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6062 Workaround broken KVM handling of directed EOIs
Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Reviewed by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <josef.sipek@nexenta.com>

*** 22,31 **** --- 22,32 ---- * Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. * Use is subject to license terms. */ /* * Copyright 2014 Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net> + * Copyright (c) 2014 by Delphix. All rights reserved. */ #include <sys/cpuvar.h> #include <sys/psm.h> #include <sys/archsystm.h>
*** 64,73 **** --- 65,77 ---- * ----------------------------------------------------------- */ int x2apic_enable = 1; apic_mode_t apic_mode = LOCAL_APIC; /* Default mode is Local APIC */ + /* See apic_directed_EOI_supported(). Currently 3-state variable. */ + volatile int apic_directed_eoi_state = 2; + /* Uses MMIO (Memory Mapped IO) */ static apic_reg_ops_t local_apic_regs_ops = { local_apic_read, local_apic_write, get_local_apic_pri,
*** 292,301 **** --- 296,340 ---- int apic_directed_EOI_supported() { uint32_t ver; + /* + * There are some known issues with some versions of Linux KVM and QEMU + * where by directed EOIs do not properly function and instead get + * coalesced at the hypervisor, causing the host not to see interrupts. + * Thus, when the platform is KVM, we would like to disable it by + * default, but keep it available otherwise. + * + * We use a three-state variable (apic_directed_eoi_state) to determine + * how we handle directed EOI. + * + * 0 --> Don't do directed EOI at all. + * 1 --> Do directed EOI if available, no matter the HW environment. + * 2 --> Don't do directed EOI on KVM, but do it otherwise if available. + * + * If some grinning weirdo put something else in there, treat it as '2' + * (i.e. the current default). + * + * Note, at this time illumos KVM does not identify as KVM. If it does, + * we'll need to do some work to determine if it should be caught by + * this or if it should show up as its own value of platform_type. + */ + switch (apic_directed_eoi_state) { + case 0: + /* Don't do it at all. */ + return (0); + case 1: + break; + case 2: + default: + /* Only do it if we aren't on KVM. */ + if (get_hwenv() == HW_KVM) + return (0); + /* FALLTHRU */ + } + ver = apic_reg_ops->apic_read(APIC_VERS_REG); if (ver & APIC_DIRECTED_EOI_BIT) return (1); return (0);