On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 10:27:34AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 9/29/25 17:51, Peter Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 09:11:27PM +0800, Yanfei Xu wrote:
> > > The load procedure of VFIO PCI devices involves setting up IRT
> > > for each VFIO PCI devices. This requires determining whether an
> > > interrupt is single-destination interrupt to decide between
> > > Posted Interrupt(PI) or remapping mode for the IRTE. However,
> > > determining this may require accessing the VM's APIC registers.
> > > 
> > > For example:
> > > ioctl(vbasedev->fd, VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS, irqs)
> > >    ...
> > >      kvm_arch_irq_bypass_add_producer
> > >        kvm_x86_call(pi_update_irte)
> > >          vmx_pi_update_irte
> > >            kvm_intr_is_single_vcpu
> > > 
> > > If the LAPIC has not been loaded yet, interrupts will use remapping
> > > mode. To prevent the fallback of interrupt mode, keep APIC is always
> > > loaded prior to VFIO PCI devices.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Yicong Shen <[email protected]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >   hw/intc/apic_common.c       | 1 +
> > >   include/migration/vmstate.h | 1 +
> > >   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/hw/intc/apic_common.c b/hw/intc/apic_common.c
> > > index 37a7a7019d..394fe02013 100644
> > > --- a/hw/intc/apic_common.c
> > > +++ b/hw/intc/apic_common.c
> > > @@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ static const VMStateDescription vmstate_apic_common = 
> > > {
> > >       .pre_load = apic_pre_load,
> > >       .pre_save = apic_dispatch_pre_save,
> > >       .post_load = apic_dispatch_post_load,
> > > +    .priority = MIG_PRI_APIC,
> > >       .fields = (const VMStateField[]) {
> > >           VMSTATE_UINT32(apicbase, APICCommonState),
> > >           VMSTATE_UINT8(id, APICCommonState),
> > > diff --git a/include/migration/vmstate.h b/include/migration/vmstate.h
> > > index 1ff7bd9ac4..22e988c5db 100644
> > > --- a/include/migration/vmstate.h
> > > +++ b/include/migration/vmstate.h
> > > @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ typedef enum {
> > >       MIG_PRI_IOMMU,              /* Must happen before PCI devices */
> > >       MIG_PRI_PCI_BUS,            /* Must happen before IOMMU */
> > >       MIG_PRI_VIRTIO_MEM,         /* Must happen before IOMMU */
> > > +    MIG_PRI_APIC,               /* Must happen before PCI devices */
> > >       MIG_PRI_GICV3_ITS,          /* Must happen before PCI devices */
> > >       MIG_PRI_GICV3,              /* Must happen before the ITS */
> > >       MIG_PRI_MAX,
> > > -- 
> > > 2.20.1
> > > 
> > 
> > +Cedric, +Alex
> > 
> > queued.
> > 
> 
> Perhaps we could group the interrupt controller priorities
> under a common MIG_PRI_INTC ? PPC is very much the same,
> although we managed to order restore from the machine load
> handler IIRC.
> 
> Anyhow, LGTM.

Agreed. That, when introduced, can also take ARM's into account (that may
need a MIG_PRI_INTC_HIGH for ITS).

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu


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