[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "arm/arm64: KVM: Require in-kernel vgic for the arch timers" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed May 20 12:30:40 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    arm/arm64: KVM: Require in-kernel vgic for the arch timers

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt12.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From b1ad37aa9eda5518d7c32d6c01e6663956a6f098 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 21:19:23 +0100
Subject: arm/arm64: KVM: Require in-kernel vgic for the arch timers

commit 05971120fca43e0357789a14b3386bb56eef2201 upstream.

It is curently possible to run a VM with architected timers support
without creating an in-kernel VGIC, which will result in interrupts from
the virtual timer going nowhere.

To address this issue, move the architected timers initialization to the
time when we run a VCPU for the first time, and then only initialize
(and enable) the architected timers if we have a properly created and
initialized in-kernel VGIC.

When injecting interrupts from the virtual timer to the vgic, the
current setup should ensure that this never calls an on-demand init of
the VGIC, which is the only call path that could return an error from
kvm_vgic_inject_irq(), so capture the return value and raise a warning
if there's an error there.

We also change the kvm_timer_init() function from returning an int to be
a void function, since the function always succeeds.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao at linaro.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/kvm/arm.c           | 13 +++++++++++--
 include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h | 10 ++++------
 virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c    | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
index 877e7cadc538..17c7ac58f887 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
@@ -442,6 +442,7 @@ static void update_vttbr(struct kvm *kvm)

 static int kvm_vcpu_first_run_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
+	struct kvm *kvm = vcpu->kvm;
 	int ret;

 	if (likely(vcpu->arch.has_run_once))
@@ -453,12 +454,20 @@ static int kvm_vcpu_first_run_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	 * Initialize the VGIC before running a vcpu the first time on
 	 * this VM.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(!vgic_initialized(vcpu->kvm))) {
-		ret = kvm_vgic_init(vcpu->kvm);
+	if (unlikely(!vgic_initialized(kvm))) {
+		ret = kvm_vgic_init(kvm);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
 	}

+	/*
+	 * Enable the arch timers only if we have an in-kernel VGIC
+	 * and it has been properly initialized, since we cannot handle
+	 * interrupts from the virtual timer with a userspace gic.
+	 */
+	if (irqchip_in_kernel(kvm) && vgic_initialized(kvm))
+		kvm_timer_enable(kvm);
+
 	return 0;
 }

diff --git a/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h b/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
index 6d9aeddc09bf..327b155e7cc9 100644
--- a/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
+++ b/include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ struct arch_timer_cpu {

 #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_ARM_TIMER
 int kvm_timer_hyp_init(void);
-int kvm_timer_init(struct kvm *kvm);
+void kvm_timer_enable(struct kvm *kvm);
+void kvm_timer_init(struct kvm *kvm);
 void kvm_timer_vcpu_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 			  const struct kvm_irq_level *irq);
 void kvm_timer_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
@@ -73,11 +74,8 @@ static inline int kvm_timer_hyp_init(void)
 	return 0;
 };

-static inline int kvm_timer_init(struct kvm *kvm)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
+static inline void kvm_timer_enable(struct kvm *kvm) {}
+static inline void kvm_timer_init(struct kvm *kvm) {}
 static inline void kvm_timer_vcpu_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 					const struct kvm_irq_level *irq) {}
 static inline void kvm_timer_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) {}
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
index 22fa819a9b6a..1c0772b340d8 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
@@ -61,12 +61,14 @@ static void timer_disarm(struct arch_timer_cpu *timer)

 static void kvm_timer_inject_irq(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
+	int ret;
 	struct arch_timer_cpu *timer = &vcpu->arch.timer_cpu;

 	timer->cntv_ctl |= ARCH_TIMER_CTRL_IT_MASK;
-	kvm_vgic_inject_irq(vcpu->kvm, vcpu->vcpu_id,
-			    timer->irq->irq,
-			    timer->irq->level);
+	ret = kvm_vgic_inject_irq(vcpu->kvm, vcpu->vcpu_id,
+				  timer->irq->irq,
+				  timer->irq->level);
+	WARN_ON(ret);
 }

 static irqreturn_t kvm_arch_timer_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
@@ -307,12 +309,24 @@ void kvm_timer_vcpu_terminate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	timer_disarm(timer);
 }

-int kvm_timer_init(struct kvm *kvm)
+void kvm_timer_enable(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
-	if (timecounter && wqueue) {
-		kvm->arch.timer.cntvoff = kvm_phys_timer_read();
+	if (kvm->arch.timer.enabled)
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * There is a potential race here between VCPUs starting for the first
+	 * time, which may be enabling the timer multiple times.  That doesn't
+	 * hurt though, because we're just setting a variable to the same
+	 * variable that it already was.  The important thing is that all
+	 * VCPUs have the enabled variable set, before entering the guest, if
+	 * the arch timers are enabled.
+	 */
+	if (timecounter && wqueue)
 		kvm->arch.timer.enabled = 1;
-	}
+}

-	return 0;
+void kvm_timer_init(struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+	kvm->arch.timer.cntvoff = kvm_phys_timer_read();
 }




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