safely enable AVIC on hardware that is susceptible to erratum #1235,
which causes hardware to sometimes fail to detect that the IsRunning bit
has been cleared by software.

Note, the table _must_ be fully populated, as broadcast IPIs skip invalid
entries, i.e. won't generate VM-Exit if every entry is invalid, and so
simply pointing the VMCB at a common dummy table won't work.

Alternatively, KVM could allocate a shadow of the entire table, but that'd
be a waste of 4KiB since the per-vCPU entry doesn't actually consume an
additional 8 bytes of memory (vCPU structures are large enough that they
are backed by order-N pages).

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <redacted>
[sean: keep "entry" variables, reuse enable_ipiv, split from erratum]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c  |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h  |  8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
index 0c0be274d29e..48c737e1200a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c
@@ -292,6 +292,13 @@ static int avic_init_backing_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	/* Setting AVIC backing page address in the phy APIC ID table */
 	new_entry = avic_get_backing_page_address(svm) |
 		    AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_VALID_MASK;
+	svm->avic_physical_id_entry = new_entry;
+
+	/*
+	 * Initialize the real table, as vCPUs must have a valid entry in order
+	 * for broadcast IPIs to function correctly (broadcast IPIs ignore
+	 * invalid entries, i.e. aren't guaranteed to generate a VM-Exit).
+	 */
 	WRITE_ONCE(kvm_svm->avic_physical_id_table[id], new_entry);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -769,8 +776,6 @@ static int svm_ir_list_add(struct vcpu_svm *svm,
 			   struct amd_iommu_pi_data *pi)
 {
 	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = &svm->vcpu;
-	struct kvm *kvm = vcpu->kvm;
-	struct kvm_svm *kvm_svm = to_kvm_svm(kvm);
 	unsigned long flags;
 	u64 entry;
 
@@ -788,7 +793,7 @@ static int svm_ir_list_add(struct vcpu_svm *svm,
 	 * will update the pCPU info when the vCPU awkened and/or scheduled in.
 	 * See also avic_vcpu_load().
 	 */
-	entry = READ_ONCE(kvm_svm->avic_physical_id_table[vcpu->vcpu_id]);
+	entry = svm->avic_physical_id_entry;
 	if (entry & AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_IS_RUNNING_MASK)
 		amd_iommu_update_ga(entry & AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_HOST_PHYSICAL_ID_MASK,
 				    true, pi->ir_data);
@@ -998,14 +1003,26 @@ void avic_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
 	 */
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&svm->ir_list_lock, flags);
 
-	entry = READ_ONCE(kvm_svm->avic_physical_id_table[vcpu->vcpu_id]);
+	entry = svm->avic_physical_id_entry;
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(entry & AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_IS_RUNNING_MASK);
 
 	entry &= ~AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_HOST_PHYSICAL_ID_MASK;
 	entry |= (h_physical_id & AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_HOST_PHYSICAL_ID_MASK);
 	entry |= AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_IS_RUNNING_MASK;
 
+	svm->avic_physical_id_entry = entry;
+
+	/*
+	 * If IPI virtualization is disabled, clear IsRunning when updating the
+	 * actual Physical ID table, so that the CPU never sees IsRunning=1.
+	 * Keep the APIC ID up-to-date in the entry to minimize the chances of
+	 * things going sideways if hardware peeks at the ID.
+	 */
+	if (!enable_ipiv)
+		entry &= ~AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_IS_RUNNING_MASK;
+
 	WRITE_ONCE(kvm_svm->avic_physical_id_table[vcpu->vcpu_id], entry);
+
 	avic_update_iommu_vcpu_affinity(vcpu, h_physical_id, true);
 
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&svm->ir_list_lock, flags);
@@ -1030,7 +1047,7 @@ void avic_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	 * can't be scheduled out and thus avic_vcpu_{put,load}() can't run
 	 * recursively.
 	 */
-	entry = READ_ONCE(kvm_svm->avic_physical_id_table[vcpu->vcpu_id]);
+	entry = svm->avic_physical_id_entry;
 
 	/* Nothing to do if IsRunning == '0' due to vCPU blocking. */
 	if (!(entry & AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_IS_RUNNING_MASK))
@@ -1049,7 +1066,10 @@ void avic_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	avic_update_iommu_vcpu_affinity(vcpu, -1, 0);
 
 	entry &= ~AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_IS_RUNNING_MASK;
-	WRITE_ONCE(kvm_svm->avic_physical_id_table[vcpu->vcpu_id], entry);
+	svm->avic_physical_id_entry = entry;
+
+	if (enable_ipiv)
+		WRITE_ONCE(kvm_svm->avic_physical_id_table[vcpu->vcpu_id], entry);
If enable_ipiv is false, then isRunning bit will never be set and we 
would have bailed out earlier. So, the check for enable_ipiv can be 
dropped here (or converted into an assert).

- Naveen

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