KVM: VMX: Don't do full kick when triggering posted interrupt "fails"

Replace the full "kick" with just the "wake" in the fallback path when
triggering a virtual interrupt via a posted interrupt fails because the
guest is not IN_GUEST_MODE.  If the guest transitions into guest mode
between the check and the kick, then it's guaranteed to see the pending
interrupt as KVM syncs the PIR to IRR (and onto GUEST_RVI) after setting
IN_GUEST_MODE.  Kicking the guest in this case is nothing more than an
unnecessary VM-Exit (and host IRQ).

Opportunistically update comments to explain the various ordering rules
and barriers at play.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>

Author: sean-jc

arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c

@@ -3998,7 +3998,7 @@ static int vmx_deliver_nested_posted_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 
 		/* the PIR and ON have been set by L1. */
 		if (!kvm_vcpu_trigger_posted_interrupt(vcpu, true))
-			kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
+			kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu);
 		return 0;
 	}
 	return -1;
@@ -4036,7 +4036,7 @@ static int vmx_deliver_posted_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int vector)
 	 * posted interrupt "fails" because vcpu->mode != IN_GUEST_MODE.
 	 */
 	if (!kvm_vcpu_trigger_posted_interrupt(vcpu, false))
-		kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
+		kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu);
 
 	return 0;
 }

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

@@ -9978,10 +9978,11 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	smp_mb__after_srcu_read_unlock();
 
 	/*
-	 * This handles the case where a posted interrupt was
-	 * notified with kvm_vcpu_kick.  Assigned devices can
-	 * use the POSTED_INTR_VECTOR even if APICv is disabled,
-	 * so do it even if APICv is disabled on this vCPU.
+	 * Process pending posted interrupts to handle the case where the
+	 * notification IRQ arrived in the host, or was never sent (because the
+	 * target vCPU wasn't running).  Do this regardless of the vCPU's APICv
+	 * status, KVM doesn't update assigned devices when APICv is inhibited,
+	 * i.e. they can post interrupts even if APICv is temporarily disabled.
 	 */
 	if (kvm_lapic_enabled(vcpu))
 		static_call_cond(kvm_x86_sync_pir_to_irr)(vcpu);