Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: fix APIC page invalidation

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Dec 06 2017 - 05:00:28 EST


On 06/12/2017 10:50, çéæ wrote:
> 2017-12-06 3:32 GMT+01:00 Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> 2017-12-01 2:05 GMT+08:00 Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Implementation of the unpinned APIC page didn't update the VMCS address
>>> cache when invalidation was done through range mmu notifiers.
>>> This became a problem when the page notifier was removed.
>>>
>>> Re-introduce the arch-specific helper and call it from ...range_start.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 38b9917350cb ("kvm: vmx: Implement set_apic_access_page_addr")
>>> Fixes: 369ea8242c0f ("mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic v2")
>>> Signed-off-by: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> So the patch should be backport to v3.18+?

In practice the invalidate_page callback was enough because the APIC
page is allocated with alloc_page(). But it doesn't hurt.

Paolo

> Thanks,
> Jack
>>
>> Tested-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I observe the windows 2016 guest hang during boot on a heavy memory
>> overcommit host, and this commit fixes it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Wanpeng Li
>>
>>> ---
>>> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +++
>>> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 8 ++++++++
>>> 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>> index 977de5fb968b..c16c3f924863 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>> @@ -1435,4 +1435,7 @@ static inline int kvm_cpu_get_apicid(int mps_cpu)
>>> #define put_smstate(type, buf, offset, val) \
>>> *(type *)((buf) + (offset) - 0x7e00) = val
>>>
>>> +void kvm_arch_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range(struct kvm *kvm,
>>> + unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
>>> +
>>> #endif /* _ASM_X86_KVM_HOST_H */
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>>> index eee8e7faf1af..a219974cdb89 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>>> @@ -6778,6 +6778,20 @@ static void kvm_vcpu_flush_tlb(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>> kvm_x86_ops->tlb_flush(vcpu);
>>> }
>>>
>>> +void kvm_arch_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range(struct kvm *kvm,
>>> + unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>>> +{
>>> + unsigned long apic_address;
>>> +
>>> + /*
>>> + * The physical address of apic access page is stored in the VMCS.
>>> + * Update it when it becomes invalid.
>>> + */
>>> + apic_address = gfn_to_hva(kvm, APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE >> PAGE_SHIFT);
>>> + if (start <= apic_address && apic_address < end)
>>> + kvm_make_all_cpus_request(kvm, KVM_REQ_APIC_PAGE_RELOAD);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> void kvm_vcpu_reload_apic_access_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>> {
>>> struct page *page = NULL;
>>> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>>> index c01cff064ec5..b7f4689e373f 100644
>>> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>>> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>>> @@ -135,6 +135,11 @@ static void kvm_uevent_notify_change(unsigned int type, struct kvm *kvm);
>>> static unsigned long long kvm_createvm_count;
>>> static unsigned long long kvm_active_vms;
>>>
>>> +__weak void kvm_arch_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range(struct kvm *kvm,
>>> + unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>>> +{
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> bool kvm_is_reserved_pfn(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
>>> {
>>> if (pfn_valid(pfn))
>>> @@ -360,6 +365,9 @@ static void kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(struct mmu_notifier *mn,
>>> kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
>>>
>>> spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>>> +
>>> + kvm_arch_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range(kvm, start, end);
>>> +
>>> srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu, idx);
>>> }
>>>
>>> --
>>> 2.14.2
>>>
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