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[v7,12/51] i386/xen: Implement SCHEDOP_poll and SCHEDOP_yield

Message ID 20230116215805.1123514-13-dwmw2@infradead.org
State New
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Series Xen support under KVM | expand

Commit Message

David Woodhouse Jan. 16, 2023, 9:57 p.m. UTC 
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

They both do the same thing and just call sched_yield. This is enough to
stop the Linux guest panicking when running on a host kernel which doesn't
intercept SCHEDOP_poll and lets it reach userspace.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
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 target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c b/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c
index 5f2b55ef10..6584a15bab 100644
--- a/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c
+++ b/target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c
@@ -227,6 +227,19 @@  static bool kvm_xen_hcall_sched_op(struct kvm_xen_exit *exit, X86CPU *cpu,
         err = schedop_shutdown(cs, arg);
         break;
 
+    case SCHEDOP_poll:
+        /*
+         * Linux will panic if this doesn't work. Just yield; it's not
+         * worth overthinking it because with event channel handling
+         * in KVM, the kernel will intercept this and it will never
+         * reach QEMU anyway. The semantics of the hypercall explicltly
+         * permit spurious wakeups.
+         */
+    case SCHEDOP_yield:
+        sched_yield();
+        err = 0;
+        break;
+
     default:
         return false;
     }