[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] x86/hvm: Make the altp2m locking in hvm_hap_nested_page_fault() easier to follow

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Drop the ap2m_active boolean, and consistently use the unlocking form:

  if ( p2m != hostp2m )
       __put_gfn(p2m, gfn);
  __put_gfn(hostp2m, gfn);

which makes it clear that we always unlock the altp2m's gfn if it is in use,
and always unlock the hostp2m's gfn.  This also drops the ternary expression
in the logdirty case.

Extend the logdirty comment to identify where the locking violation is liable
to occur.

No (intended) overall change in behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
---
CC: Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>
CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

v2:
 * Edit subject to be clearer
 * Rebase over Tamas' lazy copy cleanup
---
 xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c | 21 ++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
index d8d5d45..029eea3 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
@@ -1691,7 +1691,7 @@ int hvm_hap_nested_page_fault(paddr_t gpa, unsigned long 
gla,
     int rc, fall_through = 0, paged = 0;
     int sharing_enomem = 0;
     vm_event_request_t *req_ptr = NULL;
-    bool_t ap2m_active, sync = 0;
+    bool sync = false;
     unsigned int page_order;
 
     /* On Nested Virtualization, walk the guest page table.
@@ -1750,8 +1750,6 @@ int hvm_hap_nested_page_fault(paddr_t gpa, unsigned long 
gla,
         goto out;
     }
 
-    ap2m_active = altp2m_active(currd);
-
     /*
      * Take a lock on the host p2m speculatively, to avoid potential
      * locking order problems later and to handle unshare etc.
@@ -1761,7 +1759,7 @@ int hvm_hap_nested_page_fault(paddr_t gpa, unsigned long 
gla,
                               P2M_ALLOC | (npfec.write_access ? P2M_UNSHARE : 
0),
                               &page_order);
 
-    if ( ap2m_active )
+    if ( altp2m_active(currd) )
     {
         p2m = p2m_get_altp2m(curr);
 
@@ -1888,13 +1886,14 @@ int hvm_hap_nested_page_fault(paddr_t gpa, unsigned 
long gla,
         {
             paging_mark_pfn_dirty(currd, _pfn(gfn));
             /*
-             * If p2m is really an altp2m, unlock here to avoid lock ordering
-             * violation when the change below is propagated from host p2m.
+             * If p2m is really an altp2m, unlock it before changing the type,
+             * as p2m_altp2m_propagate_change() needs to acquire the
+             * altp2m_list lock.
              */
-            if ( ap2m_active )
+            if ( p2m != hostp2m )
                 __put_gfn(p2m, gfn);
             p2m_change_type_one(currd, gfn, p2m_ram_logdirty, p2m_ram_rw);
-            __put_gfn(ap2m_active ? hostp2m : p2m, gfn);
+            __put_gfn(hostp2m, gfn);
 
             goto out;
         }
@@ -1915,9 +1914,9 @@ int hvm_hap_nested_page_fault(paddr_t gpa, unsigned long 
gla,
     rc = fall_through;
 
  out_put_gfn:
-    __put_gfn(p2m, gfn);
-    if ( ap2m_active )
-        __put_gfn(hostp2m, gfn);
+    if ( p2m != hostp2m )
+        __put_gfn(p2m, gfn);
+    __put_gfn(hostp2m, gfn);
  out:
     /* All of these are delayed until we exit, since we might 
      * sleep on event ring wait queues, and we must not hold
-- 
2.1.4


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