On 13/07/16 02:58, Andre Przywara wrote:
> In the moment our struct vgic_irq's are statically allocated at guest
> creation time. So getting a pointer to an IRQ structure is trivial and
> safe. LPIs are more dynamic, they can be mapped and unmapped at any time
> during the guest's _runtime_.
> In preparation for supporting LPIs we introduce reference counting for
> those structures using the kernel's kref infrastructure.
> Since private IRQs and SPIs are statically allocated, the refcount never
> drops to 0 at the moment, but we increase it when an IRQ gets onto a VCPU
> list and decrease it when it gets removed.
> This introduces vgic_put_irq(), which wraps kref_put and hides the
> release function from the callers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h | 1 +
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-init.c | 2 ++
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v2.c | 8 ++++++
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c | 20 +++++++++------
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c | 1 +
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v3.c | 1 +
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.h | 1 +
> 9 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
[...]
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
> @@ -48,13 +48,20 @@ struct vgic_global __section(.hyp.text) kvm_vgic_global_state;
> struct vgic_irq *vgic_get_irq(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> u32 intid)
> {
> - /* SGIs and PPIs */
> - if (intid <= VGIC_MAX_PRIVATE)
> - return &vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.private_irqs[intid];
> + struct vgic_dist *dist = &kvm->arch.vgic;
> + struct vgic_irq *irq;
>
> - /* SPIs */
> - if (intid <= VGIC_MAX_SPI)
> - return &kvm->arch.vgic.spis[intid - VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS];
> + if (intid <= VGIC_MAX_PRIVATE) { /* SGIs and PPIs */
> + irq = &vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.private_irqs[intid];
> + kref_get(&irq->refcount);
> + return irq;
> + }
> +
> + if (intid <= VGIC_MAX_SPI) { /* SPIs */
> + irq = &dist->spis[intid - VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS];
> + kref_get(&irq->refcount);
> + return irq;
> + }
I'm a bit concerned by the fact that we perform the refcounting on
objects that shouldn't be concerned by it. None of the static interrupts
should have to suffer from the overhead, as they cannot be freed.
So I came up with the following patch:
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
index c7cd1a3..6bbff9a 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c
@@ -91,19 +91,12 @@ struct vgic_irq *vgic_get_irq(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
u32 intid)
{
struct vgic_dist *dist = &kvm->arch.vgic;
- struct vgic_irq *irq;
- if (intid <= VGIC_MAX_PRIVATE) { /* SGIs and PPIs */
- irq = &vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.private_irqs[intid];
- kref_get(&irq->refcount);
- return irq;
- }
+ if (intid <= VGIC_MAX_PRIVATE) /* SGIs and PPIs */
+ return &vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.private_irqs[intid];
- if (intid <= VGIC_MAX_SPI) { /* SPIs */
- irq = &dist->spis[intid - VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS];
- kref_get(&irq->refcount);
- return irq;
- }
+ if (intid <= VGIC_MAX_SPI) /* SPIs */
+ return &dist->spis[intid - VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS];
if (intid >= VGIC_MIN_LPI) /* LPIs */
return vgic_get_lpi(kvm, intid);
@@ -112,6 +105,14 @@ struct vgic_irq *vgic_get_irq(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
return NULL;
}
+static void vgic_get_irq_kref(struct vgic_irq *irq)
+{
+ if (irq->intid < VGIC_MIN_LPI)
+ return;
+
+ kref_get(&irq->refcount);
+}
+
/*
* We can't do anything in here, because we lack the kvm pointer to
* lock and remove the item from the lpi_list. So we keep this function
@@ -125,10 +126,10 @@ void vgic_put_irq(struct kvm *kvm, struct vgic_irq *irq)
{
struct vgic_dist *dist;
- if (!kref_put(&irq->refcount, vgic_irq_release))
+ if (irq->intid < VGIC_MIN_LPI)
return;
- if (irq->intid < VGIC_MIN_LPI)
+ if (!kref_put(&irq->refcount, vgic_irq_release))
return;
dist = &kvm->arch.vgic;
@@ -313,7 +314,11 @@ retry:
goto retry;
}
- kref_get(&irq->refcount);
+ /*
+ * Grab a reference to the irq to reflect the fact that it is
+ * now in the ap_list.
+ */
+ vgic_get_irq_kref(irq);
list_add_tail(&irq->ap_list, &vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.ap_list_head);
irq->vcpu = vcpu;
@@ -473,8 +478,11 @@ retry:
spin_unlock(&irq->irq_lock);
/*
- * This put matches the get when we added the LPI to
- * the ap_list. We now drop the reference from the list.
+ * This vgic_put_irq call matches the
+ * vgic_get_irq_kref in vgic_queue_irq_unlock,
+ * where we added the LPI to the ap_list. As
+ * we remove the irq from the list, we drop
+ * also drop the refcount.
*/
vgic_put_irq(vcpu->kvm, irq);
continue;
Thoughts?
Thanks,
M.
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