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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/powerpc | |
| parent | bbd6411513aa8ef3ea02abab61318daf87c1af1e (diff) | |
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/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c index 2b3e4e620078..1fe1391ba2c2 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c @@ -511,6 +511,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext) case KVM_CAP_ONE_REG: case KVM_CAP_IOEVENTFD: case KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL: + case KVM_CAP_IMMEDIATE_EXIT: r = 1; break; case KVM_CAP_PPC_PAIRED_SINGLES: @@ -1117,7 +1118,10 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run) #endif } - r = kvmppc_vcpu_run(run, vcpu); + if (run->immediate_exit) + r = -EINTR; + else + r = kvmppc_vcpu_run(run, vcpu); if (vcpu->sigset_active) sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &sigsaved, NULL); |