xen/HVM: atomically access pointers in bufioreq handling The number of slots per page being 511 (i.e. not a power of two) means that the (32-bit) read and write indexes going beyond 2^32 will likely disturb operation. The hypervisor side gets I/O req server creation extended so we can indicate that we're using suitable atomic accesses where needed (not all accesses to the two pointers really need to be atomic), allowing it to atomically canonicalize both pointers when both have gone through at least one cycle. The Xen side counterpart (which is not a functional prereq to this change, albeit a build one) can be found at e.g. http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-06/msg02996.html Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- a/xen-hvm.c +++ b/xen-hvm.c @@ -981,19 +981,30 @@ static void handle_ioreq(XenIOState *sta static int handle_buffered_iopage(XenIOState *state) { + buffered_iopage_t *buf_page = state->buffered_io_page; buf_ioreq_t *buf_req = NULL; ioreq_t req; int qw; - if (!state->buffered_io_page) { + if (!buf_page) { return 0; } memset(&req, 0x00, sizeof(req)); - while (state->buffered_io_page->read_pointer != state->buffered_io_page->write_pointer) { - buf_req = &state->buffered_io_page->buf_ioreq[ - state->buffered_io_page->read_pointer % IOREQ_BUFFER_SLOT_NUM]; + for (;;) { + uint32_t rdptr = buf_page->read_pointer, wrptr; + + xen_rmb(); + wrptr = buf_page->write_pointer; + xen_rmb(); + if (rdptr != buf_page->read_pointer) { + continue; + } + if (rdptr == wrptr) { + break; + } + buf_req = &buf_page->buf_ioreq[rdptr % IOREQ_BUFFER_SLOT_NUM]; req.size = 1UL << buf_req->size; req.count = 1; req.addr = buf_req->addr; @@ -1005,15 +1016,14 @@ static int handle_buffered_iopage(XenIOS req.data_is_ptr = 0; qw = (req.size == 8); if (qw) { - buf_req = &state->buffered_io_page->buf_ioreq[ - (state->buffered_io_page->read_pointer + 1) % IOREQ_BUFFER_SLOT_NUM]; + buf_req = &buf_page->buf_ioreq[(rdptr + 1) % + IOREQ_BUFFER_SLOT_NUM]; req.data |= ((uint64_t)buf_req->data) << 32; } handle_ioreq(state, &req); - xen_mb(); - state->buffered_io_page->read_pointer += qw ? 2 : 1; + atomic_add(&buf_page->read_pointer, qw + 1); } return req.count; --- a/include/hw/xen/xen_common.h +++ b/include/hw/xen/xen_common.h @@ -370,7 +370,8 @@ static inline void xen_unmap_pcidev(XenX static inline int xen_create_ioreq_server(XenXC xc, domid_t dom, ioservid_t *ioservid) { - int rc = xc_hvm_create_ioreq_server(xc, dom, 1, ioservid); + int rc = xc_hvm_create_ioreq_server(xc, dom, HVM_IOREQSRV_BUFIOREQ_ATOMIC, + ioservid); if (rc == 0) { trace_xen_ioreq_server_create(*ioservid);