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Re: [PATCH v4] xen/x86: On x2APIC mode, derive LDR from APIC ID


  • To: Alejandro Vallejo <alejandro.vallejo@xxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:40:41 +0100
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  • Cc: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>, Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:40:50 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

On 23.11.2023 18:30, Alejandro Vallejo wrote:
> @@ -1498,27 +1511,36 @@ static int cf_check lapic_save_regs(struct vcpu *v, 
> hvm_domain_context_t *h)
>   */
>  static void lapic_load_fixup(struct vlapic *vlapic)
>  {
> -    uint32_t id = vlapic->loaded.id;
> +    uint32_t good_ldr = x2apic_ldr_from_id(vlapic->loaded.id);
>  
> -    if ( vlapic_x2apic_mode(vlapic) && id && vlapic->loaded.ldr == 1 )
> -    {
> +    /* Skip fixups on xAPIC mode, or if the x2APIC LDR is already correct */
> +    if ( !vlapic_x2apic_mode(vlapic) ||
> +         (vlapic->loaded.ldr == good_ldr) )
> +        return;
> +
> +    if ( vlapic->loaded.ldr == 1 )
> +       /*
> +        * Xen <= 4.4 may have a bug by which all the APICs configured in
> +        * x2APIC mode got LDR = 1. We can't leave it as-is because it
> +        * assigned the same LDR to every CPU.  We'll fix fix the bug now
> +        * and assign an LDR value consistent with the APIC ID.
> +        */

Just one comment on top of Andrew's: Is the double "fix" really intended
here? (I could see it might be, but then "fix the bug fix" would read
slightly more smoothly to me as a non-native speaker.)

Another aspect here is what exactly the comment states (and does not
state). Original comments made explicit that LDR == 1 contradicts ID == 0.
In the new comment you only emphasize that all CPUs cannot have that same
LDR. But the value of 1 being bogus in the first place doesn't become clear
anymore.

Jan



 


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