[PATCH v4 2/7] KVM: arm/arm64: Factor out functionality to get vgic mmio requester_vcpu

[Marc Zyngier]

On Fri, Sep 15 2017 at  3:19:49 pm BST, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:
> From: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
>
> We are about to distinguish between userspace accesses and mmio traps
> for a number of the mmio handlers.  When the requester vcpu is NULL, it
> mens we are handling a userspace acccess.
>
> Factor out the functionality to get the request vcpu into its own
> function, mostly so we have a common place to document the semantics of
> the return value.
>
> Also take the chance to move the functionality outside of holding a
> spinlock and instead explicitly disable and enable preemption.  This
> supports PREEMPT_RT kernels as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> index c1e4bdd..f3087f6 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> @@ -120,6 +120,26 @@ unsigned long vgic_mmio_read_pending(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  	return value;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * This function will return the VCPU that performed the MMIO access and
> + * trapped from twithin the VM, and will return NULL if this is a userspace
> + * access.
> + *
> + * We can disable preemption locally around accessing the per-CPU variable
> + * because even if the current thread is migrated to another CPU, reading the
> + * per-CPU value later will give us the same value as we update the per-CPU
> + * variable in the preempt notifier handlers.
> + */
> +static struct kvm_vcpu *vgic_get_mmio_requester_vcpu(void)
> +{
> +	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
> +
> +	preempt_disable();
> +	vcpu = kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu();
> +	preempt_enable();
> +	return vcpu;
> +}
> +
>  void vgic_mmio_write_spending(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  			      gpa_t addr, unsigned int len,
>  			      unsigned long val)
> @@ -180,23 +200,9 @@ unsigned long vgic_mmio_read_active(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  static void vgic_mmio_change_active(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vgic_irq *irq,
>  				    bool new_active_state)
>  {
> -	struct kvm_vcpu *requester_vcpu;
> -	spin_lock(&irq->irq_lock);
> +	struct kvm_vcpu *requester_vcpu = vgic_get_mmio_requester_vcpu();
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * The vcpu parameter here can mean multiple things depending on how
> -	 * this function is called; when handling a trap from the kernel it
> -	 * depends on the GIC version, and these functions are also called as
> -	 * part of save/restore from userspace.
> -	 *
> -	 * Therefore, we have to figure out the requester in a reliable way.
> -	 *
> -	 * When accessing VGIC state from user space, the requester_vcpu is
> -	 * NULL, which is fine, because we guarantee that no VCPUs are running
> -	 * when accessing VGIC state from user space so irq->vcpu->cpu is
> -	 * always -1.
> -	 */
> -	requester_vcpu = kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu();
> +	spin_lock(&irq->irq_lock);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If this virtual IRQ was written into a list register, we
> @@ -208,6 +214,11 @@ static void vgic_mmio_change_active(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vgic_irq *irq,
>  	 * vgic_change_active_prepare)  and still has to sync back this IRQ,
>  	 * so we release and re-acquire the spin_lock to let the other thread
>  	 * sync back the IRQ.
> +	 *
> +	 * When accessing VGIC state from user space, requester_vcpu is
> +	 * NULL, which is fine, because we guarantee that no VCPUs are running
> +	 * when accessing VGIC state from user space so irq->vcpu->cpu is
> +	 * always -1.
>  	 */
>  	while (irq->vcpu && /* IRQ may have state in an LR somewhere */
>  	       irq->vcpu != requester_vcpu && /* Current thread is not the VCPU thread */

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

	M.
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