kvm: x86: hyperv: add KVM_CAP_HYPERV_SYNIC2

There is a flaw in the Hyper-V SynIC implementation in KVM: when message
page or event flags page is enabled by setting the corresponding msr,
KVM zeroes it out.  This is problematic because on migration the
corresponding MSRs are loaded on the destination, so the content of
those pages is lost.

This went unnoticed so far because the only user of those pages was
in-KVM hyperv synic timers, which could continue working despite that
zeroing.

Newer QEMU uses those pages for Hyper-V VMBus implementation, and
zeroing them breaks the migration.

Besides, in newer QEMU the content of those pages is fully managed by
QEMU, so zeroing them is undesirable even when writing the MSRs from the
guest side.

To support this new scheme, introduce a new capability,
KVM_CAP_HYPERV_SYNIC2, which, when enabled, makes sure that the synic
pages aren't zeroed out in KVM.

Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 3a9831b..78ac577 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -4329,3 +4329,12 @@ Querying this capability returns a bitmap indicating the possible
 virtual SMT modes that can be set using KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT.  If bit N
 (counting from the right) is set, then a virtual SMT mode of 2^N is
 available.
+
+8.11 KVM_CAP_HYPERV_SYNIC2
+
+Architectures: x86
+
+This capability enables a newer version of Hyper-V Synthetic interrupt
+controller (SynIC).  The only difference with KVM_CAP_HYPERV_SYNIC is that KVM
+doesn't clear SynIC message and event flags pages when they are enabled by
+writing to the respective MSRs.