Re: [PATCH 16/18] KVM: Don't take mmu_lock for range invalidation unless necessary

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On 31/03/21 23:05, Sean Christopherson wrote:
Wouldn't it be incorrect to lock a mutex (e.g. inside*another*  MMU
notifier's invalidate callback) while holding an rwlock_t?  That makes sense
because anybody that's busy waiting in write_lock potentially cannot be
preempted until the other task gets the mutex.  This is a potential
deadlock.

Yes?  I don't think I follow your point though.  Nesting a spinlock or rwlock
inside a rwlock is ok, so long as the locks are always taken in the same order,
i.e. it's never mmu_lock -> mmu_notifier_slots_lock.

*Another* MMU notifier could nest a mutex inside KVM's rwlock.

But... is it correct that the MMU notifier invalidate callbacks are always called with the mmap_sem taken (sometimes for reading, e.g. try_to_merge_with_ksm_page->try_to_merge_one_page->write_protect_page)? We could take it temporarily in install_memslots, since the MMU notifier's mm is stored in kvm->mm.

In this case, a pair of kvm_mmu_notifier_lock/unlock functions would be the best way to abstract it.

Paolo




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