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[5/5] kvm,rcu,nohz: use RCU extended quiescent state when running KVM guest

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Rik van Riel Feb. 10, 2015, 8:27 p.m. UTC
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

The host kernel is not doing anything while the CPU is executing
a KVM guest VCPU, so it can be marked as being in an extended
quiescent state, identical to that used when running user space
code.

The only exception to that rule is when the host handles an
interrupt, which is already handled by the irq code, which
calls rcu_irq_enter and rcu_irq_exit.

The guest_enter and guest_exit functions already switch vtime
accounting independent of context tracking. Leave those calls
where they are, instead of moving them into the context tracking
code.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/context_tracking.h       | 6 ++++++
 include/linux/context_tracking_state.h | 1 +
 include/linux/kvm_host.h               | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Paul E. McKenney Feb. 10, 2015, 9:42 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 03:27:54PM -0500, riel@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> 
> The host kernel is not doing anything while the CPU is executing
> a KVM guest VCPU, so it can be marked as being in an extended
> quiescent state, identical to that used when running user space
> code.
> 
> The only exception to that rule is when the host handles an
> interrupt, which is already handled by the irq code, which
> calls rcu_irq_enter and rcu_irq_exit.
> 
> The guest_enter and guest_exit functions already switch vtime
> accounting independent of context tracking. Leave those calls
> where they are, instead of moving them into the context tracking
> code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

The checks for context_tracking_is_enabled() around the calls to
context_tracking_enter() and context_tracking_exit() (as opposed to
only within these functions) looked strange at first, but it avoids
a needless unconditional call in cases where the static_key disables
context tracking.  (This is due to separate compilation.)

So...

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
>  include/linux/context_tracking.h       | 6 ++++++
>  include/linux/context_tracking_state.h | 1 +
>  include/linux/kvm_host.h               | 3 ++-
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/context_tracking.h b/include/linux/context_tracking.h
> index 954253283709..b65fd1420e53 100644
> --- a/include/linux/context_tracking.h
> +++ b/include/linux/context_tracking.h
> @@ -80,10 +80,16 @@ static inline void guest_enter(void)
>  		vtime_guest_enter(current);
>  	else
>  		current->flags |= PF_VCPU;
> +
> +	if (context_tracking_is_enabled())
> +		context_tracking_enter(IN_GUEST);
>  }
> 
>  static inline void guest_exit(void)
>  {
> +	if (context_tracking_is_enabled())
> +		context_tracking_exit(IN_GUEST);
> +
>  	if (vtime_accounting_enabled())
>  		vtime_guest_exit(current);
>  	else
> diff --git a/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h b/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h
> index 72ab10fe1e46..90a7bab8779e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h
> +++ b/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ struct context_tracking {
>  	enum ctx_state {
>  		IN_KERNEL = 0,
>  		IN_USER,
> +		IN_GUEST,
>  	} state;
>  };
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> index 26f106022c88..c7828a6a9614 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> @@ -772,7 +772,8 @@ static inline void kvm_guest_enter(void)
>  	 * one time slice). Lets treat guest mode as quiescent state, just like
>  	 * we do with user-mode execution.
>  	 */
> -	rcu_virt_note_context_switch(smp_processor_id());
> +	if (!context_tracking_cpu_is_enabled())
> +		rcu_virt_note_context_switch(smp_processor_id());
>  }
> 
>  static inline void kvm_guest_exit(void)
> -- 
> 1.9.3
> 

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diff --git a/include/linux/context_tracking.h b/include/linux/context_tracking.h
index 954253283709..b65fd1420e53 100644
--- a/include/linux/context_tracking.h
+++ b/include/linux/context_tracking.h
@@ -80,10 +80,16 @@  static inline void guest_enter(void)
 		vtime_guest_enter(current);
 	else
 		current->flags |= PF_VCPU;
+
+	if (context_tracking_is_enabled())
+		context_tracking_enter(IN_GUEST);
 }
 
 static inline void guest_exit(void)
 {
+	if (context_tracking_is_enabled())
+		context_tracking_exit(IN_GUEST);
+
 	if (vtime_accounting_enabled())
 		vtime_guest_exit(current);
 	else
diff --git a/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h b/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h
index 72ab10fe1e46..90a7bab8779e 100644
--- a/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h
+++ b/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@  struct context_tracking {
 	enum ctx_state {
 		IN_KERNEL = 0,
 		IN_USER,
+		IN_GUEST,
 	} state;
 };
 
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 26f106022c88..c7828a6a9614 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -772,7 +772,8 @@  static inline void kvm_guest_enter(void)
 	 * one time slice). Lets treat guest mode as quiescent state, just like
 	 * we do with user-mode execution.
 	 */
-	rcu_virt_note_context_switch(smp_processor_id());
+	if (!context_tracking_cpu_is_enabled())
+		rcu_virt_note_context_switch(smp_processor_id());
 }
 
 static inline void kvm_guest_exit(void)