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authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2024-04-23 12:16:49 -0700
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2024-06-03 08:55:55 -0700
commit778c350eb580a497c9da2a01e314fe12674cb66a (patch)
treec918315eeefabed11c0b3c1843cf070f882f95de /virt
parentf8aadead19713c610c175a8d416bca6175e5840e (diff)
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Revert "KVM: async_pf: avoid recursive flushing of work items"
Now that KVM does NOT gift async #PF workers a "struct kvm" reference, don't bother skipping "done" workers when flushing/canceling queued workers, as the deadlock that was being fudged around can no longer occur. When workers, i.e. async_pf_execute(), were gifted a referenced, it was possible for a worker to put the last reference and trigger VM destruction, i.e. trigger flushing of a workqueue from a worker in said workqueue. Note, there is no actual lock, the deadlock was that a worker will be stuck waiting for itself (the workqueue code simulates a lock/unlock via lock_map_{acquire,release}()). Skipping "done" workers isn't problematic per se, but using work->vcpu as a "done" flag is confusing, e.g. it's not clear that async_pf.lock is acquired to protect the work->vcpu, NOT the processing of async_pf.queue (which is protected by vcpu->mutex). This reverts commit 22583f0d9c85e60c9860bc8a0ebff59fe08be6d7. Suggested-by: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240423191649.2885257-1-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/async_pf.c13
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/async_pf.c b/virt/kvm/async_pf.c
index 99a63bad0306..0ee4816b079a 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/async_pf.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/async_pf.c
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ static void async_pf_execute(struct work_struct *work)
spin_lock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
first = list_empty(&vcpu->async_pf.done);
list_add_tail(&apf->link, &vcpu->async_pf.done);
- apf->vcpu = NULL;
spin_unlock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
/*
@@ -120,8 +119,6 @@ static void kvm_flush_and_free_async_pf_work(struct kvm_async_pf *work)
void kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
- spin_lock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
-
/* cancel outstanding work queue item */
while (!list_empty(&vcpu->async_pf.queue)) {
struct kvm_async_pf *work =
@@ -129,23 +126,15 @@ void kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
typeof(*work), queue);
list_del(&work->queue);
- /*
- * We know it's present in vcpu->async_pf.done, do
- * nothing here.
- */
- if (!work->vcpu)
- continue;
-
- spin_unlock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_ASYNC_PF_SYNC
flush_work(&work->work);
#else
if (cancel_work_sync(&work->work))
kmem_cache_free(async_pf_cache, work);
#endif
- spin_lock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
}
+ spin_lock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
while (!list_empty(&vcpu->async_pf.done)) {
struct kvm_async_pf *work =
list_first_entry(&vcpu->async_pf.done,