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Message-ID: <451eebfe-1df5-4f02-2ce1-998560feaa98@xen.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:34:03 +0100
From: Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@...il.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@...zon.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/13] KVM: xen: automatically use the vcpu_info
embedded in shared_info
On 19/09/2023 15:18, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-09-19 at 13:41 +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
>> @@ -491,6 +491,21 @@ static void kvm_xen_inject_vcpu_vector(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
>>
>> static struct gfn_to_pfn_cache *get_vcpu_info_cache(struct kvm_vcpu *v, unsigned long *offset)
>> {
>> + if (!v->arch.xen.vcpu_info_cache.active && v->arch.xen.vcpu_id < MAX_VIRT_CPUS) {
>> + struct kvm *kvm = v->kvm;
>> +
>> + if (offset) {
>> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT) && kvm->arch.xen.long_mode)
>> + *offset = offsetof(struct shared_info,
>> + vcpu_info[v->arch.xen.vcpu_id]);
>> + else
>> + *offset = offsetof(struct compat_shared_info,
>> + vcpu_info[v->arch.xen.vcpu_id]);
>> + }
>> +
>> + return &kvm->arch.xen.shinfo_cache;
>> + }
>> +
>> if (offset)
>> *offset = 0;
>>
>> @@ -764,6 +779,92 @@ static int kvm_xen_set_vcpu_id(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned int vcpu_id)
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> +static int kvm_xen_set_vcpu_info(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa)
>> +{
>> + struct kvm *kvm = vcpu->kvm;
>> + struct gfn_to_pfn_cache *si_gpc = &kvm->arch.xen.shinfo_cache;
>> + struct gfn_to_pfn_cache *vi_gpc = &vcpu->arch.xen.vcpu_info_cache;
>> + unsigned long flags;
>> + unsigned long offset;
>> + int ret;
>> +
>> + if (gpa == KVM_XEN_INVALID_GPA) {
>> + kvm_gpc_deactivate(vi_gpc);
>> + return 0;
>> + }
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * In Xen it is not possible for an explicit vcpu_info to be set
>> + * before the shared_info exists since the former is done in response
>> + * to a hypercall and the latter is set up as part of domain creation.
>> + * The first 32 vCPUs have a default vcpu_info embedded in shared_info
>> + * the content of which is copied across when an explicit vcpu_info is
>> + * set, which can also clearly not be done if we don't know where the
>> + * shared_info is. Hence we need to enforce that the shared_info cache
>> + * is active here.
>> + */
>> + if (!si_gpc->active)
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> + /* Setting an explicit vcpu_info is a one-off operation */
>> + if (vi_gpc->active)
>> + return -EINVAL;
>
> Is that the errno that Xen will return to the hypercall if a guest
> tries it? I.e. if the VMM simply returns the errno that it gets from
> the kernel, is that OK?
>
Yes, I checked. Xen returns -EINVAL.
>> + ret = kvm_gpc_activate(vi_gpc, gpa, sizeof(struct vcpu_info));
>
> From this moment, can't interrupts be delivered to the new vcpu_info,
> even though the memcpy hasn't happened yet?
>
Hmm, that's a good point. TBH it would be nice to have an 'activate and
leave locked' primitive to avoid this.
> I think we need to ensure that any kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast() which
> happens at this point cannot proceed, and falls back to the slow path.
>
> Can we set a flag before we activate the vcpu_info and clear it after
> the memcpy is done, then make kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast() return
> EWOULDBLOCK whenever that flag is set?
>
> The slow path in kvm_xen_set_evtchn() takes kvm->arch.xen.xen_lock and
> I think kvm_xen_vcpu_set_attr() has taken that same lock before you get
> to this code, so it works out nicely?
>
Yes, I think that is safe... but if we didn't have the window between
activating the vcpu_info cache and doing the copy we'd also be ok I
think... Or perhaps we could simply preserve evtchn_pending_sel and copy
the rest of it?
