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Sean Christopherson 01913c57c2 KVM: x86: Don't force set BSP bit when local APIC is managed by userspace 
Don't set the BSP bit in vcpu->arch.apic_base when the local APIC is
managed by userspace.  Forcing all vCPUs to be BSPs is non-sensical, and
was dead code when it was added by commit 97222cc831 ("KVM: Emulate
local APIC in kernel").  At the time, kvm_lapic_set_base() was invoked
if and only if the local APIC was in-kernel (and it couldn't be called
before the vCPU created its APIC).

kvm_lapic_set_base() eventually gained generic usage, but the latent bug
escaped notice because the only true consumer would be the guest itself
in the form of an explicit RDMSRs on APs.  Out of Linux, SeaBIOS, and
EDK2/OVMF, only OVMF consumes the BSP bit from the APIC_BASE MSR.  For
the vast majority of usage in OVMF, BSP confusion would be benign.
OVMF's BSP election upon SMI rendezvous might be broken, but practically
no one runs KVM with an out-of-kernel local APIC, let alone does so while
utilizing SMIs with OVMF.

Fixes: 97222cc831 ("KVM: Emulate local APIC in kernel")
Reviewed-by: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210713163324.627647-15-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
History 2021-08-02 11:01:51 -04:00
arch KVM: x86: Don't force set BSP bit when local APIC is managed by userspace 2021-08-02 11:01:51 -04:00
block block-5.14-2021-07-08 2021-07-09 12:05:33 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-07-09 11:00:44 -07:00
Documentation docs: virt: kvm: api.rst: replace some characters 2021-07-26 08:26:06 -04:00
drivers ARM: SoC fixes for v5.14 2021-07-17 15:58:24 -07:00
fs Fixes for 5.14-rc: 2021-07-18 11:27:25 -07:00
include KVM: Introduce kvm_get_kvm_safe() 2021-08-02 11:01:46 -04:00
init Revert "mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects" 2021-07-17 13:27:00 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -07:00
kernel tracing: Fix the histogram logic from possibly crashing the kernel 2021-07-17 12:36:51 -07:00
lib lib/test_hmm: remove set but unused page variable 2021-07-15 10:13:49 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm Revert "mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects" 2021-07-17 13:27:00 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
samples Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.14 2021-07-18 11:10:30 -07:00
security asm-generic/unaligned: Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper 2021-07-02 12:43:40 -07:00
sound ASoC: Mediatek: MT8183: Fix fall-through warning for Clang 2021-07-13 14:58:18 -05:00
tools KVM: selftests: Introduce access_tracking_perf_test 2021-07-27 16:59:00 -04:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Introduce kvm_get_kvm_safe() 2021-08-02 11:01:46 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap m68k updates for v5.14 2021-06-28 14:01:03 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS IOMMU Fixes for Linux v5.14-rc1 2021-07-15 11:50:15 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.14-rc2 2021-07-18 14:13:49 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.