On Thu, Oct 28, 2021, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 19:12 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Hoist the CPU => APIC ID conversion for the Posted Interrupt descriptor
> > out of the loop to write the descriptor, preemption is disabled so the
> > CPU won't change, and if the APIC ID changes KVM has bigger problems.
> >
> > No functional change intended.
>
> Is preemption always disabled in vmx_vcpu_pi_load? vmx_vcpu_pi_load is called
> from vmx_vcpu_load, which is called indirectly from vcpu_load which is called
> from many ioctls, which userspace does. In these places I don't think that
> preemption is disabled.
Preemption is disabled in vcpu_load() by the get_cpu(). The "cpu" param that's
passed around the vcpu_load() stack is also why I think it's ok to _not_ assert
that preemption is disabled in vmx_vcpu_pi_load(); if preemption is enabled,
"cpu" is unstable and thus the entire "load" operation is busted.
#define get_cpu() ({ preempt_disable(); __smp_processor_id(); })
#define put_cpu() preempt_enable()
void vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
int cpu = get_cpu();
__this_cpu_write(kvm_running_vcpu, vcpu);
preempt_notifier_register(&vcpu->preempt_notifier);
kvm_arch_vcpu_load(vcpu, cpu);
put_cpu();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vcpu_load);
