From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
To: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Cc: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Indicate vgic_put_irq() may take LPI xarray lock
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 01:19:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aLlLgC4GBXYnUWO4@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <308ef1ea-f81c-4081-b664-a55e77de81d6@arm.com>
On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 11:25:08AM +0100, Ben Horgan wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
>
> On 9/4/25 07:23, Oliver Upton wrote:
> > The release path on LPIs is quite rare, meaning it can be difficult to
> > find lock ordering bugs on the LPI xarray's spinlock. Tell lockdep that
> > vgic_put_irq() might acquire the xa_lock to make unsafe patterns more
> > obvious.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.c | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.c
> > index a21b482844ce..e61b95167ed1 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic.c
> > @@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ void vgic_put_irq(struct kvm *kvm, struct vgic_irq *irq)
> > {
> > struct vgic_dist *dist = &kvm->arch.vgic;
> >
> > + if (irq->intid > VGIC_MIN_LPI)
> > + might_lock(&dist->lpi_xa.xa_lock);
> > +
>
> nit: Use >= rather than > to include all LPI.
Of course, silly typo.
Thanks!
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-04 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-04 6:23 [PATCH 0/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Fix yet another lock ordering turd Oliver Upton
2025-09-04 6:23 ` [PATCH 1/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Use bare refcount for VGIC LPIs Oliver Upton
2025-09-04 6:23 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: arm64: Spin off release helper from vgic_put_irq() Oliver Upton
2025-09-04 6:23 ` [PATCH 3/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Erase LPIs from xarray outside of raw spinlocks Oliver Upton
2025-09-05 7:44 ` Marc Zyngier
2025-09-05 7:19 ` Oliver Upton
2025-09-04 6:23 ` [PATCH 4/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Don't require IRQs be disabled for LPI xarray lock Oliver Upton
2025-09-05 8:13 ` Marc Zyngier
2025-09-05 8:55 ` Oliver Upton
2025-09-04 6:23 ` [PATCH 5/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Indicate vgic_put_irq() may take " Oliver Upton
2025-09-04 10:25 ` Ben Horgan
2025-09-04 8:19 ` Oliver Upton [this message]
2025-09-05 8:29 ` [PATCH 0/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Fix yet another lock ordering turd Marc Zyngier
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