From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756659Ab2LGRln (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2012 12:41:43 -0500 Received: from e28smtp01.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.1]:35511 "EHLO e28smtp01.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423447Ab2LGRlk (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2012 12:41:40 -0500 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 8/9] kvm, vmx: Add atomic synchronization with CPU Hotplug To: tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, mingo@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, namhyung@kernel.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, tj@kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com Cc: sbw@mit.edu, amit.kucheria@linaro.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, rjw@sisk.pl, srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com, wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com, xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:10:08 +0530 Message-ID: <20121207174003.27305.71976.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20121207173702.27305.1486.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> References: <20121207173702.27305.1486.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> User-Agent: StGIT/0.14.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12120717-4790-0000-0000-000005ED4147 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org preempt_disable() will no longer help prevent CPUs from going offline, once stop_machine() gets removed from the CPU offline path. So use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() in vmx_vcpu_load() to prevent CPUs from going offline while clearing vmcs. Reported-by: Michael Wang Debugged-by: Xiao Guangrong Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index f858159..d8a4cf1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -1519,10 +1519,14 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu) struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu); u64 phys_addr = __pa(per_cpu(vmxarea, cpu)); - if (!vmm_exclusive) + if (!vmm_exclusive) { kvm_cpu_vmxon(phys_addr); - else if (vmx->loaded_vmcs->cpu != cpu) + } else if (vmx->loaded_vmcs->cpu != cpu) { + /* Prevent any CPU from going offline */ + get_online_cpus_atomic(); loaded_vmcs_clear(vmx->loaded_vmcs); + put_online_cpus_atomic(); + } if (per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu) != vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs) { per_cpu(current_vmcs, cpu) = vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs;