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[v4,1/1] xen/time: do not decrease steal time after live migration on xen

Message ID 1509341179-8802-1-git-send-email-dongli.zhang@oracle.com (mailing list archive)
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Dongli Zhang Oct. 30, 2017, 5:26 a.m. UTC
After guest live migration on xen, steal time in /proc/stat
(cpustat[CPUTIME_STEAL]) might decrease because steal returned by
xen_steal_lock() might be less than this_rq()->prev_steal_time which is
derived from previous return value of xen_steal_clock().

For instance, steal time of each vcpu is 335 before live migration.

cpu  198 0 368 200064 1962 0 0 1340 0 0
cpu0 38 0 81 50063 492 0 0 335 0 0
cpu1 65 0 97 49763 634 0 0 335 0 0
cpu2 38 0 81 50098 462 0 0 335 0 0
cpu3 56 0 107 50138 374 0 0 335 0 0

After live migration, steal time is reduced to 312.

cpu  200 0 370 200330 1971 0 0 1248 0 0
cpu0 38 0 82 50123 500 0 0 312 0 0
cpu1 65 0 97 49832 634 0 0 312 0 0
cpu2 39 0 82 50167 462 0 0 312 0 0
cpu3 56 0 107 50207 374 0 0 312 0 0

Since runstate times are cumulative and cleared during xen live migration
by xen hypervisor, the idea of this patch is to accumulate runstate times
to global percpu variables before live migration suspend. Once guest VM is
resumed, xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu() would always return the sum of new
runstate times and previously accumulated times stored in global percpu
variables.

Similar and more severe issue would impact prior linux 4.8-4.10 as
discussed by Michael Las at
https://0xstubs.org/debugging-a-flaky-cpu-steal-time-counter-on-a-paravirtualized-xen-guest,
which would overflow steal time and lead to 100% st usage in top command
for linux 4.8-4.10. A backport of this patch would fix that issue.

References: https://0xstubs.org/debugging-a-flaky-cpu-steal-time-counter-on-a-paravirtualized-xen-guest
Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>

---
Changed since v1:
  * relocate modification to xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu

Changed since v2:
  * accumulate runstate times before live migration

Changed since v3:
  * do not accumulate times in the case of guest checkpointing

---
 drivers/xen/manage.c         |  2 ++
 drivers/xen/time.c           | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 include/xen/interface/vcpu.h |  2 ++
 include/xen/xen-ops.h        |  1 +
 4 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Jürgen Groß Oct. 30, 2017, 6:28 a.m. UTC | #1
On 30/10/17 06:26, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> After guest live migration on xen, steal time in /proc/stat
> (cpustat[CPUTIME_STEAL]) might decrease because steal returned by
> xen_steal_lock() might be less than this_rq()->prev_steal_time which is
> derived from previous return value of xen_steal_clock().
> 
> For instance, steal time of each vcpu is 335 before live migration.
> 
> cpu  198 0 368 200064 1962 0 0 1340 0 0
> cpu0 38 0 81 50063 492 0 0 335 0 0
> cpu1 65 0 97 49763 634 0 0 335 0 0
> cpu2 38 0 81 50098 462 0 0 335 0 0
> cpu3 56 0 107 50138 374 0 0 335 0 0
> 
> After live migration, steal time is reduced to 312.
> 
> cpu  200 0 370 200330 1971 0 0 1248 0 0
> cpu0 38 0 82 50123 500 0 0 312 0 0
> cpu1 65 0 97 49832 634 0 0 312 0 0
> cpu2 39 0 82 50167 462 0 0 312 0 0
> cpu3 56 0 107 50207 374 0 0 312 0 0
> 
> Since runstate times are cumulative and cleared during xen live migration
> by xen hypervisor, the idea of this patch is to accumulate runstate times
> to global percpu variables before live migration suspend. Once guest VM is
> resumed, xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu() would always return the sum of new
> runstate times and previously accumulated times stored in global percpu
> variables.
> 
> Similar and more severe issue would impact prior linux 4.8-4.10 as
> discussed by Michael Las at
> https://0xstubs.org/debugging-a-flaky-cpu-steal-time-counter-on-a-paravirtualized-xen-guest,
> which would overflow steal time and lead to 100% st usage in top command
> for linux 4.8-4.10. A backport of this patch would fix that issue.
> 
> References: https://0xstubs.org/debugging-a-flaky-cpu-steal-time-counter-on-a-paravirtualized-xen-guest
> Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
> 
> ---
> Changed since v1:
>   * relocate modification to xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu
> 
> Changed since v2:
>   * accumulate runstate times before live migration
> 
> Changed since v3:
>   * do not accumulate times in the case of guest checkpointing
> 
> ---
>  drivers/xen/manage.c         |  2 ++
>  drivers/xen/time.c           | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  include/xen/interface/vcpu.h |  2 ++
>  include/xen/xen-ops.h        |  1 +
>  4 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/manage.c b/drivers/xen/manage.c
> index c425d03..3dc085d 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/manage.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/manage.c
> @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ static int xen_suspend(void *data)
>  	}
>  
>  	gnttab_suspend();
> +	xen_accumulate_runstate_time(-1);
>  	xen_arch_pre_suspend();
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ static int xen_suspend(void *data)
>                                             : 0);
>  
>  	xen_arch_post_suspend(si->cancelled);
> +	xen_accumulate_runstate_time(si->cancelled);
>  	gnttab_resume();
>  
>  	if (!si->cancelled) {
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/time.c b/drivers/xen/time.c
> index ac5f23f..18e2b76 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/time.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/time.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
>  /* runstate info updated by Xen */
>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vcpu_runstate_info, xen_runstate);
>  
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64[RUNSTATE_max], old_runstate_time);
> +static u64 **runstate_time_delta;
> +
>  /* return an consistent snapshot of 64-bit time/counter value */
>  static u64 get64(const u64 *p)
>  {
> @@ -47,8 +50,8 @@ static u64 get64(const u64 *p)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static void xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu(struct vcpu_runstate_info *res,
> -					  unsigned int cpu)
> +static void xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu_delta(
> +			struct vcpu_runstate_info *res, unsigned int cpu)
>  {
>  	u64 state_time;
>  	struct vcpu_runstate_info *state;
> @@ -66,6 +69,82 @@ static void xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu(struct vcpu_runstate_info *res,
>  		 (state_time & XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE));
>  }
>  
> +static void xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu(struct vcpu_runstate_info *res,
> +					  unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +
> +	xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu_delta(res, cpu);
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < RUNSTATE_max; i++)
> +		res->time[i] += per_cpu(old_runstate_time, cpu)[i];
> +}
> +
> +void xen_accumulate_runstate_time(int action)
> +{
> +	struct vcpu_runstate_info state;
> +	int cpu, i;
> +
> +	switch (action) {
> +	case -1: /* backup runstate time before suspend */
> +		WARN_ON_ONCE(unlikely(runstate_time_delta));
> +
> +		runstate_time_delta = kcalloc(num_possible_cpus(),
> +						  sizeof(*runstate_time_delta),
> +						  GFP_KERNEL);

You know the number of cpus, so you can just allocate an array of
struct vcpu_runstate_info:

struct vcpu_runstate_info *runstate_time_delta;

kcalloc(num_possible_cpus(), sizeof(*runstate_time_delta), GFP_KERNEL);

then ...

> +		if (unlikely(!runstate_time_delta)) {
> +			pr_alert("%s: failed to allocate runstate_time_delta\n",
> +					__func__);
> +			return;
> +		}
> +
> +		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> +			runstate_time_delta[cpu] = kmalloc_array(RUNSTATE_max,
> +						  sizeof(**runstate_time_delta),
> +						  GFP_KERNEL);

... this allocation isn't needed any more.


