Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 for-2.12] s390x/kvm: call cpu_synchronize_state() on every kvm_arch_handle_exit()

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Fri,  6 Apr 2018 11:35:52 +0200
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:

> Manually having to use cpu_synchronize_state() is error prone. And as
> Christian Borntraeger discovered, e.g. handle_diag() is currently
> missing a cpu_synchronize_state(), as decode_basedisp_s() uses a
> general purpose register value internally.
> 
> So let's do an overall cpu_synchronize_state(), which fixes at least the
> one mentioned BUG. We will clean up the superfluous cpu_synchronize_state()
> calls later.
> 
> We now also call it (although maybe not neded) for
> - KVM_EXIT_S390_RESET -> s390_reipl_request()
> - KVM_EXIT_DEBUG -> kvm_arch_handle_debug_exit()
> - unmanagable/unimplemented intercepts
> - ICPT_CPU_STOP -> do_stop_interrupt() -> cpu gets halted
> - Scenarios where we inject an operation exception
> - handle_stsi()
> 
> I don't think any of these are performance critical. Especially as we
> have all information directly contained in kvm_run, there are no
> additional IOCTLs to issue on modern kernels.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> ---
>  target/s390x/kvm.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/target/s390x/kvm.c b/target/s390x/kvm.c
> index f570896dc1..fb59d92def 100644
> --- a/target/s390x/kvm.c
> +++ b/target/s390x/kvm.c
> @@ -1778,6 +1778,8 @@ int kvm_arch_handle_exit(CPUState *cs, struct kvm_run *run)
>  
>      qemu_mutex_lock_iothread();
>  
> +    cpu_synchronize_state(cs);
> +
>      switch (run->exit_reason) {
>          case KVM_EXIT_S390_SIEIC:
>              ret = handle_intercept(cpu);

Thanks, queued to s390-fixes.