[RFC PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Try to save hw pending state in save_pending_tables

Shenming Lu lushenming at huawei.com
Wed Jan 6 02:14:45 EST 2021


On 2021/1/5 21:47, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2021-01-05 13:02, Shenming Lu wrote:
>> On 2021/1/5 17:13, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> On 2021-01-04 08:16, Shenming Lu wrote:
>>>> After pausing all vCPUs and devices capable of interrupting, in order
>>>> to save the information of all interrupts, besides flushing the pending
>>>> states in kvm’s vgic, we also try to flush the states of VLPIs in the
>>>> virtual pending tables into guest RAM, but we need to have GICv4.1 and
>>>> safely unmap the vPEs first.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Shenming Lu <lushenming at huawei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>>>  1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
>>>> index 9cdf39a94a63..a58c94127cb0 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
>>>> @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
>>>>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>>>>
>>>>  #include <linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h>
>>>> +#include <linux/irq.h>
>>>> +#include <linux/irqdomain.h>
>>>>  #include <linux/kvm.h>
>>>>  #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
>>>>  #include <kvm/arm_vgic.h>
>>>> @@ -356,6 +358,38 @@ int vgic_v3_lpi_sync_pending_status(struct kvm
>>>> *kvm, struct vgic_irq *irq)
>>>>      return 0;
>>>>  }
>>>>
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * The deactivation of the doorbell interrupt will trigger the
>>>> + * unmapping of the associated vPE.
>>>> + */
>>>> +static void unmap_all_vpes(struct vgic_dist *dist)
>>>> +{
>>>> +    struct irq_desc *desc;
>>>> +    int i;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (!kvm_vgic_global_state.has_gicv4_1)
>>>> +        return;
>>>> +
>>>> +    for (i = 0; i < dist->its_vm.nr_vpes; i++) {
>>>> +        desc = irq_to_desc(dist->its_vm.vpes[i]->irq);
>>>> +        irq_domain_deactivate_irq(irq_desc_get_irq_data(desc));
>>>> +    }
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> +static void map_all_vpes(struct vgic_dist *dist)
>>>> +{
>>>> +    struct irq_desc *desc;
>>>> +    int i;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (!kvm_vgic_global_state.has_gicv4_1)
>>>> +        return;
>>>> +
>>>> +    for (i = 0; i < dist->its_vm.nr_vpes; i++) {
>>>> +        desc = irq_to_desc(dist->its_vm.vpes[i]->irq);
>>>> +        irq_domain_activate_irq(irq_desc_get_irq_data(desc), false);
>>>> +    }
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>>  /**
>>>>   * vgic_v3_save_pending_tables - Save the pending tables into guest RAM
>>>>   * kvm lock and all vcpu lock must be held
>>>> @@ -365,14 +399,18 @@ int vgic_v3_save_pending_tables(struct kvm *kvm)
>>>>      struct vgic_dist *dist = &kvm->arch.vgic;
>>>>      struct vgic_irq *irq;
>>>>      gpa_t last_ptr = ~(gpa_t)0;
>>>> -    int ret;
>>>> +    int ret = 0;
>>>>      u8 val;
>>>>
>>>> +    /* As a preparation for getting any VLPI states. */
>>>> +    unmap_all_vpes(dist);
>>>
>>> What if the VPEs are not mapped yet? Is it possible to snapshot a VM
>>> that has not run at all?
>>
>> What I see in QEMU is that the saving of the pending tables would only be
>> called when stopping the VM and it needs the current VM state to be RUNNING.
> 
> Sure, but that's what QEMU does, and a different userspace could well do
> something different. It looks to me that I should be able to start (or
> even restore) a guest, and snapshot it immediately. Here, I'm pretty
> sure this wouldn't do the right thing (I have the suspicion that the
> doorbells are not allocated, and that we'll end-up with an Oops at unmap
> time, though I haven't investigated it to be sure).
>

If we can't rely on the userspace, could we check whether it is allowed
(at the right time) before the unmapping? Maybe have a look at vmapp_count?
Although I think snapshot a VM that has not been started is almost impossible...

>>>
>>>> +
>>>>      list_for_each_entry(irq, &dist->lpi_list_head, lpi_list) {
>>>>          int byte_offset, bit_nr;
>>>>          struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
>>>>          gpa_t pendbase, ptr;
>>>>          bool stored;
>>>> +        bool is_pending = irq->pending_latch;
>>>>
>>>>          vcpu = irq->target_vcpu;
>>>>          if (!vcpu)
>>>> @@ -387,24 +425,32 @@ int vgic_v3_save_pending_tables(struct kvm *kvm)
>>>>          if (ptr != last_ptr) {
>>>>              ret = kvm_read_guest_lock(kvm, ptr, &val, 1);
>>>>              if (ret)
>>>> -                return ret;
>>>> +                goto out;
>>>>              last_ptr = ptr;
>>>>          }
>>>>
>>>>          stored = val & (1U << bit_nr);
>>>> -        if (stored == irq->pending_latch)
>>>> +
>>>> +        if (irq->hw)
>>>> +            vgic_v4_get_vlpi_state(irq, &is_pending);
>>>
>>> You don't check the return value here, so I wonder why the checks
>>> in vgic_v4_get_vlpi_state().
>>
>> Since I have already checked the condition and reported in save_its_tables
>> (patch 4), I just check in get_vlpi_state and don't report again here.
> 
> Sure, but why the checks and the return value then? I'd rather you check all
> the relevant conditions in one place.

Yeah, it seems that the return value is unnecessary, I can change vgic_v4_get_vlpi_state()
to be void. And does the check in one place mean that we check all the relevant
conditions at the beginning of vgic_v3_save_pending_tables (in unmap_all_vpes())
and set a variable maybe called hw_avail?

> 
>>
>>>
>>> Another thing that worries me is that vgic_v4_get_vlpi_state() doesn't
>>> have any cache invalidation, and can end-up hitting in the CPU cache
>>> (there is no guarantee of coherency between the GIC and the CPU, only
>>> that the GIC will have flushed its caches).
>>>
>>> I'd expect this to happen at unmap time, though, in order to avoid
>>> repeated single byte invalidations.
>>
>> Ok, I will add a cache invalidation at unmap time.
> 
> I guess a sensible place to do that would be at deactivation time.
> I came up with the following hack, completely untested.
> 
> If that works for you, I'll turn it into a proper patch that you
> can carry with the series (I may turn it into a __inval_dcache_area
> call if I can find the equivalent 32bit).

It looks good to me :-), thanks.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         M.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> index 7db602434ac5..2dbef127ca15 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
> @@ -4552,6 +4552,10 @@ static void its_vpe_irq_domain_deactivate(struct irq_domain *domain,
> 
>          its_send_vmapp(its, vpe, false);
>      }
> +
> +    if (find_4_1_its() && !atomic_read(vpe->vmapp_count))
> +        gic_flush_dcache_to_poc(page_address(vpe->vpt_page),
> +                    LPI_PENDBASE_SZ);
>  }
> 
>  static const struct irq_domain_ops its_vpe_domain_ops = {
> 
> 



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