Re: [tip:x86/hyperv] x86/hyperv: Enable PV qspinlock for Hyper-V

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, Juergen Gross wrote:

> Sorry for noticing this only now, but I have been fighting with
> Xen PV qspinlocks last weekend:
> 
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Read HV_X64_MSR_GUEST_IDLE MSR can trigger the guest's
> > +	 * transition to the idle power state which can be exited
> > +	 * by an IPI even if IF flag is disabled.
> > +	 */
> 
> What if interrupts are enabled? Won't a kick happening here just
> interrupt and then the following rdmsr result in a hang?
> 
> I believe the correct way would be to:
> 
> - disable interrupts before above READ_ONCE() and restore them
>   after the rdmsrl()
> 
> - return early if in_nmi()
> 
> similar as the kvm specific variant is doing it.

Interesting question. I zapped the last commit for now until this is
clarified.

Thanks,

	tglx