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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:53:27 +0300
From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 24/43] KVM: VMX: Drop pointless PI.NDST update when
blocking
On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 19:12 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Don't update Posted Interrupt's NDST, a.k.a. the target pCPU, in the
> pre-block path, as NDST is guaranteed to be up-to-date. The comment
> about the vCPU being preempted during the update is simply wrong, as the
> update path runs with IRQs disabled (from before snapshotting vcpu->cpu,
> until after the update completes).
>
> The vCPU can get preempted _before_ the update starts, but not during.
> And if the vCPU is preempted before, vmx_vcpu_pi_load() is responsible
> for updating NDST when the vCPU is scheduled back in. In that case, the
> check against the wakeup vector in vmx_vcpu_pi_load() cannot be true as
> that would require the notification vector to have been set to the wakeup
> vector _before_ blocking.
>
> Opportunistically switch to using vcpu->cpu for the list/lock lookups,
> which presumably used pre_pcpu only for some phantom preemption logic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c | 23 +++--------------------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c
> index 1688f8dc535a..239e0e72a0dd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c
> @@ -130,7 +130,6 @@ static void __pi_post_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> * - Store the vCPU to the wakeup list, so when interrupts happen
> * we can find the right vCPU to wake up.
> * - Change the Posted-interrupt descriptor as below:
> - * 'NDST' <-- vcpu->pre_pcpu
> * 'NV' <-- POSTED_INTR_WAKEUP_VECTOR
> * - If 'ON' is set during this process, which means at least one
> * interrupt is posted for this vCPU, we cannot block it, in
> @@ -139,7 +138,6 @@ static void __pi_post_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> */
> int pi_pre_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> - unsigned int dest;
> struct pi_desc old, new;
> struct pi_desc *pi_desc = vcpu_to_pi_desc(vcpu);
>
> @@ -153,10 +151,10 @@ int pi_pre_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> local_irq_disable();
>
> vcpu->pre_pcpu = vcpu->cpu;
> - spin_lock(&per_cpu(blocked_vcpu_on_cpu_lock, vcpu->pre_pcpu));
> + spin_lock(&per_cpu(blocked_vcpu_on_cpu_lock, vcpu->cpu));
> list_add_tail(&vcpu->blocked_vcpu_list,
> - &per_cpu(blocked_vcpu_on_cpu, vcpu->pre_pcpu));
> - spin_unlock(&per_cpu(blocked_vcpu_on_cpu_lock, vcpu->pre_pcpu));
> + &per_cpu(blocked_vcpu_on_cpu, vcpu->cpu));
> + spin_unlock(&per_cpu(blocked_vcpu_on_cpu_lock, vcpu->cpu));
>
> WARN(pi_desc->sn == 1,
> "Posted Interrupt Suppress Notification set before blocking");
> @@ -164,21 +162,6 @@ int pi_pre_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> do {
> old.control = new.control = pi_desc->control;
>
> - /*
> - * Since vCPU can be preempted during this process,
> - * vcpu->cpu could be different with pre_pcpu, we
> - * need to set pre_pcpu as the destination of wakeup
> - * notification event, then we can find the right vCPU
> - * to wakeup in wakeup handler if interrupts happen
> - * when the vCPU is in blocked state.
> - */
> - dest = cpu_physical_id(vcpu->pre_pcpu);
> -
> - if (x2apic_mode)
> - new.ndst = dest;
> - else
> - new.ndst = (dest << 8) & 0xFF00;
> -
> /* set 'NV' to 'wakeup vector' */
> new.nv = POSTED_INTR_WAKEUP_VECTOR;
> } while (cmpxchg64(&pi_desc->control, old.control,
Reviewed-by : Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
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