[edk2-devel] [PATCH v8 09/10] OvmfPkg/CpuHotplugSmm: do actual CPU hot-eject

Ankur Arora ankur.a.arora at oracle.com
Wed Feb 24 03:44:53 UTC 2021


On 2021-02-23 1:39 p.m., Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 02/22/21 08:19, Ankur Arora wrote:
>> Add logic in EjectCpu() to do the actual the CPU ejection.
>>
>> On the BSP, ejection happens by first selecting the CPU via
>> its QemuSelector and then sending the QEMU "eject" command.
>> QEMU in-turn signals the remote VCPU thread which context-switches
>> the CPU out of the SMI handler.
>>
>> Meanwhile the CPU being ejected, waits around in its holding
>> area until it is context-switched out. Note that it is possible
>> that a slow CPU gets ejected before it reaches the wait loop.
>> However, this would never happen before it has executed the
>> "AllCpusInSync" loop in SmiRendezvous().
>> It can mean that an ejected CPU does not execute code after
>> that point but given that the CPU state will be destroyed by
>> QEMU, the missed cleanup is no great loss.
>>
>> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
>> Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com>
>> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at arm.com>
>> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo at redhat.com>
>> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com>
>> Cc: Aaron Young <aaron.young at oracle.com>
>> Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3132
>> Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora at oracle.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Notes:
>>      Addresses the following reviewing comments from v6:
>>      (1) s/CpuEject/EjectCpu/g
>>      (2,2a,2c) Get rid of eject-worker and related.
>>      (2b,2d) Use the PlatformSmmBspElection() logic to find out IsBSP.
>>      (3,3b) Use CPU_HOT_EJECT_DATA->QemuSelector instead of ApicIdMap to
>>       do the actual ejection.
>>      (4,5a,5b) Fix the format etc in the final unplugged log message
>>      () Also as discussed elsewhere document the ordering requirements for
>>       mCpuHotEjectData->QemuSelector[] and mCpuHotEjectData->Handler.
>>      () [from patch 2] Move definition of QEMU_CPUHP_STAT_EJECTED to this
>>       patch.
>>      () s/QEMU_CPUHP_STAT_EJECTED/QEMU_CPUHP_STAT_EJECT/
>>
>>   OvmfPkg/Include/IndustryStandard/QemuCpuHotplug.h  |   1 +
>>   OvmfPkg/CpuHotplugSmm/CpuHotplug.c                 | 127 +++++++++++++++++++--
>>   .../Library/SmmCpuFeaturesLib/SmmCpuFeaturesLib.c  |  31 +++++
>>   3 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Include/IndustryStandard/QemuCpuHotplug.h b/OvmfPkg/Include/IndustryStandard/QemuCpuHotplug.h
>> index 2ec7a107a64d..d0e83102c13f 100644
>> --- a/OvmfPkg/Include/IndustryStandard/QemuCpuHotplug.h
>> +++ b/OvmfPkg/Include/IndustryStandard/QemuCpuHotplug.h
>> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
>>   #define QEMU_CPUHP_STAT_ENABLED                BIT0
>>   #define QEMU_CPUHP_STAT_INSERT                 BIT1
>>   #define QEMU_CPUHP_STAT_REMOVE                 BIT2
>> +#define QEMU_CPUHP_STAT_EJECT                  BIT3
>>   #define QEMU_CPUHP_STAT_FW_REMOVE              BIT4
>>   
>>   #define QEMU_CPUHP_RW_CMD_DATA               0x8
>> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/CpuHotplugSmm/CpuHotplug.c b/OvmfPkg/CpuHotplugSmm/CpuHotplug.c
>> index 851e2b28aad9..0484be8fe43c 100644
>> --- a/OvmfPkg/CpuHotplugSmm/CpuHotplug.c
>> +++ b/OvmfPkg/CpuHotplugSmm/CpuHotplug.c
>> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
>>   #include <Pcd/CpuHotEjectData.h>             // CPU_HOT_EJECT_DATA
>>   #include <Protocol/MmCpuIo.h>                // EFI_MM_CPU_IO_PROTOCOL
>>   #include <Protocol/SmmCpuService.h>          // EFI_SMM_CPU_SERVICE_PROTOCOL
>> +#include <Register/Intel/ArchitecturalMsr.h> // MSR_IA32_APIC_BASE_REGISTER
>>   #include <Uefi/UefiBaseType.h>               // EFI_STATUS
>>   
>>   #include "ApicId.h"                          // APIC_ID
>> @@ -191,12 +192,39 @@ RevokeNewSlot:
>>   }
>>   
>>   /**
>> +  EjectCpu needs to know the BSP at SMI exit at a point when
>> +  some of the EFI_SMM_CPU_SERVICE_PROTOCOL state has been torn
>> +  down.
>> +  Reuse the logic from OvmfPkg::PlatformSmmBspElection() to
>> +  do that.
>> +
>> +  @param[in] ProcessorNum      ProcessorNum denotes the processor handle number
>> +                               in EFI_SMM_CPU_SERVICE_PROTOCOL.
>> +**/
>> +STATIC
>> +BOOLEAN
>> +CheckIfBsp (
>> +  IN UINTN ProcessorNum
>> +  )
> 
> (1a) Please remove the ProcessorNum parameter -- comment and parameter
> list alike --; it's useless. In the parameter list, just replace the
> line's contents with "VOID".

Heh. Yeah, I'm not certain why I added that.
  
> (1b) Additionally, please state:
> 
>    @retval TRUE   If the CPU executing this function is the BSP.
> 
>    @retval FALSE  If the CPU executing this function is an AP.
> 

Will add.

> 
> 
> 
>> +{
>> +  MSR_IA32_APIC_BASE_REGISTER ApicBaseMsr;
>> +  BOOLEAN IsBsp;
> 
> (2) "IsBsp" should line up with "ApicBaseMsr".
> 
> 
>> +
>> +  ApicBaseMsr.Uint64 = AsmReadMsr64 (MSR_IA32_APIC_BASE);
>> +  IsBsp = (BOOLEAN)(ApicBaseMsr.Bits.BSP == 1);
>> +  return IsBsp;
>> +}
>> +
>> +/**
>>     CPU Hot-eject handler, called from SmmCpuFeaturesRendezvousExit()
>>     on each CPU at exit from SMM.
>>   
>> -  If, the executing CPU is not being ejected, nothing to be done.
>> +  If, the executing CPU is neither the BSP, nor being ejected, nothing
>> +  to be done.
>>     If, the executing CPU is being ejected, wait in a halted loop
>>     until ejected.
>> +  If, the executing CPU is the BSP, set QEMU CPU status to eject
>> +  for CPUs being ejected.
>>   
>>     @param[in] ProcessorNum      ProcessorNum denotes the CPU exiting SMM,
>>                                  and will be used as an index into
>> @@ -211,9 +239,99 @@ EjectCpu (
>>     )
>>   {
>>     UINT64 QemuSelector;
>> +  BOOLEAN IsBsp;
>>   
>> +  IsBsp = CheckIfBsp (ProcessorNum);
>> +
>> +  //
>> +  // mCpuHotEjectData->QemuSelectorMap[ProcessorNum] is updated
>> +  // on the BSP in the ongoing SMI iteration at two places:
> 
> (3) I feel "iteration" doesn't really apply; I'd simply drop that word.
> "ongoing SMI" seems sufficient (or maybe "ongoing SMI handling").

Yeah that reads better.

