>From reading other code that accesses memory regions directly, it appears that the rcu_read_lock needs to be held. Note: the original code for accessing RAM directly was added because there is no other way to use atomic_cmpxchg on guest physical address space.
Cc: Sagar Karandikar <sag...@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Bastian Koppelmann <kbast...@mail.uni-paderborn.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Clark <m...@sifive.com> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <pal...@sifive.com> --- target/riscv/helper.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/target/riscv/helper.c b/target/riscv/helper.c index 02cbcea..d148bed 100644 --- a/target/riscv/helper.c +++ b/target/riscv/helper.c @@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ restart: as the PTE is no longer valid */ MemoryRegion *mr; hwaddr l = sizeof(target_ulong), addr1; + enum { success, translate_fail, restart_walk} action = success; + + rcu_read_lock(); mr = address_space_translate(cs->as, pte_addr, &addr1, &l, false); if (memory_access_is_direct(mr, true)) { @@ -222,7 +225,7 @@ restart: target_ulong old_pte = atomic_cmpxchg(pte_pa, pte, updated_pte); if (old_pte != pte) { - goto restart; + action = restart_walk; } else { pte = updated_pte; } @@ -230,7 +233,17 @@ restart: } else { /* misconfigured PTE in ROM (AD bits are not preset) or * PTE is in IO space and can't be updated atomically */ + action = translate_fail; + } + rcu_read_unlock(); + + switch (action) { + case success: + break; + case translate_fail: return TRANSLATE_FAIL; + case restart_walk: + goto restart; } } -- 2.7.0