linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86: make vapics_in_nmi

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:19:18 +0200
From:	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Yoshida Nobuo <yoshida.nb@...s.nec.co.jp>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86: make vapics_in_nmi_mode atomic

Writes were a bit racy, but hard to turn into a bug at the same time.
(Particularly because modern Linux doesn't use this feature anymore.)

Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c            | 2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c            | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index c7fa57b529d2..2a7f5d782c33 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ struct kvm_arch {
 	struct kvm_pic *vpic;
 	struct kvm_ioapic *vioapic;
 	struct kvm_pit *vpit;
-	int vapics_in_nmi_mode;
+	atomic_t vapics_in_nmi_mode;
 	struct mutex apic_map_lock;
 	struct kvm_apic_map *apic_map;
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
index 4dce6f8b6129..f90952f64e79 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static void pit_do_work(struct kthread_work *work)
 		 * LVT0 to NMI delivery. Other PIC interrupts are just sent to
 		 * VCPU0, and only if its LVT0 is in EXTINT mode.
 		 */
-		if (kvm->arch.vapics_in_nmi_mode > 0)
+		if (atomic_read(&kvm->arch.vapics_in_nmi_mode) > 0)
 			kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm)
 				kvm_apic_nmi_wd_deliver(vcpu);
 	}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index 8dc32b5a4e0d..954e98a8c2e3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -1264,9 +1264,9 @@ static void apic_manage_nmi_watchdog(struct kvm_lapic *apic, u32 lvt0_val)
 		if (lvt0_in_nmi_mode) {
 			apic_debug("Receive NMI setting on APIC_LVT0 "
 				   "for cpu %d\n", apic->vcpu->vcpu_id);
-			apic->vcpu->kvm->arch.vapics_in_nmi_mode++;
+			atomic_inc(&apic->vcpu->kvm->arch.vapics_in_nmi_mode);
 		} else
-			apic->vcpu->kvm->arch.vapics_in_nmi_mode--;
+			atomic_dec(&apic->vcpu->kvm->arch.vapics_in_nmi_mode);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.4.5

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