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* [PATCH v2 0/7] KVM: Serialize vCPU creation and revert vcpu_ids tracking
@ 2026-09-21 17:44 Sean Christopherson
  2026-09-21 17:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] KVM: Reject attempts to lock all vCPUs if vCPU creation is in-progress Sean Christopherson
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From: Sean Christopherson @ 2026-09-21 17:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Madhavan Srinivasan, Anup Patel, Paul Walmsley, Palmer Dabbelt,
	Albert Ou, Sean Christopherson, Paolo Bonzini, Kiryl Shutsemau,
	Rick Edgecombe
  Cc: Nicholas Piggin, Atish Patra, Alexandre Ghiti, Dave Hansen,
	linuxppc-dev, kvm, kvm-riscv, linux-riscv, x86, linux-coco,
	linux-kernel, Jean-Christophe Guillain, Paweł S

Serialize vCPU creation by holding kvm->lock for the entirety of
kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu(), and then revert the now-redundant tracking adding
by commit 97d65b544f48 ("KVM: Check for duplicate vcpu_id as early as
possible").  I botched the math when justifying the vcpu_ids tracking; it's not
an extra 256 bytes, it's an extra 2048 bytes.  Roughly doubling the size of
"struct kvm" tripped x86's KVM_SANITY_CHECK_VM_STRUCT_SIZE, and obviously isn't
something we want to do in general.

The TL;DR of why it's a-ok to serialize vCPU creation is that no VMM actually
does parallel vCPU creation.  As with so many things, KVM's current behavior is
the result of decades-old cruft, not intentional, deliberate design.

Patches 1-3 are a tangentially related cleanups and bug fixes; I included them
here because holding kvm->lock for all of vCPU creation allows WARNing if KVM
attempts to lock all vCPUs if vCPU creation is in-progress (the caller must
hold kvm->lock).

v2:
 - Tweak patch 1's changelog to clarify that that only x86's manual checks are
   dropped. [Sashiko]
 - Add patches to convert additional arm64 and RISC-V usage to 
   kvm_is_vcpu_creation_in_progress(). [Sashiko]
 - Remove acquisition of kvm->lock from s390 and PPC vCPU creation flows.
   [Christian, Sashiko]
 - Add Jean-Christophe's Tested-by to the revert.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260914181223.289061-1-seanjc@google.com

Sean Christopherson (7):
  KVM: Reject attempts to lock all vCPUs if vCPU creation is in-progress
  KVM: arm64: vgic: Rely on vCPU creation check in "trylock all vCPUs"
  KVM: RISC-V: Use kvm_is_vcpu_creation_in_progress() instead of
    open-coded equivalent
  KVM: Protect all of kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu() with kvm->lock
  KVM: Move check for existing vCPU ID to the top of vCPU creation
  Revert "KVM: Check for duplicate vcpu_id as early as possible"
  KVM: WARN if vCPU creation is in-progress when locking all vCPUs

 arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c | 12 ++++-------
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c    |  2 --
 arch/riscv/kvm/aia_device.c     |  2 +-
 arch/s390/kvm/s390/s390.c       |  5 +----
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c          | 10 ----------
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c          |  5 -----
 include/linux/kvm_host.h        |  1 -
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c             | 35 +++++++++++----------------------
 8 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)


base-commit: d599822bdb66aeec5ec76297b0fc6efaaeefe07c
-- 
2.55.0.1082.g2b9226bbc0-goog


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2026-09-21 17:44 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] KVM: Protect all of kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu() with kvm->lock Sean Christopherson
2026-09-21 17:44 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] KVM: Move check for existing vCPU ID to the top of vCPU creation Sean Christopherson
2026-09-21 17:44 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] Revert "KVM: Check for duplicate vcpu_id as early as possible" Sean Christopherson
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