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    x86/kvm/lapic: always disable MMIO interface in x2APIC mode · d1766202
    Vitaly Kuznetsov authored
    When VMX is used with flexpriority disabled (because of no support or
    if disabled with module parameter) MMIO interface to lAPIC is still
    available in x2APIC mode while it shouldn't be (kvm-unit-tests):
    
    PASS: apic_disable: Local apic enabled in x2APIC mode
    PASS: apic_disable: CPUID.1H:EDX.APIC[bit 9] is set
    FAIL: apic_disable: *0xfee00030: 50014
    
    The issue appears because we basically do nothing while switching to
    x2APIC mode when APIC access page is not used. apic_mmio_{read,write}
    only check if lAPIC is disabled before proceeding to actual write.
    
    When APIC access is virtualized we correctly manipulate with VMX controls
    in vmx_set_virtual_apic_mode() and we don't get vmexits from memory writes
    in x2APIC mode so there's no issue.
    
    Disabling MMIO interface seems to be easy. The question is: what do we
    do with these reads and writes? If we add apic_x2apic_mode() check to
    apic_mmio_in_range() and return -EOPNOTSUPP these reads and writes will
    go to userspace. When lAPIC is in kernel, Qemu uses this interface to
    inject MSIs only (see kvm_apic_mem_write() in hw/i386/kvm/apic.c). This
    somehow works with disabled lAPIC but when we're in xAPIC mode we will
    get a real injected MSI from every write to lAPIC. Not good.
    
    The simplest solution seems to be to just ignore writes to the region
    and return ~0 for all reads when we're in x2APIC mode. This is what this
    patch does. However, this approach is inconsistent with what currently
    happens when flexpriority is enabled: we allocate APIC access page and
    create KVM memory region so in x2APIC modes all reads and writes go to
    this pre-allocated page which is, btw, the same for all vCPUs.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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