qemu/accel
Paolo Bonzini 52281c6d11 KVM: use store-release to mark dirty pages as harvested
The following scenario can happen if QEMU sets more RESET flags while
the KVM_RESET_DIRTY_RINGS ioctl is ongoing on another host CPU:

    CPU0                     CPU1               CPU2
    ------------------------ ------------------ ------------------------
                                                fill gfn0
                                                store-rel flags for gfn0
                                                fill gfn1
                                                store-rel flags for gfn1
    load-acq flags for gfn0
    set RESET for gfn0
    load-acq flags for gfn1
    set RESET for gfn1
    do ioctl! ----------->
                             ioctl(RESET_RINGS)
                                                fill gfn2
                                                store-rel flags for gfn2
    load-acq flags for gfn2
    set RESET for gfn2
                             process gfn0
                             process gfn1
                             process gfn2
    do ioctl!
    etc.

The three load-acquire in CPU0 synchronize with the three store-release
in CPU2, but CPU0 and CPU1 are only synchronized up to gfn1 and CPU1
may miss gfn2's fields other than flags.

The kernel must be able to cope with invalid values of the fields, and
userspace *will* invoke the ioctl once more.  However, once the RESET flag
is cleared on gfn2, it is lost forever, therefore in the above scenario
CPU1 must read the correct value of gfn2's fields.

Therefore RESET must be set with a store-release, that will synchronize
with KVM's load-acquire in CPU1.

Cc: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2022-09-18 09:17:40 +02:00
..
hvf Fix 'writeable' typos 2022-06-08 19:38:47 +01:00
kvm KVM: use store-release to mark dirty pages as harvested 2022-09-18 09:17:40 +02:00
qtest misc: Remove unnecessary "sysemu/cpu-timers.h" include 2022-03-06 13:15:42 +01:00
stubs accel/kvm/kvm-all: Introduce kvm_dirty_ring_size function 2022-07-20 12:15:08 +01:00
tcg accel/tcg: Add fast path for translator_ld* 2022-09-06 08:04:26 +01:00
xen sysemu: Let VMChangeStateHandler take boolean 'running' argument 2021-03-09 23:13:57 +01:00
accel-common.c accel: Introduce current_accel_name() 2022-06-27 11:18:17 +01:00
accel-softmmu.c accel: autoload modules 2021-07-09 18:21:33 +02:00
accel-softmmu.h accel: replace struct CpusAccel with AccelOpsClass 2021-02-05 10:24:15 -10:00
accel-user.c accel: extend AccelState and AccelClass to user-mode 2021-02-05 10:24:15 -10:00
dummy-cpus.c accel: move qtest CpusAccel functions to a common location 2020-10-24 07:23:19 +02:00
Kconfig Add NVMM accelerator: configure and build logic 2021-05-04 14:15:34 +02:00
meson.build accel/meson: Only build hw virtualization with system emulation 2022-03-06 13:15:42 +01:00