[PATCH RESEND v15 07/10] KVM: arm: page logging 2nd stage fault handling

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Thu Jan 15 02:55:39 PST 2015


On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 06:51:50PM -0800, Mario Smarduch wrote:
> This patch adds support for 2nd stage page fault handling while dirty page
> logging. On huge page faults, huge pages are dissolved to normal pages, and
> rebuilding of 2nd stage huge pages is blocked. In case migration is
> canceled this restriction is removed and huge pages may be rebuilt again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mario Smarduch <m.smarduch at samsung.com>
> ---
> 
> change Log since last RESEND v2 --> v3:
> - Handle read faults to writable regions properly
> - Along with Christoffers suggestions optimized user_mem_abor() while logging
> - Fix enable of dirty page logging to Device memory - reject request 
> 
> Change Log since last RESEND v1 --> v2:
> - Disallow dirty page logging of IO region - fail for initial write protect
>   and disable logging code in 2nd stage page fault handler.
> - Fixed auto spell correction errors
> 
> Change Log RESEND v0 --> v1:
> - fixed bug exposed by new generic __get_user_pages_fast(), when region is 
>   writable, prevent write protection of pte on read fault
> - Removed marking entire huge page dirty on initial access
> - don't dissolve huge pages of non-writable regions
> - Made updates based on Christoffers comments
>   - renamed logging status function to memslot_is_logging()
>   - changed few values to bool from longs
>   - streamlined user_mem_abort() to eliminate extra conditional checks
> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c |   97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 88 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> index 73d506f..2e494ac 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -47,6 +47,18 @@ static phys_addr_t hyp_idmap_vector;
>  #define kvm_pmd_huge(_x)	(pmd_huge(_x) || pmd_trans_huge(_x))
>  #define kvm_pud_huge(_x)	pud_huge(_x)
>  
> +#define KVM_S2PTE_FLAG_IS_IOMAP		(1UL << 0)
> +#define KVM_S2_FLAG_LOGGING_ACTIVE	(1UL << 1)
> +
> +static bool memslot_is_logging(struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM
> +	return !!memslot->dirty_bitmap;

change this to:
return memslot->dirty_bitmap && !(mem->flags & KVM_MEM_READONLY)

with the semantics that we only care about logging writes to the dirty
bitmap for things that will ever actually be written to.