>
>
>> + if (ret)
>> + return ret;
>> +
>> + /* Nothing more to do if the vCPU is not among the first 32 */
>> + if (vcpu->arch.xen.vcpu_id >= MAX_VIRT_CPUS)
>> + return 0;
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * It's possible that the vcpu_info cache has been invalidated since
>> + * we activated it so we need to go through the check-refresh dance.
>> + */
>> + read_lock_irqsave(&vi_gpc->lock, flags);
>> + while (!kvm_gpc_check(vi_gpc, sizeof(struct vcpu_info))) {
>> + read_unlock_irqrestore(&vi_gpc->lock, flags);
>> +
>> + ret = kvm_gpc_refresh(vi_gpc, sizeof(struct vcpu_info));
>> + if (ret) {
>> + kvm_gpc_deactivate(vi_gpc);
>> + return ret;
>> + }
>> +
>> + read_lock_irqsave(&vi_gpc->lock, flags);
>> + }
>> +
>> + /* Now lock the shared_info cache so we can copy the vcpu_info */
>> + read_lock(&si_gpc->lock);
>
> This adds a new lock ordering rule of the vcpu_info lock(s) before the
> shared_info lock. I don't know that it's *wrong* but it seems weird to
> me; I expected the shared_info to come first?
>
> I avoided taking both at once in kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast(), although
> maybe if we are going to have a rule that allows both, we could revisit
> that. Suspect it isn't needed.
>
> Either way it is worth a clear comment somewhere to document the lock
> ordering, and I'd also like to know this has been tested with lockdep,
> which is often cleverer than me.
>
Ok. I agree that shared_info before vcpu_info does seem more intuitive
and maybe it would be better given the code in
kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast(). I'll seem how messy it gets in re-ordering
and add a comment as you suggest.
Paul
>> + while (!kvm_gpc_check(si_gpc, PAGE_SIZE)) {
>> + read_unlock(&si_gpc->lock);
>> +
>> + ret = kvm_gpc_refresh(si_gpc, PAGE_SIZE);
>> + if (ret) {
>> + read_unlock_irqrestore(&vi_gpc->lock, flags);
>> + kvm_gpc_deactivate(vi_gpc);
>> + return ret;
>> + }
>> +
>> + read_lock(&si_gpc->lock);
>> + }
>> +
>> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT) && kvm->arch.xen.long_mode)
>> + offset = offsetof(struct shared_info,
>> + vcpu_info[vcpu->arch.xen.vcpu_id]);
>> + else
>> + offset = offsetof(struct compat_shared_info,
>> + vcpu_info[vcpu->arch.xen.vcpu_id]);
>> +
>> + memcpy(vi_gpc->khva, si_gpc->khva + offset, sizeof(struct vcpu_info));
>> +
>> + read_unlock(&si_gpc->lock);
>> + read_unlock_irqrestore(&vi_gpc->lock, flags);
>> +
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> int kvm_xen_vcpu_set_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_xen_vcpu_attr *data)
>> {
>> int idx, r = -ENOENT;
>> @@ -779,14 +880,7 @@ int kvm_xen_vcpu_set_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_xen_vcpu_attr *data)
>> BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct vcpu_info, time) !=
>> offsetof(struct compat_vcpu_info, time));
>>
>> - if (data->u.gpa == KVM_XEN_INVALID_GPA) {
>> - kvm_gpc_deactivate(&vcpu->arch.xen.vcpu_info_cache);
>> - r = 0;
>> - break;
>> - }
>> -
>> - r = kvm_gpc_activate(&vcpu->arch.xen.vcpu_info_cache,
>> - data->u.gpa, sizeof(struct vcpu_info));
>> + r = kvm_xen_set_vcpu_info(vcpu, data->u.gpa);
>> if (!r)
>> kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_CLOCK_UPDATE, vcpu);
>>
>
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