[PATCH v3] KVM: PPC: Tick accounting should defer vtime accounting 'til after IRQ handling

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 01:21:50 AEDT 2021


From: Laurent Vivier <lvivier at redhat.com>

Commit 112665286d08 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Context tracking exit guest
context before enabling irqs") moved guest_exit() into the interrupt
protected area to avoid wrong context warning (or worse). The problem is
that tick-based time accounting has not yet been updated at this point
(because it depends on the timer interrupt firing), so the guest time
gets incorrectly accounted to system time.

To fix the problem, follow the x86 fix in commit 160457140187 ("Defer
vtime accounting 'til after IRQ handling"), and allow host IRQs to run
before accounting the guest exit time.

In the case vtime accounting is enabled, this is not required because TB
is used directly for accounting.

Before this patch, with CONFIG_TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y in the host and a
guest running a kernel compile, the 'guest' fields of /proc/stat are
stuck at zero. With the patch they can be observed increasing roughly as
expected.

Fixes: e233d54d4d97 ("KVM: booke: use __kvm_guest_exit")
Fixes: 112665286d08 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Context tracking exit guest context before enabling irqs")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 5.12
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier at redhat.com>
[np: only required for tick accounting, add Book3E fix, tweak changelog]
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
Since v2:
- I took over the patch with Laurent's blessing.
- Changed to avoid processing IRQs if we do have vtime accounting
  enabled.
- Changed so in either case the accounting is called with irqs disabled.
- Added similar Book3E fix.
- Rebased on upstream, tested, observed bug and confirmed fix.

 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c     | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
index 2acb1c96cfaf..7b74fc0a986b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c
@@ -3726,7 +3726,20 @@ static noinline void kvmppc_run_core(struct kvmppc_vcore *vc)
 
 	kvmppc_set_host_core(pcpu);
 
-	guest_exit_irqoff();
+	context_tracking_guest_exit();
+	if (!vtime_accounting_enabled_this_cpu()) {
+		local_irq_enable();
+		/*
+		 * Service IRQs here before vtime_account_guest_exit() so any
+		 * ticks that occurred while running the guest are accounted to
+		 * the guest. If vtime accounting is enabled, accounting uses
+		 * TB rather than ticks, so it can be done without enabling
+		 * interrupts here, which has the problem that it accounts
+		 * interrupt processing overhead to the host.
+		 */
+		local_irq_disable();
+	}
+	vtime_account_guest_exit();
 
 	local_irq_enable();
 
@@ -4510,7 +4523,20 @@ int kvmhv_run_single_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 time_limit,
 
 	kvmppc_set_host_core(pcpu);
 
-	guest_exit_irqoff();
+	context_tracking_guest_exit();
+	if (!vtime_accounting_enabled_this_cpu()) {
+		local_irq_enable();
+		/*
+		 * Service IRQs here before vtime_account_guest_exit() so any
+		 * ticks that occurred while running the guest are accounted to
+		 * the guest. If vtime accounting is enabled, accounting uses
+		 * TB rather than ticks, so it can be done without enabling
+		 * interrupts here, which has the problem that it accounts
+		 * interrupt processing overhead to the host.
+		 */
+		local_irq_disable();
+	}
+	vtime_account_guest_exit();
 
 	local_irq_enable();
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
index 977801c83aff..8c15c90dd3a9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/booke.c
@@ -1042,7 +1042,21 @@ int kvmppc_handle_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned int exit_nr)
 	}
 
 	trace_kvm_exit(exit_nr, vcpu);
-	guest_exit_irqoff();
+
+	context_tracking_guest_exit();
+	if (!vtime_accounting_enabled_this_cpu()) {
+		local_irq_enable();
+		/*
+		 * Service IRQs here before vtime_account_guest_exit() so any
+		 * ticks that occurred while running the guest are accounted to
+		 * the guest. If vtime accounting is enabled, accounting uses
+		 * TB rather than ticks, so it can be done without enabling
+		 * interrupts here, which has the problem that it accounts
+		 * interrupt processing overhead to the host.
+		 */
+		local_irq_disable();
+	}
+	vtime_account_guest_exit();
 
 	local_irq_enable();
 
-- 
2.23.0



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