[Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/6] x86: make CPU state flush requests explicit

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

Having this be an implied side effect of a TLB flush is not very nice:
It could (at least in theory) lead to unintended state flushes (see e.g.
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-11/msg00187.html 
for context). Introduce a flag to be used in the two places actually
wanting the state flushed, and conditionalize the
__sync_local_execstate() invocation in the IPI handler accordingly.

At the same time also conditionalize the flush_area_local() invocations,
to short-circuit the function ending up as a no-op anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/domain.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/domain.c
@@ -1697,7 +1697,7 @@ void context_switch(struct vcpu *prev, s
                   !cpumask_empty(&dirty_mask)) )
     {
         /* Other cpus call __sync_local_execstate from flush ipi handler. */
-        flush_tlb_mask(&dirty_mask);
+        flush_mask(&dirty_mask, FLUSH_TLB | FLUSH_STATE);
     }
 
     if ( prev != next )
@@ -1806,7 +1806,7 @@ void sync_vcpu_execstate(struct vcpu *v)
         sync_local_execstate();
 
     /* Other cpus call __sync_local_execstate from flush ipi handler. */
-    flush_tlb_mask(v->vcpu_dirty_cpumask);
+    flush_mask(v->vcpu_dirty_cpumask, FLUSH_TLB | FLUSH_STATE);
 }
 
 static int relinquish_memory(
--- a/xen/arch/x86/smp.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/smp.c
@@ -207,9 +207,10 @@ void invalidate_interrupt(struct cpu_use
     unsigned int flags = flush_flags;
     ack_APIC_irq();
     perfc_incr(ipis);
-    if ( __sync_local_execstate() )
+    if ( (flags & FLUSH_STATE) && __sync_local_execstate() )
         flags &= ~(FLUSH_TLB | FLUSH_TLB_GLOBAL);
-    flush_area_local(flush_va, flags);
+    if ( flags & ~(FLUSH_STATE | FLUSH_ORDER_MASK) )
+        flush_area_local(flush_va, flags);
     cpumask_clear_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &flush_cpumask);
 }
 
@@ -219,7 +220,8 @@ void flush_area_mask(const cpumask_t *ma
 
     ASSERT(local_irq_is_enabled());
 
-    if ( cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mask) )
+    if ( (flags & ~(FLUSH_STATE | FLUSH_ORDER_MASK)) &&
+         cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mask) )
         flags = flush_area_local(va, flags);
 
     if ( (flags & ~FLUSH_ORDER_MASK) &&
--- a/xen/include/asm-x86/flushtlb.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/flushtlb.h
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ void write_cr3(unsigned long cr3);
 #define FLUSH_CACHE      0x400
  /* VA for the flush has a valid mapping */
 #define FLUSH_VA_VALID   0x800
+ /* Flush CPU state */
+#define FLUSH_STATE      0x1000
 
 /* Flush local TLBs/caches. */
 unsigned int flush_area_local(const void *va, unsigned int flags);




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