tree 017ae69967cbddb9ef38c4213d343bf05d6059b3
parent 7d7b9c7655a26e09c800ef40373078a80e90d9f3
author Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> 1726588850 +0200
committer Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> 1729161021 +0200

target/i386: Make sure SynIC state is really updated before KVM_RUN

'hyperv_synic' test from KVM unittests was observed to be flaky on certain
hardware (hangs sometimes). Debugging shows that the problem happens in
hyperv_sint_route_new() when the test tries to set up a new SynIC
route. The function bails out on:

 if (!synic->sctl_enabled) {
         goto cleanup;
 }

but the test writes to HV_X64_MSR_SCONTROL just before it starts
establishing SINT routes. Further investigation shows that
synic_update() (called from async_synic_update()) happens after the SINT
setup attempt and not before. Apparently, the comment before
async_safe_run_on_cpu() in kvm_hv_handle_exit() does not correctly describe
the guarantees async_safe_run_on_cpu() gives. In particular, async worked
added to a CPU is actually processed from qemu_wait_io_event() which is not
always called before KVM_RUN, i.e. kvm_cpu_exec() checks whether an exit
request is pending for a CPU and if not, keeps running the vCPU until it
meets an exit it can't handle internally. Hyper-V specific MSR writes are
not automatically trigger an exit.

Fix the issue by simply raising an exit request for the vCPU where SynIC
update was queued. This is not a performance critical path as SynIC state
does not get updated so often (and async_safe_run_on_cpu() is a big hammer
anyways).

Reported-by: Jan Richter <jarichte@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240917160051.2637594-4-vkuznets@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>