On Thu, Jul 17, 2025, Yao Yuan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 11:07:35AM +0800, Keir Fraser wrote: > > In preparation to remove synchronize_srcu() from MMIO registration, > > remove the distributor's dependency on this implicit barrier by > > direct acquire-release synchronization on the flag write and its > > lock-free check. > > > > Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keirf@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c | 11 ++--------- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c > > index 502b65049703..bc83672e461b 100644 > > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c > > @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ int kvm_vgic_map_resources(struct kvm *kvm) > > gpa_t dist_base; > > int ret = 0; > > > > - if (likely(dist->ready)) > > + if (likely(smp_load_acquire(&dist->ready))) > > return 0; > > > > mutex_lock(&kvm->slots_lock); > > @@ -598,14 +598,7 @@ int kvm_vgic_map_resources(struct kvm *kvm) > > goto out_slots; > > } > > > > - /* > > - * kvm_io_bus_register_dev() guarantees all readers see the new MMIO > > - * registration before returning through synchronize_srcu(), which also > > - * implies a full memory barrier. As such, marking the distributor as > > - * 'ready' here is guaranteed to be ordered after all vCPUs having seen > > - * a completely configured distributor. > > - */ > > - dist->ready = true; > > + smp_store_release(&dist->ready, true); > > No need the store-release and load-acquire for replacing > synchronize_srcu_expedited() w/ call_srcu() IIUC: This isn't about using call_srcu(), because it's not actually about kvm->buses. This code is concerned with ensuring that all stores to kvm->arch.vgic are ordered before the store to set kvm->arch.vgic.ready, so that vCPUs never see "ready==true" with a half-baked distributor. In the current code, kvm_vgic_map_resources() relies on the synchronize_srcu() in kvm_io_bus_register_dev() to provide the ordering guarantees. Switching to smp_store_release() + smp_load_acquire() removes the dependency on the synchronize_srcu() so that the synchronize_srcu() call can be safely removed.
