Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: irqfd: Postpone resamplefd notify for oneshot interrupts

From: Dmytro Maluka
Date: Tue Aug 09 2022 - 20:56:41 EST

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Hi Rong,

On 8/10/22 12:02 AM, Liu, Rong L wrote:
> Hi Dmytro,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dmytro Maluka <dmy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2022 7:35 AM
>> To: Liu, Rong L <rong.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>; Christopherson,, Sean
>> <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>; Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>;
>> kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Ingo Molnar
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>> <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Eric Auger
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>> <zhenyuw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Tomasz Nowicki <tn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>> Grzegorz Jaszczyk <jaz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Dmitry Torokhov
>> <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: irqfd: Postpone resamplefd notify for
>> oneshot interrupts
>>
>> On 7/29/22 10:48 PM, Liu, Rong L wrote:
>>> Hi Dmytro,
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Dmytro Maluka <dmy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 7:08 AM
>>>> To: Liu, Rong L <rong.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>; Christopherson,, Sean
>>>> <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>; Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>;
>>>> kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Ingo Molnar
>>>> <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>; Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>; Dave Hansen
>>>> <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; x86@xxxxxxxxxx; H. Peter Anvin
>>>> <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Eric Auger
>>>> <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>; Alex Williamson
>>>> <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>; Zhenyu Wang
>>>> <zhenyuw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Tomasz Nowicki <tn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>>>> Grzegorz Jaszczyk <jaz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Dmitry Torokhov
>>>> <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: irqfd: Postpone resamplefd notify for
>>>> oneshot interrupts
>>>>
>>>> Hi Rong,
>>>>
>>>> On 7/26/22 01:44, Liu, Rong L wrote:
>>>>> Hi Dmytro,
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Dmytro Maluka <dmy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2022 8:59 AM
>>>>>> To: Christopherson,, Sean <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>; Paolo Bonzini
>>>>>> <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Ingo Molnar
>>>>>> <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>; Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>; Dave
>> Hansen
>>>>>> <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; x86@xxxxxxxxxx; H. Peter Anvin
>>>>>> <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Eric Auger
>>>>>> <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>; Alex Williamson
>>>>>> <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>; Liu, Rong L <rong.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx>;
>>>>>> Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Tomasz Nowicki
>>>>>> <tn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Grzegorz Jaszczyk <jaz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>> Dmitry
>>>>>> Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx>; Dmytro Maluka
>> <dmy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: irqfd: Postpone resamplefd notify for
>>>> oneshot
>>>>>> interrupts
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The existing KVM mechanism for forwarding of level-triggered
>>>> interrupts
>>>>>> using resample eventfd doesn't work quite correctly in the case of
>>>>>> interrupts that are handled in a Linux guest as oneshot interrupts
>>>>>> (IRQF_ONESHOT). Such an interrupt is acked to the device in its
>>>>>> threaded irq handler, i.e. later than it is acked to the interrupt
>>>>>> controller (EOI at the end of hardirq), not earlier.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Linux keeps such interrupt masked until its threaded handler
>> finishes,
>>>>>> to prevent the EOI from re-asserting an unacknowledged interrupt.
>>>>>> However, with KVM + vfio (or whatever is listening on the
>> resamplefd)
>>>>>> we don't check that the interrupt is still masked in the guest at the
>>>>>> moment of EOI. Resamplefd is notified regardless, so vfio
>> prematurely
>>>>>> unmasks the host physical IRQ, thus a new (unwanted) physical
>>>> interrupt
>>>>>> is generated in the host and queued for injection to the guest.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The fact that the virtual IRQ is still masked doesn't prevent this new
>>>>>> physical IRQ from being propagated to the guest, because:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. It is not guaranteed that the vIRQ will remain masked by the time
>>>>>> when vfio signals the trigger eventfd.
>>>>>> 2. KVM marks this IRQ as pending (e.g. setting its bit in the virtual
>>>>>> IRR register of IOAPIC on x86), so after the vIRQ is unmasked, this
>>>>>> new pending interrupt is injected by KVM to the guest anyway.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are observed at least 2 user-visible issues caused by those
>>>>>> extra erroneous pending interrupts for oneshot irq in the guest:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. System suspend aborted due to a pending wakeup interrupt from
>>>>>> ChromeOS EC (drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec.c).
>>>>>> 2. Annoying "invalid report id data" errors from ELAN0000
>> touchpad
>>>>>> (drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c), flooding the guest dmesg
>>>>>> every time the touchpad is touched.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This patch fixes the issue on x86 by checking if the interrupt is
>>>>>> unmasked when we receive irq ack (EOI) and, in case if it's masked,
>>>>>> postponing resamplefd notify until the guest unmasks it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Important notes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. It doesn't fix the issue for other archs yet, due to some missing
>>>>>> KVM functionality needed by this patch:
>>>>>> - calling mask notifiers is implemented for x86 only
>>>>>> - irqchip ->is_masked() is implemented for x86 only
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. It introduces an additional spinlock locking in the resample notify
>>>>>> path, since we are no longer just traversing an RCU list of irqfds
>>>>>> but also updating the resampler state. Hopefully this locking won't
>>>>>> noticeably slow down anything for anyone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Instead of using a spinlock waiting for the unmask event, is it
>> possible
>>>> to call
>>>>> resampler notify directly when unmask event happens, instead of
>>>> calling it on
>>>>> EOI?
>>>>
>>>> In this patch, resampler notify is already called directly when unmask
>>>> happens: e.g. with IOAPIC, when the guest unmasks the interrupt by
>>>> writing to IOREDTBLx register, ioapic_write_indirect() calls
>>>> kvm_fire_mask_notifiers() which calls irqfd_resampler_mask() which
>>>> notifies the resampler. On EOI we postpone it just by setting
>>>> resampler->pending to true, not by waiting. The spinlock is needed
>>>> merely to synchronize reading & updating resampler->pending and
>>>> resampler->masked values between possibly concurrently running
>>>> instances
>>>> of irqfd_resampler_ack() and/or irqfd_resampler_mask().
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dmytro
>>>>
>>>
>>> I mean the organization of the code. In current implementation,
>>> kvm_ioapic_update_eoi_one() calls kvm_notify_acked_irq(), in your
>> patch, why not
>>> call kvm_notify_acked_irq() from ioapic_write_indirect() (roughly at
>> the same
>>> place where kvm_fire_mask_notifiers is called), instead of calling it
>> from
>>> kvm_ioapic_update_eoi_one, since what your intention here is to
>> notify
>>> vfio of the end of interrupt at the event of ioapic unmask, instead of
>>> EOI?
>>
>> Ah ok, got your point.
>>
>> That was my initial approach in my PoC patch posted in [1]. But then I
>> dropped it, for 2 reasons:
>>
>> 1. Upon feedback from Sean I realized that kvm_notify_acked_irq() is
>> also doing some other important things besides notifying vfio. In
>> particular, in irqfd_resampler_ack() we also de-assert the vIRQ via
>> kvm_set_irq(). In case of IOAPIC it means clearing its bit in IRR
>> register. If we delay that until unmasking, it means that we change
>> the way how KVM emulates the interrupt controller. That would seem
>> inconsistent.
>>
>
> Thanks for clarification. I totally agree that it is important to keep the way
> how KVM emulates the interrupt controller.
>
>> Also kvm_notify_acked_irq() notifies the emulated PIT timer via
>> kvm_pit_ack_irq(). I haven't analyzed how exactly that PIT stuff
>> works, so I'm not sure if delaying that until unmask wouldn't cause
>> any unwanted effects.
>>
>> So the idea is to postpone eventfd_signal() only, to fix interaction
>> with vfio while keeping the rest of the KVM behavior intact. Because
>> the KVM job is to emulate the interrupt controller (which it already
>> does correctly), not the external device which is the job of vfio*.
>>
>
> I made a mistake in my last post. I mean just to delay the notification of
> vfio, but keep the rest of the code as intact as possible.

Hmm, thanks, until now I wasn't thinking about another possibility: call
delayed eventfd_signal() directly from ioapic_write_indirect().

However, now thinking about that, I don't really see advantages. We wouldn't
need to use mask notifiers then, but we would still need the same logic and
synchronization in irqfd_resampler_ack() for checking whether we should delay
the notification. Moreover, I'm not sure how would I then address the
resampler->masked initialization race issue, which I addressed in v2 by
implementing kvm_register_and_fire_irq_mask_notifier() in [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220805193919.1470653-3-dmy@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

>
>> 2. kvm_notify_acked_irq() can't be called under ioapic->lock, so in [1]
>> I was unlocking ioapic->lock in ioapic_write_indirect() with a naive
>> assumption that it was as safe as doing it in
>> kvm_ioapic_update_eoi_one(). That was probably racy, and I hadn't
>> figured out how to rework it in a race-free way.
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/31420943-8c5f-125c-a5ee-
>> d2fde2700083@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
>>
>> [*] By "vfio" I always mean "vfio or any other resamplefd user".
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dmytro
>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Regarding #2, there may be an alternative solution worth
>> considering:
>>>>>> extend KVM irqfd (userspace) API to send mask and unmask
>>>> notifications
>>>>>> directly to vfio/whatever, in addition to resample notifications, to
>>>>>> let vfio check the irq state on its own. There is already locking on
>>>>>> vfio side (see e.g. vfio_platform_unmask()), so this way we would
>>>> avoid
>>>>>> introducing any additional locking. Also such mask/unmask
>>>> notifications
>>>>>> could be useful for other cases.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/31420943-8c5f-125c-a5ee-
>>>>>> d2fde2700083@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
>>>>>> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dmytro Maluka <dmy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> include/linux/kvm_irqfd.h | 14 ++++++++++++
>>>>>> virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 45
>>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>> 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_irqfd.h b/include/linux/kvm_irqfd.h
>>>>>> index dac047abdba7..01754a1abb9e 100644
>>>>>> --- a/include/linux/kvm_irqfd.h
>>>>>> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_irqfd.h
>>>>>> @@ -19,6 +19,16 @@
>>>>>> * resamplefd. All resamplers on the same gsi are de-asserted
>>>>>> * together, so we don't need to track the state of each individual
>>>>>> * user. We can also therefore share the same irq source ID.
>>>>>> + *
>>>>>> + * A special case is when the interrupt is still masked at the
>> moment
>>>>>> + * an irq ack is received. That likely means that the interrupt has
>>>>>> + * been acknowledged to the interrupt controller but not
>>>> acknowledged
>>>>>> + * to the device yet, e.g. it might be a Linux guest's threaded
>>>>>> + * oneshot interrupt (IRQF_ONESHOT). In this case notifying
>> through
>>>>>> + * resamplefd is postponed until the guest unmasks the interrupt,
>>>>>> + * which is detected through the irq mask notifier. This prevents
>>>>>> + * erroneous extra interrupts caused by premature re-assert of an
>>>>>> + * unacknowledged interrupt by the resamplefd listener.
>>>>>> */
>>>>>> struct kvm_kernel_irqfd_resampler {
>>>>>> struct kvm *kvm;
>>>>>> @@ -28,6 +38,10 @@ struct kvm_kernel_irqfd_resampler {
>>>>>> */
>>>>>> struct list_head list;
>>>>>> struct kvm_irq_ack_notifier notifier;
>>>>>> + struct kvm_irq_mask_notifier mask_notifier;
>>>>>> + bool masked;
