From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>,
Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>,
Yuchao Zhang <ndaugoing@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: arm64: vgic: Stop the VM when disabling LPIs
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:42:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922214212.3327146-4-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260922214212.3327146-1-maz@kernel.org>
Disabling LPIs is pretty nasty, as it directly messes with the AP list
of the affected CPU, which could be running... This has the potential to
lead to really bad behaviours, and we should not be doing that.
Take example on the way the Active state is handled and simply pause all
the vcpus so that we are sure they are all in a quiescent state, and the
state be safely manipulated.
Nobody has any expectation of performance for this anyway.
Fixes: 96085b949672d ("KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Retire pending interrupts on disabling LPIs")
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
index 5913a20d83019..adefc42964732 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
@@ -303,9 +303,19 @@ static void vgic_mmio_write_v3r_ctlr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
if (ctlr != GICR_CTLR_ENABLE_LPIS)
return;
+ /*
+ * Yes, disabling LPIs is painful, since it can be done from
+ * a *remote* vcpu! So let's not take any chance, and make
+ * sure that everybody has written their LRs back to the irq
+ * structures, and release any reference they would have.
+ *
+ * If it hurts, don't do it.
+ */
+ kvm_arm_halt_guest(vcpu->kvm);
vgic_flush_pending_lpis(vcpu);
vgic_its_invalidate_all_caches(vcpu->kvm);
atomic_set_release(&vgic_cpu->ctlr, 0);
+ kvm_arm_resume_guest(vcpu->kvm);
} else {
ctlr = atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&vgic_cpu->ctlr, 0,
GICR_CTLR_ENABLE_LPIS);
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-22 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 21:42 [PATCH 0/3] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Make LPI disabling robust Marc Zyngier
2026-09-22 21:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: arm64: vgic: Allow last_lr_irq to be NULL when LRs are not overflowing Marc Zyngier
2026-09-22 21:42 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: arm64: vgic: Take a refcount on IRQs referenced by last_lr_irq Marc Zyngier
2026-09-22 21:42 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2026-09-22 22:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: arm64: vgic: Stop the VM when disabling LPIs sashiko-bot
2026-09-22 23:21 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-09-23 16:41 ` Oliver Upton
2026-09-23 17:56 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-09-23 18:21 ` Oliver Upton
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