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-rw-r--r--src/cpu/kvm/base.cc62
-rw-r--r--src/cpu/kvm/base.hh14
-rw-r--r--src/cpu/kvm/timer.cc24
3 files changed, 78 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/src/cpu/kvm/base.cc b/src/cpu/kvm/base.cc
index d25e145a5..64c1a5e81 100644
--- a/src/cpu/kvm/base.cc
+++ b/src/cpu/kvm/base.cc
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
/* Used by some KVM macros */
#define PAGE_SIZE pageSize
-volatile bool timerOverflowed = false;
+static volatile __thread bool timerOverflowed = false;
BaseKvmCPU::BaseKvmCPU(BaseKvmCPUParams *params)
: BaseCPU(params),
@@ -92,18 +92,6 @@ BaseKvmCPU::BaseKvmCPU(BaseKvmCPUParams *params)
thread->setStatus(ThreadContext::Halted);
tc = thread->getTC();
threadContexts.push_back(tc);
-
- setupCounters();
-
- if (params->usePerfOverflow)
- runTimer.reset(new PerfKvmTimer(hwCycles,
- KVM_TIMER_SIGNAL,
- params->hostFactor,
- params->hostFreq));
- else
- runTimer.reset(new PosixKvmTimer(KVM_TIMER_SIGNAL, CLOCK_MONOTONIC,
- params->hostFactor,
- params->hostFreq));
}
BaseKvmCPU::~BaseKvmCPU()
@@ -177,6 +165,35 @@ BaseKvmCPU::startup()
}
thread->startup();
+
+ Event *startupEvent(
+ new EventWrapper<BaseKvmCPU,
+ &BaseKvmCPU::startupThread>(this, true));
+ schedule(startupEvent, curTick());
+}
+
+void
+BaseKvmCPU::startupThread()
+{
+ // Do thread-specific initialization. We need to setup signal
+ // delivery for counters and timers from within the thread that
+ // will execute the event queue to ensure that signals are
+ // delivered to the right threads.
+ const BaseKvmCPUParams * const p(
+ dynamic_cast<const BaseKvmCPUParams *>(params()));
+
+ setupCounters();
+
+ if (p->usePerfOverflow)
+ runTimer.reset(new PerfKvmTimer(hwCycles,
+ KVM_TIMER_SIGNAL,
+ p->hostFactor,
+ p->hostFreq));
+ else
+ runTimer.reset(new PosixKvmTimer(KVM_TIMER_SIGNAL, CLOCK_MONOTONIC,
+ p->hostFactor,
+ p->hostFreq));
+
}
void
@@ -1044,6 +1061,13 @@ BaseKvmCPU::flushCoalescedMMIO()
/**
* Cycle timer overflow when running in KVM. Forces the KVM syscall to
* exit with EINTR and allows us to run the event queue.
+ *
+ * @warn This function might not be called since some kernels don't
+ * seem to deliver signals when the signal is only unmasked when
+ * running in KVM. This doesn't matter though since we are only
+ * interested in getting KVM to exit, which happens as expected. See
+ * setupSignalHandler() and kvmRun() for details about KVM signal
+ * handling.
*/
static void
onTimerOverflow(int signo, siginfo_t *si, void *data)
@@ -1079,20 +1103,22 @@ BaseKvmCPU::setupSignalHandler()
panic("KVM: Failed to setup vCPU instruction signal handler\n");
sigset_t sigset;
- if (sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, &sigset) == -1)
+ if (pthread_sigmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, &sigset) == -1)
panic("KVM: Failed get signal mask\n");
// Request KVM to setup the same signal mask as we're currently
- // running with. We'll sometimes need to mask the KVM_TIMER_SIGNAL
- // to cause immediate exits from KVM after servicing IO
- // requests. See kvmRun().
+ // running with except for the KVM control signals. We'll
+ // sometimes need to raise the KVM_TIMER_SIGNAL to cause immediate
+ // exits from KVM after servicing IO requests. See kvmRun().
+ sigdelset(&sigset, KVM_TIMER_SIGNAL);
+ sigdelset(&sigset, KVM_INST_SIGNAL);
setSignalMask(&sigset);
// Mask our control signals so they aren't delivered unless we're
// actually executing inside KVM.
sigaddset(&sigset, KVM_TIMER_SIGNAL);
sigaddset(&sigset, KVM_INST_SIGNAL);
- if (sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &sigset, NULL) == -1)
+ if (pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &sigset, NULL) == -1)
panic("KVM: Failed mask the KVM control signals\n");
}
diff --git a/src/cpu/kvm/base.hh b/src/cpu/kvm/base.hh
index 8788d6c8a..5a0b80b15 100644
--- a/src/cpu/kvm/base.hh
+++ b/src/cpu/kvm/base.hh
@@ -618,6 +618,20 @@ class BaseKvmCPU : public BaseCPU
*/
bool discardPendingSignal(int signum) const;
+ /**
+ * Thread-specific initialization.
+ *
+ * Some KVM-related initialization requires us to know the TID of
+ * the thread that is going to execute our event queue. For
+ * example, when setting up timers, we need to know the TID of the
+ * thread executing in KVM in order to deliver the timer signal to
+ * that thread. This method is called as the first event in this
+ * SimObject's event queue.
+ *
+ * @see startup
+ */
+ void startupThread();
+
/** Try to drain the CPU if a drain is pending */
bool tryDrain();
diff --git a/src/cpu/kvm/timer.cc b/src/cpu/kvm/timer.cc
index 6882063e4..cb48046f7 100644
--- a/src/cpu/kvm/timer.cc
+++ b/src/cpu/kvm/timer.cc
@@ -40,12 +40,30 @@
#include <algorithm>
#include <csignal>
#include <ctime>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include "base/misc.hh"
#include "base/trace.hh"
#include "cpu/kvm/timer.hh"
#include "debug/KvmTimer.hh"
+/* According to timer_create(2), the value SIGEV_THREAD_ID can be used
+ * to specify which thread a timer signal gets delivered to. According
+ * to the man page, the member sigev_notify_thread is used to specify
+ * the TID. This member is currently not defined by default in
+ * siginfo.h on x86, so we define it here as a workaround.
+ */
+#ifndef sigev_notify_thread_id
+#define sigev_notify_thread_id _sigev_un._tid
+#endif
+
+static pid_t
+gettid()
+{
+ return syscall(__NR_gettid);
+}
+
/**
* Minimum number of cycles that a host can spend in a KVM call (used
* to calculate the resolution of some timers).
@@ -62,11 +80,9 @@ PosixKvmTimer::PosixKvmTimer(int signo, clockid_t clockID,
{
struct sigevent sev;
- // TODO: We should request signal delivery to thread instead of
- // the process here. Unfortunately this seems to be broken, or at
- // least not work as specified in the man page.
- sev.sigev_notify = SIGEV_SIGNAL;
+ sev.sigev_notify = SIGEV_THREAD_ID;
sev.sigev_signo = signo;
+ sev.sigev_notify_thread_id = gettid();
sev.sigev_value.sival_ptr = NULL;
while (timer_create(clockID, &sev, &timer) == -1) {