Re: [PATCHv7 10/16] x86/tdx: Convert shared memory back to private on kexec

[Dave Hansen]

On 2/12/24 02:44, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> +static void tdx_kexec_stop_conversion(bool crash)
> +{
> +	/* Stop new private<->shared conversions */
> +	conversion_allowed = false;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Make sure conversion_allowed is cleared before checking
> +	 * conversions_in_progress.
> +	 */
> +	barrier();
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Crash kernel reaches here with interrupts disabled: can't wait for
> +	 * conversions to finish.
> +	 *
> +	 * If race happened, just report and proceed.
> +	 */
> +	if (!crash) {
> +		unsigned long timeout;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Wait for in-flight conversions to complete.
> +		 *
> +		 * Do not wait more than 30 seconds.
> +		 */
> +		timeout = 30 * USEC_PER_SEC;
> +		while (atomic_read(&conversions_in_progress) && timeout--)
> +			udelay(1);
> +	}
> +
> +	if (atomic_read(&conversions_in_progress))
> +		pr_warn("Failed to finish shared<->private conversions\n");
> +}

I'd really prefer we find a way to do this with actual locks, especially
'conversion_allowed'.

This is _awfully_ close to being able to be handled by a rwsem where the
readers are the converters and tdx_kexec_stop_conversion() takes a write.