MIPS: KVM: Fix timer race modifying guest CP0_Cause
The hrtimer callback for guest timer timeouts sets the guest's CP0_Cause.TI bit to indicate to the guest that a timer interrupt is pending, however there is no mutual exclusion implemented to prevent this occurring while the guest's CP0_Cause register is being read-modify-written elsewhere. When this occurs the setting of the CP0_Cause.TI bit is undone and the guest misses the timer interrupt and doesn't reprogram the CP0_Compare register for the next timeout. Currently another timer interrupt will be triggered again in another 10ms anyway due to the way timers are emulated, but after the MIPS timer emulation is fixed this would result in Linux guest time standing still and the guest scheduler not being invoked until the guest CP0_Count has looped around again, which at 100MHz takes just under 43 seconds. Currently this is the only asynchronous modification of guest registers, therefore it is fixed by adjusting the implementations of the kvm_set_c0_guest_cause(), kvm_clear_c0_guest_cause(), and kvm_change_c0_guest_cause() macros which are used for modifying the guest CP0_Cause register to use ll/sc to ensure atomic modification. This should work in both UP and SMP cases without requiring interrupts to be disabled. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Sanjay Lal <sanjayl@kymasys.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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