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* [PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm/arm64: Fix guest's PMR synchronization when blocking on WFI
@ 2019-08-02 10:37 Marc Zyngier
  2019-08-02 10:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm/arm64: Sync ICH_VMCR_EL2 back when about to block Marc Zyngier
  2019-08-02 10:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: Call kvm_arch_vcpu_blocking early into the blocking sequence Marc Zyngier
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Marc Zyngier @ 2019-08-02 10:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paolo Bonzini, Radim Krčmář,
	Julien Thierry, Suzuki K Poulose, James Morse, Joerg Roedel,
	Suravee Suthikulpanit, Tangnianyao
  Cc: kvmarm, kvm

It recently came to light that if we run a guest that actively uses
interrupt priorities to block interrupts, vcpus can end-up being
blocked while they shouldn't, leading to an unresponsive guest (a
slightly less than desirable outcome).

Patch #1 fixes the issue (which has been with us since 4.12), which I plan
to take in for 5.3 with immediate backport to stable.

Patch #2 is more of an RFC, as it also impacts the SVN AVIC support. It
moves the kvm_arch_vcpu_blocking callback to happen earlier, leading to
much better performances on ARM, and leading to the above fix to be
applied at the best possible spot. I'd welcome any comment/testing on
this, specially on non-ARM systems.

Marc Zyngier (2):
  KVM: arm/arm64: Sync ICH_VMCR_EL2 back when about to block
  KVM: Call kvm_arch_vcpu_blocking early into the blocking sequence

 include/kvm/arm_vgic.h      |  1 +
 virt/kvm/arm/arm.c          | 11 +++++++++++
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c |  9 ++++++++-
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c |  7 ++++++-
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c    | 11 +++++++++++
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.h    |  2 ++
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c         |  7 +++----
 7 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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2.20.1

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2019-08-02 10:46   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-18 17:53     ` Marc Zyngier

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