The scheduler may call this function to force synchronization of given
vCPU's state. Although RISC-V does not support lazy context switching,
a full memory barrier is still required to order observation of the
saved context correctly.
Signed-off-by: Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- New patch.
---
xen/arch/riscv/domain.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
xen/arch/riscv/stubs.c | 5 -----
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/xen/arch/riscv/domain.c b/xen/arch/riscv/domain.c
index 1458902aff82..48ba7584acaa 100644
--- a/xen/arch/riscv/domain.c
+++ b/xen/arch/riscv/domain.c
@@ -259,3 +259,21 @@ void sync_local_execstate(void)
{
/* Nothing to do -- no lazy switching */
}
+
+void sync_vcpu_execstate(struct vcpu *v)
+{
+ /*
+ * We don't support lazy switching.
+ *
+ * However the context may have been saved from a remote pCPU so we
+ * need a barrier to ensure it is observed before continuing.
+ *
+ * Per vcpu_context_saved(), the context can be observed when
+ * v->is_running is false (the caller should check it before calling
+ * this function).
+ *
+ * Note this is a full barrier to also prevent update of the context
+ * to happen before it was observed.
+ */
+ smp_mb();
+}
diff --git a/xen/arch/riscv/stubs.c b/xen/arch/riscv/stubs.c
index c912d46f1e42..26434166acc6 100644
--- a/xen/arch/riscv/stubs.c
+++ b/xen/arch/riscv/stubs.c
@@ -91,11 +91,6 @@ void continue_running(struct vcpu *same)
BUG_ON("unimplemented");
}
-void sync_vcpu_execstate(struct vcpu *v)
-{
- BUG_ON("unimplemented");
-}
-
void startup_cpu_idle_loop(void)
{
BUG_ON("unimplemented");
--
2.52.0