Re: [PATCH RFC 15/39] KVM: x86/xen: handle PV spinlocks slowpath

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Tue Feb 08 2022 - 08:22:47 EST


On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 20:15 +0000, Joao Martins wrote:
> From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add support for SCHEDOP_poll hypercall.
>
> This implementation is optimized for polling for a single channel, which
> is what Linux does. Polling for multiple channels is not especially
> efficient (and has not been tested).
>
> PV spinlocks slow path uses this hypercall, and explicitly crash if it's
> not supported.
>
> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

...

> +static void kvm_xen_check_poller(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int port)
> +{
> + struct kvm_vcpu_xen *vcpu_xen = vcpu_to_xen_vcpu(vcpu);
> +
> + if ((vcpu_xen->poll_evtchn == port ||
> + vcpu_xen->poll_evtchn == -1) &&
> + test_and_clear_bit(vcpu->vcpu_id, vcpu->kvm->arch.xen.poll_mask))
> + wake_up(&vcpu_xen->sched_waitq);
> +}

...

> + if (sched_poll.nr_ports == 1)
> + vcpu_xen->poll_evtchn = port;
> + else
> + vcpu_xen->poll_evtchn = -1;
> +
> + if (!wait_pending_event(vcpu, sched_poll.nr_ports, ports))
> + wait_event_interruptible_timeout(
> + vcpu_xen->sched_waitq,
> + wait_pending_event(vcpu, sched_poll.nr_ports, ports),
> + sched_poll.timeout ?: KTIME_MAX);

Hm, this doesn't wake on other interrupts, does it? I think it should.
Shouldn't it basically be like HLT, with an additional wakeup when the
listed ports are triggered even when they're masked?

At https://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/linux.git/commitdiff/ddfbdf1af
I've tried to make it use kvm_vcpu_halt(), and kvm_xen_check_poller()
sets KVM_REQ_UNBLOCK when an event is delivered to a monitored port.

I haven't quite got it to work yet, but does it seem like a sane
approach?

+ if (!wait_pending_event(vcpu, sched_poll.nr_ports, ports)) {
+ vcpu->arch.mp_state = KVM_MP_STATE_HALTED;
+ kvm_vcpu_halt(vcpu);





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