> 
> 
>> +  //
>> +  // - UnplugCpus() where the BSP determines if a CPU is under ejection
>> +  //   or not. As the comment where mCpuHotEjectData->Handler is set-up
>> +  //   describes any such updates are guaranteed to be ordered-before the
>> +  //   dereference below.
>> +  //
>> +  // - EjectCpu() on the BSP updates QemuSelectorMap[ProcessorNum] for
>> +  //   CPUs after they have been hot-ejected.
>> +  //
>> +  //   The CPU under ejection: might be executing anywhere between the
>> +  //   "AllCpusInSync" exit loop in SmiRendezvous() to about to
>> +  //   dereference QemuSelectorMap[ProcessorNum].
>> +  //   Given that the BSP ensures that this store only happens after the
>> +  //   CPU has been ejected, this CPU would never see the after value.
>> +  //   (Note that any CPU that is already executing the CpuSleep() loop
>> +  //   below never raced any updates and always saw the before value.)
>> +  //
>> +  //   CPUs not-under ejection: never see any changes so they are fine.
>> +  //
>> +  //   Lastly, note that we are also guaranteed that any dereferencing
>> +  //   CPU only sees the before or after value and not an intermediate
>> +  //   value. This is because QemuSelectorMap[ProcessorNum] is aligned at
>> +  //   a natural boundary.
>> +  //
> 
> (4) Well, about the last paragraph -- when I saw that you used UINT64 in
> QemuSelectorMap, to allow for a sentinel value, I immediately thought of
> IA32. This module is built for IA32 too, and there I'm not so sure about
> the atomicity of UINT64 accesses.
> 
> I didn't raise it at that point because I wasn't sure if we were
> actually going to rely on the atomicity. And, I don't think we are.
> Again, let me quote Paolo's example from <https://lwn.net/Articles/844224/>:
> 
>      thread 1                              thread 2
>      --------------------------------      ------------------------
>      a.x = 1;
>      smp_wmb();
>      WRITE_ONCE(message, &a);              datum = READ_ONCE(message);
>                                            smp_rmb();
>                                            if (datum != NULL)
>                                              printk("%x\n", datum->x);
> 
> The access to object "x" is not restricted in any particular way. In
> thread#1, we have an smp_wmb() which enforces both a compiler barrier
> and a store-release fence, and then we have an atomic access to
> "message". But the "a.x" assignment need not be atomic.

I concur. I think I conflated atomic access to "message" with also
needing atomic access for the variables we need to ensure transitivity
on.
As you say below, this means that a bunch of this logic (and comments)
can be simplified.
  
> In our case, "a.x = 1" maps to (a) populating "QemuSelectorMap", and (b)
> setting up the "Handler" function pointer, in UnplugCpus(). The
> smp_wmb() is the "ReleaseMemoryFence" in UnplugCpus(). The WRITE_ONCE is
> the final "AllCpusInSync = FALSE" assignment in BSPHandler()
> [UefiCpuPkg/PiSmmCpuDxeSmm/MpService.c].
> 
> Regarding thread#2, the READ_ONCE is matched by the "AllCpusInSync"
> loop. smp_rmb() is the "AcquireMemoryFence" I called for, under PATCH v8
> 07/10, "OvmfPkg/SmmCpuFeaturesLib: call CPU hot-eject handler". And the
> "datum" access happens (a) in SmmCpuFeaturesRendezvousExit(), where we
> fetch/call Handler, and (b) here, where we read/modify "QemuSelectorMap".
> 
> So this seems to imply we can:
> 
> - drop the natural-alignment padding of "QemuSelectorMap", from PATCH v8
> 06/10, "OvmfPkg/SmmCpuFeaturesLib: init CPU ejection state",
> 
> - drop the last paragraph of the comment above.

Will do.

> 
> 
>>     QemuSelector = mCpuHotEjectData->QemuSelectorMap[ProcessorNum];
>> -  if (QemuSelector == CPU_EJECT_QEMU_SELECTOR_INVALID) {
>> +  if (QemuSelector == CPU_EJECT_QEMU_SELECTOR_INVALID && !IsBsp) {
>> +    return;
>> +  }
>> +
>> +  if (IsBsp) {
> 
> (5) Can you reorder the high-level flow here? Such as:
> 
>    if (CheckIfBsp ()) {
>      //
>      // send the eject requests to QEMU here
>      //
>      return;
>    }
> 
>    //
>    // Reached only on APs:
>    //
>    QemuSelector = mCpuHotEjectData->QemuSelectorMap[ProcessorNum];
>    if (QemuSelector == CPU_EJECT_QEMU_SELECTOR_INVALID) {
>      return;
>    }
> 
>    //
>    // AP being hot-ejected; pen it here.
>    //

Yeah, this is clearer.

