Pausing the VM from a vCPU thread is perilous with the current helpers,
as it waits indefinitely for a signal that never comes when invoked from
a vCPU thread. Instead, add a helper for pausing the VM from a vCPU,
working around the issue by explicitly marking the caller as paused
before proceeding.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/kvm/kvm-cpu.h | 3 +++
kvm-cpu.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/kvm/kvm-cpu.h b/include/kvm/kvm-cpu.h
index 0f16f8d6e872..9a4901bf94ca 100644
--- a/include/kvm/kvm-cpu.h
+++ b/include/kvm/kvm-cpu.h
@@ -29,4 +29,7 @@ void kvm_cpu__show_page_tables(struct kvm_cpu *vcpu);
void kvm_cpu__arch_nmi(struct kvm_cpu *cpu);
void kvm_cpu__run_on_all_cpus(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_cpu_task *task);
+void kvm_cpu__pause_vm(struct kvm_cpu *vcpu);
+void kvm_cpu__continue_vm(struct kvm_cpu *vcpu);
+
#endif /* KVM__KVM_CPU_H */
diff --git a/kvm-cpu.c b/kvm-cpu.c
index 7dec08894cd3..9eb857b859c3 100644
--- a/kvm-cpu.c
+++ b/kvm-cpu.c
@@ -141,6 +141,21 @@ void kvm_cpu__run_on_all_cpus(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_cpu_task *task)
mutex_unlock(&task_lock);
}
+void kvm_cpu__pause_vm(struct kvm_cpu *vcpu)
+{
+ /*
+ * Mark the calling vCPU as paused to avoid waiting indefinitely for a
+ * signal exit.
+ */
+ vcpu->paused = true;
+ kvm__pause(vcpu->kvm);
+}
+
+void kvm_cpu__continue_vm(struct kvm_cpu *vcpu)
+{
+ kvm__continue(vcpu->kvm);
+}
+
int kvm_cpu__start(struct kvm_cpu *cpu)
{
sigset_t sigset;
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