KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XICS: Replace the 'destroy' method by a 'release' method
Similarly to what was done with XICS-on-XIVE and XIVE native KVM devices with commit 5422e951 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: Replace the 'destroy' method by a 'release' method"), convert the historical XICS KVM device to implement the 'release' method. This is needed to run nested guests with an in-kernel IRQ chip. A typical POWER9 guest can select XICS or XIVE during boot, which requires to be able to destroy and to re-create the KVM device. Only the historical XICS KVM device is available under pseries at the current time and it still uses the legacy 'destroy' method. Switching to 'release' means that vCPUs might still be running when the device is destroyed. In order to avoid potential use-after-free, the kvmppc_xics structure is allocated on first usage and kept around until the VM exits. The same pointer is used each time a KVM XICS device is being created, but this is okay since we only have one per VM. Clear the ICP of each vCPU with vcpu->mutex held. This ensures that the next time the vCPU resumes execution, it won't be going into the XICS code anymore. Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> Tested-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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