[PATCH 16/30] KVM: x86: SVM: allow to force AVIC to be enabled

Maxim Levitsky mlevitsk at redhat.com
Mon Feb 7 15:28:33 UTC 2022


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 at redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index 85035324ed762..b88ca7f07a0fc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ 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);
 
@@ -4839,10 +4842,14 @@ 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);
 	} else {
-- 
2.26.3



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