> 
> 
>> +    UINT32 Idx;
>> +
>> +    for (Idx = 0; Idx < mCpuHotEjectData->ArrayLength; Idx++) {
>> +      UINT64 QemuSelector;
>> +
>> +      QemuSelector = mCpuHotEjectData->QemuSelectorMap[Idx];
>> +
>> +      if (QemuSelector != CPU_EJECT_QEMU_SELECTOR_INVALID) {
>> +        //
>> +        // This to-be-ejected-CPU has already received the BSP's SMI exit
>> +        // signal and, will execute SmmCpuFeaturesRendezvousExit()
>> +        // followed by this callback or is already waiting in the
>> +        // CpuSleep() loop below.
>> +        //
>> +        // Tell QEMU to context-switch it out.
>> +        //
>> +        QemuCpuhpWriteCpuSelector (mMmCpuIo, (UINT32) QemuSelector);
>> +        QemuCpuhpWriteCpuStatus (mMmCpuIo, QEMU_CPUHP_STAT_EJECT);
>> +
>> +        //
>> +        // We need a compiler barrier here to ensure that the compiler
>> +        // does not reorder the CpuStatus and QemuSelectorMap[Idx] stores.
>> +        //
>> +        // A store fence is not strictly necessary on x86 which has
>> +        // TSO; however, both of these stores are in different address spaces
>> +        // so also add a Store Fence here.
>> +        //
>> +        MemoryFence ();
> 
> (6) I wonder if this compiler barrier + comment block are helpful.
> Paraphrasing your (ex-)colleague Liran, if MMIO and IO Port accessors
> didn't contain built-in fences, all hell would break lose. We're using
> EFI_MM_CPU_IO_PROTOCOL for IO Port accesses. I think we should be safe
> ordering-wise, even without an explicit compiler barrier here.
> 
> To me personally, this particular fence only muddies the picture --
> where we already have an acquire memory fence and a store memory fence
> to couple with each other.
> 
> I'd recommend removing this. (If you disagree, I'm willing to listen to
> arguments, of course!)

You are right that we don't need a memory fence here -- given that there
is an implicit fence due to the MMIO.

As for the compiler fence, I'm just now re-looking at handlers in
EFI_MM_CPU_IO_PROTOCOL and they do seem to include a compiler barrier.

So I agree with you that we have all the fences that we need. However,
I do think it's a good idea to document both of these here.

> 
>> +
>> +        //
>> +        // Clear the eject status for this CPU Idx to ensure that an invalid
>> +        // SMI later does not end up trying to eject it or a newly
>> +        // hotplugged CPU Idx does not go into the dead loop.
>> +        //
>> +        mCpuHotEjectData->QemuSelectorMap[Idx] =
>> +          CPU_EJECT_QEMU_SELECTOR_INVALID;
>> +
>> +        DEBUG ((DEBUG_INFO, "%a: Unplugged ProcessorNum %u, "
>> +          "QemuSelector 0x%Lx\n", __FUNCTION__, Idx, QemuSelector));
> 
> (7) Please log QemuSelector with "%Lu".

