[PATCH 4.9 29/31] kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-15T06:23:01Z

From: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>

commit c57c80467f90e5504c8df9ad3555d2c78800bf94 upstream.

Add a function to create a kernel thread associated with a given VM. In
particular, it ensures that the worker thread inherits the priority and
cgroups of the calling thread.

Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 6 +++
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 90 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -1208,4 +1208,10 @@ static inline bool vcpu_valid_wakeup(str
}
#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_INVALID_WAKEUPS */

+typedef int (*kvm_vm_thread_fn_t)(struct kvm *kvm, uintptr_t data);
+
+int kvm_vm_create_worker_thread(struct kvm *kvm, kvm_vm_thread_fn_t thread_fn,
+ uintptr_t data, const char *name,
+ struct task_struct **thread_ptr);
+
#endif
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/sort.h>
#include <linux/bsearch.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>

#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
@@ -3987,3 +3988,86 @@ void kvm_exit(void)
kvm_vfio_ops_exit();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_exit);
+
+struct kvm_vm_worker_thread_context {
+ struct kvm *kvm;
+ struct task_struct *parent;
+ struct completion init_done;
+ kvm_vm_thread_fn_t thread_fn;
+ uintptr_t data;
+ int err;
+};
+
+static int kvm_vm_worker_thread(void *context)
+{
+ /*
+ * The init_context is allocated on the stack of the parent thread, so
+ * we have to locally copy anything that is needed beyond initialization
+ */
+ struct kvm_vm_worker_thread_context *init_context = context;
+ struct kvm *kvm = init_context->kvm;
+ kvm_vm_thread_fn_t thread_fn = init_context->thread_fn;
+ uintptr_t data = init_context->data;
+ int err;
+
+ err = kthread_park(current);
+ /* kthread_park(current) is never supposed to return an error */
+ WARN_ON(err != 0);
+ if (err)
+ goto init_complete;
+
+ err = cgroup_attach_task_all(init_context->parent, current);
+ if (err) {
+ kvm_err("%s: cgroup_attach_task_all failed with err %d\n",
+ __func__, err);
+ goto init_complete;
+ }
+
+ set_user_nice(current, task_nice(init_context->parent));
+
+init_complete:
+ init_context->err = err;
+ complete(&init_context->init_done);
+ init_context = NULL;
+
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ /* Wait to be woken up by the spawner before proceeding. */
+ kthread_parkme();
+
+ if (!kthread_should_stop())
+ err = thread_fn(kvm, data);
+
+ return err;
+}
+
+int kvm_vm_create_worker_thread(struct kvm *kvm, kvm_vm_thread_fn_t thread_fn,
+ uintptr_t data, const char *name,
+ struct task_struct **thread_ptr)
+{
+ struct kvm_vm_worker_thread_context init_context = {};
+ struct task_struct *thread;
+
+ *thread_ptr = NULL;
+ init_context.kvm = kvm;
+ init_context.parent = current;
+ init_context.thread_fn = thread_fn;
+ init_context.data = data;
+ init_completion(&init_context.init_done);
+
+ thread = kthread_run(kvm_vm_worker_thread, &init_context,
+ "%s-%d", name, task_pid_nr(current));
+ if (IS_ERR(thread))
+ return PTR_ERR(thread);
+
+ /* kthread_run is never supposed to return NULL */
+ WARN_ON(thread == NULL);
+
+ wait_for_completion(&init_context.init_done);
+
+ if (!init_context.err)
+ *thread_ptr = thread;
+
+ return init_context.err;
+}