Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:12:23 +0000 | | From | Mark Rutland <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] kvm: fix latent guest entry/exit bugs |
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 01:42:26PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > > Am 18.01.22 um 13:02 schrieb Mark Rutland: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 06:45:36PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 1/14/22 16:19, Mark Rutland wrote: > > > > I also think there is another issue here. When an IRQ is taken from SIE, will > > > > user_mode(regs) always be false, or could it be true if the guest userspace is > > > > running? If it can be true I think tha context tracking checks can complain, > > > > and it*might* be possible to trigger a panic(). > > > > > > I think that it would be false, because the guest PSW is in the SIE block > > > and switched on SIE entry and exit, but I might be incorrect. > > > > Ah; that's the crux of my confusion: I had thought the guest PSW would > > be placed in the regular lowcore *_old_psw slots. From looking at the > > entry asm it looks like the host PSW (around the invocation of SIE) is > > stored there, since that's what the OUTSIDE + SIEEXIT handling is > > checking for. > > > > Assuming that's correct, I agree this problem doesn't exist, and there's > > only the common RCU/tracing/lockdep management to fix. > > Will you provide an s390 patch in your next iteration or shall we then do > one as soon as there is a v2? We also need to look into vsie.c where we > also call sie64a
I'm having a go at that now; my plan is to try to have an s390 patch as part of v2 in the next day or so.
Now that I have a rough idea of how SIE and exception handling works on s390, I think the structural changes to kvm-s390.c:__vcpu_run() and vsie.c:do_vsie_run() are fairly simple.
The only open bit is exactly how/where to identify when the interrupt entry code needs to wake RCU. I can add a per-cpu variable or thread flag to indicate that we're inside that EQS, or or I could move the irq enable/disable into the sie64a asm and identify that as with the OUTSIDE macro in the entry asm.
Thanks, Mark.
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