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In emulation of writing to cr8, one of the lowest four bits in TPR[3:0]
is kept.
According to Intel SDM 10.8.6.1(baremetal scenario):
"APIC.TPR[bits 7:4] = CR8[bits 3:0], APIC.TPR[bits 3:0] = 0";
and SDM 28.3(use TPR shadow):
"MOV to CR8. The instruction stores bits 3:0 of its source operand into
bits 7:4 of VTPR; the remainder of VTPR (bits 3:0 and bits 31:8) are
cleared.";
and AMD's APM 16.6.4:
"Task Priority Sub-class (TPS)-Bits 3 : 0. The TPS field indicates the
current sub-priority to be used when arbitrating lowest-priority messages.
This field is written with zero when TPR is written using the architectural
CR8 register.";
so in KVM emulated scenario, clear TPR[3:0] to make a consistent behavior
as in other scenarios.
This doesn't impact evaluation and delivery of pending virtual interrupts
because processor does not use the processor-priority sub-class to
determine which interrupts to delivery and which to inhibit.
Sub-class is used by hardware to arbitrate lowest priority interrupts,
but KVM just does a round-robin style delivery.
Fixes: b93463aa59d6 ("KVM: Accelerated apic support")
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220210094506.20181-1-zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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