Running a kernel with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y yields the following diagnostic:
===============================
[ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
3.12.0-rc5-kvm+ #9 Not tainted
-------------------------------
/home/paulus/kernel/kvm-test/include/linux/kvm_host.h:473 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
1 lock held by qemu-system-ppc/4831:
#0: (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c00000000007af98>] .vcpu_load+0x28/0xd0
stack backtrace:
CPU: 28 PID: 4831 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Not tainted 3.12.0-rc5-kvm+ #9
Call Trace:
[c000000be462b2a0] [c00000000001644c] .show_stack+0x7c/0x1f0 (unreliable)
[c000000be462b370] [c000000000ad57c0] .dump_stack+0x88/0xb4
[c000000be462b3f0] [c0000000001315e8] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x138/0x180
[c000000be462b480] [c00000000007862c] .gfn_to_memslot+0x13c/0x170
[c000000be462b510] [c00000000007d384] .gfn_to_hva_prot+0x24/0x90
[c000000be462b5a0] [c00000000007d420] .kvm_read_guest_page+0x30/0xd0
[c000000be462b630] [c00000000007d528] .kvm_read_guest+0x68/0x110
[c000000be462b6e0] [c000000000084594] .kvmppc_rtas_hcall+0x34/0x180
[c000000be462b7d0] [c000000000097934] .kvmppc_pseries_do_hcall+0x74/0x830
[c000000be462b880] [c0000000000990e8] .kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv+0xff8/0x15a0
[c000000be462b9e0] [c0000000000839cc] .kvmppc_vcpu_run+0x2c/0x40
[c000000be462ba50] [c0000000000810b4] .kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x54/0x1b0
[c000000be462bae0] [c00000000007b508] .kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x478/0x730
[c000000be462bca0] [c00000000025532c] .do_vfs_ioctl+0x4dc/0x7a0
[c000000be462bd80] [c0000000002556b4] .SyS_ioctl+0xc4/0xe0
[c000000be462be30] [c000000000009ee4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98
To fix this, we take the SRCU read lock around the kvmppc_rtas_hcall()
call.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 31d9cfb..b51d5db 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -591,7 +591,9 @@ int kvmppc_pseries_do_hcall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (list_empty(&vcpu->kvm->arch.rtas_tokens))
return RESUME_HOST;
+ idx = srcu_read_lock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu);
rc = kvmppc_rtas_hcall(vcpu);
+ srcu_read_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu, idx);
if (rc == -ENOENT)
return RESUME_HOST;
--
1.8.4.2
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