Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 4 authors, 2016-02-12

Re: [PATCH kernel v2 2/6] KVM: PPC: Use RCU for arch.spapr_tce_tables

From: David Gibson <hidden>
Date: 2016-01-24 23:45:52
Also in: kvm

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 06:39:33PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
At the moment spapr_tce_tables is not protected against races.
That's not really true - it's protected by the kvm->lock mutex.
This makes
use of RCU-variants of list helpers. As some bits are executed in real
mode, this makes use of just introduced list_for_each_entry_rcu_notrace().

This converts release_spapr_tce_table() to a RCU scheduled handler.
The change itself is fine, though.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <redacted>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c           |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c    | 20 +++++++++++---------
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 271fefb..c7ee696 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ struct kvmppc_spapr_tce_table {
 	struct kvm *kvm;
 	u64 liobn;
 	u32 window_size;
+	struct rcu_head rcu;
 	struct page *pages[0];
 };
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
index 638c6d9..b34220d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s.c
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ int kvmppc_core_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.spapr_tce_tables);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU(&kvm->arch.spapr_tce_tables);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.rtas_tokens);
 #endif
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
index 54cf9bc..9526c34 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
@@ -45,19 +45,16 @@ static long kvmppc_stt_npages(unsigned long window_size)
 		     * sizeof(u64), PAGE_SIZE) / PAGE_SIZE;
 }
 
-static void release_spapr_tce_table(struct kvmppc_spapr_tce_table *stt)
+static void release_spapr_tce_table(struct rcu_head *head)
 {
-	struct kvm *kvm = stt->kvm;
+	struct kvmppc_spapr_tce_table *stt = container_of(head,
+			struct kvmppc_spapr_tce_table, rcu);
 	int i;
 
-	mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
-	list_del(&stt->list);
 	for (i = 0; i < kvmppc_stt_npages(stt->window_size); i++)
 		__free_page(stt->pages[i]);
+
 	kfree(stt);
-	mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
-
-	kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
 }
 
 static int kvm_spapr_tce_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
@@ -88,7 +85,12 @@ static int kvm_spapr_tce_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 {
 	struct kvmppc_spapr_tce_table *stt = filp->private_data;
 
-	release_spapr_tce_table(stt);
+	list_del_rcu(&stt->list);
+
+	kvm_put_kvm(stt->kvm);
+
+	call_rcu(&stt->rcu, release_spapr_tce_table);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -131,7 +133,7 @@ long kvm_vm_ioctl_create_spapr_tce(struct kvm *kvm,
 	kvm_get_kvm(kvm);
 
 	mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
-	list_add(&stt->list, &kvm->arch.spapr_tce_tables);
+	list_add_rcu(&stt->list, &kvm->arch.spapr_tce_tables);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
 
-- 
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david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au	| minimalist, thank you.  NOT _the_ _other_
				| _way_ _around_!
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