Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753543Ab1BGPAP (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:00:15 -0500 Received: from goliath.siemens.de ([192.35.17.28]:28664 "EHLO goliath.siemens.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752978Ab1BGPAN (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:00:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4D5008F0.5060200@siemens.com> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:00:00 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); de; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080226 SUSE/2.0.0.12-1.1 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zachary Amsden CC: Avi Kivity , Marcelo Tosatti , kvm , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Convert tsc_write_lock to raw_spinlock References: <4D4BCB97.6000900@siemens.com> <4D4C698A.4010201@redhat.com> <4D4FD8EE.6040009@siemens.com> <4D4FFD97.6010805@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4D4FFD97.6010805@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2888 Lines: 76 On 2011-02-07 15:11, Zachary Amsden wrote: > On 02/07/2011 06:35 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2011-02-04 22:03, Zachary Amsden wrote: >> >>> On 02/04/2011 04:49 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> >>>> Code under this lock requires non-preemptibility. Ensure this also over >>>> -rt by converting it to raw spinlock. >>>> >>>> >>> Oh dear, I had forgotten about that. I believe kvm_lock might have the >>> same assumption in a few places regarding clock. >>> >> I only found a problematic section in kvmclock_cpufreq_notifier. Didn't >> see this during my tests as I have CPUFREQ disabled in my .config. >> >> We may need something like this as converting kvm_lock would likely be >> overkill: >> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c >> index 36f54fb..971ee0d 100644 >> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c >> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c >> @@ -4530,7 +4530,7 @@ static int kvmclock_cpufreq_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long va >> struct cpufreq_freqs *freq = data; >> struct kvm *kvm; >> struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu; >> - int i, send_ipi = 0; >> + int i, me, send_ipi = 0; >> >> /* >> * We allow guests to temporarily run on slowing clocks, >> @@ -4583,9 +4583,11 @@ static int kvmclock_cpufreq_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long va >> kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm) { >> if (vcpu->cpu != freq->cpu) >> continue; >> + me = get_cpu(); >> kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_CLOCK_UPDATE, vcpu); >> - if (vcpu->cpu != smp_processor_id()) >> + if (vcpu->cpu != me) >> send_ipi = 1; >> + put_cpu(); >> } >> } >> spin_unlock(&kvm_lock); >> >> Jan >> >> > > That looks like a good solution, and I do believe that is the only place > the lock is used in that fashion - please add a comment though in the > giant comment block above that preemption protection is needed for RT. > Also, gcc should catch this, but moving the me variable into the > kvm_for_each_vcpu loop should allow for better register allocation. > > The only other thing I can think of is that RT lock preemption may break > some of the CPU initialization semantics enforced by kvm_lock if you > happen to get a hotplug event just as the module is loading. That > should be rare, but if it is indeed a bug, it would be nice to fix, it > would be a panic for sure not to initialize VMX. Hmm, is a cpu hotplug notifier allowed to run sleepy code? Can't imagine. So we already have a strong reason to convert kvm_lock to a raw_spinlock which obsoletes the above workaround. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/