[PATCH v13 20/21] KVM: x86/xen: allow vcpu_info content to be 'safely' copied

Paul Durrant
2024-02-15T15:44:31Z

From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>

If the guest sets an explicit vcpu_info GPA then, for any of the first 32
vCPUs, the content of the default vcpu_info in the shared_info page must be
copied into the new location. Because this copy may race with event
delivery (which updates the 'evtchn_pending_sel' field in vcpu_info) there
needs to be a way to defer that until the copy is complete.
Happily there is already a shadow of 'evtchn_pending_sel' in kvm_vcpu_xen
that is used in atomic context if the vcpu_info PFN cache has been
invalidated so that the update of vcpu_info can be deferred until the
cache can be refreshed (on vCPU thread's the way back into guest context).

Also use this shadow if the vcpu_info cache has been *deactivated*, so that
the VMM can safely copy the vcpu_info content and then re-activate the
cache with the new GPA. To do this, stop considering an inactive vcpu_info
cache as a hard error in kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast().

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
---
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org

v13:
- Patch title change.

v8:
- Update commit comment.

v6:
- New in this version.
---
arch/x86/kvm/xen.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
index 8650141b266e..11ab62ca011d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
@@ -1802,9 +1802,6 @@ int kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast(struct kvm_xen_evtchn *xe, struct kvm *kvm)
WRITE_ONCE(xe->vcpu_idx, vcpu->vcpu_idx);
}

- if (!vcpu->arch.xen.vcpu_info_cache.active)
- return -EINVAL;
-
if (xe->port >= max_evtchn_port(kvm))
return -EINVAL;

--
2.39.2