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    arm: KVM: Don't return PSCI_INVAL if waitqueue is inactive · 478a8237
    Christoffer Dall authored
    The current KVM implementation of PSCI returns INVALID_PARAMETERS if the
    waitqueue for the corresponding CPU is not active.  This does not seem
    correct, since KVM should not care what the specific thread is doing,
    for example, user space may not have called KVM_RUN on this VCPU yet or
    the thread may be busy looping to user space because it received a
    signal; this is really up to the user space implementation.  Instead we
    should check specifically that the CPU is marked as being turned off,
    regardless of the VCPU thread state, and if it is, we shall
    simply clear the pause flag on the CPU and wake up the thread if it
    happens to be blocked for us.
    
    Further, the implementation seems to be racy when executing multiple
    VCPU threads.  There really isn't a reasonable user space programming
    scheme to ensure all secondary CPUs have reached kvm_vcpu_first_run_init
    before turning on the boot CPU.
    
    Therefore, set the pause flag on the vcpu at VCPU init time (which can
    reasonably be expected to be completed for all CPUs by user space before
    running any VCPUs) and clear both this flag and the feature (in case the
    feature can somehow get set again in the future) and ping the waitqueue
    on turning on a VCPU using PSCI.
    Reported-by: default avatarPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
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