Ack.
> 
> 
>> +      }
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    //
>> +    // We are done until the next hot-unplug; clear the handler.
>> +    //
>> +    // By virtue of the MemoryFence() in the ejection loop above, the
>> +    // following store is ordered-after all the ejections are done.
>> +    // (We know that there is at least one CPU hot-eject handler if this
>> +    // handler was installed.)
>> +    //
>> +    // As described in OvmfPkg::SmmCpuFeaturesRendezvousExit() this
>> +    // means that the only CPUs which might dereference
>> +    // mCpuHotEjectData->Handler are not under ejection, so we can
>> +    // safely reset.
>> +    //
>> +    mCpuHotEjectData->Handler = NULL;
>>       return;
>>     }
>>   
>> @@ -496,11 +614,6 @@ CpuHotplugMmi (
>>     if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
>>       goto Fatal;
>>     }
>> -  if (ToUnplugCount > 0) {
>> -    DEBUG ((DEBUG_ERROR, "%a: hot-unplug is not supported yet\n",
>> -      __FUNCTION__));
>> -    goto Fatal;
>> -  }
>>   
>>     if (PluggedCount > 0) {
>>       Status = ProcessHotAddedCpus (mPluggedApicIds, PluggedCount);
>> diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Library/SmmCpuFeaturesLib/SmmCpuFeaturesLib.c b/OvmfPkg/Library/SmmCpuFeaturesLib/SmmCpuFeaturesLib.c
>> index 99988285b6a2..ddfef05ee6cf 100644
>> --- a/OvmfPkg/Library/SmmCpuFeaturesLib/SmmCpuFeaturesLib.c
>> +++ b/OvmfPkg/Library/SmmCpuFeaturesLib/SmmCpuFeaturesLib.c
>> @@ -472,6 +472,37 @@ SmmCpuFeaturesRendezvousExit (
>>     // (PcdCpuMaxLogicalProcessorNumber > 1), and hot-eject is needed
>>     // in this SMI exit (otherwise mCpuHotEjectData->Handler is not armed.)
>>     //
>> +  // mCpuHotEjectData itself is stable once setup so it can be
>> +  // dereferenced without needing any synchronization,
>> +  // but, mCpuHotEjectData->Handler is updated on the BSP in the
>> +  // ongoing SMI iteration at two places:
>> +  //
>> +  // - UnplugCpus() where the BSP determines if a CPU is under ejection
>> +  //   or not. As the comment where mCpuHotEjectData->Handler is set-up
>> +  //   describes any such updates are guaranteed to be ordered-before the
>> +  //   dereference below.
>> +  //
>> +  // - EjectCpu() (which is called via the Handler below), on the BSP
>> +  //   updates mCpuHotEjectData->Handler once it is done with all ejections.
>> +  //
>> +  //   The CPU under ejection: might be executing anywhere between the
>> +  //   "AllCpusInSync" exit loop in SmiRendezvous() to about to
>> +  //   dereference the Handler field.
>> +  //   Given that the BSP ensures that this store only happens after all
>> +  //   CPUs under ejection have been ejected, this CPU would never see
>> +  //   the after value.
>> +  //   (Note that any CPU that is already executing the CpuSleep() loop
>> +  //   below never raced any updates and always saw the before value.)
>> +  //
>> +  //   CPUs not-under ejection: might see either value of the Handler
>> +  //   which is fine, because the Handler is a NOP for CPUs not-under
>> +  //   ejection.
>> +  //
>> +  //   Lastly, note that we are also guaranteed that any dereferencing
>> +  //   CPU only sees the before or after value and not an intermediate
>> +  //   value. This is because mCpuHotEjectData->Handler is aligned at a
>> +  //   natural boundary.
>> +  //
>>   
>>     if (mCpuHotEjectData != NULL) {
>>       CPU_HOT_EJECT_HANDLER Handler;
>>
> 
> (8) I can't really put my finger on it, I just feel that repeating
> (open-coding) this wall of text here is not really productive.

Part of the reason I wanted to document this here was to get your
opinion on it and figure out how much of it is useful and how
much might be overkill.

> 
> Do you think that, after you add the "acquire memory fence" comment in
> patch #7, we could avoid most of the text here? I think we should only
> point out (in patch #7) the "release fence" that the logic here pairs with.> 
> If you really want to present it all from both perspectives, I guess I'm
> OK with that, but then I believe we should drop the last paragraph at
> least (see point (4)).

Rereading it after a gap of a few days and given that most of this is
just a repeat, I'm also tending towards overkill. I think a comment
talking about acquire/release pairing is useful. Rest of it can probably
be met with just a pointer towards the comment in EjectCpus(). Does that
make sense?

Thanks
Ankur


> 
> Thanks
> Laszlo
> 


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