linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 27/43] KVM: VMX: Move Posted Interrupt ndst computation out of write loop

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Date:   Thu, 28 Oct 2021 14:28:29 +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>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        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 27/43] KVM: VMX: Move Posted Interrupt ndst
 computation out of write loop

On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 19:12 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Hoist the CPU => APIC ID conversion for the Posted Interrupt descriptor
> out of the loop to write the descriptor, preemption is disabled so the
> CPU won't change, and if the APIC ID changes KVM has bigger problems.
> 
> No functional change intended.

Is preemption always disabled in vmx_vcpu_pi_load? vmx_vcpu_pi_load is called from vmx_vcpu_load,
which is called indirectly from vcpu_load which is called from many ioctls,
which userspace does. In these places I don't think that preemption is disabled.

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c | 25 +++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c
> index fea343dcc011..2b2206339174 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c
> @@ -51,17 +51,15 @@ void vmx_vcpu_pi_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
>  		goto after_clear_sn;
>  	}
>  
> -	/* The full case.  */
> +	/* The full case.  Set the new destination and clear SN. */
> +	dest = cpu_physical_id(cpu);
> +	if (!x2apic_mode)
> +		dest = (dest << 8) & 0xFF00;
> +
>  	do {
>  		old.control = new.control = READ_ONCE(pi_desc->control);
>  
> -		dest = cpu_physical_id(cpu);
> -
> -		if (x2apic_mode)
> -			new.ndst = dest;
> -		else
> -			new.ndst = (dest << 8) & 0xFF00;
> -
> +		new.ndst = dest;
>  		new.sn = 0;
>  	} while (cmpxchg64(&pi_desc->control, old.control,
>  			   new.control) != old.control);
> @@ -103,15 +101,14 @@ static void __pi_post_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	WARN(pi_desc->nv != POSTED_INTR_WAKEUP_VECTOR,
>  	     "Wakeup handler not enabled while the vCPU was blocking");
>  
> +	dest = cpu_physical_id(vcpu->cpu);
> +	if (!x2apic_mode)
> +		dest = (dest << 8) & 0xFF00;
> +
>  	do {
>  		old.control = new.control = READ_ONCE(pi_desc->control);
>  
> -		dest = cpu_physical_id(vcpu->cpu);
> -
> -		if (x2apic_mode)
> -			new.ndst = dest;
> -		else
> -			new.ndst = (dest << 8) & 0xFF00;
> +		new.ndst = dest;
>  
>  		/* set 'NV' to 'notification vector' */
>  		new.nv = POSTED_INTR_VECTOR;