Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: s390: interrupt: use READ_ONCE() before cmpxchg()

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Tue Jan 10 2023 - 14:16:25 EST




Am 09.01.23 um 15:54 schrieb Heiko Carstens:
Use READ_ONCE() before cmpxchg() to prevent that the compiler generates
code that fetches the to be compared old value several times from memory.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks sane.

Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

In case you want to take it via the s390 tree:
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

v2: make it compile

arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c b/arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c
index 1dae78deddf2..ab26aa53ee37 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c
@@ -83,8 +83,9 @@ static int sca_inject_ext_call(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int src_id)
struct esca_block *sca = vcpu->kvm->arch.sca;
union esca_sigp_ctrl *sigp_ctrl =
&(sca->cpu[vcpu->vcpu_id].sigp_ctrl);
- union esca_sigp_ctrl new_val = {0}, old_val = *sigp_ctrl;
+ union esca_sigp_ctrl new_val = {0}, old_val;
+ old_val = READ_ONCE(*sigp_ctrl);
new_val.scn = src_id;
new_val.c = 1;
old_val.c = 0;
@@ -95,8 +96,9 @@ static int sca_inject_ext_call(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int src_id)
struct bsca_block *sca = vcpu->kvm->arch.sca;
union bsca_sigp_ctrl *sigp_ctrl =
&(sca->cpu[vcpu->vcpu_id].sigp_ctrl);
- union bsca_sigp_ctrl new_val = {0}, old_val = *sigp_ctrl;
+ union bsca_sigp_ctrl new_val = {0}, old_val;
+ old_val = READ_ONCE(*sigp_ctrl);
new_val.scn = src_id;
new_val.c = 1;
old_val.c = 0;
@@ -126,16 +128,18 @@ static void sca_clear_ext_call(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
struct esca_block *sca = vcpu->kvm->arch.sca;
union esca_sigp_ctrl *sigp_ctrl =
&(sca->cpu[vcpu->vcpu_id].sigp_ctrl);
- union esca_sigp_ctrl old = *sigp_ctrl;
+ union esca_sigp_ctrl old;
+ old = READ_ONCE(*sigp_ctrl);
expect = old.value;
rc = cmpxchg(&sigp_ctrl->value, old.value, 0);
} else {
struct bsca_block *sca = vcpu->kvm->arch.sca;
union bsca_sigp_ctrl *sigp_ctrl =
&(sca->cpu[vcpu->vcpu_id].sigp_ctrl);
- union bsca_sigp_ctrl old = *sigp_ctrl;
+ union bsca_sigp_ctrl old;
+ old = READ_ONCE(*sigp_ctrl);
expect = old.value;
rc = cmpxchg(&sigp_ctrl->value, old.value, 0);
}