KVM: xen: allow vcpu_info content to be 'safely' copied
If the guest sets an explicit vcpu_info GPA then, for any of the first 32
vCPUs, the content of the default vcpu_info in the shared_info page must be
copied into the new location. Because this copy may race with event
delivery (which updates the 'evtchn_pending_sel' field in vcpu_info) we
need a way to defer that until the copy is complete.
Happily there is already a shadow of 'evtchn_pending_sel' in kvm_vcpu_xen
that is used in atomic context if the vcpu_info PFN cache has been
invalidated so that the update of vcpu_info can be deferred until the
cache can be refreshed (on vCPU thread's the way back into guest context).
So let's also use this shadow if the vcpu_info cache has been
*deactivated*, so that the VMM can safely copy the vcpu_info content and
then re-activate the cache with the new GPA. To do this, all we need to do
is stop considering an inactive vcpu_info cache as a hard error in
kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast().
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
--- Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org
v6:
- New in this version.