Juergen
kernel test robot Nov. 1, 2017, 11:35 p.m. UTC | #2
Hi Dongli,

Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve:

[auto build test ERROR on xen-tip/linux-next]
[also build test ERROR on v4.14-rc7 next-20171018]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system]

url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Dongli-Zhang/xen-time-do-not-decrease-steal-time-after-live-migration-on-xen/20171102-025719
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git linux-next
config: arm64-allmodconfig (attached as .config)
compiler: aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 6.1.1-9) 6.1.1 20160705
reproduce:
        wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
        chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
        # save the attached .config to linux build tree
        make.cross ARCH=arm64 

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

   drivers/xen/time.c: In function 'xen_accumulate_runstate_time':
   drivers/xen/time.c:92:25: error: implicit declaration of function 'kcalloc' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
      runstate_time_delta = kcalloc(num_possible_cpus(),
                            ^~~~~~~
   drivers/xen/time.c:92:23: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
      runstate_time_delta = kcalloc(num_possible_cpus(),
                          ^
>> drivers/xen/time.c:102:31: error: implicit declaration of function 'kmalloc_array' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
       runstate_time_delta[cpu] = kmalloc_array(RUNSTATE_max,
                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
   drivers/xen/time.c:102:29: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
       runstate_time_delta[cpu] = kmalloc_array(RUNSTATE_max,
                                ^
   drivers/xen/time.c:141:5: error: implicit declaration of function 'kfree' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
        kfree(runstate_time_delta[cpu]);
        ^~~~~
   cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

vim +/kmalloc_array +102 drivers/xen/time.c

    82	
    83	void xen_accumulate_runstate_time(int action)
    84	{
    85		struct vcpu_runstate_info state;
    86		int cpu, i;
    87	
    88		switch (action) {
    89		case -1: /* backup runstate time before suspend */
    90			WARN_ON_ONCE(unlikely(runstate_time_delta));
    91	
  > 92			runstate_time_delta = kcalloc(num_possible_cpus(),
    93							  sizeof(*runstate_time_delta),
    94							  GFP_KERNEL);
    95			if (unlikely(!runstate_time_delta)) {
    96				pr_alert("%s: failed to allocate runstate_time_delta\n",
    97						__func__);
    98				return;
    99			}
   100	
   101			for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
 > 102				runstate_time_delta[cpu] = kmalloc_array(RUNSTATE_max,
   103							  sizeof(**runstate_time_delta),
   104							  GFP_KERNEL);
   105				if (unlikely(!runstate_time_delta[cpu])) {
   106					pr_alert("%s: failed to allocate runstate_time_delta[%d]\n",
   107							__func__, cpu);
   108					action = 0;
   109					goto reclaim_mem;
   110				}
   111	
   112				xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu_delta(&state, cpu);
   113				memcpy(runstate_time_delta[cpu],
   114					state.time,
   115					RUNSTATE_max * sizeof(**runstate_time_delta));
   116			}
   117			break;
   118	
   119		case 0: /* backup runstate time after resume */
   120			if (unlikely(!runstate_time_delta)) {
   121				pr_alert("%s: cannot accumulate runstate time as runstate_time_delta is NULL\n",
   122						__func__);
   123				return;
   124			}
   125	
   126			for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
   127				for (i = 0; i < RUNSTATE_max; i++)
   128					per_cpu(old_runstate_time, cpu)[i] +=
   129							runstate_time_delta[cpu][i];
   130			}
   131			break;
   132	
   133		default: /* do not accumulate runstate time for checkpointing */
   134			break;
   135		}
   136	
   137	reclaim_mem:
   138		if (action != -1 && runstate_time_delta) {
   139			for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
   140				if (likely(runstate_time_delta[cpu]))
   141					kfree(runstate_time_delta[cpu]);
   142			}
   143			kfree(runstate_time_delta);
   144			runstate_time_delta = NULL;
   145		}
   146	}
   147	

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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/xen/manage.c b/drivers/xen/manage.c
index c425d03..3dc085d 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/manage.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/manage.c
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@  static int xen_suspend(void *data)
 	}
 
 	gnttab_suspend();
+	xen_accumulate_runstate_time(-1);
 	xen_arch_pre_suspend();
 
 	/*
@@ -84,6 +85,7 @@  static int xen_suspend(void *data)
                                            : 0);
 
 	xen_arch_post_suspend(si->cancelled);
+	xen_accumulate_runstate_time(si->cancelled);
 	gnttab_resume();
 
 	if (!si->cancelled) {
diff --git a/drivers/xen/time.c b/drivers/xen/time.c
index ac5f23f..18e2b76 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/time.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/time.c
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ 
 /* runstate info updated by Xen */
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vcpu_runstate_info, xen_runstate);
 
