linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 17/43] KVM: x86: Directly block (instead of "halting") UNINITIALIZED vCPUs

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Message-ID: <e1f8c3d685c43f519927664c1743bc9503773bb1.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:46:34 +0300
From:   Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.qemu.devel@...il.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
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        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org, kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oupton@...gle.com>,
        Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 17/43] KVM: x86: Directly block (instead of
 "halting") UNINITIALIZED vCPUs

On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 19:12 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Go directly to kvm_vcpu_block() when handling the case where userspace
> attempts to run an UNINITIALIZED vCPU.  The vCPU is not halted, nor is it
> likely that halt-polling will be successful in this case.
> 
> Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index e6c17bbed25c..cd51f100e906 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -10133,7 +10133,7 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  			r = -EINTR;
>  			goto out;
>  		}
> -		kvm_vcpu_halt(vcpu);
> +		kvm_vcpu_block(vcpu);
>  		if (kvm_apic_accept_events(vcpu) < 0) {
>  			r = 0;
>  			goto out;


Makes sense.
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>


Best regards,
	Maxim levitsky