On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 04:25:58PM -0400, Tamas K Lengyel wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 11:07 AM Julien Grall <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Roger,
> >
> > On 03/10/2023 15:29, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 09:53:11AM -0400, Tamas K Lengyel wrote:
> >
> > Tamas, somehow your e-mails don't show up in my inbox (even if I am
> > CCed) or even on lore.kernel.org/xen-devel. It is not even in my SPAM
> > folder.
> 
> Thanks, I've switched mailservers, hopefully that resolves the issue.
> 
> >
> > >> On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 11:13 AM Roger Pau Monne <[email protected]> 
> > >> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> From: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
> > >>>
> > >>> In preparation of the introduction of new vCPU operations allowing to
> > >>> register the respective areas (one of the two is x86-specific) by
> > >>> guest-physical address, add the necessary fork handling (with the
> > >>> backing function yet to be filled in).
> > >>>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>
> > >>> ---
> > >>> Changes since v4:
> > >>>   - Rely on map_guest_area() to populate the child p2m if necessary.
> > >>> ---
> > >>>   xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_sharing.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >>>   xen/common/domain.c           |  7 +++++++
> > >>>   2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
> > >>>
> > >>> diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_sharing.c 
> > >>> b/xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_sharing.c
> > >>> index 5f8f1fb4d871..99cf001fd70f 100644
> > >>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_sharing.c
> > >>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/mem_sharing.c
> > >>> @@ -1641,6 +1641,24 @@ static void copy_vcpu_nonreg_state(struct vcpu 
> > >>> *d_vcpu, struct vcpu *cd_vcpu)
> > >>>       hvm_set_nonreg_state(cd_vcpu, &nrs);
> > >>>   }
> > >>>
> > >>> +static int copy_guest_area(struct guest_area *cd_area,
> > >>> +                           const struct guest_area *d_area,
> > >>> +                           struct vcpu *cd_vcpu,
> > >>> +                           const struct domain *d)
> > >>> +{
> > >>> +    unsigned int offset;
> > >>> +
> > >>> +    /* Check if no area to map, or already mapped. */
> > >>> +    if ( !d_area->pg || cd_area->pg )
> > >>> +        return 0;
> > >>> +
> > >>> +    offset = PAGE_OFFSET(d_area->map);
> > >>> +    return map_guest_area(cd_vcpu, gfn_to_gaddr(
> > >>> +                                       mfn_to_gfn(d, 
> > >>> page_to_mfn(d_area->pg))) +
> > >>> +                                   offset,
> > >>> +                          PAGE_SIZE - offset, cd_area, NULL);
> > >>> +}
> > >>> +
> > >>>   static int copy_vpmu(struct vcpu *d_vcpu, struct vcpu *cd_vcpu)
> > >>>   {
> > >>>       struct vpmu_struct *d_vpmu = vcpu_vpmu(d_vcpu);
> > >>> @@ -1709,6 +1727,16 @@ static int copy_vcpu_settings(struct domain *cd, 
> > >>> const struct domain *d)
> > >>>                   return ret;
> > >>>           }
> > >>>
> > >>> +        /* Same for the (physically registered) runstate and time info 
> > >>> areas. */
> > >>> +        ret = copy_guest_area(&cd_vcpu->runstate_guest_area,
> > >>> +                              &d_vcpu->runstate_guest_area, cd_vcpu, 
> > >>> d);
> > >>> +        if ( ret )
> > >>> +            return ret;
> > >>> +        ret = copy_guest_area(&cd_vcpu->arch.time_guest_area,
> > >>> +                              &d_vcpu->arch.time_guest_area, cd_vcpu, 
> > >>> d);
> > >>> +        if ( ret )
> > >>> +            return ret;
> > >>> +
> > >>>           ret = copy_vpmu(d_vcpu, cd_vcpu);
> > >>>           if ( ret )
> > >>>               return ret;
> > >>> @@ -1950,7 +1978,10 @@ int mem_sharing_fork_reset(struct domain *d, 
> > >>> bool reset_state,
> > >>>
> > >>>    state:
> > >>>       if ( reset_state )
> > >>> +    {
> > >>>           rc = copy_settings(d, pd);
> > >>> +        /* TBD: What to do here with -ERESTART? */
> > >>
> > >> There is no situation where we get an -ERESTART here currently. Is
> > >> map_guest_area expected to run into situations where it fails with
> > >> that rc?
> > >
> > > Yes, there's a spin_trylock() call that will result in
> > > map_guest_area() returning -ERESTART.
> > >
> > >> If yes we might need a lock in place so we can block until it
> > >> can succeed.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure whether returning -ERESTART can actually happen in
> > > map_guest_area() for the fork case: the child domain is still paused
> > > at this point, so there can't be concurrent guest hypercalls that
> > > would also cause the domain hypercall_deadlock_mutex to be acquired.
> 
> Perhaps turning it into an ASSERT(rc != -ERESTART) is the way to go at
> this point. If we run into any cases where it trips we can reason it
> out.

In order to avoid possibly returning -ERESTART (which should never be
seen by hypercall callers) we might want to convert it to -EBUSY and
let the caller pick the pieces.

Thanks, Roger.

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