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Message-ID: <20181211102015.GV30263@e113682-lin.lund.arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:20:15 +0100
From:   Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>
To:     Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        marc.zyngier@....com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, bigeasy@...utronix.de, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Do not cond_resched_lock()
 with IRQs disabled

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 06:26:44PM +0000, Julien Thierry wrote:
> To change the active state of an MMIO, halt is requested for all vcpus of
> the affected guest before modifying the IRQ state. This is done by calling
> cond_resched_lock() in vgic_mmio_change_active(). However interrupts are
> disabled at this point and we cannot reschedule a vcpu.
> 
> Solve this by waiting for all vcpus to be halted after emmiting the halt
> request.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@....com>
> Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c | 36 ++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> index f56ff1c..5c76a92 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> @@ -313,27 +313,6 @@ static void vgic_mmio_change_active(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vgic_irq *irq,
>  
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&irq->irq_lock, flags);
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * If this virtual IRQ was written into a list register, we
> -	 * have to make sure the CPU that runs the VCPU thread has
> -	 * synced back the LR state to the struct vgic_irq.
> -	 *
> -	 * As long as the conditions below are true, we know the VCPU thread
> -	 * may be on its way back from the guest (we kicked the VCPU thread in
> -	 * vgic_change_active_prepare)  and still has to sync back this IRQ,
> -	 * so we release and re-acquire the spin_lock to let the other thread
> -	 * sync back the IRQ.
> -	 *
> -	 * When accessing VGIC state from user space, requester_vcpu is
> -	 * NULL, which is fine, because we guarantee that no VCPUs are running
> -	 * when accessing VGIC state from user space so irq->vcpu->cpu is
> -	 * always -1.
> -	 */
> -	while (irq->vcpu && /* IRQ may have state in an LR somewhere */
> -	       irq->vcpu != requester_vcpu && /* Current thread is not the VCPU thread */
> -	       irq->vcpu->cpu != -1) /* VCPU thread is running */
> -		cond_resched_lock(&irq->irq_lock);
> -
>  	if (irq->hw) {
>  		vgic_hw_irq_change_active(vcpu, irq, active, !requester_vcpu);
>  	} else {
> @@ -368,8 +347,21 @@ static void vgic_mmio_change_active(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vgic_irq *irq,
>   */
>  static void vgic_change_active_prepare(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 intid)
>  {
> -	if (intid > VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS)
> +	if (intid > VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS) {
> +		struct kvm_vcpu *tmp;
> +		int i;
> +
>  		kvm_arm_halt_guest(vcpu->kvm);
> +
> +		/* Wait for each vcpu to be halted */
> +		kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, tmp, vcpu->kvm) {
> +			if (tmp == vcpu)
> +				continue;
> +
> +			while (tmp->cpu != -1)
> +				cond_resched();
> +		}

I'm actually thinking we don't need this loop at all after the requet
rework which causes:

 1. kvm_arm_halt_guest() to use kvm_make_all_cpus_request(kvm, KVM_REQ_SLEEP), and
 2. KVM_REQ_SLEEP uses REQ_WAIT, and
 3. REQ_WAIT requires the VCPU to respond to IPIs before returning, and
 4. a VCPU thread can only respond when it enables interrupt, and
 5. enabling interrupts when running a VCPU only happens after syncing
    the VGIC hwstate.

Does that make sense?

It would be good if someone can validate this, but if it holds this
patch just becomes a nice deletion of the logic in
vgic-mmio_change_active.


Thanks,

    Christoffer