From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Christophe de Dinechin <dinechin@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: vsementsov@virtuozzo.com, berto@igalia.com, ehabkost@redhat.com,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, mtosatti@redhat.com,
mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, armbru@redhat.com,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, den@openvz.org,
"Andrey Shinkevich" <andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] i386/kvm: initialize struct at full before ioctl call
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:32:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <038487b3-0b39-0695-7ef7-ede1b3143ad1@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m136imo9ps.fsf@redhat.com>
On 31/07/19 11:05, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
>
> Christian Borntraeger writes:
>
>> On 30.07.19 18:44, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> On 7/30/19 6:01 PM, Andrey Shinkevich wrote:
>>>> Not the whole structure is initialized before passing it to the KVM.
>>>> Reduce the number of Valgrind reports.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Shinkevich <andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> target/i386/kvm.c | 3 +++
>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/target/i386/kvm.c b/target/i386/kvm.c
>>>> index dbbb137..ed57e31 100644
>>>> --- a/target/i386/kvm.c
>>>> +++ b/target/i386/kvm.c
>>>> @@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ static int kvm_get_tsc(CPUState *cs)
>>>> return 0;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> + memset(&msr_data, 0, sizeof(msr_data));
>>>
>>> I wonder the overhead of this one...
>>
>> Cant we use designated initializers like in
>>
>> commit bdfc8480c50a53d91aa9a513d23a84de0d5fbc86
>> Author: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
>> AuthorDate: Thu Oct 30 09:23:41 2014 +0100
>> Commit: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>> CommitDate: Mon Dec 15 12:21:01 2014 +0100
>>
>> valgrind/i386: avoid false positives on KVM_SET_XCRS ioctl
>>
>> and others?
>>
>> This should minimize the impact.
>
> Oh, when you talked about using designated initializers, I thought you
> were talking about fully initializing the struct, like so:
Yeah, that would be good too. For now I'm applying Andrey's series though.
Paolo
> diff --git a/target/i386/kvm.c b/target/i386/kvm.c
> index dbbb13772a..3533870c43 100644
> --- a/target/i386/kvm.c
> +++ b/target/i386/kvm.c
> @@ -180,19 +180,20 @@ static int kvm_get_tsc(CPUState *cs)
> {
> X86CPU *cpu = X86_CPU(cs);
> CPUX86State *env = &cpu->env;
> - struct {
> - struct kvm_msrs info;
> - struct kvm_msr_entry entries[1];
> - } msr_data;
> int ret;
>
> if (env->tsc_valid) {
> return 0;
> }
>
> - msr_data.info.nmsrs = 1;
> - msr_data.entries[0].index = MSR_IA32_TSC;
> - env->tsc_valid = !runstate_is_running();
> + struct {
> + struct kvm_msrs info;
> + struct kvm_msr_entry entries[1];
> + } msr_data = {
> + .info = { .nmsrs = 1 },
> + .entries = { [0] = { .index = MSR_IA32_TSC } }
> + };
> + env->tsc_valid = !runstate_is_running();
>
> ret = kvm_vcpu_ioctl(CPU(cpu), KVM_GET_MSRS, &msr_data);
> if (ret < 0) {
>
>
> This gives the compiler maximum opportunities to flag mistakes like
> initializing the same thing twice, and make it easier (read no smart
> optimizations) to initialize in one go. Moving the declaration past the
> 'if' also addresses Philippe's concern.
>
>>>
>>>> msr_data.info.nmsrs = 1;
>>>> msr_data.entries[0].index = MSR_IA32_TSC;
>>>> env->tsc_valid = !runstate_is_running();
>>>> @@ -1706,6 +1707,7 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *cs)
>>>>
>>>> if (has_xsave) {
>>>> env->xsave_buf = qemu_memalign(4096, sizeof(struct kvm_xsave));
>>>> + memset(env->xsave_buf, 0, sizeof(struct kvm_xsave));
>>>
>>> OK
>>>
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> max_nested_state_len = kvm_max_nested_state_length();
>>>> @@ -3477,6 +3479,7 @@ static int kvm_put_debugregs(X86CPU *cpu)
>>>> return 0;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> + memset(&dbgregs, 0, sizeof(dbgregs));
>>>
>>> OK
>>>
>>>> for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
>>>> dbgregs.db[i] = env->dr[i];
>>>> }
>>>
>>> We could remove 'dbgregs.flags = 0;'
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>>>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Christophe de Dinechin (IRC c3d)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-31 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-30 16:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Reduce the number of Valgrind reports in unit tests Andrey Shinkevich
2019-07-30 16:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] test-throttle: Fix uninitialized use of burst_length Andrey Shinkevich
2019-08-13 12:19 ` Alberto Garcia
2019-07-30 16:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] tests: Fix uninitialized byte in test_visitor_in_fuzz Andrey Shinkevich
2019-07-30 16:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] i386/kvm: initialize struct at full before ioctl call Andrey Shinkevich
2019-07-30 16:44 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-30 17:05 ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-07-30 17:14 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-07-30 17:47 ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-07-31 9:05 ` Christophe de Dinechin
2019-07-31 12:32 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-07-31 14:10 ` Andrey Shinkevich
2019-07-30 19:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-30 16:46 ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-30 17:09 ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-07-30 19:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-31 7:24 ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-07-31 12:04 ` Andrey Shinkevich
2019-07-31 12:28 ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-07-31 12:43 ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-07-31 13:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-31 14:11 ` Andrey Shinkevich
2019-08-13 12:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Reduce the number of Valgrind reports in unit tests Andrey Shinkevich
2019-08-13 12:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-13 12:08 ` Andrey Shinkevich
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