FYI, unless I find a better alternative, I plan to go with this patch. ------snip------ [PATCH] s390x/kvm: Fix potential deadlock in sigp handling If two VCPUs exit at the same time and target each other with a sigp, both could run into a deadlock as run_on_cpu on CPU0 will free the BQL when starting the CPU1 target routine. CPU1 will run its sigp initiater for CPU0 before handling the run_on_cpu requests, thus resulting in a dead lock. As all qemu SIGPs are slow path anway we can use a big sigp lock and allow only one SIGP for the guest at a time. We will return condition code 2 (BUSY) on contention to the guest. Reported-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx> --- target-s390x/kvm.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/target-s390x/kvm.c b/target-s390x/kvm.c index f348745..a9fa831 100644 --- a/target-s390x/kvm.c +++ b/target-s390x/kvm.c @@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ const KVMCapabilityInfo kvm_arch_required_capabilities[] = { KVM_CAP_LAST_INFO }; +static QemuMutex qemu_sigp_mutex; + static int cap_sync_regs; static int cap_async_pf; static int cap_mem_op; @@ -358,6 +360,8 @@ int kvm_arch_init(MachineState *ms, KVMState *s) rc = compat_disable_facilities(s, fac_mask, ARRAY_SIZE(fac_mask)); } + qemu_mutex_init(&qemu_sigp_mutex); + return rc; } @@ -1845,6 +1849,11 @@ static int handle_sigp(S390CPU *cpu, struct kvm_run *run, uint8_t ipa1) status_reg = &env->regs[r1]; param = (r1 % 2) ? env->regs[r1] : env->regs[r1 + 1]; + if (qemu_mutex_trylock(&qemu_sigp_mutex)) { + ret = SIGP_CC_BUSY; + goto out; + } + switch (order) { case SIGP_SET_ARCH: ret = sigp_set_architecture(cpu, param, status_reg); @@ -1854,7 +1863,9 @@ static int handle_sigp(S390CPU *cpu, struct kvm_run *run, uint8_t ipa1) dst_cpu = s390_cpu_addr2state(env->regs[r3]); ret = handle_sigp_single_dst(dst_cpu, order, param, status_reg); } + qemu_mutex_unlock(&qemu_sigp_mutex); +out: trace_kvm_sigp_finished(order, CPU(cpu)->cpu_index, dst_cpu ? CPU(dst_cpu)->cpu_index : -1, ret); -- 2.5.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html