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SubjectRE: The vcpu won't be wakened for a long time
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Hi Sean,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Christopherson [mailto:seanjc@google.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 1:36 AM
> To: Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
> <longpeng2@huawei.com>
> Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com; kvm@vger.kernel.org; Gonglei (Arei)
> <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>; Huangzhichao <huangzhichao@huawei.com>; Wanpeng Li
> <wanpengli@tencent.com>; Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>; Jim Mattson
> <jmattson@google.com>; Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>; linux-kernel
> <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: The vcpu won't be wakened for a long time
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021, Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > We find a problem in kvm_vcpu_block().
> >
> > The testcase is:
> > - VM configured with 1 vcpu and 1 VF (using vfio-pci passthrough)
> > - the vfio interrupt and the vcpu are bound to the same pcpu
> > - using remapped mode IRTE, NOT posted mode
>
> What exactly is configured to force remapped mode?
>

It's a misconfigure in one of our test machines.

> > The bug was triggered when the vcpu executed HLT instruction:
> >
> > kvm_vcpu_block:
> > prepare_to_rcuwait(&vcpu->wait);
> > for (;;) {
> > set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> >
> > if (kvm_vcpu_check_block(vcpu) < 0)
> > break;
> > <------------ (*)
> > waited = true;
> > schedule();
> > }
> > finish_rcuwait(&vcpu->wait);
> >
> > The vcpu will go to sleep even if an interrupt from the VF is fired at (*)
> and
> > the PIR and ON bit will be set ( in vmx_deliver_posted_interrupt ), so the
> vcpu
> > won't be wakened by subsequent interrupts.
> >
> > Any suggestions ? Thanks.
>
> What kernel version? There have been a variety of fixes/changes in the area
> in
> recent kernels.

The kernel version is 4.18, and it seems the latest kernel also has this problem.

The following code can fixes this bug, I've tested it on 4.18.

(4.18)

@@ -3944,6 +3944,11 @@ static void vmx_deliver_posted_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int vector)
if (pi_test_and_set_on(&vmx->pi_desc))
return;

+ if (swq_has_sleeper(kvm_arch_vcpu_wq(vcpu))) {
+ kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
+ return;
+ }
+
if (vcpu != kvm_get_running_vcpu() &&
!kvm_vcpu_trigger_posted_interrupt(vcpu, false))
kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);


(latest)

@@ -3959,6 +3959,11 @@ static int vmx_deliver_posted_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int vector)
if (pi_test_and_set_on(&vmx->pi_desc))
return 0;

+ if (rcuwait_active(&vcpu->wait)) {
+ kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
if (vcpu != kvm_get_running_vcpu() &&
!kvm_vcpu_trigger_posted_interrupt(vcpu, false))
kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
Do you have any suggestions ?
Thnaks.

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