KVM: Rework VCPU state writeback API

This grand cleanup drops all reset and vmsave/load related
synchronization points in favor of four(!) generic hooks:

- cpu_synchronize_all_states in qemu_savevm_state_complete
  (initial sync from kernel before vmsave)
- cpu_synchronize_all_post_init in qemu_loadvm_state
  (writeback after vmload)
- cpu_synchronize_all_post_init in main after machine init
- cpu_synchronize_all_post_reset in qemu_system_reset
  (writeback after system reset)

These writeback points + the existing one of VCPU exec after
cpu_synchronize_state map on three levels of writeback:

- KVM_PUT_RUNTIME_STATE (during runtime, other VCPUs continue to run)
- KVM_PUT_RESET_STATE   (on synchronous system reset, all VCPUs stopped)
- KVM_PUT_FULL_STATE    (on init or vmload, all VCPUs stopped as well)

This level is passed to the arch-specific VCPU state writing function
that will decide which concrete substates need to be written. That way,
no writer of load, save or reset functions that interact with in-kernel
KVM states will ever have to worry about synchronization again. That
also means that a lot of reasons for races, segfaults and deadlocks are
eliminated.

cpu_synchronize_state remains untouched, just as Anthony suggested. We
continue to need it before reading or writing of VCPU states that are
also tracked by in-kernel KVM subsystems.

Consequently, this patch removes many cpu_synchronize_state calls that
are now redundant, just like remaining explicit register syncs.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/target-ppc/kvm.c b/target-ppc/kvm.c
index 8ad003799c..aa3d43247b 100644
--- a/target-ppc/kvm.c
+++ b/target-ppc/kvm.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ void kvm_arch_reset_vcpu(CPUState *env)
 {
 }
 
-int kvm_arch_put_registers(CPUState *env)
+int kvm_arch_put_registers(CPUState *env, int level)
 {
     struct kvm_regs regs;
     int ret;
diff --git a/target-ppc/machine.c b/target-ppc/machine.c
index 4897c8a4d3..67de951959 100644
--- a/target-ppc/machine.c
+++ b/target-ppc/machine.c
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ void cpu_save(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque)
     CPUState *env = (CPUState *)opaque;
     unsigned int i, j;
 
-    cpu_synchronize_state(env);
-
     for (i = 0; i < 32; i++)
         qemu_put_betls(f, &env->gpr[i]);
 #if !defined(TARGET_PPC64)
@@ -96,8 +94,6 @@ int cpu_load(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque, int version_id)
     CPUState *env = (CPUState *)opaque;
     unsigned int i, j;
 
-    cpu_synchronize_state(env);
-
     for (i = 0; i < 32; i++)
         qemu_get_betls(f, &env->gpr[i]);
 #if !defined(TARGET_PPC64)