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[RFC,v3,2/2] KVM: arm64: Distinguish cases of memcache allocations completely

Message ID 20210326031654.3716-3-wangyanan55@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
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Series KVM: arm64: Improve efficiency of stage2 page table | expand

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Yanan Wang March 26, 2021, 3:16 a.m. UTC
With a guest translation fault, the memcache pages are not needed if KVM
is only about to install a new leaf entry into the existing page table.
And with a guest permission fault, the memcache pages are also not needed
for a write_fault in dirty-logging time if KVM is only about to update
the existing leaf entry instead of collapsing a block entry into a table.

By comparing fault_granule and vma_pagesize, cases that require allocations
from memcache and cases that don't can be distinguished completely.

Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 25 ++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Comments

Alexandru Elisei April 7, 2021, 3:35 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Yanan,

On 3/26/21 3:16 AM, Yanan Wang wrote:
> With a guest translation fault, the memcache pages are not needed if KVM
> is only about to install a new leaf entry into the existing page table.
> And with a guest permission fault, the memcache pages are also not needed
> for a write_fault in dirty-logging time if KVM is only about to update
> the existing leaf entry instead of collapsing a block entry into a table.
>
> By comparing fault_granule and vma_pagesize, cases that require allocations
> from memcache and cases that don't can be distinguished completely.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 25 ++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> index 1eec9f63bc6f..05af40dc60c1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -810,19 +810,6 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>  	gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  	mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Permission faults just need to update the existing leaf entry,
> -	 * and so normally don't require allocations from the memcache. The
> -	 * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at runtime
> -	 * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
> -	 */
> -	if (fault_status != FSC_PERM || (logging_active && write_fault)) {
> -		ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
> -						 kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
> -		if (ret)
> -			return ret;
> -	}
> -
>  	mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_seq;
>  	/*
>  	 * Ensure the read of mmu_notifier_seq happens before we call
> @@ -880,6 +867,18 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>  	else if (cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC))
>  		prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_X;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Allocations from the memcache are required only when granule of the
> +	 * lookup level where the guest fault happened exceeds vma_pagesize,
> +	 * which means new page tables will be created in the fault handlers.
> +	 */
> +	if (fault_granule > vma_pagesize) {
> +		ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
> +						 kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
> +		if (ret)
> +			return ret;
> +	}

As I explained in v1 [1], this looks correct to me. I still think that someone
else should have a look, but if Marc decides to pick up this patch as-is, he can
add my Reviewed-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2c65bff2-be7f-b20c-9265-939bc73185b6@arm.com/

Thanks,

Alex

> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Under the premise of getting a FSC_PERM fault, we just need to relax
>  	 * permissions only if vma_pagesize equals fault_granule. Otherwise,
Yanan Wang April 8, 2021, 9:31 a.m. UTC | #2
On 2021/4/7 23:35, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> Hi Yanan,
>
> On 3/26/21 3:16 AM, Yanan Wang wrote:
>> With a guest translation fault, the memcache pages are not needed if KVM
>> is only about to install a new leaf entry into the existing page table.
>> And with a guest permission fault, the memcache pages are also not needed
>> for a write_fault in dirty-logging time if KVM is only about to update
>> the existing leaf entry instead of collapsing a block entry into a table.
>>
>> By comparing fault_granule and vma_pagesize, cases that require allocations
>> from memcache and cases that don't can be distinguished completely.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 25 ++++++++++++-------------
>>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>> index 1eec9f63bc6f..05af40dc60c1 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>> @@ -810,19 +810,6 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>>   	gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>   	mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
>>   
>> -	/*
>> -	 * Permission faults just need to update the existing leaf entry,
>> -	 * and so normally don't require allocations from the memcache. The
>> -	 * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at runtime
>> -	 * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
>> -	 */
>> -	if (fault_status != FSC_PERM || (logging_active && write_fault)) {
>> -		ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
>> -						 kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
>> -		if (ret)
>> -			return ret;
>> -	}
>> -
>>   	mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_seq;
>>   	/*
>>   	 * Ensure the read of mmu_notifier_seq happens before we call
>> @@ -880,6 +867,18 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
>>   	else if (cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC))
>>   		prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_X;
>>   
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Allocations from the memcache are required only when granule of the
>> +	 * lookup level where the guest fault happened exceeds vma_pagesize,
>> +	 * which means new page tables will be created in the fault handlers.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (fault_granule > vma_pagesize) {
>> +		ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
>> +						 kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
>> +		if (ret)
>> +			return ret;
>> +	}
> As I explained in v1 [1], this looks correct to me. I still think that someone
> else should have a look, but if Marc decides to pick up this patch as-is, he can
> add my Reviewed-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>.
Thanks again for this, Alex!

Hi Marc, Will,
Any thoughts about this patch?

Thanks,
Yanan
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2c65bff2-be7f-b20c-9265-939bc73185b6@arm.com/
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
>> +
>>   	/*
>>   	 * Under the premise of getting a FSC_PERM fault, we just need to relax
>>   	 * permissions only if vma_pagesize equals fault_granule. Otherwise,
> .
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index 1eec9f63bc6f..05af40dc60c1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -810,19 +810,6 @@  static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 	gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
 
-	/*
-	 * Permission faults just need to update the existing leaf entry,
-	 * and so normally don't require allocations from the memcache. The
-	 * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at runtime
-	 * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
-	 */
-	if (fault_status != FSC_PERM || (logging_active && write_fault)) {
-		ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
-						 kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
-		if (ret)
-			return ret;
-	}
-
 	mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_seq;
 	/*
 	 * Ensure the read of mmu_notifier_seq happens before we call
@@ -880,6 +867,18 @@  static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 	else if (cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC))
 		prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_X;
 
+	/*
+	 * Allocations from the memcache are required only when granule of the
+	 * lookup level where the guest fault happened exceeds vma_pagesize,
+	 * which means new page tables will be created in the fault handlers.
+	 */
+	if (fault_granule > vma_pagesize) {
+		ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
+						 kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Under the premise of getting a FSC_PERM fault, we just need to relax
 	 * permissions only if vma_pagesize equals fault_granule. Otherwise,