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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] arm64: add host pv-vcpu-state support
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:15:47 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPd1Q1ppmKng67tk@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kcz33g5.wl-maz@kernel.org>

On (21/07/12 17:24), Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >  
> >  void kvm_arch_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >  {
> > +	kvm_update_vcpu_preempted(vcpu, true);
> 
> This doesn't look right. With this, you are now telling the guest that
> a vcpu that is blocked on WFI is preempted. This really isn't the
> case, as it has voluntarily entered a low-power mode while waiting for
> an interrupt. Indeed, the vcpu isn't running. A physical CPU wouldn't
> be running either.

I suppose you are talking about kvm_vcpu_block(). Well, it checks
kvm_vcpu_check_block() but then it simply schedule() out the vcpu
process, which does look like "the vcpu is preempted". Once we
sched_in() that vcpu process again we mark it as non-preempted,
even though it remains in kvm wfx handler. Why isn't it right?

Another call path is iret:

<iret>
__schedule()
 context_switch()
  prepare_task_switch()
   fire_sched_in_preempt_notifiers()
    kvm_sched_out()
     kvm_arch_vcpu_put()

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-21  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-09  4:37 [PATCHv2 0/4] arm64:kvm: teach guest sched that VCPUs can be preempted Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-09  4:37 ` [PATCHv2 1/4] arm64: smccc: Add SMCCC pv-vcpu-state function call IDs Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-12 14:22   ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-09  4:37 ` [PATCHv2 2/4] arm64: add guest pvstate support Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-09  7:39   ` David Edmondson
2021-07-09  7:52     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-09 18:58   ` Joel Fernandes
2021-07-09 21:53     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-11 16:58       ` Joel Fernandes
2021-07-12 15:42   ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-21  2:05     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-21  8:22       ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-21  8:47         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-21 10:16           ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-09  4:37 ` [PATCHv2 3/4] arm64: do not use dummy vcpu_is_preempted() Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-12 15:47   ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-21  2:06     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-09  4:37 ` [PATCHv2 4/4] arm64: add host pv-vcpu-state support Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-12 16:24   ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-20 18:44     ` Joel Fernandes
2021-07-21  8:40       ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-21 10:38         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-07-21 11:08           ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-21  1:15     ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2021-07-21  9:10       ` Marc Zyngier

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