linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/kvm: Limit MAX_VCPUS for guests running on RT Linux

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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:32:35 +0000
From:	Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata@...escale.com>
To:	<linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>, <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	<bigeasy@...utronix.de>, <agraf@...e.de>, <pbonzini@...hat.com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <scottwood@...escale.com>,
	<mihai.caraman@...escale.com>,
	Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata@...escale.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/kvm: Limit MAX_VCPUS for guests running on RT Linux

Due to the introduction of the raw_spinlock for the KVM openpic, guests with a
high number of VCPUs may induce great latencies on the underlying RT Linux
system (e.g. cyclictest reports latencies of ~15ms for guests with 24 VCPUs).
This can be further aggravated by sending a lot of external interrupts to the
guest.

A malicious app can abuse this scenario, causing a DoS of the host Linux.
Until the KVM openpic code is refactored to use finer lock granularity, impose
a limitation on the number of VCPUs a guest can have when running on a
PREEMPT_RT_FULL system with KVM_MPIC emulation.

Signed-off-by: Mihai Caraman <mihai.caraman@...escale.com>
Signed-off-by: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcareata@...escale.com>
Reviewed-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 8ef0512..6f6b928 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -36,8 +36,14 @@
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/hvcall.h>
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL) && defined(CONFIG_KVM_MPIC)
+/* Limit the number of vcpus due to in-kernel mpic concurrency */
+#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS		4
+#define KVM_MAX_VCORES		4
+#else
 #define KVM_MAX_VCPUS		NR_CPUS
 #define KVM_MAX_VCORES		NR_CPUS
+#endif
 #define KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS 32
 #define KVM_MEM_SLOTS_NUM KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS
 
-- 
2.1.4

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