Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: check for pic and ioapic presence before use

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2016-12-21 20:44 GMT+08:00 Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 2016-12-20 19:59+0800, Wanpeng Li:
>> 2016-11-24 20:42 GMT+08:00 Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> 2016-11-23 22:58+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
>>>> On 23/11/2016 21:25, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/irq_comm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/irq_comm.c
>>>>> index 25810b144b58..ddd63b8b176e 100644
>>>>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/irq_comm.c
>>>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/irq_comm.c
>>>>> @@ -41,6 +41,15 @@ static int kvm_set_pic_irq(struct kvm_kernel_irq_routing_entry *e,
>>>>>                         bool line_status)
>>>>>  {
>>>>>      struct kvm_pic *pic = pic_irqchip(kvm);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +    /*
>>>>> +     * XXX: rejecting pic routes when pic isn't in use would be better,
>>>>> +     * but the default routing table is installed while kvm->arch.vpic is
>>>>> +     * NULL and KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP can race with KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING.
>>>>> +     */
>>>>> +    if (!pic)
>>>>> +            return -1;
>>>>> +
>>>>>      return kvm_pic_set_irq(pic, e->irqchip.pin, irq_source_id, level);
>>>>>  }
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can you explain the race with the default routing table better?  It
>>>> seems to me that it can only make the routing table go from invalid to
>>>> valid (there is no KVM_DESTROY_IRQCHIP) so it's benign.
>>>
>>> Oops, I wrote the race with wrong IOCTL -- it should be KVM_IRQ_LINE.
>>>
>>>  1) set KVM_CAP_SPLIT_IRQCHIP (unlocks KVM_IRQ_LINE)
>>>  a) call KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP (creates routes while !kvm->arch.vpic)
>>>  b) concurrently call KVM_IRQ_LINE for PIO routes (dereferences NULL)
>>
>> If we should not go through irqfd if irqchip is split?
>
> I also remember hearing about that -- do you remember where it was?

Not sure. :)

>
> The documentation does not say that and irqfd is mostly optimization for
> KVM_IRQ_LINE ... QEMU uses KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS with split irqchip, so we
> can't easily say the opposite now.

How irqfd optimizes KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS? I didn't observe that they
have relationship.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li
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