Patch "KVM: arm/arm64: Let vcpu thread modify its own active state" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

Patch "KVM: arm/arm64: Let vcpu thread modify its own active state" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    KVM: arm/arm64: Let vcpu thread modify its own active state

to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kvm-arm-arm64-let-vcpu-thread-modify-its-own-active-state.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 370a0ec1819990f8e2a93df7cc9c0146980ed45f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jintack Lim <jintack@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 05:42:37 -0800
Subject: KVM: arm/arm64: Let vcpu thread modify its own active state

From: Jintack Lim <jintack@cs.columbia.edu>

commit 370a0ec1819990f8e2a93df7cc9c0146980ed45f upstream.

Currently, if a vcpu thread tries to change the active state of an
interrupt which is already on the same vcpu's AP list, it will loop
forever. Since the VGIC mmio handler is called after a vcpu has
already synced back the LR state to the struct vgic_irq, we can just
let it proceed safely.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jintack Lim <jintack@cs.columbia.edu>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
@@ -187,21 +187,37 @@ unsigned long vgic_mmio_read_active(stru
 static void vgic_mmio_change_active(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vgic_irq *irq,
 				    bool new_active_state)
 {
+	struct kvm_vcpu *requester_vcpu;
 	spin_lock(&irq->irq_lock);
+
+	/*
+	 * The vcpu parameter here can mean multiple things depending on how
+	 * this function is called; when handling a trap from the kernel it
+	 * depends on the GIC version, and these functions are also called as
+	 * part of save/restore from userspace.
+	 *
+	 * Therefore, we have to figure out the requester in a reliable way.
+	 *
+	 * When accessing VGIC state from user space, the requester_vcpu is
+	 * NULL, which is fine, because we guarantee that no VCPUs are running
+	 * when accessing VGIC state from user space so irq->vcpu->cpu is
+	 * always -1.
+	 */
+	requester_vcpu = kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu();
+
 	/*
 	 * If this virtual IRQ was written into a list register, we
 	 * have to make sure the CPU that runs the VCPU thread has
-	 * synced back LR state to the struct vgic_irq.  We can only
-	 * know this for sure, when either this irq is not assigned to
-	 * anyone's AP list anymore, or the VCPU thread is not
-	 * running on any CPUs.
+	 * synced back the LR state to the struct vgic_irq.
 	 *
-	 * In the opposite case, we know the VCPU thread may be on its
-	 * way back from the guest and still has to sync back this
-	 * IRQ, so we release and re-acquire the spin_lock to let the
-	 * other thread sync back the IRQ.
+	 * As long as the conditions below are true, we know the VCPU thread
+	 * may be on its way back from the guest (we kicked the VCPU thread in
+	 * vgic_change_active_prepare)  and still has to sync back this IRQ,
+	 * so we release and re-acquire the spin_lock to let the other thread
+	 * sync back the IRQ.
 	 */
 	while (irq->vcpu && /* IRQ may have state in an LR somewhere */
+	       irq->vcpu != requester_vcpu && /* Current thread is not the VCPU thread */
 	       irq->vcpu->cpu != -1) /* VCPU thread is running */
 		cond_resched_lock(&irq->irq_lock);
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jintack@cs.columbia.edu are

queue-4.10/kvm-arm-arm64-let-vcpu-thread-modify-its-own-active-state.patch