[PATCH 1/1] RISCV: KVM: should not be interrupted when update the external interrupt pending

Yong-Xuan Wang yongxuan.wang at sifive.com
Mon Dec 11 21:34:59 PST 2023


The emulated IMSIC update the external interrupt pending depending on the
value of eidelivery and topei. It might lose an interrupt when it is
interrupted before setting the new value to the pending status.

For example, when VCPU0 sends an IPI to VCPU1 via IMSIC:

VCPU0                           VCPU1

                                CSRSWAP topei = 0
                                The VCPU1 has claimed all the external
                                interrupt in its interrupt handler.

                                topei of VCPU1's IMSIC = 0

set pending in VCPU1's IMSIC

topei of VCPU1' IMSIC = 1

set the external interrupt
pending of VCPU1

                                clear the external interrupt pending
                                of VCPU1

When the VCPU1 switches back to VS mode, it exits the interrupt handler
because the result of CSRSWAP topei is 0. If there are no other external
interrupts injected into the VCPU1's IMSIC, VCPU1 will never know this
pending interrupt unless it initiative read the topei.

If the interruption occurs between updating interrupt pending in IMSIC
and updating external interrupt pending of VCPU, it will not cause a
problem. Suppose that the VCPU1 clears the IPI pending in IMSIC right
after VCPU0 sets the pending, the external interrupt pending of VCPU1
will not be set because the topei is 0. But when the VCPU1 goes back to
VS mode, the pending IPI will be reported by the CSRSWAP topei, it will
not lose this interrupt.

So we only need to make the external interrupt updating procedure as a
critical section to avoid the problem.

Tested-by: Roy Lin <roy.lin at sifive.com>
Tested-by: Wayling Chen <wayling.chen at sifive.com>
Co-developed-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen at sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen at sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Yong-Xuan Wang <yongxuan.wang at sifive.com>
---
 arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c
index 6cf23b8adb71..0278aa0ca16a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ struct imsic {
 	u32 nr_eix;
 	u32 nr_hw_eix;
 
+	spinlock_t extirq_update_lock;
+
 	/*
 	 * At any point in time, the register state is in
 	 * one of the following places:
@@ -613,12 +615,17 @@ static void imsic_swfile_extirq_update(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	struct imsic *imsic = vcpu->arch.aia_context.imsic_state;
 	struct imsic_mrif *mrif = imsic->swfile;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&imsic->extirq_update_lock, flags);
 
 	if (imsic_mrif_atomic_read(mrif, &mrif->eidelivery) &&
 	    imsic_mrif_topei(mrif, imsic->nr_eix, imsic->nr_msis))
 		kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_interrupt(vcpu, IRQ_VS_EXT);
 	else
 		kvm_riscv_vcpu_unset_interrupt(vcpu, IRQ_VS_EXT);
+
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&imsic->extirq_update_lock, flags);
 }
 
 static void imsic_swfile_read(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool clear,
@@ -1029,6 +1036,7 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_imsic_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	imsic->nr_eix = BITS_TO_U64(imsic->nr_msis);
 	imsic->nr_hw_eix = BITS_TO_U64(kvm_riscv_aia_max_ids);
 	imsic->vsfile_hgei = imsic->vsfile_cpu = -1;
+	spin_lock_init(&imsic->extirq_update_lock);
 
 	/* Setup IMSIC SW-file */
 	swfile_page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
-- 
2.17.1




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