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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/4] KVM: LAPIC: Rework lapic timer to behave more like real-hardware
2017-09-29 9:04 GMT+08:00 Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>:
> The issue is reported in xen community.
>
> Anthony PERARD pointed out:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/xen-devel@lists.xen.org/msg117283.html#
>
> | When developing PVH for OVMF, I've used the lapic timer. It turns out that the
> | way it is used by OVMF did not work with Xen [1]. I tried to find out how
> | real-hw behave, and write a XTF tests [2]. And this patch series tries to fix
> | the behavior of the vlapic timer.
> |
> |
> | The OVMF driver for the APIC timer initialize the timer like this:
> | write to TMICT (initial counter)
> | write to TMDCR (divide configuration)
> | enable the timer (this may change timer mode from one-shot to periodic)
> | It turns out that TMICT is set to 0 on the last step, but OVMF expect the timer
> | to run.
> |
> | Here is some description of the APIC timer, base on observation as well as read
> | of the Intel SDM. The description is also patch of patch description
> | (reworded).
> |
> | Maybe a way of thinking how the APIC timer is evaluated, is to think of how
> | hardward will do it. There is a counter TMCCT which always keeps counting down.
> |
> | Setting TMICT also set TMCCT, nothing else matter.
> | Setting LVTT does not change anything right away.
> | Setting TMDCR does not change much.
> |
> | Now TMCCT keeps counting down, by a value related to TMDCR.
> | Once, TMCCT reach 0, it is only at this time that LVTT is taken into account.
> | Is there an interrupt to deliver? Should the timer restart counting from the
> | value in TMICT?
> |
> | In the Intel SDM, there is the word "disarm" of the timer used. I guess the
> | easier way to disarm the APIC timer (when in periodic or one-shot) is to set
> | TMICT to 0. But if we take TSC-Deadline mode out of the picture, there is
> | nothing in the manual that say that the timer is disarm or stopped when
> | changing timer mode (there is only two modes left, period and one-shot).
> |
> | As for the TSC-deadline timer mode, observation shown that changing to it (or
> | from it) does reset and disarm both timers, so effectively TMICT and the
> | tscdeadline are set to 0.
> |
> | [1] https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-12/msg00959.html
> | [2] v1:
> | https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-03/msg02533.html
> | v2: look for "[XTF PATCH V2 0/3] Testing vlapic timer"
>
> In addition, Patch 3/4 implements the illegal vector error handling according to
> SDM 10.5.2~10.5.3.
>
> v1 -> v2:
> * add cover-letter and collect recent lapic patches to one patchset
>
> Wanpeng Li (4):
> KVM: LAPIC: Fix lapic timer mode transition
> KVM: LAPIC: Keep timer running when switching between one-shot and periodic mode
> KVM: LAPIC: Apply change to TDCR right away to the timer
> KVM: LAPIC: Don't silently accept bad vectors

I just sent out a new version of patch 1~3 for v3, and patch 4 need
more time to verify.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

>
> arch/x86/include/asm/apicdef.h | 1 +
> arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>

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