Re: Possible nohz-full/RCU issue in arm64 KVM

Paul E. McKenney
2021-12-17T16:51:59Z

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 04:54:22PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 12/17/21 15:38, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > For example kvm_guest_enter_irqoff() calls guest_enter_irq_off() which calls
> > vtime_account_guest_enter(), but kvm_guest_exit_irqoff() doesn't call
> > guest_exit_irq_off() and the call to vtime_account_guest_exit() is open-coded
> > elsewhere. Also, guest_enter_irq_off() conditionally calls
> > rcu_virt_note_context_switch(), but I can't immediately spot anything on the
> > exit side that corresponded with that, which looks suspicious.
>
> rcu_note_context_switch() is a point-in-time notification; it's not strictly
> necessary, but it may improve performance a bit by avoiding unnecessary IPIs
> from the RCU subsystem.
>
> There's no benefit from doing it when you're back from the guest, because at
> that point the CPU is just running normal kernel code.

Do scheduling-clock interrupts from guest mode have the "user" parameter
set? If so, that would keep RCU happy.

Thanx, Paul