>>>>>> + bool pending;
>>>>>> + spinlock_t lock;
>>>>>> /*
>>>>>> * Entry in list of kvm->irqfd.resampler_list. Use for sharing
>>>>>> * resamplers among irqfds on the same gsi.
>>>>>> diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
>>>>>> index 50ddb1d1a7f0..9ff47ac33790 100644
>>>>>> --- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
>>>>>> +++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
>>>>>> @@ -75,6 +75,44 @@ irqfd_resampler_ack(struct
>>>> kvm_irq_ack_notifier
>>>>>> *kian)
>>>>>> kvm_set_irq(kvm, KVM_IRQFD_RESAMPLE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID,
>>>>>> resampler->notifier.gsi, 0, false);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> + spin_lock(&resampler->lock);
>>>>>> + if (resampler->masked) {
>>>>>> + resampler->pending = true;
>>>>>> + spin_unlock(&resampler->lock);
>>>>>> + return;
>>>>>> + }
>>>>>> + spin_unlock(&resampler->lock);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->irq_srcu);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + list_for_each_entry_srcu(irqfd, &resampler->list,
>> resampler_link,
>>>>>> + srcu_read_lock_held(&kvm->irq_srcu))
>>>>>> + eventfd_signal(irqfd->resamplefd, 1);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->irq_srcu, idx);
>>>>>> +}
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +static void
>>>>>> +irqfd_resampler_mask(struct kvm_irq_mask_notifier *kimn, bool
>>>>>> masked)
>>>>>> +{
>>>>>> + struct kvm_kernel_irqfd_resampler *resampler;
>>>>>> + struct kvm *kvm;
>>>>>> + struct kvm_kernel_irqfd *irqfd;
>>>>>> + int idx;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + resampler = container_of(kimn,
>>>>>> + struct kvm_kernel_irqfd_resampler,
>> mask_notifier);
>>>>>> + kvm = resampler->kvm;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> + spin_lock(&resampler->lock);
>>>>>> + resampler->masked = masked;
>>>>>> + if (masked || !resampler->pending) {
>>>>>> + spin_unlock(&resampler->lock);
>>>>>> + return;
>>>>>> + }
>>>>>> + resampler->pending = false;
>>>>>> + spin_unlock(&resampler->lock);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->irq_srcu);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> list_for_each_entry_srcu(irqfd, &resampler->list,
>> resampler_link,
>>>>>> @@ -98,6 +136,8 @@ irqfd_resampler_shutdown(struct
>>>>>> kvm_kernel_irqfd *irqfd)
>>>>>> if (list_empty(&resampler->list)) {
>>>>>> list_del(&resampler->link);
>>>>>> kvm_unregister_irq_ack_notifier(kvm, &resampler-
>>> notifier);
>>>>>> + kvm_unregister_irq_mask_notifier(kvm, resampler-
>>>>>>> mask_notifier.irq,
>>>>>> + &resampler->mask_notifier);
>>>>>> kvm_set_irq(kvm,
>> KVM_IRQFD_RESAMPLE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID,
>>>>>> resampler->notifier.gsi, 0, false);
>>>>>> kfree(resampler);
>>>>>> @@ -367,11 +407,16 @@ kvm_irqfd_assign(struct kvm *kvm,
>> struct
>>>>>> kvm_irqfd *args)
>>>>>> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&resampler->list);
>>>>>> resampler->notifier.gsi = irqfd->gsi;
>>>>>> resampler->notifier.irq_acked =
>> irqfd_resampler_ack;
>>>>>> + resampler->mask_notifier.func =
>> irqfd_resampler_mask;
>>>>>> + kvm_irq_is_masked(kvm, irqfd->gsi, &resampler-
>>>>>>> masked);
>>>>>> + spin_lock_init(&resampler->lock);
>>>>>> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&resampler->link);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> list_add(&resampler->link, &kvm-
>>> irqfds.resampler_list);
>>>>>> kvm_register_irq_ack_notifier(kvm,
>>>>>> &resampler->notifier);
>>>>>> + kvm_register_irq_mask_notifier(kvm, irqfd->gsi,
>>>>>> + &resampler->mask_notifier);
>>>>>> irqfd->resampler = resampler;
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 2.37.0.170.g444d1eabd0-goog
>>>>>

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