[PATCH v3 07/20] KVM: arm/arm64: Make timer_arm and timer_disarm helpers more generic
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Wed Oct 18 09:53:23 PDT 2017
On Wed, Oct 18 2017 at 6:47:50 pm BST, Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 06:05:04PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 23/09/17 01:41, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> > We are about to add an additional soft timer to the arch timer state for
>> > a VCPU and would like to be able to reuse the functions to program and
>> > cancel a timer, so we make them slightly more generic and rename to make
>> > it more clear that these functions work on soft timers and not the
>> > hardware resource that this code is managing.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
>> > ---
>> > virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
>> > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
>> > index 8e89d63..871d8ae 100644
>> > --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
>> > +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
>> > @@ -56,26 +56,22 @@ u64 kvm_phys_timer_read(void)
>> > return timecounter->cc->read(timecounter->cc);
>> > }
>> >
>> > -static bool timer_is_armed(struct arch_timer_cpu *timer)
>> > +static bool soft_timer_is_armed(struct arch_timer_cpu *timer)
>> > {
>> > return timer->armed;
>> > }
>> >
>> > -/* timer_arm: as in "arm the timer", not as in ARM the company */
>> > -static void timer_arm(struct arch_timer_cpu *timer, u64 ns)
>> > +static void soft_timer_start(struct hrtimer *hrt, u64 ns)
>> > {
>> > - timer->armed = true;
>> > - hrtimer_start(&timer->timer, ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), ns),
>> > + hrtimer_start(hrt, ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), ns),
>> > HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
>> > }
>> >
>> > -static void timer_disarm(struct arch_timer_cpu *timer)
>> > +static void soft_timer_cancel(struct hrtimer *hrt, struct work_struct *work)
>> > {
>> > - if (timer_is_armed(timer)) {
>> > - hrtimer_cancel(&timer->timer);
>> > - cancel_work_sync(&timer->expired);
>> > - timer->armed = false;
>> > - }
>> > + hrtimer_cancel(hrt);
>> > + if (work)
>>
>> When can this happen? Something in a following patch?
>>
>
> Yeah, sorry about that. I will point this out in the commit message.
>
>> > + cancel_work_sync(work);
>> > }
>> >
>> > static irqreturn_t kvm_arch_timer_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
>> > @@ -271,7 +267,7 @@ static void kvm_timer_emulate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>> > return;
>> >
>> > /* The timer has not yet expired, schedule a background timer */
>> > - timer_arm(timer, kvm_timer_compute_delta(timer_ctx));
>> > + soft_timer_start(&timer->timer, kvm_timer_compute_delta(timer_ctx));
>> > }
>> >
>> > /*
>> > @@ -285,7 +281,7 @@ void kvm_timer_schedule(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>> > struct arch_timer_context *vtimer = vcpu_vtimer(vcpu);
>> > struct arch_timer_context *ptimer = vcpu_ptimer(vcpu);
>> >
>> > - BUG_ON(timer_is_armed(timer));
>> > + BUG_ON(soft_timer_is_armed(timer));
>> >
>> > /*
>> > * No need to schedule a background timer if any guest timer has
>> > @@ -306,13 +302,16 @@ void kvm_timer_schedule(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>> > * The guest timers have not yet expired, schedule a background timer.
>> > * Set the earliest expiration time among the guest timers.
>> > */
>> > - timer_arm(timer, kvm_timer_earliest_exp(vcpu));
>> > + timer->armed = true;
>> > + soft_timer_start(&timer->timer, kvm_timer_earliest_exp(vcpu));
>> > }
>> >
>> > void kvm_timer_unschedule(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>> > {
>> > struct arch_timer_cpu *timer = &vcpu->arch.timer_cpu;
>> > - timer_disarm(timer);
>> > +
>> > + soft_timer_cancel(&timer->timer, &timer->expired);
>> > + timer->armed = false;
>> > }
>> >
>> > static void kvm_timer_flush_hwstate_vgic(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>> > @@ -448,7 +447,7 @@ void kvm_timer_sync_hwstate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>> > * This is to cancel the background timer for the physical timer
>> > * emulation if it is set.
>> > */
>> > - timer_disarm(timer);
>> > + soft_timer_cancel(&timer->timer, &timer->expired);
>>
>> timer_disarm() used to set timer->armed to false, but that's not the
>> case any more. Don't we risk hitting the BUG_ON() in kvm_timer_schedule
>> if we hit WFI?
>>
>
> We do, and I just didn't hit that because this goes away at the end of
> the series, and I didn't vigurously test every single patch in the
> series (just a compile test).
>
> We actually only use the armed flag for the BUG_ON(), and I don't think
> we need that check really. So I suggest simply merging this logic into
> this patch:
>
> diff --git a/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h b/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
> index f0053f884b4a..d0beae98f755 100644
> --- a/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
> +++ b/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
> @@ -48,9 +48,6 @@ struct arch_timer_cpu {
> /* Work queued with the above timer expires */
> struct work_struct expired;
>
> - /* Background timer active */
> - bool armed;
> -
> /* Is the timer enabled */
> bool enabled;
> };
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> index 871d8ae52f9b..98643bc696a9 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> @@ -56,11 +56,6 @@ u64 kvm_phys_timer_read(void)
> return timecounter->cc->read(timecounter->cc);
> }
>
> -static bool soft_timer_is_armed(struct arch_timer_cpu *timer)
> -{
> - return timer->armed;
> -}
> -
> static void soft_timer_start(struct hrtimer *hrt, u64 ns)
> {
> hrtimer_start(hrt, ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), ns),
> @@ -281,8 +276,6 @@ void kvm_timer_schedule(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> struct arch_timer_context *vtimer = vcpu_vtimer(vcpu);
> struct arch_timer_context *ptimer = vcpu_ptimer(vcpu);
>
> - BUG_ON(soft_timer_is_armed(timer));
> -
> /*
> * No need to schedule a background timer if any guest timer has
> * already expired, because kvm_vcpu_block will return before putting
> @@ -302,7 +295,6 @@ void kvm_timer_schedule(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> * The guest timers have not yet expired, schedule a background timer.
> * Set the earliest expiration time among the guest timers.
> */
> - timer->armed = true;
> soft_timer_start(&timer->timer, kvm_timer_earliest_exp(vcpu));
> }
>
> @@ -311,7 +303,6 @@ void kvm_timer_unschedule(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> struct arch_timer_cpu *timer = &vcpu->arch.timer_cpu;
>
> soft_timer_cancel(&timer->timer, &timer->expired);
> - timer->armed = false;
> }
>
> static void kvm_timer_flush_hwstate_vgic(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
Yes, this seems like a sensible thing to do.
Thanks,
M.
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