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 <shenyicong.1023@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250818131127.1021648-1-yanfei.xu@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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