xen/arm: sched: Ensure the vCPU context is seen before vcpu_pause() returns
Some callers of vcpu_pause() will expect to access the latest vcpu
context when the function returns (see XENDOMCTL_{set,get}vcpucontext}.
However, the latest vCPU context can only be observed after
v->is_running has been observed to be false.
As there is no memory barrier instruction generated, a processor could
try to speculatively access the vCPU context before it was observed.
To prevent the corruption of the vCPU context, we need to insert a
memory barrier instruction after v->is_running is observed and before
the context is accessed. This barrier is added in sync_vcpu_execstate()
as it seems to be the place where we expect the synchronization to
happen.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit
f6790389613cd54775ece6575013a679572b46b3)