On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 04:46:08PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 09:05:00PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > From: Christoffer Dall <[email protected]>
> > 
> > We are about to distinguish between userspace accesses and mmio traps
> > for a number of the mmio handlers.  When the requester vcpu is NULL, it
> > mens we are handling a userspace acccess.
> 
> Typo: means?
> 

yes

> > Factor out the functionality to get the request vcpu into its own
> > function, mostly so we have a common place to document the semantics of
> > the return value.
> > 
> > Also take the chance to move the functionality outside of holding a
> > spinlock and instead explicitly disable and enable preemption.  This
> > supports PREEMPT_RT kernels as well.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c | 44 
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> >  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> > index deb51ee16a3d..747b0a3b4784 100644
> > --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> > +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> > @@ -122,6 +122,27 @@ unsigned long vgic_mmio_read_pending(struct kvm_vcpu 
> > *vcpu,
> >     return value;
> >  }
> >  
> > +/*
> > + * This function will return the VCPU that performed the MMIO access and
> > + * trapped from twithin the VM, and will return NULL if this is a userspace
> 
> Typo: from within?
> 

yes

> > + * access.
> > + *
> > + * We can disable preemption locally around accessing the per-CPU variable,
> > + * and use the resolved vcpu pointer after enabling preemption again, 
> > because
> > + * even if the current thread is migrated to another CPU, reading the 
> > per-CPU
> > + * value later will give us the same value as we update the per-CPU 
> > variable
> > + * in the preempt notifier handlers.
> > + */
> > +static struct kvm_vcpu *vgic_get_mmio_requester_vcpu(void)
> > +{
> > +   struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
> > +
> > +   preempt_disable();
> > +   vcpu = kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu();
> > +   preempt_enable();
> > +   return vcpu;
> > +}
> > +
> >  void vgic_mmio_write_spending(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >                           gpa_t addr, unsigned int len,
> >                           unsigned long val)
> > @@ -184,24 +205,10 @@ unsigned long vgic_mmio_read_active(struct kvm_vcpu 
> > *vcpu,
> >  static void vgic_mmio_change_active(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vgic_irq 
> > *irq,
> >                                 bool new_active_state)
> >  {
> > -   struct kvm_vcpu *requester_vcpu;
> >     unsigned long flags;
> > -   spin_lock_irqsave(&irq->irq_lock, flags);
> > +   struct kvm_vcpu *requester_vcpu = vgic_get_mmio_requester_vcpu();
> >  
> > -   /*
> > -    * The vcpu parameter here can mean multiple things depending on how
> > -    * this function is called; when handling a trap from the kernel it
> > -    * depends on the GIC version, and these functions are also called as
> > -    * part of save/restore from userspace.
> > -    *
> > -    * Therefore, we have to figure out the requester in a reliable way.
> > -    *
> > -    * When accessing VGIC state from user space, the requester_vcpu is
> > -    * NULL, which is fine, because we guarantee that no VCPUs are running
> > -    * when accessing VGIC state from user space so irq->vcpu->cpu is
> > -    * always -1.
> > -    */
> > -   requester_vcpu = kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu();
> > +   spin_lock_irqsave(&irq->irq_lock, flags);
> >  
> >     /*
> >      * If this virtual IRQ was written into a list register, we
> > @@ -213,6 +220,11 @@ static void vgic_mmio_change_active(struct kvm_vcpu 
> > *vcpu, struct vgic_irq *irq,
> >      * vgic_change_active_prepare)  and still has to sync back this IRQ,
> >      * so we release and re-acquire the spin_lock to let the other thread
> >      * sync back the IRQ.
> > +    *
> > +    * When accessing VGIC state from user space, requester_vcpu is
> > +    * NULL, which is fine, because we guarantee that no VCPUs are running
> > +    * when accessing VGIC state from user space so irq->vcpu->cpu is
> > +    * always -1.
> >      */
> >     while (irq->vcpu && /* IRQ may have state in an LR somewhere */
> >            irq->vcpu != requester_vcpu && /* Current thread is not the VCPU 
> > thread */
> > -- 
> > 2.14.2

Thanks,
-Christoffer
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