[PULL,09/25] target/i386: Make sure SynIC state is really updated before KVM_RUN

Commit Message

Paolo Bonzini Oct. 15, 2024, 2:16 p.m. UTC

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <[e-mail]>

'hyperv_synic' test from KVM unittests was observed to be flaky on certain
hardware (hangs sometimes). Debugging shows that the problem happens in
hyperv_sint_route_new() when the test tries to set up a new SynIC
route. The function bails out on:

 if (!synic->sctl_enabled) {
         goto cleanup;
 }

but the test writes to HV_X64_MSR_SCONTROL just before it starts
establishing SINT routes. Further investigation shows that
synic_update() (called from async_synic_update()) happens after the SINT
setup attempt and not before. Apparently, the comment before
async_safe_run_on_cpu() in kvm_hv_handle_exit() does not correctly describe
the guarantees async_safe_run_on_cpu() gives. In particular, async worked
added to a CPU is actually processed from qemu_wait_io_event() which is not
always called before KVM_RUN, i.e. kvm_cpu_exec() checks whether an exit
request is pending for a CPU and if not, keeps running the vCPU until it
meets an exit it can't handle internally. Hyper-V specific MSR writes are
not automatically trigger an exit.

Fix the issue by simply raising an exit request for the vCPU where SynIC
update was queued. This is not a performance critical path as SynIC state
does not get updated so often (and async_safe_run_on_cpu() is a big hammer
anyways).

Reported-by: Jan Richter <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <[e-mail]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[e-mail]>
---
 target/i386/kvm/hyperv.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Patch

diff --git a/target/i386/kvm/hyperv.c b/target/i386/kvm/hyperv.c
index b94f12acc2c..70b89cacf94 100644
--- a/target/i386/kvm/hyperv.c
+++ b/target/i386/kvm/hyperv.c
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@  int kvm_hv_handle_exit(X86CPU *cpu, struct kvm_hyperv_exit *exit)
          * necessary because memory hierarchy is being changed
          */
         async_safe_run_on_cpu(CPU(cpu), async_synic_update, RUN_ON_CPU_NULL);
+        cpu_exit(CPU(cpu));
 
         return EXCP_INTERRUPT;
     case KVM_EXIT_HYPERV_HCALL: {