From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
frankja@linux.ibm.com, nsg@linux.ibm.com, nrb@linux.ibm.com,
seiden@linux.ibm.com, gra@linux.ibm.com,
schlameuss@linux.ibm.com, hca@linux.ibm.com, david@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] KVM: s390: Fix a deadlock
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 16:44:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb09deb6-41ce-4e27-b6f8-6457a1629d99@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260303175206.72836-1-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Am 03.03.26 um 18:52 schrieb Claudio Imbrenda:
> In some scenarios, a deadlock can happen, involving _do_shadow_pte().
>
> Convert all usages of pgste_get_lock() to pgste_get_trylock() in
> _do_shadow_pte() and return -EAGAIN. All callers can already deal with
> -EAGAIN being returned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
> Fixes: e38c884df921 ("KVM: s390: Switch to new gmap")
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
I no longer see the rcu stalls.
> ---
> arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c b/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c
> index 4630b2a067ea..a9da9390867d 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/gaccess.c
> @@ -1434,7 +1434,8 @@ static int _do_shadow_pte(struct gmap *sg, gpa_t raddr, union pte *ptep_h, union
> if (rc)
> return rc;
>
> - pgste = pgste_get_lock(ptep_h);
> + if (!pgste_get_trylock(ptep_h, &pgste))
> + return -EAGAIN;
> newpte = _pte(f->pfn, f->writable, !p, 0);
> newpte.s.d |= ptep->s.d;
> newpte.s.sd |= ptep->s.sd;
> @@ -1444,7 +1445,8 @@ static int _do_shadow_pte(struct gmap *sg, gpa_t raddr, union pte *ptep_h, union
> pgste_set_unlock(ptep_h, pgste);
>
> newpte = _pte(f->pfn, 0, !p, 0);
> - pgste = pgste_get_lock(ptep);
> + if (!pgste_get_trylock(ptep, &pgste))
> + return -EAGAIN;
> pgste = __dat_ptep_xchg(ptep, pgste, newpte, gpa_to_gfn(raddr), sg->asce, uses_skeys(sg));
> pgste_set_unlock(ptep, pgste);
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-05 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-03 17:52 Claudio Imbrenda
2026-03-04 8:07 ` Christoph Schlameuss
2026-03-04 12:36 ` Janosch Frank
2026-03-05 15:44 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
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