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Revert "KVM: async_pf: avoid recursive flushing of work items"

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Now that KVM does NOT gift async #PF workers a "struct kvm" reference,
don't bother skipping "done" workers when flushing/canceling queued
workers, as the deadlock that was being fudged around can no longer occur.
When workers, i.e. async_pf_execute(), were gifted a referenced, it was
possible for a worker to put the last reference and trigger VM destruction,
i.e. trigger flushing of a workqueue from a worker in said workqueue.

Note, there is no actual lock, the deadlock was that a worker will be
stuck waiting for itself (the workqueue code simulates a lock/unlock via
lock_map_{acquire,release}()).

Skipping "done" workers isn't problematic per se, but using work->vcpu as
a "done" flag is confusing, e.g. it's not clear that async_pf.lock is
acquired to protect the work->vcpu, NOT the processing of async_pf.queue
(which is protected by vcpu->mutex).

This reverts commit 22583f0d9c.

Suggested-by: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240423191649.2885257-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Sean Christopherson 2024-04-23 12:16:49 -07:00
parent f8aadead19
commit 778c350eb5
1 changed files with 1 additions and 12 deletions
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virt/kvm/async_pf.c
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@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ static void async_pf_execute(struct work_struct *work)
spin_lock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
first = list_empty(&vcpu->async_pf.done);
list_add_tail(&apf->link, &vcpu->async_pf.done);
apf->vcpu = NULL;
spin_unlock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
/*
@ -120,8 +119,6 @@ static void kvm_flush_and_free_async_pf_work(struct kvm_async_pf *work)
void kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
spin_lock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
/* cancel outstanding work queue item */
while (!list_empty(&vcpu->async_pf.queue)) {
struct kvm_async_pf *work =
@ -129,23 +126,15 @@ void kvm_clear_async_pf_completion_queue(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
typeof(*work), queue);
list_del(&work->queue);
/*
* We know it's present in vcpu->async_pf.done, do
* nothing here.
*/
if (!work->vcpu)
continue;
spin_unlock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_ASYNC_PF_SYNC
flush_work(&work->work);
#else
if (cancel_work_sync(&work->work))
kmem_cache_free(async_pf_cache, work);
#endif
spin_lock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
}
spin_lock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
while (!list_empty(&vcpu->async_pf.done)) {
struct kvm_async_pf *work =
list_first_entry(&vcpu->async_pf.done,