Re: [PATCH 1/1] RISCV: KVM: should not be interrupted when update the external interrupt pending

[Anup Patel]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 11:05 AM Yong-Xuan Wang
<yongxuan.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The emulated IMSIC update the external interrupt pending depending on the
> value of eidelivery and topei. It might lose an interrupt when it is
> interrupted before setting the new value to the pending status.

More simpler PATCH subject can be:
"RISCV: KVM: update external interrupt atomically for IMSIC swfile"

>
> For example, when VCPU0 sends an IPI to VCPU1 via IMSIC:
>
> VCPU0                           VCPU1
>
>                                 CSRSWAP topei = 0
>                                 The VCPU1 has claimed all the external
>                                 interrupt in its interrupt handler.
>
>                                 topei of VCPU1's IMSIC = 0
>
> set pending in VCPU1's IMSIC
>
> topei of VCPU1' IMSIC = 1
>
> set the external interrupt
> pending of VCPU1
>
>                                 clear the external interrupt pending
>                                 of VCPU1
>
> When the VCPU1 switches back to VS mode, it exits the interrupt handler
> because the result of CSRSWAP topei is 0. If there are no other external
> interrupts injected into the VCPU1's IMSIC, VCPU1 will never know this
> pending interrupt unless it initiative read the topei.
>
> If the interruption occurs between updating interrupt pending in IMSIC
> and updating external interrupt pending of VCPU, it will not cause a
> problem. Suppose that the VCPU1 clears the IPI pending in IMSIC right
> after VCPU0 sets the pending, the external interrupt pending of VCPU1
> will not be set because the topei is 0. But when the VCPU1 goes back to
> VS mode, the pending IPI will be reported by the CSRSWAP topei, it will
> not lose this interrupt.
>
> So we only need to make the external interrupt updating procedure as a
> critical section to avoid the problem.
>

Please add a "Fixes:" line here

> Tested-by: Roy Lin <roy.lin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Wayling Chen <wayling.chen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yong-Xuan Wang <yongxuan.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c
> index 6cf23b8adb71..0278aa0ca16a 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/aia_imsic.c
> @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ struct imsic {
>         u32 nr_eix;
>         u32 nr_hw_eix;
>
> +       spinlock_t extirq_update_lock;
> +

Please rename this lock to "swfile_extirq_lock".

>         /*
>          * At any point in time, the register state is in
>          * one of the following places:
> @@ -613,12 +615,17 @@ static void imsic_swfile_extirq_update(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
>         struct imsic *imsic = vcpu->arch.aia_context.imsic_state;
>         struct imsic_mrif *mrif = imsic->swfile;
> +       unsigned long flags;
> +

Add a short summary in a comment block about why external interrupt
updates are required to be in the critical section.

> +       spin_lock_irqsave(&imsic->extirq_update_lock, flags);
>
>         if (imsic_mrif_atomic_read(mrif, &mrif->eidelivery) &&
>             imsic_mrif_topei(mrif, imsic->nr_eix, imsic->nr_msis))
>                 kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_interrupt(vcpu, IRQ_VS_EXT);
>         else
>                 kvm_riscv_vcpu_unset_interrupt(vcpu, IRQ_VS_EXT);
> +
> +       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&imsic->extirq_update_lock, flags);
>  }
>
>  static void imsic_swfile_read(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool clear,
> @@ -1029,6 +1036,7 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_imsic_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>         imsic->nr_eix = BITS_TO_U64(imsic->nr_msis);
>         imsic->nr_hw_eix = BITS_TO_U64(kvm_riscv_aia_max_ids);
>         imsic->vsfile_hgei = imsic->vsfile_cpu = -1;
> +       spin_lock_init(&imsic->extirq_update_lock);
>
>         /* Setup IMSIC SW-file */
>         swfile_page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>

Regards,
Anup