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    KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix race in starting secondary threads · 7f235328
    Gautham R. Shenoy 提交于
    The current dynamic micro-threading code has a race due to which a
    secondary thread naps when it is supposed to be running a vcpu. As a
    side effect of this, on a guest exit, the primary thread in
    kvmppc_wait_for_nap() finds that this secondary thread hasn't cleared
    its vcore pointer. This results in "CPU X seems to be stuck!"
    warnings.
    
    The race is possible since the primary thread on exiting the guests
    only waits for all the secondaries to clear its vcore pointer. It
    subsequently expects the secondary threads to enter nap while it
    unsplits the core. A secondary thread which hasn't yet entered the nap
    will loop in kvm_no_guest until its vcore pointer and the do_nap flag
    are unset. Once the core has been unsplit, a new vcpu thread can grab
    the core and set the do_nap flag *before* setting the vcore pointers
    of the secondary. As a result, the secondary thread will now enter nap
    via kvm_unsplit_nap instead of running the guest vcpu.
    
    Fix this by setting the do_nap flag after setting the vcore pointer in
    the PACA of the secondary in kvmppc_run_core. Also, ensure that a
    secondary thread doesn't nap in kvm_unsplit_nap when the vcore pointer
    in its PACA struct is set.
    
    Fixes: b4deba5cSigned-off-by: NGautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
    Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    7f235328
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