On 15/09/2016 06:08, Mika Penttilä wrote:
> On 09/14/2016 10:58 AM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng...@hotmail.com>
>>
>> I observed that kvmvapic(to optimize flexpriority=N or AMD) is used
>> to boost TPR access when testing kvm-unit-test/eventinj.flat tpr case
>> on my haswell desktop (w/ flexpriority, w/o APICv). Commit (8d14695f9542
>> x86, apicv: add virtual x2apic support) disable virtual x2apic mode
>> completely if w/o APICv, and the author also told me that windows guest
>> can't enter into x2apic mode when he developed the APICv feature several
>> years ago. However, it is not truth currently, Interrupt Remapping and
>> vIOMMU is added to qemu and the developers from Intel test windows 8 can
>> work in x2apic mode w/ Interrupt Remapping enabled recently.
>>
>> This patch enables TPR shadow for virtual x2apic mode to boost
>> windows guest in x2apic mode even if w/o APICv.
>>
>> Can pass the kvm-unit-test.
>>
>
> While at it, is the vmx flexpriotity stuff still valid code?
> AFAICS it gets enabled iff TPR shadow is on.
flexpriority is an Intel commercial name for TPR shadow.
Paolo
flexpriority
> is on when :
>
> (flexpriority_enabled && lapic_in_kernel && cpu_has_vmx_tpr_shadow &&
> cpu_has_vmx_virtualize_apic_accesses)
>
> But apic accesses to TPR mmio are not then trapped and TPR changes not
> reported because
> the “use TPR shadow” VM-execution control is 1.
>
> Thanks,
> Mika
>
>
>> Suggested-by: Wincy Van <fanwenyi0...@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrc...@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Wincy Van <fanwenyi0...@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Yang Zhang <yang.zhang...@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng...@hotmail.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> index 5cede40..e703129 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> @@ -6336,7 +6336,7 @@ static void wakeup_handler(void)
>>
>> static __init int hardware_setup(void)
>> {
>> - int r = -ENOMEM, i, msr;
>> + int r = -ENOMEM, i;
>>
>> rdmsrl_safe(MSR_EFER, &host_efer);
>>
>> @@ -6464,18 +6464,6 @@ static __init int hardware_setup(void)
>>
>> set_bit(0, vmx_vpid_bitmap); /* 0 is reserved for host */
>>
>> - for (msr = 0x800; msr <= 0x8ff; msr++)
>> - vmx_disable_intercept_msr_read_x2apic(msr);
>> -
>> - /* TMCCT */
>> - vmx_enable_intercept_msr_read_x2apic(0x839);
>> - /* TPR */
>> - vmx_disable_intercept_msr_write_x2apic(0x808);
>> - /* EOI */
>> - vmx_disable_intercept_msr_write_x2apic(0x80b);
>> - /* SELF-IPI */
>> - vmx_disable_intercept_msr_write_x2apic(0x83f);
>> -
>> if (enable_ept) {
>> kvm_mmu_set_mask_ptes(VMX_EPT_READABLE_MASK,
>> (enable_ept_ad_bits) ? VMX_EPT_ACCESS_BIT : 0ull,
>> @@ -8435,12 +8423,7 @@ static void vmx_set_virtual_x2apic_mode(struct
>> kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool set)
>> return;
>> }
>>
>> - /*
>> - * There is not point to enable virtualize x2apic without enable
>> - * apicv
>> - */
>> - if (!cpu_has_vmx_virtualize_x2apic_mode() ||
>> - !kvm_vcpu_apicv_active(vcpu))
>> + if (!cpu_has_vmx_virtualize_x2apic_mode())
>> return;
>>
>> if (!cpu_need_tpr_shadow(vcpu))
>> @@ -8449,8 +8432,28 @@ static void vmx_set_virtual_x2apic_mode(struct
>> kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool set)
>> sec_exec_control = vmcs_read32(SECONDARY_VM_EXEC_CONTROL);
>>
>> if (set) {
>> + int msr;
>> +
>> sec_exec_control &= ~SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES;
>> sec_exec_control |= SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_X2APIC_MODE;
>> +
>> + if (kvm_vcpu_apicv_active(vcpu)) {
>> + for (msr = 0x800; msr <= 0x8ff; msr++)
>> + vmx_disable_intercept_msr_read_x2apic(msr);
>> +
>> + /* TMCCT */
>> + vmx_enable_intercept_msr_read_x2apic(0x839);
>> + /* TPR */
>> + vmx_disable_intercept_msr_write_x2apic(0x808);
>> + /* EOI */
>> + vmx_disable_intercept_msr_write_x2apic(0x80b);
>> + /* SELF-IPI */
>> + vmx_disable_intercept_msr_write_x2apic(0x83f);
>> + } else if (vmx_exec_control(to_vmx(vcpu)) &
>> CPU_BASED_TPR_SHADOW) {
>> + /* TPR */
>> + vmx_disable_intercept_msr_read_x2apic(0x808);
>> + vmx_disable_intercept_msr_write_x2apic(0x808);
>> + }
>> } else {
>> sec_exec_control &= ~SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_X2APIC_MODE;
>> sec_exec_control |= SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES;
>>
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