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| author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2017-02-08 11:50:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2017-02-17 12:27:37 +0100 |
| commit | 460df4c1fc7c00829050c08d6368dc6e6beef307 (patch) | |
| tree | 72c996f591c82ce12e2bc544ae9c9cc6e2aed81e /arch/mips/kvm | |
| parent | bbd6411513aa8ef3ea02abab61318daf87c1af1e (diff) | |
| download | linux-460df4c1fc7c00829050c08d6368dc6e6beef307.tar.bz2 | |
KVM: race-free exit from KVM_RUN without POSIX signals
The purpose of the KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK API is to let userspace "kick"
a VCPU out of KVM_RUN through a POSIX signal. A signal is attached
to a dummy signal handler; by blocking the signal outside KVM_RUN and
unblocking it inside, this possible race is closed:
VCPU thread service thread
--------------------------------------------------------------
check flag
set flag
raise signal
(signal handler does nothing)
KVM_RUN
However, one issue with KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK is that it has to take
tsk->sighand->siglock on every KVM_RUN. This lock is often on a
remote NUMA node, because it is on the node of a thread's creator.
Taking this lock can be very expensive if there are many userspace
exits (as is the case for SMP Windows VMs without Hyper-V reference
time counter).
As an alternative, we can put the flag directly in kvm_run so that
KVM can see it:
VCPU thread service thread
--------------------------------------------------------------
raise signal
signal handler
set run->immediate_exit
KVM_RUN
check run->immediate_exit
Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips/kvm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/kvm/mips.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c index 31ee5ee0010b..ed81e5ac1426 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c +++ b/arch/mips/kvm/mips.c @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_guest_debug(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run) { - int r = 0; + int r = -EINTR; sigset_t sigsaved; if (vcpu->sigset_active) @@ -409,6 +409,9 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run) vcpu->mmio_needed = 0; } + if (run->immediate_exit) + goto out; + lose_fpu(1); local_irq_disable(); @@ -429,6 +432,7 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run) guest_exit_irqoff(); local_irq_enable(); +out: if (vcpu->sigset_active) sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &sigsaved, NULL); @@ -1021,6 +1025,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext) case KVM_CAP_ENABLE_CAP: case KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM: case KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU: + case KVM_CAP_IMMEDIATE_EXIT: r = 1; break; case KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO: |