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[Hyper-V][RHEL9.3] Nested Hyper-V on KVM: L1 Windows VM fails to boot up if host uses intel alderlake CPU

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      Description of problem:

      Windows 11 L1 guest cannot boot up after enabling Hyper-V role in alderlake host. Have tried both copying existing Windows 11 images and newly installed image. Also copying one 2022-bios.qcow2 to the host, which could boot up in the Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 host, Hyper-V 2022 L1 VM cannot boot up in the alderlake host.

      Refer to upstream bug
      https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217307 - windows guest entering boot loop when nested virtualization enabled and hyperv installed

      Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

      L0: Intel(R) Corporation, 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700E

      RHEL9.3 with kernel 5.14.0-331.el9.x86_64
      qemu-kvm-8.0.0-5.el9.x86_64
      edk2-ovmf-20230301gitf80f052277c8-5.el9.noarch

      L1: Test on Win11 firmware with enabled Hyper-V role

      How reproducible:
      100%

      Steps to Reproduce:

      1. Start L0 with enabled nested

      1. cat /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/nested
        Y

      2. Start L1 Windows 11 VM on UEFI firmware with enabled Hyper-V role using qemu-kvm, e.g. Windows 11 VM:

      mkdir /tmp/mytpm
      /usr/bin/swtpm_setup --tpm2 --tpmstate /tmp/mytpm --create-ek-cert --create-platform-cert --overwrite --lock-nvram
      /usr/bin/swtpm socket --daemon --ctrl type=unixio,path=/tmp/guest-swtpm.sock,mode=0600 --tpmstate dir=/tmp/mytpm,mode=0600 --tpm2

      /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name w11-uefi -m 8G -smp 8 \
      -rtc base=localtime,driftfix=none -boot order=cd,menu=on -monitor stdio -M q35,smm=on,accel=kvm -vga std -vnc :8 \
      -global driver=cfi.pflash01,property=secure,value=on \
      -drive file=/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on,unit=0 \
      -drive file=/home/test/OVMF_VARSw11.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,unit=1 \
      -netdev tap,script=/etc/qemu-ifup,downscript=no,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,queues=4 \
      -device pcie-root-port,port=0x10,chassis=1,id=pci.1,bus=pcie.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x3 \
      -device pcie-root-port,port=0x11,chassis=2,id=pci.2,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x3.0x1 \
      -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=00:52:11:36:1f:61,bus=pci.2,mq=on,vectors=10 \
      -blockdev \
      driver=file,cache.direct=off,cache.no-flush=on,filename=/home/images/w11-uefi.qcow2,node-name=system_file \
      -blockdev driver=qcow2,node-name=drive_system_disk,file=system_file -object iothread,id=thread0 \
      -device virtio-blk-pci,iothread=thread0,drive=drive_system_disk,id=system_disk,bootindex=0,bus=pci.1 \
      -usb -device usb-tablet \
      -cpu \
      host,hv_relaxed,hv_vapic,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_vpindex,hv_runtime,hv_crash,hv_time,hv_synic,hv_stimer,hv_tlbflush,hv_ipi,hv_reset,hv_frequencies,hv_reenlightenment,hv_stimer_direct,hv_evmcs,hv_emsr_bitmap \
      -enable-kvm \
      -tpmdev emulator,id=tpm-tpm0,chardev=chrtpm \
      -chardev socket,id=chrtpm,path=/tmp/guest-swtpm.sock \
      -device tpm-crb,tpmdev=tpm-tpm0,id=tpm0 \

      Actual results:
      Windows 11 L1 guest cannot boot up after enabling Hyper-V role in alderlake host.

      Expected results:
      All L1 Windows could start well in alderlake host.

      Note:
      1. Windows 11 L1 guest can boot up after disabling Hyper-V role in alderlake host.
      2. Hyper-V 2022 L1 guest also cannot boot up after enabling Hyper-V role in alderlake host.
      3. Refer to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217307#c11, almost likely anyone with 12'th gen or 13'th gen intel host should be able to repro this.

      root@intel-alderlake-s-iotg-02 ~]# lscpu
      Architecture: x86_64
      CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
      Address sizes: 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
      Byte Order: Little Endian
      CPU(s): 20
      On-line CPU(s) list: 0-19
      Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
      BIOS Vendor ID: Intel(R) Corporation
      Model name: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700E
      BIOS Model name: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700E
      CPU family: 6
      Model: 151
      Thread(s) per core: 2
      Core(s) per socket: 12
      Socket(s): 1
      Stepping: 2
      CPU max MHz: 4800.0000
      CPU min MHz: 800.0000
      BogoMIPS: 4224.00
      Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1
      gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq dt
      es64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16
      c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb cat_l2 cdp_l2 ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpi
      d ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb intel_pt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xget
      bv1 xsaves split_lock_detect avx_vnni dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_pkg_req hfi umip pku ospke waitp
      kg gfni vaes vpclmulqdq tme rdpid movdiri movdir64b fsrm md_clear serialize

              vkuznets@redhat.com Vitaly Kuznetsov
              rhn-support-xuli Xuemin Li
              Vitaly Kuznetsov Vitaly Kuznetsov
              Xuemin Li Xuemin Li
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