[PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: arm/arm64: Simplify active_change_prepare and plug race
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Mon May 22 08:30:22 PDT 2017
On 16/05/17 11:04, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> We don't need to stop a specific VCPU when changing the active state,
> because private IRQs can only be modified by a running VCPU for the
> VCPU itself and it is therefore already stopped.
>
> However, it is also possible for two VCPUs to be modifying the active
> state of SPIs at the same time, which can cause the thread being stuck
> in the loop that checks other VCPU threads for a potentially very long
> time, or to modify the active state of a running VCPU. Fix this by
> serializing all accesses to setting and clearing the active state of
> interrupts using the KVM mutex.
>
> Reported-by: Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 --
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 --
> virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 20 ++++----------------
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c | 11 ++++++-----
> 5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index f0e6657..12274d4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -233,8 +233,6 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu(void);
> struct kvm_vcpu __percpu **kvm_get_running_vcpus(void);
> void kvm_arm_halt_guest(struct kvm *kvm);
> void kvm_arm_resume_guest(struct kvm *kvm);
> -void kvm_arm_halt_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> -void kvm_arm_resume_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>
> int kvm_arm_copy_coproc_indices(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 __user *uindices);
> unsigned long kvm_arm_num_coproc_regs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 5e19165..32cbe8a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -333,8 +333,6 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu(void);
> struct kvm_vcpu * __percpu *kvm_get_running_vcpus(void);
> void kvm_arm_halt_guest(struct kvm *kvm);
> void kvm_arm_resume_guest(struct kvm *kvm);
> -void kvm_arm_halt_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> -void kvm_arm_resume_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>
> u64 __kvm_call_hyp(void *hypfn, ...);
> #define kvm_call_hyp(f, ...) __kvm_call_hyp(kvm_ksym_ref(f), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
> index 3417e18..3c387fd 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
> @@ -539,27 +539,15 @@ void kvm_arm_halt_guest(struct kvm *kvm)
> kvm_make_all_cpus_request(kvm, KVM_REQ_VCPU_EXIT);
> }
>
> -void kvm_arm_halt_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> -{
> - vcpu->arch.pause = true;
> - kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
> -}
> -
> -void kvm_arm_resume_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> -{
> - struct swait_queue_head *wq = kvm_arch_vcpu_wq(vcpu);
> -
> - vcpu->arch.pause = false;
> - swake_up(wq);
> -}
> -
> void kvm_arm_resume_guest(struct kvm *kvm)
> {
> int i;
> struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
>
> - kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm)
> - kvm_arm_resume_vcpu(vcpu);
> + kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm) {
> + vcpu->arch.pause = false;
> + swake_up(kvm_arch_vcpu_wq(vcpu));
> + }
> }
>
> static void vcpu_sleep(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> index 64cbcb4..c1e4bdd 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> @@ -231,23 +231,21 @@ static void vgic_mmio_change_active(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vgic_irq *irq,
> * be migrated while we don't hold the IRQ locks and we don't want to be
> * chasing moving targets.
> *
> - * For private interrupts, we only have to make sure the single and only VCPU
> - * that can potentially queue the IRQ is stopped.
> + * For private interrupts we don't have to do anything because userspace
> + * accesses to the VGIC state already require all VCPUs to be stopped, and
> + * only the VCPU itself can modify its private interrupts active state, which
> + * guarantees that the VCPU is not running.
> */
> static void vgic_change_active_prepare(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 intid)
> {
> - if (intid < VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS)
> - kvm_arm_halt_vcpu(vcpu);
> - else
> + if (intid > VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS)
> kvm_arm_halt_guest(vcpu->kvm);
> }
>
> /* See vgic_change_active_prepare */
> static void vgic_change_active_finish(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 intid)
> {
> - if (intid < VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS)
> - kvm_arm_resume_vcpu(vcpu);
> - else
> + if (intid > VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS)
> kvm_arm_resume_guest(vcpu->kvm);
> }
>
> @@ -271,11 +269,13 @@ void vgic_mmio_write_cactive(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> {
> u32 intid = VGIC_ADDR_TO_INTID(addr, 1);
>
> + mutex_lock(&vcpu->kvm->lock);
> vgic_change_active_prepare(vcpu, intid);
>
> __vgic_mmio_write_cactive(vcpu, addr, len, val);
>
> vgic_change_active_finish(vcpu, intid);
> + mutex_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->lock);
Any reason not to move the lock/unlock calls to prepare/finish? Also, do
we need to take that mutex if intid is a PPI?
Thanks,
M.
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