Re: [PATCH 7/7] KVM: selftests: Add "delete" testcase to set_memory_region_test

[Peter Xu]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 02:43:18PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 03:06:36PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 01:55:46PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Spin until the memory region is moved to a misaligned address.  This
> > > +	 * may or may not trigger MMIO, as the window where the memslot is
> > > +	 * invalid is quite small.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	val = guest_spin_on_val(0);
> > > +	GUEST_ASSERT(val == 1 || val == MMIO_VAL);
> > > +
> > > +	/* Spin until the memory region is realigned. */
> > > +	GUEST_ASSERT(guest_spin_on_val(MMIO_VAL) == 1);
> > 
> > IIUC ideally we should do GUEST_SYNC() after each GUEST_ASSERT() to
> > make sure the two threads are in sync.  Otherwise e.g. there's no
> > guarantee that the main thread won't run too fast to quickly remove
> > the memslot and re-add it back before the guest_spin_on_val() starts
> > above, then the assert could trigger when it reads the value as zero.
> 
> Hrm, I was thinking ucall wasn't available across pthreads, but it's just
> dumped into a global variable.  I'll rework this to replace the udelay()
> hacks with proper synchronization.

I think ucall should work for pthread (shared address space of either
kvm_run or guest memories), however my thought was even simpler than
that, something like:

  - in guest code: do GUEST_SYNC after each GUEST_ASSERT
  - introduce a global_sem
  - in vcpu thread: when receive GUEST_SYNC, do "sem_post(&global_sem)"
  - in main thread: replace all usleep() with "sem_wait(&global_sem)"

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Peter Xu