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When new work is created that requires attention from the hypervisor
(e.g., to inject an interrupt into the guest), fast_vcpu_kick is used to
pull the target vcpu out of the guest if it may have been running.
Therefore the work creation side looks like this:
vcpu->arch.doorbell_request = 1;
kvmppc_fast_vcpu_kick_hv(vcpu) {
smp_mb();
cpu = vcpu->cpu;
if (cpu != -1)
send_ipi(cpu);
}
And the guest entry side *should* look like this:
vcpu->cpu = smp_processor_id();
smp_mb();
if (vcpu->arch.doorbell_request) {
// do something (abort entry or inject doorbell etc)
}
But currently the store and load are flipped, so it is possible for the
entry to see no doorbell pending, and the doorbell creation misses the
store to set cpu, resulting lost work (or at least delayed until the
next guest exit).
Fix this by reordering the entry operations and adding a smp_mb
between them. The P8 path appears to have a similar race which is
commented but not addressed yet.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220303053315.1056880-2-npiggin@gmail.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.