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[v6,12/51] i386/xen: Implement SCHEDOP_poll and SCHEDOP_yield

Message ID 20230110122042.1562155-13-dwmw2@infradead.org
State New
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Commit Message

David Woodhouse Jan. 10, 2023, 12:20 p.m. UTC
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

They both do the same thing and just call sched_yield. This is enough to
stop the Linux guest panicking when running on a host kernel which doesn't
intercept SCHEDOP_poll and lets it reach userspace.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
---
 target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

Comments

Paul Durrant Jan. 16, 2023, 4:36 p.m. UTC | #1
On 10/01/2023 12:20, David Woodhouse wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
> 
> They both do the same thing and just call sched_yield. This is enough to
> stop the Linux guest panicking when running on a host kernel which doesn't
> intercept SCHEDOP_poll and lets it reach userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>

... with some observations...

> ---
>   target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c b/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c
> index 5f2b55ef10..80005ea527 100644
> --- a/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c
> +++ b/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c
> @@ -227,6 +227,18 @@ static bool kvm_xen_hcall_sched_op(struct kvm_xen_exit *exit, X86CPU *cpu,
>           err = schedop_shutdown(cs, arg);
>           break;
>   
> +    case SCHEDOP_poll:
> +        /*
> +         * Linux will panic if this doesn't work. Just yield; it's not
> +         * worth overthinking it because wWith event channel handling

Typo 'wWith'. Also possibly worth mentioning that the reason a yield is 
ok is because the semantics of the hypercall allow for spurious wake-up.

> +         * in KVM, the kernel will intercept this and it will never
> +         * reach QEMU anyway.
> +         */
> +    case SCHEDOP_yield:
> +        sched_yield();
> +        err = 0;
> +        break;
> +
>       default:
>           return false;
>       }
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Patch

diff --git a/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c b/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c
index 5f2b55ef10..80005ea527 100644
--- a/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c
+++ b/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c
@@ -227,6 +227,18 @@  static bool kvm_xen_hcall_sched_op(struct kvm_xen_exit *exit, X86CPU *cpu,
         err = schedop_shutdown(cs, arg);
         break;
 
+    case SCHEDOP_poll:
+        /*
+         * Linux will panic if this doesn't work. Just yield; it's not
+         * worth overthinking it because wWith event channel handling
+         * in KVM, the kernel will intercept this and it will never
+         * reach QEMU anyway.
+         */
+    case SCHEDOP_yield:
+        sched_yield();
+        err = 0;
+        break;
+
     default:
         return false;
     }