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authorWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>2019-06-11 20:23:48 +0800
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2019-07-02 18:56:01 +0200
commitf85f6e7bc9682a6d8b342c010cd6aa58521fdeec (patch)
tree5ca2f323769a35386e2a24b4c21d4c099778e950
parentx86/kvm/nVMX: fix VMCLEAR when Enlightened VMCS is in use (diff)
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KVM: X86: Yield to IPI target if necessary
When sending a call-function IPI-many to vCPUs, yield if any of the IPI target vCPUs was preempted, we just select the first preempted target vCPU which we found since the state of target vCPUs can change underneath and to avoid race conditions. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt11
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c21
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h1
4 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt
index da24c138c8d1..da210651f714 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt
@@ -141,3 +141,14 @@ a0 corresponds to the APIC ID in the third argument (a2), bit 1
corresponds to the APIC ID a2+1, and so on.
Returns the number of CPUs to which the IPIs were delivered successfully.
+
+7. KVM_HC_SCHED_YIELD
+------------------------
+Architecture: x86
+Status: active
+Purpose: Hypercall used to yield if the IPI target vCPU is preempted
+
+a0: destination APIC ID
+
+Usage example: When sending a call-function IPI-many to vCPUs, yield if
+any of the IPI target vCPUs was preempted.
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
index 21d5f0240595..2a8e0b6b9805 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#define KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF_VMEXIT 10
#define KVM_FEATURE_PV_SEND_IPI 11
#define KVM_FEATURE_POLL_CONTROL 12
+#define KVM_FEATURE_PV_SCHED_YIELD 13
#define KVM_HINTS_REALTIME 0
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index 5169b8cc35bb..82caf01b63dd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -527,6 +527,21 @@ static void kvm_setup_pv_ipi(void)
pr_info("KVM setup pv IPIs\n");
}
+static void kvm_smp_send_call_func_ipi(const struct cpumask *mask)
+{
+ int cpu;
+
+ native_send_call_func_ipi(mask);
+
+ /* Make sure other vCPUs get a chance to run if they need to. */
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, mask) {
+ if (vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)) {
+ kvm_hypercall1(KVM_HC_SCHED_YIELD, per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_apicid, cpu));
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+}
+
static void __init kvm_smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
{
native_smp_prepare_cpus(max_cpus);
@@ -638,6 +653,12 @@ static void __init kvm_guest_init(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
smp_ops.smp_prepare_cpus = kvm_smp_prepare_cpus;
smp_ops.smp_prepare_boot_cpu = kvm_smp_prepare_boot_cpu;
+ if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_SCHED_YIELD) &&
+ !kvm_para_has_hint(KVM_HINTS_REALTIME) &&
+ kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME)) {
+ smp_ops.send_call_func_ipi = kvm_smp_send_call_func_ipi;
+ pr_info("KVM setup pv sched yield\n");
+ }
if (cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "x86/kvm:online",
kvm_cpu_online, kvm_cpu_down_prepare) < 0)
pr_err("kvm_guest: Failed to install cpu hotplug callbacks\n");
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h
index 6c0ce49931e5..8b86609849b9 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#define KVM_HC_MIPS_CONSOLE_OUTPUT 8
#define KVM_HC_CLOCK_PAIRING 9
#define KVM_HC_SEND_IPI 10
+#define KVM_HC_SCHED_YIELD 11
/*
* hypercalls use architecture specific