[PATCH V6 0/6] Fast mmio eventfd fixes

From: Jason Wang
Date: Tue Sep 15 2015 - 02:42:47 EST


Hi:

This series fixes two issues of fast mmio eventfd:

1) A single iodev instance were registerd on two buses: KVM_MMIO_BUS
and KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS. This will cause double in
ioeventfd_destructor()
2) A zero length iodev on KVM_MMIO_BUS will never be found but
kvm_io_bus_cmp(). This will lead e.g the eventfd will be trapped by
qemu instead of host.

1 is fixed by allocating two instances of iodev and introduce a new
capability for userspace. 2 is fixed by ignore the actual length if
the length of iodev is zero in kvm_io_bus_cmp().

Please review.

Changes from V5:
- move patch of explicitly checking for KVM_MMIO_BUS to patch 1 and
remove the unnecessary checks
- even more grammar and typo fixes
- rabase to kvm.git
- document KVM_CAP_FAST_MMIO

Changes from V4:
- move the location of kvm_assign_ioeventfd() in patch 1 which reduce
the change set.
- commit log typo fixes
- switch to use kvm_deassign_ioeventfd_id) when fail to register to
fast mmio bus
- change kvm_io_bus_cmp() as Paolo's suggestions
- introduce a new capability to avoid new userspace crash old kernel
- add a new patch that only try to register mmio eventfd on fast mmio
bus

Changes from V3:

- Don't do search on two buses when trying to do write on
KVM_MMIO_BUS. This fixes a small regression found by vmexit.flat.
- Since we don't do search on two buses, change kvm_io_bus_cmp() to
let it can find zero length iodevs.
- Fix the unnecessary lines in tracepoint patch.

Changes from V2:
- Tweak styles and comment suggested by Cornelia.

Changes from v1:
- change ioeventfd_bus_from_flags() to return KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS when
needed to save lots of unnecessary changes.

Jason Wang (6):
kvm: don't try to register to KVM_FAST_MMIO_BUS for non mmio eventfd
kvm: factor out core eventfd assign/deassign logic
kvm: fix double free for fast mmio eventfd
kvm: fix zero length mmio searching
kvm: add tracepoint for fast mmio
kvm: add fast mmio capabilitiy

Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 7 ++-
arch/x86/kvm/trace.h | 18 ++++++
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 +
virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 20 +++++-
7 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

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