From 460df4c1fc7c00829050c08d6368dc6e6beef307 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 11:50:15 +0100 Subject: KVM: race-free exit from KVM_RUN without POSIX signals MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The purpose of the KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK API is to let userspace "kick" a VCPU out of KVM_RUN through a POSIX signal. A signal is attached to a dummy signal handler; by blocking the signal outside KVM_RUN and unblocking it inside, this possible race is closed: VCPU thread service thread -------------------------------------------------------------- check flag set flag raise signal (signal handler does nothing) KVM_RUN However, one issue with KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK is that it has to take tsk->sighand->siglock on every KVM_RUN. This lock is often on a remote NUMA node, because it is on the node of a thread's creator. Taking this lock can be very expensive if there are many userspace exits (as is the case for SMP Windows VMs without Hyper-V reference time counter). As an alternative, we can put the flag directly in kvm_run so that KVM can see it: VCPU thread service thread -------------------------------------------------------------- raise signal signal handler set run->immediate_exit KVM_RUN check run->immediate_exit Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/kvm.h') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h index 7964b970b9ad..f51d5082a377 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h @@ -218,7 +218,8 @@ struct kvm_hyperv_exit { struct kvm_run { /* in */ __u8 request_interrupt_window; - __u8 padding1[7]; + __u8 immediate_exit; + __u8 padding1[6]; /* out */ __u32 exit_reason; @@ -881,6 +882,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_resize_hpt { #define KVM_CAP_SPAPR_RESIZE_HPT 133 #define KVM_CAP_PPC_MMU_RADIX 134 #define KVM_CAP_PPC_MMU_HASH_V3 135 +#define KVM_CAP_IMMEDIATE_EXIT 136 #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING -- cgit