Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/4] KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Try to save hw pending state in save_pending_tables

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Tue Nov 24 2020 - 03:27:25 EST


On 2020-11-24 07:40, Shenming Lu wrote:
On 2020/11/23 17:18, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On 2020-11-23 06:54, Shenming Lu wrote:
After pausing all vCPUs and devices capable of interrupting, in order
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
See my comment below about this.

to save the information of all interrupts, besides flushing the pending
states in kvm’s vgic, we also try to flush the states of VLPIs in the
virtual pending tables into guest RAM, but we need to have GICv4.1 and
safely unmap the vPEs first.

Signed-off-by: Shenming Lu <lushenming@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
index 9cdf39a94a63..e1b3aa4b2b12 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

 #include <linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h>
+#include <linux/irq.h>
+#include <linux/irqdomain.h>
 #include <linux/kvm.h>
 #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
 #include <kvm/arm_vgic.h>
@@ -356,6 +358,39 @@ int vgic_v3_lpi_sync_pending_status(struct kvm
*kvm, struct vgic_irq *irq)
     return 0;
 }

+/*
+ * With GICv4.1, we can get the VLPI's pending state after unmapping
+ * the vPE. The deactivation of the doorbell interrupt will trigger
+ * the unmapping of the associated vPE.
+ */
+static void get_vlpi_state_pre(struct vgic_dist *dist)
+{
+    struct irq_desc *desc;
+    int i;
+
+    if (!kvm_vgic_global_state.has_gicv4_1)
+        return;
+
+    for (i = 0; i < dist->its_vm.nr_vpes; i++) {
+        desc = irq_to_desc(dist->its_vm.vpes[i]->irq);
+        irq_domain_deactivate_irq(irq_desc_get_irq_data(desc));
+    }
+}
+
+static void get_vlpi_state_post(struct vgic_dist *dist)

nit: the naming feels a bit... odd. Pre/post what?

My understanding is that the unmapping is a preparation for get_vlpi_state...
Maybe just call it unmap/map_all_vpes?

Yes, much better.

[...]

+        if (irq->hw) {
+            WARN_RATELIMIT(irq_get_irqchip_state(irq->host_irq,
+                        IRQCHIP_STATE_PENDING, &is_pending),
+                       "IRQ %d", irq->host_irq);

Isn't this going to warn like mad on a GICv4.0 system where this, by definition,
will generate an error?

As we have returned an error in save_its_tables if hw && !has_gicv4_1, we don't
have to warn this here?

Are you referring to the check in vgic_its_save_itt() that occurs in patch 4?
Fair enough, though I think the use of irq_get_irqchip_state() isn't quite
what we want, as per my comments on patch #1.


+        }
+
+        if (stored == is_pending)
             continue;

-        if (irq->pending_latch)
+        if (is_pending)
             val |= 1 << bit_nr;
         else
             val &= ~(1 << bit_nr);

         ret = kvm_write_guest_lock(kvm, ptr, &val, 1);
         if (ret)
-            return ret;
+            goto out;
     }
-    return 0;
+
+out:
+    get_vlpi_state_post(dist);

This bit worries me: you have unmapped the VPEs, so any interrupt that has been
generated during that phase is now forever lost (the GIC doesn't have ownership
of the pending tables).

In my opinion, during this phase, the devices capable of interrupting
should have already been paused (prevent from sending interrupts),
such as VFIO migration protocol has already realized it.

Is that a hard guarantee? Pausing devices *may* be possible for a limited
set of endpoints, but I'm not sure that is universally possible to restart
them and expect a consistent state (you have just dropped a bunch of network
packets on the floor...).

Do you really expect the VM to be restartable from that point? I don't see how
this is possible.


If the migration has encountered an error, the src VM might be
restarted, so we have to map the vPEs back.

As I said above, I doubt it is universally possible to do so, but
after all, this probably isn't worse that restarting on the target...

M.
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