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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
	Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@google.com>,
	Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@google.com>,
	Raghavendra Rao Anata <rananta@google.com>,
	James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 5/6] KVM: x86: Refactor tsc synchronization code
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:28:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <de3ff2de-da79-fd0c-c90b-f767414b0b69@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YTEkRfTFyoh+HQyT@google.com>

On 02/09/21 21:21, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> 
>> +	if (!matched) {
>> +		...
>> +		spin_lock(&kvm->arch.pvclock_gtod_sync_lock);
>> +		kvm->arch.nr_vcpus_matched_tsc = 0;
>> +	} else if (!already_matched) {
>> +		spin_lock(&kvm->arch.pvclock_gtod_sync_lock);
>> +		kvm->arch.nr_vcpus_matched_tsc++;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	kvm_track_tsc_matching(vcpu);
>> +	spin_unlock(&kvm->arch.pvclock_gtod_sync_lock);
>
> This unlock is imbalanced if matched and already_matched are both true.  It's not
> immediately obvious that that_can't_  happen, and if it truly can't happen then
> conditionally locking is pointless (because it's not actually conditional).

This is IMO another reason to unify tsc_write_lock and 
pvclock_gtod_sync_lock.  The chances of contention are pretty slim.  As 
soon as I sort out the next -rc3 pull request I'll send out my version 
of Oliver's patches.

Thanks,

Paolo


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-24  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-16  0:11 [PATCH v7 0/6] KVM: x86: Add idempotent controls for migrating system counter state Oliver Upton
2021-08-16  0:11 ` [PATCH v7 1/6] KVM: x86: Fix potential race in KVM_GET_CLOCK Oliver Upton
2021-08-19 18:24   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-08-20 18:22     ` Oliver Upton
2021-08-16  0:11 ` [PATCH v7 2/6] KVM: x86: Create helper methods for KVM_{GET,SET}_CLOCK ioctls Oliver Upton
2021-08-16  0:11 ` [PATCH v7 3/6] KVM: x86: Report host tsc and realtime values in KVM_GET_CLOCK Oliver Upton
2021-08-20 12:46   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-09-24  8:30     ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-08-16  0:11 ` [PATCH v7 4/6] KVM: x86: Take the pvclock sync lock behind the tsc_write_lock Oliver Upton
2021-09-02 19:22   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-08-16  0:11 ` [PATCH v7 5/6] KVM: x86: Refactor tsc synchronization code Oliver Upton
2021-09-02 19:21   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-09-02 19:41     ` Oliver Upton
2021-09-24  9:28     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2021-08-16  0:11 ` [PATCH v7 6/6] KVM: x86: Expose TSC offset controls to userspace Oliver Upton
2021-08-23 20:56   ` Oliver Upton
2021-08-26 12:48     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2021-08-26 20:27       ` Oliver Upton
2021-09-02 19:23 ` [PATCH v7 0/6] KVM: x86: Add idempotent controls for migrating system counter state Sean Christopherson
2021-09-02 19:45   ` Oliver Upton

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