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authorKhushit Shah <khushit.shah@nutanix.com>2026-01-23 12:56:25 +0000
committerSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>2026-03-12 07:09:31 -0400
commitd2cfea67b1b9552d47d6adf97ce323ee11f01ecc (patch)
tree6e8ea972f6e87dd182afebcb5b317f941c75135e /Documentation
parentc6db0f4a1659edc13445f3fadbbd205ee1a429d9 (diff)
KVM: x86: Add x2APIC "features" to control EOI broadcast suppression
[ Upstream commit 6517dfbcc918f970a928d9dc17586904bac06893 ] Add two flags for KVM_CAP_X2APIC_API to allow userspace to control support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts when using a split IRQCHIP (I/O APIC emulated by userspace), which KVM completely mishandles. When x2APIC support was first added, KVM incorrectly advertised and "enabled" Suppress EOI Broadcast, without fully supporting the I/O APIC side of the equation, i.e. without adding directed EOI to KVM's in-kernel I/O APIC. That flaw was carried over to split IRQCHIP support, i.e. KVM advertised support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts irrespective of whether or not the userspace I/O APIC implementation supported directed EOIs. Even worse, KVM didn't actually suppress EOI broadcasts, i.e. userspace VMMs without support for directed EOI came to rely on the "spurious" broadcasts. KVM "fixed" the in-kernel I/O APIC implementation by completely disabling support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts in commit 0bcc3fb95b97 ("KVM: lapic: stop advertising DIRECTED_EOI when in-kernel IOAPIC is in use"), but didn't do anything to remedy userspace I/O APIC implementations. KVM's bogus handling of Suppress EOI Broadcast is problematic when the guest relies on interrupts being masked in the I/O APIC until well after the initial local APIC EOI. E.g. Windows with Credential Guard enabled handles interrupts in the following order: 1. Interrupt for L2 arrives. 2. L1 APIC EOIs the interrupt. 3. L1 resumes L2 and injects the interrupt. 4. L2 EOIs after servicing. 5. L1 performs the I/O APIC EOI. Because KVM EOIs the I/O APIC at step #2, the guest can get an interrupt storm, e.g. if the IRQ line is still asserted and userspace reacts to the EOI by re-injecting the IRQ, because the guest doesn't de-assert the line until step #4, and doesn't expect the interrupt to be re-enabled until step #5. Unfortunately, simply "fixing" the bug isn't an option, as KVM has no way of knowing if the userspace I/O APIC supports directed EOIs, i.e. suppressing EOI broadcasts would result in interrupts being stuck masked in the userspace I/O APIC due to step #5 being ignored by userspace. And fully disabling support for Suppress EOI Broadcast is also undesirable, as picking up the fix would require a guest reboot, *and* more importantly would change the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest without any buy-in from userspace. Add KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST and KVM_X2APIC_DISABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST flags to allow userspace to explicitly enable or disable support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts. This gives userspace control over the virtual CPU model exposed to the guest, as KVM should never have enabled support for Suppress EOI Broadcast without userspace opt-in. Not setting either flag will result in legacy quirky behavior for backward compatibility. Disallow fully enabling SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST when using an in-kernel I/O APIC, as KVM's history/support is just as tragic. E.g. it's not clear that commit c806a6ad35bf ("KVM: x86: call irq notifiers with directed EOI") was entirely correct, i.e. it may have simply papered over the lack of Directed EOI emulation in the I/O APIC. Note, Suppress EOI Broadcasts is defined only in Intel's SDM, not in AMD's APM. But the bit is writable on some AMD CPUs, e.g. Turin, and KVM's ABI is to support Directed EOI (KVM's name) irrespective of guest CPU vendor. Fixes: 7543a635aa09 ("KVM: x86: Add KVM exit for IOAPIC EOIs") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/7D497EF1-607D-4D37-98E7-DAF95F099342@nutanix.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Khushit Shah <khushit.shah@nutanix.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123125657.3384063-1-khushit.shah@nutanix.com [sean: clean up minor formatting goofs and fix a comment typo] Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst28
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index 57061fa29e6a..ae8b02eb776a 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -7800,8 +7800,10 @@ Will return -EBUSY if a VCPU has already been created.
Valid feature flags in args[0] are::
- #define KVM_X2APIC_API_USE_32BIT_IDS (1ULL << 0)
- #define KVM_X2APIC_API_DISABLE_BROADCAST_QUIRK (1ULL << 1)
+ #define KVM_X2APIC_API_USE_32BIT_IDS (1ULL << 0)
+ #define KVM_X2APIC_API_DISABLE_BROADCAST_QUIRK (1ULL << 1)
+ #define KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST (1ULL << 2)
+ #define KVM_X2APIC_DISABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST (1ULL << 3)
Enabling KVM_X2APIC_API_USE_32BIT_IDS changes the behavior of
KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING, KVM_SIGNAL_MSI, KVM_SET_LAPIC, and KVM_GET_LAPIC,
@@ -7814,6 +7816,28 @@ as a broadcast even in x2APIC mode in order to support physical x2APIC
without interrupt remapping. This is undesirable in logical mode,
where 0xff represents CPUs 0-7 in cluster 0.
+Setting KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST instructs KVM to enable
+Suppress EOI Broadcasts. KVM will advertise support for Suppress EOI
+Broadcast to the guest and suppress LAPIC EOI broadcasts when the guest
+sets the Suppress EOI Broadcast bit in the SPIV register. This flag is
+supported only when using a split IRQCHIP.
+
+Setting KVM_X2APIC_DISABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST disables support for
+Suppress EOI Broadcasts entirely, i.e. instructs KVM to NOT advertise
+support to the guest.
+
+Modern VMMs should either enable KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST
+or KVM_X2APIC_DISABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST. If not, legacy quirky
+behavior will be used by KVM: in split IRQCHIP mode, KVM will advertise
+support for Suppress EOI Broadcasts but not actually suppress EOI
+broadcasts; for in-kernel IRQCHIP mode, KVM will not advertise support for
+Suppress EOI Broadcasts.
+
+Setting both KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST and
+KVM_X2APIC_DISABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST will fail with an EINVAL error,
+as will setting KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST without a split
+IRCHIP.
+
7.8 KVM_CAP_S390_USER_INSTR0
----------------------------