From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 6/8] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to update APIC page on-demand if L2 is active
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 19:45:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260109034532.1012993-7-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260109034532.1012993-1-seanjc@google.com>
If the KVM-owned APIC-access page is migrated while L2 is running,
temporarily load vmcs01 and immediately update APIC_ACCESS_ADDR instead
of deferring the update until the next nested VM-Exit. Once changing
the virtual APIC mode is converted to always do on-demand updates, all
of the "defer until vmcs01 is active" logic will be gone.
Reviewed-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 5 -----
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 7 ++-----
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h | 1 -
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 2b0702349aa1..8196a1ac22e1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -5150,11 +5150,6 @@ void __nested_vmx_vmexit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 vm_exit_reason,
nested_put_vmcs12_pages(vcpu);
- if (vmx->nested.reload_vmcs01_apic_access_page) {
- vmx->nested.reload_vmcs01_apic_access_page = false;
- kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_APIC_PAGE_RELOAD, vcpu);
- }
-
if ((vm_exit_reason != -1) &&
(enable_shadow_vmcs || nested_vmx_is_evmptr12_valid(vmx)))
vmx->nested.need_vmcs12_to_shadow_sync = true;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 90e167f296d0..af8ec72e8ebf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -6895,11 +6895,8 @@ void vmx_set_apic_access_page_addr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
kvm_pfn_t pfn;
bool writable;
- /* Defer reload until vmcs01 is the current VMCS. */
- if (is_guest_mode(vcpu)) {
- to_vmx(vcpu)->nested.reload_vmcs01_apic_access_page = true;
- return;
- }
+ /* Note, the VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES check needs to query vmcs01. */
+ guard(vmx_vmcs01)(vcpu);
if (!(secondary_exec_controls_get(to_vmx(vcpu)) &
SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES))
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
index dfc9766a7fa3..078bc6fef7e6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h
@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ struct nested_vmx {
bool vmcs02_initialized;
bool change_vmcs01_virtual_apic_mode;
- bool reload_vmcs01_apic_access_page;
/*
* Enlightened VMCS has been enabled. It does not mean that L1 has to
--
2.52.0.457.g6b5491de43-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-09 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-09 3:45 [PATCH v4 0/8] KVM: VMX: Rip out "deferred nested VM-Exit updates" Sean Christopherson
2026-01-09 3:45 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] KVM: selftests: Add a test to verify APICv updates (while L2 is active) Sean Christopherson
2026-01-09 3:45 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to update PML controls on-demand if L2 is active Sean Christopherson
2026-01-09 3:45 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to update TPR threshold " Sean Christopherson
2026-01-09 3:45 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to update SVI " Sean Christopherson
2026-01-09 3:45 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to refresh APICv controls " Sean Christopherson
2026-01-09 3:45 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-01-09 3:45 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] KVM: nVMX: Switch to vmcs01 to set virtual APICv mode " Sean Christopherson
2026-01-09 3:45 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] KVM: x86: Update APICv ISR (a.k.a. SVI) as part of kvm_apic_update_apicv() Sean Christopherson
2026-01-15 18:03 ` [PATCH v4 0/8] KVM: VMX: Rip out "deferred nested VM-Exit updates" Sean Christopherson
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