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

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Thu, 2021-10-28 at 14:28 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> 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.

You can disregard this, I missed the fact that we have 'int cpu = get_cpu();'
which disables preemption in 'vcpu_load'

Thus,

Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>


Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky
> 
> 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;