[PATCH v2 6/9] KVM: add explicit barrier to kvm_vcpu_kick

Radim Krčmář
2017-04-26T20:33:10Z

From: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>

kvm_vcpu_kick() must issue a general memory barrier prior to reading
vcpu->mode in order to ensure correctness of the mutual-exclusion
memory barrier pattern used with vcpu->requests. While the cmpxchg
called from kvm_vcpu_kick():

kvm_vcpu_kick
kvm_arch_vcpu_should_kick
kvm_vcpu_exiting_guest_mode
cmpxchg

implies general memory barriers before and after the operation, that
implication is only valid when cmpxchg succeeds. We need an explicit
barrier for when it fails, otherwise a VCPU thread on its entry path
that reads zero for vcpu->requests does not exclude the possibility
the requesting thread sees !IN_GUEST_MODE when it reads vcpu->mode.

kvm_make_all_cpus_request already had a barrier, so we remove it, as
now it would be redundant.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 6 ++++++
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 ---
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 0936c3e2e51c..69fcee26f4da 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -6853,7 +6853,7 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)

/*
* 1) We should set ->mode before checking ->requests. Please see
- * the comment in kvm_make_all_cpus_request.
+ * the comment in kvm_vcpu_exiting_guest_mode().
*
* 2) For APICv, we should set ->mode before checking PIR.ON. This
* pairs with the memory barrier implicit in pi_test_and_set_on
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index a805ddcb7eb0..84c5396564f7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -270,6 +270,12 @@ struct kvm_vcpu {

static inline int kvm_vcpu_exiting_guest_mode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
+ /*
+ * The memory barrier ensures a previous write to vcpu->requests cannot
+ * be reordered with the read of vcpu->mode. It pairs with the general
+ * memory barrier following the write of vcpu->mode in VCPU RUN.
+ */
+ smp_mb__before_atomic();
return cmpxchg(&vcpu->mode, IN_GUEST_MODE, EXITING_GUEST_MODE);
}

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 3772f7dcc72d..1efb07643035 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -183,9 +183,6 @@ bool kvm_make_all_cpus_request(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int req)
kvm_make_request(req, vcpu);
cpu = vcpu->cpu;

- /* Set ->requests bit before we read ->mode. */
- smp_mb__after_atomic();
-
if (!(req & KVM_REQUEST_NO_WAKEUP))
kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu);

--
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