On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 12:07:04PM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> From: Julien Thierry <[email protected]>
> 
> kvm_vcpu_kick() is not NMI safe. When the overflow handler is called from
> NMI context, defer waking the vcpu to an irq_work queue.
> 
> A vcpu can be freed while it's not running by kvm_destroy_vm(). Prevent
> running the irq_work for a non-existent vcpu by calling irq_work_sync() on
> the PMU destroy path.
> 
> Cc: Julien Thierry <[email protected]>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
> Cc: James Morse <[email protected]>
> Cc: Suzuki K Pouloze <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Sumit Garg <[email protected]> (Developerbox)
> [Alexandru E.: Added irq_work_sync()]
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <[email protected]>
> ---
> I suggested in v6 that I will add an irq_work_sync() to
> kvm_pmu_vcpu_reset(). It turns out it's not necessary: a vcpu reset is done
> by the vcpu being reset with interrupts enabled, which means all the work
> has had a chance to run before the reset takes place.

I don't understand this ^^

But the patch itself looks good, so I'm going to queue this lot anyway!

Will
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