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[1/6] KVM: SVM: allow to force AVIC to be enabled

Message ID 20211209115440.394441-2-mlevitsk@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series RFC: KVM: SVM: Allow L1's AVIC to co-exist with nesting | expand

Commit Message

Maxim Levitsky Dec. 9, 2021, 11:54 a.m. UTC 
Apparently on some systems AVIC is disabled in CPUID but still usable.

Allow the user to override the CPUID if the user is willing to
take the risk.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index dde0106ffc47..6fbce42b9776 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@  module_param(tsc_scaling, int, 0444);
 static bool avic;
 module_param(avic, bool, 0444);
 
+static bool force_avic;
+module_param_unsafe(force_avic, bool, 0444);
+
 bool __read_mostly dump_invalid_vmcb;
 module_param(dump_invalid_vmcb, bool, 0644);
 
@@ -1058,10 +1061,14 @@  static __init int svm_hardware_setup(void)
 			nrips = false;
 	}
 
-	enable_apicv = avic = avic && npt_enabled && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AVIC);
+	enable_apicv = avic = avic && npt_enabled && (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AVIC) || force_avic);
 
 	if (enable_apicv) {
-		pr_info("AVIC enabled\n");
+		if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AVIC)) {
+			pr_warn("AVIC is not supported in CPUID but force enabled");
+			pr_warn("Your system might crash and burn");
+		} else
+			pr_info("AVIC enabled\n");
 
 		amd_iommu_register_ga_log_notifier(&avic_ga_log_notifier);
 	}