On 09/10/21 04:12, Sean Christopherson wrote:
Don't update Posted Interrupt's NDST, a.k.a. the target pCPU, in the
pre-block path, as NDST is guaranteed to be up-to-date. The comment
about the vCPU being preempted during the update is simply wrong, as the
update path runs with IRQs disabled (from before snapshotting vcpu->cpu,
until after the update completes).
Right, it didn't as of commit bf9f6ac8d74969690df1485b33b7c238ca9f2269
(when VT-d posted interrupts were introduced).
The interrupt disable/enable pair was added in the same commit that
motivated the introduction of the sanity checks:
commit 8b306e2f3c41939ea528e6174c88cfbfff893ce1
Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jun 6 12:57:05 2017 +0200
KVM: VMX: avoid double list add with VT-d posted interrupts
In some cases, for example involving hot-unplug of assigned
devices, pi_post_block can forget to remove the vCPU from the
blocked_vcpu_list. When this happens, the next call to
pi_pre_block corrupts the list.
Fix this in two ways. First, check vcpu->pre_pcpu in pi_pre_block
and WARN instead of adding the element twice in the list. Second,
always do the list removal in pi_post_block if vcpu->pre_pcpu is
set (not -1).
The new code keeps interrupts disabled for the whole duration of
pi_pre_block/pi_post_block. This is not strictly necessary, but
easier to follow. For the same reason, PI.ON is checked only
after the cmpxchg, and to handle it we just call the post-block
code. This removes duplication of the list removal code.
At the time, I didn't notice the now useless NDST update.
Paolo
The vCPU can get preempted_before_ the update starts, but not during.
And if the vCPU is preempted before, vmx_vcpu_pi_load() is responsible
for updating NDST when the vCPU is scheduled back in. In that case, the
check against the wakeup vector in vmx_vcpu_pi_load() cannot be true as
that would require the notification vector to have been set to the wakeup
vector_before_ blocking.
Opportunistically switch to using vcpu->cpu for the list/lock lookups,
which presumably used pre_pcpu only for some phantom preemption logic.
