Re: [PATCH v2 27/43] KVM: VMX: Move Posted Interrupt ndst computation out of write loop

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Thu Oct 28 2021 - 07:28:56 EST


On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 19:12 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Hoist the CPU => APIC ID conversion for the Posted Interrupt descriptor
> out of the loop to write the descriptor, preemption is disabled so the
> CPU won't change, and if the APIC ID changes KVM has bigger problems.
>
> No functional change intended.

Is preemption always disabled in vmx_vcpu_pi_load? vmx_vcpu_pi_load is called from vmx_vcpu_load,
which is called indirectly from vcpu_load which is called from many ioctls,
which userspace does. In these places I don't think that preemption is disabled.

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky

>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c | 25 +++++++++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c
> index fea343dcc011..2b2206339174 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/posted_intr.c
> @@ -51,17 +51,15 @@ void vmx_vcpu_pi_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
> goto after_clear_sn;
> }
>
> - /* The full case. */
> + /* The full case. Set the new destination and clear SN. */
> + dest = cpu_physical_id(cpu);
> + if (!x2apic_mode)
> + dest = (dest << 8) & 0xFF00;
> +
> do {
> old.control = new.control = READ_ONCE(pi_desc->control);
>
> - dest = cpu_physical_id(cpu);
> -
> - if (x2apic_mode)
> - new.ndst = dest;
> - else
> - new.ndst = (dest << 8) & 0xFF00;
> -
> + new.ndst = dest;
> new.sn = 0;
> } while (cmpxchg64(&pi_desc->control, old.control,
> new.control) != old.control);
> @@ -103,15 +101,14 @@ static void __pi_post_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> WARN(pi_desc->nv != POSTED_INTR_WAKEUP_VECTOR,
> "Wakeup handler not enabled while the vCPU was blocking");
>
> + dest = cpu_physical_id(vcpu->cpu);
> + if (!x2apic_mode)
> + dest = (dest << 8) & 0xFF00;
> +
> do {
> old.control = new.control = READ_ONCE(pi_desc->control);
>
> - dest = cpu_physical_id(vcpu->cpu);
> -
> - if (x2apic_mode)
> - new.ndst = dest;
> - else
> - new.ndst = (dest << 8) & 0xFF00;
> + new.ndst = dest;
>
> /* set 'NV' to 'notification vector' */
> new.nv = POSTED_INTR_VECTOR;