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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2017-02-08 13:50:15 +0300
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2017-02-17 14:27:37 +0300
commit460df4c1fc7c00829050c08d6368dc6e6beef307 (patch)
tree72c996f591c82ce12e2bc544ae9c9cc6e2aed81e /arch/s390/kvm
parentbbd6411513aa8ef3ea02abab61318daf87c1af1e (diff)
downloadlinux-460df4c1fc7c00829050c08d6368dc6e6beef307.tar.xz
KVM: race-free exit from KVM_RUN without POSIX signals
The purpose of the KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK API is to let userspace "kick" a VCPU out of KVM_RUN through a POSIX signal. A signal is attached to a dummy signal handler; by blocking the signal outside KVM_RUN and unblocking it inside, this possible race is closed: VCPU thread service thread -------------------------------------------------------------- check flag set flag raise signal (signal handler does nothing) KVM_RUN However, one issue with KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK is that it has to take tsk->sighand->siglock on every KVM_RUN. This lock is often on a remote NUMA node, because it is on the node of a thread's creator. Taking this lock can be very expensive if there are many userspace exits (as is the case for SMP Windows VMs without Hyper-V reference time counter). As an alternative, we can put the flag directly in kvm_run so that KVM can see it: VCPU thread service thread -------------------------------------------------------------- raise signal signal handler set run->immediate_exit KVM_RUN check run->immediate_exit Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390/kvm')
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index 502de74ea984..99e35fe0dea8 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -370,6 +370,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
case KVM_CAP_S390_IRQCHIP:
case KVM_CAP_VM_ATTRIBUTES:
case KVM_CAP_MP_STATE:
+ case KVM_CAP_IMMEDIATE_EXIT:
case KVM_CAP_S390_INJECT_IRQ:
case KVM_CAP_S390_USER_SIGP:
case KVM_CAP_S390_USER_STSI:
@@ -2798,6 +2799,9 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *kvm_run)
int rc;
sigset_t sigsaved;
+ if (kvm_run->immediate_exit)
+ return -EINTR;
+
if (guestdbg_exit_pending(vcpu)) {
kvm_s390_prepare_debug_exit(vcpu);
return 0;