On 19/02/2024 22:04, Sean Christopherson wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024, Paul Durrant wrote:
From: Paul Durrant <[email protected]>
As described in [1] compiling with CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING shows that
kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast() is blocking on pfncache locks in IRQ context.
There is only actually blocking with PREEMPT_RT because the locks will
turned into mutexes. There is no 'raw' version of rwlock_t that can be used
to avoid that, so use read_trylock() and treat failure to lock the same as
an invalid cache.
[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/T/#mbd06e5a04534ce9c0ee94bd8f1e8d942b2d45bd6
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
---
Cc: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
v13:
- Patch title change.
v11:
- Amended the commit comment.
v10:
- New in this version.
---
arch/x86/kvm/xen.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
index 59073642c078..8650141b266e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
@@ -1678,10 +1678,13 @@ static int set_shinfo_evtchn_pending(struct kvm_vcpu
*vcpu, u32 port)
unsigned long flags;
int rc = -EWOULDBLOCK;
- read_lock_irqsave(&gpc->lock, flags);
- if (!kvm_gpc_check(gpc, PAGE_SIZE))
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ if (!read_trylock(&gpc->lock))
goto out;
I am not comfortable applying this patch. As shown by the need for the next
patch
to optimize unrelated invalidations, switching to read_trylock() is more subtle
than it seems at first glance. Specifically, there are no fairness guarantees.
I am not dead set against this change, but I don't want to put my SoB on what I
consider to be a hack.
I've zero objections if you can convince Paolo to take this directly, i.e. this
isn't a NAK. I just don't want to take it through my tree.
Ok. I'll drop this from v14 then. It can go separately, assuming there
is no move to add the raw lock which would negate it.