> +#else
> +	return false;
> +#endif
> +}
> +
>  static void kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t ipa)
>  {
>  	/*
> @@ -59,6 +71,25 @@ static void kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t ipa)
>  		kvm_call_hyp(__kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa, kvm, ipa);
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * stage2_dissolve_pmd() - clear and flush huge PMD entry
> + * @kvm:	pointer to kvm structure.
> + * @addr:	IPA
> + * @pmd:	pmd pointer for IPA
> + *
> + * Function clears a PMD entry, flushes addr 1st and 2nd stage TLBs. Marks all
> + * pages in the range dirty.
> + */
> +static void stage2_dissolve_pmd(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t addr, pmd_t *pmd)
> +{
> +	if (!kvm_pmd_huge(*pmd))
> +		return;
> +
> +	pmd_clear(pmd);
> +	kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(kvm, addr);
> +	put_page(virt_to_page(pmd));
> +}
> +
>  static int mmu_topup_memory_cache(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache,
>  				  int min, int max)
>  {
> @@ -703,10 +734,15 @@ static int stage2_set_pmd_huge(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache
>  }
>  
>  static int stage2_set_pte(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache,
> -			  phys_addr_t addr, const pte_t *new_pte, bool iomap)
> +			  phys_addr_t addr, const pte_t *new_pte,
> +			  unsigned long flags)
>  {
>  	pmd_t *pmd;
>  	pte_t *pte, old_pte;
> +	bool iomap = flags & KVM_S2PTE_FLAG_IS_IOMAP;
> +	bool logging_active = flags & KVM_S2_FLAG_LOGGING_ACTIVE;
> +
> +	VM_BUG_ON(logging_active && !cache);
>  
>  	/* Create stage-2 page table mapping - Levels 0 and 1 */
>  	pmd = stage2_get_pmd(kvm, cache, addr);
> @@ -718,6 +754,13 @@ static int stage2_set_pte(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache,
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * While dirty page logging - dissolve huge PMD, then continue on to
> +	 * allocate page.
> +	 */
> +	if (logging_active)
> +		stage2_dissolve_pmd(kvm, addr, pmd);
> +
>  	/* Create stage-2 page mappings - Level 2 */
>  	if (pmd_none(*pmd)) {
>  		if (!cache)
> @@ -774,7 +817,8 @@ int kvm_phys_addr_ioremap(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t guest_ipa,
>  		if (ret)
>  			goto out;
>  		spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> -		ret = stage2_set_pte(kvm, &cache, addr, &pte, true);
> +		ret = stage2_set_pte(kvm, &cache, addr, &pte,
> +						KVM_S2PTE_FLAG_IS_IOMAP);
>  		spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>  		if (ret)
>  			goto out;
> @@ -1002,6 +1046,8 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>  	pfn_t pfn;
>  	pgprot_t mem_type = PAGE_S2;
>  	bool fault_ipa_uncached;
> +	bool logging_active = memslot_is_logging(memslot);
> +	unsigned long flags = 0;
>  
>  	write_fault = kvm_is_write_fault(vcpu);
>  	if (fault_status == FSC_PERM && !write_fault) {
> @@ -1018,7 +1064,7 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
> +	if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) && !logging_active) {
>  		hugetlb = true;
>  		gfn = (fault_ipa & PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  	} else {
> @@ -1059,12 +1105,30 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>  	if (is_error_pfn(pfn))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
> -	if (kvm_is_device_pfn(pfn))
> +	if (kvm_is_device_pfn(pfn)) {
>  		mem_type = PAGE_S2_DEVICE;
> +		flags |= KVM_S2PTE_FLAG_IS_IOMAP;
> +	} else if (logging_active) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Faults on pages in a memslot with logging enabled
> +		 * should not be mapped with huge pages (it introduces churn
> +		 * and performance degradation), so force a pte mapping.
> +		 */
> +		force_pte = true;
> +		flags |= KVM_S2_FLAG_LOGGING_ACTIVE;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Only actually map the page as writable if this was a write
> +		 * fault.
> +		 */
> +		if (!write_fault)
> +			writable = false;
> +	}
>  
>  	spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>  	if (mmu_notifier_retry(kvm, mmu_seq))
>  		goto out_unlock;
> +
>  	if (!hugetlb && !force_pte)
>  		hugetlb = transparent_hugepage_adjust(&pfn, &fault_ipa);
>  
> @@ -1082,17 +1146,17 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>  		ret = stage2_set_pmd_huge(kvm, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pmd);
>  	} else {
>  		pte_t new_pte = pfn_pte(pfn, mem_type);
> +
>  		if (writable) {
>  			kvm_set_s2pte_writable(&new_pte);
>  			kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
> +			mark_page_dirty(kvm, gfn);
>  		}
>  		coherent_cache_guest_page(vcpu, hva, PAGE_SIZE,
>  					  fault_ipa_uncached);
> -		ret = stage2_set_pte(kvm, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pte,
> -			pgprot_val(mem_type) == pgprot_val(PAGE_S2_DEVICE));
> +		ret = stage2_set_pte(kvm, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pte, flags);
>  	}
>  
> -
>  out_unlock:
>  	spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>  	kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
> @@ -1242,7 +1306,14 @@ static void kvm_set_spte_handler(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa, void *data)
>  {
>  	pte_t *pte = (pte_t *)data;
>  
> -	stage2_set_pte(kvm, NULL, gpa, pte, false);
> +	/*
> +	 * We can always call stage2_set_pte with KVM_S2PTE_FLAG_LOGGING_ACTIVE
> +	 * flag clear because MMU notifiers will have unmapped a huge PMD before
> +	 * calling ->change_pte() (which in turn calls kvm_set_spte_hva()) and
> +	 * therefore stage2_set_pte() never needs to clear out a huge PMD
> +	 * through this calling path.
> +	 */
> +	stage2_set_pte(kvm, NULL, gpa, pte, 0);
>  }
>  
>  
> @@ -1396,7 +1467,8 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
>  	bool writable = !(mem->flags & KVM_MEM_READONLY);
>  	int ret = 0;
>  
> -	if (change != KVM_MR_CREATE && change != KVM_MR_MOVE)
> +	if (change != KVM_MR_CREATE && change != KVM_MR_MOVE &&
> +			change != KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY)
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -1447,6 +1519,10 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
>  			phys_addr_t pa = (vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT) +
>  					 vm_start - vma->vm_start;
>  
> +			/* IO region dirty page logging not allowed */
> +			if (memslot->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES)
> +				return -EINVAL;
> +
>  			ret = kvm_phys_addr_ioremap(kvm, gpa, pa,
>  						    vm_end - vm_start,
>  						    writable);
> @@ -1456,6 +1532,9 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
>  		hva = vm_end;
>  	} while (hva < reg_end);
>  
> +	if (change == KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY)
> +		return ret;
> +
>  	spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>  	if (ret)
>  		unmap_stage2_range(kvm, mem->guest_phys_addr, mem->memory_size);
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 

besides the final nit, this looks good!

Send out a new complete series, and I'll test it and we may be just in
time for the next merge window.

-Christoffer



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