[PATCH 4/4] kvm,rcu: use RCU extended quiescent state when running KVM guest

From: riel
Date: Thu Feb 05 2015 - 11:36:16 EST


From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

The host kernel is not doing anything while the CPU is executing
a KVM guest VCPU, so it can be marked as being in an extended
quiescent state, identical to that used when running user space
code.

The only exception to that rule is when the host handles an
interrupt, which is already handled by the irq code, which
calls rcu_irq_enter and rcu_irq_exit.

The guest_enter and guest_exit functions already switch vtime
accounting independent of context tracking, so leave those calls
where they are, instead of moving them into the context tracking
code.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/context_tracking.h | 8 +++++++-
include/linux/context_tracking_state.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/context_tracking.h b/include/linux/context_tracking.h
index bd9f000fc98d..a5d3bb44b897 100644
--- a/include/linux/context_tracking.h
+++ b/include/linux/context_tracking.h
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static inline enum ctx_state exception_enter(void)
static inline void exception_exit(enum ctx_state prev_ctx)
{
if (context_tracking_is_enabled()) {
- if (prev_ctx == IN_USER)
+ if (prev_ctx == IN_USER || prev_ctx == IN_GUEST)
context_tracking_user_enter(prev_ctx);
}
}
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ static inline void guest_enter(void)
vtime_guest_enter(current);
else
current->flags |= PF_VCPU;
+
+ if (context_tracking_is_enabled())
+ context_tracking_user_enter(IN_GUEST);
}

static inline void guest_exit(void)
@@ -86,6 +89,9 @@ static inline void guest_exit(void)
vtime_guest_exit(current);
else
current->flags &= ~PF_VCPU;
+
+ if (context_tracking_is_enabled())
+ context_tracking_user_exit(IN_GUEST);
}

#else
diff --git a/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h b/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h
index 97a81225d037..f3ef027af749 100644
--- a/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h
+++ b/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ struct context_tracking {
enum ctx_state {
IN_KERNEL = 0,
IN_USER,
+ IN_GUEST,
} state;
};

--
1.9.3

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