linux-kernel - [PATCH v8 15/15] KVM: xen: allow vcpu_info content to be 'safely' copied

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Message-Id: <20231121180223.12484-16-paul@xen.org>
Date:   Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:02:23 +0000
From:   Paul Durrant <paul@....org>
To:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Paul Durrant <paul@....org>,
        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>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v8 15/15] KVM: xen: allow vcpu_info content to be 'safely' copied

From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@...zon.com>

If the guest sets an explicit vcpu_info GPA then, for any of the first 32
vCPUs, the content of the default vcpu_info in the shared_info page must be
copied into the new location. Because this copy may race with event
delivery (which updates the 'evtchn_pending_sel' field in vcpu_info) there
needs to be a way to defer that until the copy is complete.
Happily there is already a shadow of 'evtchn_pending_sel' in kvm_vcpu_xen
that is used in atomic context if the vcpu_info PFN cache has been
invalidated so that the update of vcpu_info can be deferred until the
cache can be refreshed (on vCPU thread's the way back into guest context).

Also use this shadow if the vcpu_info cache has been *deactivated*, so that
the VMM can safely copy the vcpu_info content and then re-activate the
cache with the new GPA. To do this, stop considering an inactive vcpu_info
cache as a hard error in kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast().

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@...zon.com>
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>
---
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org

v8:
 - Update commit comment.

v6:
 - New in this version.
---
 arch/x86/kvm/xen.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
index eff405eead1c..cfd5051e0800 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
@@ -1742,9 +1742,6 @@ int kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast(struct kvm_xen_evtchn *xe, struct kvm *kvm)
 		WRITE_ONCE(xe->vcpu_idx, vcpu->vcpu_idx);
 	}

-	if (!vcpu->arch.xen.vcpu_info_cache.active)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	if (xe->port >= max_evtchn_port(kvm))
 		return -EINVAL;

-- 
2.39.2