Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: fix access memslots w/o hold srcu read lock

[Wanpeng Li]

Hi Paolo,
On 14/11/2 äå2:50, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/11/2014 03:49, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> > This is also not enough. I see the warning in the below path during the
> > test:
> >
> > kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
> > -> kvm_apic_accept_events
> > -> kvm_vcpu_reset
> Hmm, better bypass the problem altogether:
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index a0f78dbaabee..3e556c68351b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -4579,7 +4579,7 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>   		vmcs_write32(TPR_THRESHOLD, 0);
>   	}
>   
> -	kvm_vcpu_reload_apic_access_page(vcpu);
> +	kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_APIC_PAGE_RELOAD, vcpu);
>   
>   	if (vmx_vm_has_apicv(vcpu->kvm))
>   		memset(&vmx->pi_desc, 0, sizeof(struct pi_desc));

Great idea and it works. Just send out version 4 of the patch. ;-)

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

> (untested)
>
> Paolo

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