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    KVM: x86: Don't force set BSP bit when local APIC is managed by userspace · 01913c57
    Sean Christopherson authored
    Don't set the BSP bit in vcpu->arch.apic_base when the local APIC is
    managed by userspace.  Forcing all vCPUs to be BSPs is non-sensical, and
    was dead code when it was added by commit 97222cc8 ("KVM: Emulate
    local APIC in kernel").  At the time, kvm_lapic_set_base() was invoked
    if and only if the local APIC was in-kernel (and it couldn't be called
    before the vCPU created its APIC).
    
    kvm_lapic_set_base() eventually gained generic usage, but the latent bug
    escaped notice because the only true consumer would be the guest itself
    in the form of an explicit RDMSRs on APs.  Out of Linux, SeaBIOS, and
    EDK2/OVMF, only OVMF consumes the BSP bit from the APIC_BASE MSR.  For
    the vast majority of usage in OVMF, BSP confusion would be benign.
    OVMF's BSP election upon SMI rendezvous might be broken, but practically
    no one runs KVM with an out-of-kernel local APIC, let alone does so while
    utilizing SMIs with OVMF.
    
    Fixes: 97222cc8 ("KVM: Emulate local APIC in kernel")
    Reviewed-by: default avatarReiji Watanabe <reijiw@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
    Message-Id: <20210713163324.627647-15-seanjc@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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