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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. 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 <mlevitsk@redhat.com> [sean: keep "entry" variables, reuse enable_ipiv, split from erratum] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611224604.313496-19-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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