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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: KVM pvmmu: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:13:10 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090825041310.GA15313@amt.cnet> (raw)


Commit b8bcfe997e4 made paravirt pte updates synchronous in interrupt
context.

Unfortunately the KVM pv mmu code caches the lazy/nonlazy mode
internally, so a pte update from interrupt context during a lazy mmu
operation can be batched while it should be performed synchronously.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518022

Drop the internal mode variable and use paravirt_get_lazy_mode(), which
returns the correct state.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index c664d51..63b0ec8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 struct kvm_para_state {
 	u8 mmu_queue[MMU_QUEUE_SIZE];
 	int mmu_queue_len;
-	enum paravirt_lazy_mode mode;
 };
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_para_state, para_state);
@@ -77,7 +76,7 @@ static void kvm_deferred_mmu_op(void *buffer, int len)
 {
 	struct kvm_para_state *state = kvm_para_state();
 
-	if (state->mode != PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU) {
+	if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() != PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU) {
 		kvm_mmu_op(buffer, len);
 		return;
 	}
@@ -185,10 +184,7 @@ static void kvm_release_pt(unsigned long pfn)
 
 static void kvm_enter_lazy_mmu(void)
 {
-	struct kvm_para_state *state = kvm_para_state();
-
 	paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu();
-	state->mode = paravirt_get_lazy_mode();
 }
 
 static void kvm_leave_lazy_mmu(void)
@@ -197,7 +193,6 @@ static void kvm_leave_lazy_mmu(void)
 
 	mmu_queue_flush(state);
 	paravirt_leave_lazy_mmu();
-	state->mode = paravirt_get_lazy_mode();
 }
 
 static void __init paravirt_ops_setup(void)


             reply	other threads:[~2009-08-25  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-25  4:13 Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2009-08-27  8:11 ` KVM pvmmu: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context Avi Kivity
2009-08-27 13:00   ` Marcelo Tosatti

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