Re: [PATCH 2/2] apic: Use 32bit APIC ID for migration instance ID

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 12:02:53PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Peter Xu (address@hidden) wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 10:22:18AM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > > * Peter Xu (address@hidden) wrote:
> > > > Migration is silently broken now with x2apic config like this:
> > > > 
> > > >      -smp 200,maxcpus=288,sockets=2,cores=72,threads=2 \
> > > >      -device intel-iommu,intremap=on,eim=on
> > > > 
> > > > After migration, the guest kernel could hang at anything, due to
> > > > x2apic bit not migrated correctly in IA32_APIC_BASE on some vcpus, so
> > > > any operations related to x2apic could be broken then (e.g., RDMSR on
> > > > x2apic MSRs could fail because KVM would think that the vcpu hasn't
> > > > enabled x2apic at all).
> > > > 
> > > > The issue is that the x2apic bit was never applied correctly for vcpus
> > > > whose ID > 255 when migrate completes, and that's because when we
> > > > migrate APIC we use the APICCommonState.id as instance ID of the
> > > > migration stream, while that's too short for x2apic.
> > > > 
> > > > Let's use the newly introduced initial_apic_id for that.
> > > 
> > > I'd like to understand a few things:
> > >    a) Does this change the instance ID of existing APICs on the
> > > migration stream? 
> > >      a1) Ever for <256 CPUs?
> > 
> > No.
> > 
> > >      a2) For >=256 CPUs?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > 
> > >     [Because changing the ID breaks migration]
> > 
> > But if we don't change it, the stream is broken too. :)
> > 
> > Then the destination VM will receive e.g. two apic_id==0 instances (I
> > think the apic_id==256 instance will wrongly overwrite the apic_id==0
> > one), while the vcpu with apic_id==256 will use the initial apic
> > values.
> > 
> > So IMHO we should still fix this, even if it changes the migration
> > stream.  At least we start to make it right.
> 
> Yes, that makes sense.
> It deserves a doc mention somewhere.
> 
> > > 
> > >   b) Is the instance ID constant - I can see it's a property on the
> > >      APIC, but I cna't see who sets it
> > 
> > For each vcpu, I think yes it should be a constant as long as the
> > topology is the same.  This is how I understand it to be set:
> > 
> > (1) In pc_cpus_init(), we init these:
> > 
> >     possible_cpus = mc->possible_cpu_arch_ids(ms);
> >     for (i = 0; i < ms->smp.cpus; i++) {
> >         pc_new_cpu(pcms, possible_cpus->cpus[i].arch_id, &error_fatal);
> >     }
> > 
> > (2) In x86_cpu_apic_create(), we apply the apic_id to "id" property:
> > 
> >     qdev_prop_set_uint32(cpu->apic_state, "id", cpu->apic_id);
> 
> OK, that's fine - as long as it's constaatn and not guest influenced.

The guest may change the CPU APIC ID (although they rarely do),
but I believe X86CPU::apic_id is always going to be the initial
APIC ID.  I'll double check (and maybe send a patch to rename it
to initial_apic_id).

-- 
Eduardo