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64[RUNSTATE_max], old_runstate_time);
+static u64 **runstate_time_delta;
+
 /* return an consistent snapshot of 64-bit time/counter value */
 static u64 get64(const u64 *p)
 {
@@ -47,8 +50,8 @@  static u64 get64(const u64 *p)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static void xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu(struct vcpu_runstate_info *res,
-					  unsigned int cpu)
+static void xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu_delta(
+			struct vcpu_runstate_info *res, unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	u64 state_time;
 	struct vcpu_runstate_info *state;
@@ -66,6 +69,82 @@  static void xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu(struct vcpu_runstate_info *res,
 		 (state_time & XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE));
 }
 
+static void xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu(struct vcpu_runstate_info *res,
+					  unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu_delta(res, cpu);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < RUNSTATE_max; i++)
+		res->time[i] += per_cpu(old_runstate_time, cpu)[i];
+}
+
+void xen_accumulate_runstate_time(int action)
+{
+	struct vcpu_runstate_info state;
+	int cpu, i;
+
+	switch (action) {
+	case -1: /* backup runstate time before suspend */
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(unlikely(runstate_time_delta));
+
+		runstate_time_delta = kcalloc(num_possible_cpus(),
+						  sizeof(*runstate_time_delta),
+						  GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (unlikely(!runstate_time_delta)) {
+			pr_alert("%s: failed to allocate runstate_time_delta\n",
+					__func__);
+			return;
+		}
+
+		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+			runstate_time_delta[cpu] = kmalloc_array(RUNSTATE_max,
+						  sizeof(**runstate_time_delta),
+						  GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (unlikely(!runstate_time_delta[cpu])) {
+				pr_alert("%s: failed to allocate runstate_time_delta[%d]\n",
+						__func__, cpu);
+				action = 0;
+				goto reclaim_mem;
+			}
+
+			xen_get_runstate_snapshot_cpu_delta(&state, cpu);
+			memcpy(runstate_time_delta[cpu],
+				state.time,
+				RUNSTATE_max * sizeof(**runstate_time_delta));
+		}
+		break;
+
+	case 0: /* backup runstate time after resume */
+		if (unlikely(!runstate_time_delta)) {
+			pr_alert("%s: cannot accumulate runstate time as runstate_time_delta is NULL\n",
+					__func__);
+			return;
+		}
+
+		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+			for (i = 0; i < RUNSTATE_max; i++)
+				per_cpu(old_runstate_time, cpu)[i] +=
+						runstate_time_delta[cpu][i];
+		}
+		break;
+
+	default: /* do not accumulate runstate time for checkpointing */
+		break;
+	}
+
+reclaim_mem:
+	if (action != -1 && runstate_time_delta) {
+		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+			if (likely(runstate_time_delta[cpu]))
+				kfree(runstate_time_delta[cpu]);
+		}
+		kfree(runstate_time_delta);
+		runstate_time_delta = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Runstate accounting
  */
diff --git a/include/xen/interface/vcpu.h b/include/xen/interface/vcpu.h
index 98188c8..85e81ce 100644
--- a/include/xen/interface/vcpu.h
+++ b/include/xen/interface/vcpu.h
@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@  DEFINE_GUEST_HANDLE_STRUCT(vcpu_runstate_info);
  */
 #define RUNSTATE_offline  3
 
+#define RUNSTATE_max      4
+
 /*
  * Register a shared memory area from which the guest may obtain its own
  * runstate information without needing to execute a hypercall.
diff --git a/include/xen/xen-ops.h b/include/xen/xen-ops.h
index 218e6aa..b1f9ae9 100644
--- a/include/xen/xen-ops.h
+++ b/include/xen/xen-ops.h
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@  void xen_resume_notifier_unregister(struct notifier_block *nb);
 bool xen_vcpu_stolen(int vcpu);
 void xen_setup_runstate_info(int cpu);
 void xen_time_setup_guest(void);
+void xen_accumulate_runstate_time(int action);
 void xen_get_runstate_snapshot(struct vcpu_runstate_info *res);
 u64 xen_steal_clock(int cpu);