This series fixes four races. Two are easy to produce with a kvm-unit-test test[1], but the other two would be quite hard. I didn't even try to produce those. The two hard to produce races are addressed by changing vcpu->arch.pause and vcpu->arch.power_off to vcpu requests. The two easy to produce races are addressed in two different ways: the first takes advantage of power_off having been changed to a vcpu request, the second caches vcpu MPIDRs in order to avoid extracting them from sys_regs. When introducing the MPIDR cache we also introduce a new feature (userspace settable MPIDRs). Support for userspace settable MPIDRs was already posted once[2], but rejected due to not having a use case. We have one now, which is to satisfy QEMU's need for the MPDIR information very early, before vcpu-init has even run. While the original posting author wasn't me, I've taken authorship now, as I've changed the patch substantially. If anybody disagrees with that, then feel free to suggest alternatives. The QEMU counterpart has been posted[3]. This series is based on Radim's recent posting[4] that improves the vcpu-request framework. I've tested the series on a couple AArch64 platforms and compile-tested the arm bits. [1] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2017-February/023820.html [2] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2016-April/019691.html [3] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-02/msg06895.html [4] https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1340496.html Andrew Jones (4): KVM: arm/arm64: prepare to use vcpu requests KVM: arm/arm64: replace vcpu->arch.pause with a vcpu-request KVM: arm/arm64: replace vcpu->arch.power_off with a vcpu-request KVM: arm/arm64: allow userspace to set MPIDR Levente Kurusa (1): KVM: arm/arm64: fix race in kvm_psci_vcpu_on arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 2 +- arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 12 +++---- arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 49 ++++++++++++++------------- arch/arm/kvm/coproc.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- arch/arm/kvm/coproc.h | 6 ++++ arch/arm/kvm/handle_exit.c | 1 + arch/arm/kvm/psci.c | 18 ++++------ arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 2 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 12 +++---- arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c | 1 + arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 5 +++ include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 + 13 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-) -- 2.9.3 _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
