On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:54:39 +0000,
Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:17:20 +0000,
> Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gankulkarni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I am currently working around this with "nohlt" kernel param to
> > NestedVM. Any suggestions to handle/fix this case/issue and avoid the
> > slowness of booting of NestedVM with more cores?
> >
> > Note: Guest-Hypervisor and NestedVM are using default kernel installed
> > using Fedora 36 iso.
>
> Despite what I said earlier, I have a vague idea here, thanks to the
> interesting call traces that you provided (this is really awesome work
> BTW, given how hard it is to trace things across 3 different kernels).
>
> We can slightly limit the impact of the prepare/finish sequence if the
> guest hypervisor only accesses the active registers for SGIs/PPIs on
> the vcpu that owns them, forbidding any cross-CPU-to-redistributor
> access.
>
> Something along these lines, which is only boot-tested. Let me know
> how this fares for you.
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> index b32d434c1d4a..1cca45be5335 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
> @@ -473,9 +473,10 @@ int vgic_uaccess_write_cpending(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> * active state can be overwritten when the VCPU's state is synced coming back
> * from the guest.
> *
> - * For shared interrupts as well as GICv3 private interrupts, we have to
> - * stop all the VCPUs because interrupts can be migrated while we don't hold
> - * the IRQ locks and we don't want to be chasing moving targets.
> + * For shared interrupts as well as GICv3 private interrupts accessed from the
> + * non-owning CPU, we have to stop all the VCPUs because interrupts can be
> + * migrated while we don't hold the IRQ locks and we don't want to be chasing
> + * moving targets.
> *
> * For GICv2 private interrupts we don't have to do anything because
> * userspace accesses to the VGIC state already require all VCPUs to be
> @@ -484,7 +485,8 @@ int vgic_uaccess_write_cpending(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> */
> static void vgic_access_active_prepare(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 intid)
> {
> - if (vcpu->kvm->arch.vgic.vgic_model == KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3 ||
> + if ((vcpu->kvm->arch.vgic.vgic_model == KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3 &&
> + vcpu == kvm_get_running_vcpu()) ||
This should obviously be
+ vcpu != kvm_get_running_vcpu()) ||
> intid >= VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS)
> kvm_arm_halt_guest(vcpu->kvm);
> }
> @@ -492,7 +494,8 @@ static void vgic_access_active_prepare(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 intid)
> /* See vgic_access_active_prepare */
> static void vgic_access_active_finish(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 intid)
> {
> - if (vcpu->kvm->arch.vgic.vgic_model == KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3 ||
> + if ((vcpu->kvm->arch.vgic.vgic_model == KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3 &&
> + vcpu == kvm_get_running_vcpu()) ||
Same here.
> intid >= VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS)
> kvm_arm_resume_guest(vcpu->kvm);
> }
Thanks,
M.
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