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-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c32
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
index 3654b4c835ef..2a5db1352722 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
@@ -180,21 +180,37 @@ unsigned long vgic_mmio_read_active(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
static void vgic_mmio_change_active(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vgic_irq *irq,
bool new_active_state)
{
+ struct kvm_vcpu *requester_vcpu;
spin_lock(&irq->irq_lock);
+
+ /*
+ * The vcpu parameter here can mean multiple things depending on how
+ * this function is called; when handling a trap from the kernel it
+ * depends on the GIC version, and these functions are also called as
+ * part of save/restore from userspace.
+ *
+ * Therefore, we have to figure out the requester in a reliable way.
+ *
+ * When accessing VGIC state from user space, the requester_vcpu is
+ * NULL, which is fine, because we guarantee that no VCPUs are running
+ * when accessing VGIC state from user space so irq->vcpu->cpu is
+ * always -1.
+ */
+ requester_vcpu = kvm_arm_get_running_vcpu();
+
/*
* If this virtual IRQ was written into a list register, we
* have to make sure the CPU that runs the VCPU thread has
- * synced back LR state to the struct vgic_irq. We can only
- * know this for sure, when either this irq is not assigned to
- * anyone's AP list anymore, or the VCPU thread is not
- * running on any CPUs.
+ * synced back the LR state to the struct vgic_irq.
*
- * In the opposite case, we know the VCPU thread may be on its
- * way back from the guest and still has to sync back this
- * IRQ, so we release and re-acquire the spin_lock to let the
- * other thread sync back the IRQ.
+ * As long as the conditions below are true, we know the VCPU thread
+ * may be on its way back from the guest (we kicked the VCPU thread in
+ * vgic_change_active_prepare) and still has to sync back this IRQ,
+ * so we release and re-acquire the spin_lock to let the other thread
+ * sync back the IRQ.
*/
while (irq->vcpu && /* IRQ may have state in an LR somewhere */
+ irq->vcpu != requester_vcpu && /* Current thread is not the VCPU thread */
irq->vcpu->cpu != -1) /* VCPU thread is running */
cond_resched_lock(&irq->irq_lock);