Re: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: use signals to abort enter_guest/blocking and retry

Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2022-10-24T07:44:48Z

Am 23/10/2022 um 19:48 schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> On 10/22/22 17:48, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
>> Once a vcpu exectues KVM_RUN, it could enter two states:
>> enter guest mode, or block/halt.
>> Use a signal to allow a vcpu to exit the guest state or unblock,
>> so that it can exit KVM_RUN and release the read semaphore,
>> allowing a pending KVM_KICK_ALL_RUNNING_VCPUS to continue.
>>
>> Note that the signal is not deleted and used to propagate the
>> exit reason till vcpu_run(). It will be clearead only by
>> KVM_RESUME_ALL_KICKED_VCPUS. This allows the vcpu to keep try
>> entering KVM_RUN and perform again all checks done in
>> kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run() before entering the guest state,
>> where it will return again if the request is still set.
>>
>> However, the userspace hypervisor should also try to avoid
>> continuously calling KVM_RUN after invoking KVM_KICK_ALL_RUNNING_VCPUS,
>> because such call will just translate in a back-to-back down_read()
>> and up_read() (thanks to the signal).
>
> Since the userspace should anyway avoid going into this effectively-busy
> wait, what about clearing the request after the first exit?  The
> cancellation ioctl can be kept for vCPUs that are never entered after
> KVM_KICK_ALL_RUNNING_VCPUS.  Alternatively, kvm_clear_all_cpus_request
> could be done right before up_write().

Clearing makes sense, but should we "trust" the userspace not to go into
busy wait?
What's the typical "contract" between KVM and the userspace? Meaning,
should we cover the basic usage mistakes like forgetting to busy wait on
KVM_RUN?

If we don't, I can add a comment when clearing and of course also
mention it in the API documentation (that I forgot to update, sorry :D)

Emanuele

>
> Paolo
>
>> Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  2 ++
>>   arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              |  8 ++++++++
>>   virt/kvm/kvm_main.c             | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>   3 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> index aa381ab69a19..d5c37f344d65 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@
>>       KVM_ARCH_REQ_FLAGS(30, KVM_REQUEST_WAIT | KVM_REQUEST_NO_WAKEUP)
>>   #define KVM_REQ_MMU_FREE_OBSOLETE_ROOTS \
>>       KVM_ARCH_REQ_FLAGS(31, KVM_REQUEST_WAIT | KVM_REQUEST_NO_WAKEUP)
>> +#define KVM_REQ_USERSPACE_KICK        \
>> +    KVM_ARCH_REQ_FLAGS(32, KVM_REQUEST_WAIT)
>>     #define
>> CR0_RESERVED_BITS                                               \
>>       (~(unsigned long)(X86_CR0_PE | X86_CR0_MP | X86_CR0_EM |
>> X86_CR0_TS \
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>> index b0c47b41c264..2af5f427b4e9 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>> @@ -10270,6 +10270,10 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu
>> *vcpu)
>>       }
>>         if (kvm_request_pending(vcpu)) {
>> +        if (kvm_test_request(KVM_REQ_USERSPACE_KICK, vcpu)) {
>> +            r = -EINTR;
>> +            goto out;
>> +        }
>>           if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_VM_DEAD, vcpu)) {
>>               r = -EIO;
>>               goto out;
>> @@ -10701,6 +10705,10 @@ static int vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>               r = vcpu_block(vcpu);
>>           }
>>   +        /* vcpu exited guest/unblocked because of this request */
>> +        if (kvm_test_request(KVM_REQ_USERSPACE_KICK, vcpu))
>> +            return -EINTR;
>> +
>>           if (r <= 0)
>>               break;
>>   diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> index ae0240928a4a..13fa7229b85d 100644
>> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> @@ -3431,6 +3431,8 @@ static int kvm_vcpu_check_block(struct kvm_vcpu
>> *vcpu)
>>           goto out;
>>       if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_UNBLOCK, vcpu))
>>           goto out;
>> +    if (kvm_test_request(KVM_REQ_USERSPACE_KICK, vcpu))
>> +        goto out;
>>         ret = 0;
>>   out:
>> @@ -4668,6 +4670,25 @@ static long kvm_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp,
>>           r = kvm_vm_ioctl_enable_cap_generic(kvm, &cap);
>>           break;
>>       }
>> +    case KVM_KICK_ALL_RUNNING_VCPUS: {
>> +        /*
>> +         * Notify all running vcpus that they have to stop.
>> +         * Caught in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run()
>> +         */
>> +        kvm_make_all_cpus_request(kvm, KVM_REQ_USERSPACE_KICK);
>> +
>> +        /*
>> +         * Use wr semaphore to wait for all vcpus to exit from KVM_RUN.
>> +         */
>> +        down_write(&memory_transaction);
>> +        up_write(&memory_transaction);
>> +        break;
>> +    }
>> +    case KVM_RESUME_ALL_KICKED_VCPUS: {
>> +        /* Remove all requests sent with KVM_KICK_ALL_RUNNING_VCPUS */
>> +        kvm_clear_all_cpus_request(kvm, KVM_REQ_USERSPACE_KICK);
>> +        break;
>> +    }
>>       case KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION: {
>>           struct kvm_userspace_memory_region kvm_userspace_mem;
>>
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