Re: [PATCH v3] arm64: paravirt: Use RCU read locks to guard stolen_time
From: Srivatsa S. Bhat <hidden>
Date: 2022-05-14 02:54:52
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On 5/13/22 10:46 AM, Elliot Berman wrote:
From: Prakruthi Deepak Heragu <redacted> During hotplug, the stolen time data structure is unmapped and memset. There is a possibility of the timer IRQ being triggered before memset and stolen time is getting updated as part of this timer IRQ handler. This causes the below crash in timer handler - [ 3457.473139][ C5] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc03df05148 ... [ 3458.154398][ C5] Call trace: [ 3458.157648][ C5] para_steal_clock+0x30/0x50 [ 3458.162319][ C5] irqtime_account_process_tick+0x30/0x194 [ 3458.168148][ C5] account_process_tick+0x3c/0x280 [ 3458.173274][ C5] update_process_times+0x5c/0xf4 [ 3458.178311][ C5] tick_sched_timer+0x180/0x384 [ 3458.183164][ C5] __run_hrtimer+0x160/0x57c [ 3458.187744][ C5] hrtimer_interrupt+0x258/0x684 [ 3458.192698][ C5] arch_timer_handler_virt+0x5c/0xa0 [ 3458.198002][ C5] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0xdc/0x414 [ 3458.203385][ C5] handle_domain_irq+0xa8/0x168 [ 3458.208241][ C5] gic_handle_irq.34493+0x54/0x244 [ 3458.213359][ C5] call_on_irq_stack+0x40/0x70 [ 3458.218125][ C5] do_interrupt_handler+0x60/0x9c [ 3458.223156][ C5] el1_interrupt+0x34/0x64 [ 3458.227560][ C5] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x1c/0x2c [ 3458.232503][ C5] el1h_64_irq+0x7c/0x80 [ 3458.236736][ C5] free_vmap_area_noflush+0x108/0x39c [ 3458.242126][ C5] remove_vm_area+0xbc/0x118 [ 3458.246714][ C5] vm_remove_mappings+0x48/0x2a4 [ 3458.251656][ C5] __vunmap+0x154/0x278 [ 3458.255796][ C5] stolen_time_cpu_down_prepare+0xc0/0xd8 [ 3458.261542][ C5] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x248/0xc34 [ 3458.266842][ C5] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x1c4/0x248 [ 3458.271696][ C5] smpboot_thread_fn+0x1b0/0x400 [ 3458.276638][ C5] kthread+0x17c/0x1e0 [ 3458.280691][ C5] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 As a fix, introduce rcu lock to update stolen time structure. Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Prakruthi Deepak Heragu <redacted> Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <redacted> ---
Looks good to me, but one quick question though (see below). Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) <redacted>
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static int stolen_time_cpu_down_prepare(unsigned int cpu) { + struct pvclock_vcpu_stolen_time *kaddr = NULL; struct pv_time_stolen_time_region *reg; reg = this_cpu_ptr(&stolen_time_region); if (!reg->kaddr) return 0; - memunmap(reg->kaddr); - memset(reg, 0, sizeof(*reg)); + kaddr = rcu_replace_pointer(reg->kaddr, NULL, true); + synchronize_rcu(); + memunmap(kaddr);
The original code used to memset the stolen time region, but this patch seems to drop it. Was that change intentional? Regards, Srivatsa _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization