Re: [PATCH v7 4/4] KVM: arm64: Move guest CMOs to the fault handlers

From: Fuad Tabba
Date: Fri Jun 18 2021 - 05:32:10 EST


Hi Yanan,

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:58 AM Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We currently uniformly permorm CMOs of D-cache and I-cache in function

Nit: permorm -> perform

> user_mem_abort before calling the fault handlers. If we get concurrent
> guest faults(e.g. translation faults, permission faults) or some really
> unnecessary guest faults caused by BBM, CMOs for the first vcpu are
> necessary while the others later are not.
>
> By moving CMOs to the fault handlers, we can easily identify conditions
> where they are really needed and avoid the unnecessary ones. As it's a
> time consuming process to perform CMOs especially when flushing a block
> range, so this solution reduces much load of kvm and improve efficiency
> of the stage-2 page table code.
>
> We can imagine two specific scenarios which will gain much benefit:
> 1) In a normal VM startup, this solution will improve the efficiency of
> handling guest page faults incurred by vCPUs, when initially populating
> stage-2 page tables.
> 2) After live migration, the heavy workload will be resumed on the
> destination VM, however all the stage-2 page tables need to be rebuilt
> at the moment. So this solution will ease the performance drop during
> resuming stage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 37 ++++++++++++++---------------------
> 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> index d99789432b05..760c551f61da 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> @@ -577,12 +577,24 @@ static void stage2_put_pte(kvm_pte_t *ptep, struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu, u64 addr,
> mm_ops->put_page(ptep);
> }
>
> +static bool stage2_pte_cacheable(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, kvm_pte_t pte)
> +{
> + u64 memattr = pte & KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_MEMATTR;
> + return memattr == KVM_S2_MEMATTR(pgt, NORMAL);
> +}
> +
> +static bool stage2_pte_executable(kvm_pte_t pte)
> +{
> + return !(pte & KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_XN);
> +}
> +
> static int stage2_map_walker_try_leaf(u64 addr, u64 end, u32 level,
> kvm_pte_t *ptep,
> struct stage2_map_data *data)
> {
> kvm_pte_t new, old = *ptep;
> u64 granule = kvm_granule_size(level), phys = data->phys;
> + struct kvm_pgtable *pgt = data->mmu->pgt;
> struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops *mm_ops = data->mm_ops;
>
> if (!kvm_block_mapping_supported(addr, end, phys, level))
> @@ -606,6 +618,14 @@ static int stage2_map_walker_try_leaf(u64 addr, u64 end, u32 level,
> stage2_put_pte(ptep, data->mmu, addr, level, mm_ops);
> }
>
> + /* Perform CMOs before installation of the guest stage-2 PTE */
> + if (mm_ops->clean_invalidate_dcache && stage2_pte_cacheable(pgt, new))
> + mm_ops->clean_invalidate_dcache(kvm_pte_follow(new, mm_ops),
> + granule);
> +
> + if (mm_ops->invalidate_icache && stage2_pte_executable(new))
> + mm_ops->invalidate_icache(kvm_pte_follow(new, mm_ops), granule);
> +
> smp_store_release(ptep, new);
> if (stage2_pte_is_counted(new))
> mm_ops->get_page(ptep);
> @@ -798,12 +818,6 @@ int kvm_pgtable_stage2_set_owner(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, u64 size,
> return ret;
> }
>
> -static bool stage2_pte_cacheable(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, kvm_pte_t pte)
> -{
> - u64 memattr = pte & KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_MEMATTR;
> - return memattr == KVM_S2_MEMATTR(pgt, NORMAL);
> -}
> -
> static int stage2_unmap_walker(u64 addr, u64 end, u32 level, kvm_pte_t *ptep,
> enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags flag,
> void * const arg)
> @@ -874,6 +888,7 @@ static int stage2_attr_walker(u64 addr, u64 end, u32 level, kvm_pte_t *ptep,
> {
> kvm_pte_t pte = *ptep;
> struct stage2_attr_data *data = arg;
> + struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops *mm_ops = data->mm_ops;
>
> if (!kvm_pte_valid(pte))
> return 0;
> @@ -888,8 +903,17 @@ static int stage2_attr_walker(u64 addr, u64 end, u32 level, kvm_pte_t *ptep,
> * but worst-case the access flag update gets lost and will be
> * set on the next access instead.
> */
> - if (data->pte != pte)
> + if (data->pte != pte) {
> + /*
> + * Invalidate instruction cache before updating the guest
> + * stage-2 PTE if we are going to add executable permission.
> + */
> + if (mm_ops->invalidate_icache &&
> + stage2_pte_executable(pte) && !stage2_pte_executable(*ptep))
> + mm_ops->invalidate_icache(kvm_pte_follow(pte, mm_ops),
> + kvm_granule_size(level));
> WRITE_ONCE(*ptep, pte);
> + }
>
> return 0;
> }
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> index b980f8a47cbb..c9f002d74ab4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -434,14 +434,16 @@ int create_hyp_exec_mappings(phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size,
> }
>
> static struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops kvm_s2_mm_ops = {
> - .zalloc_page = stage2_memcache_zalloc_page,
> - .zalloc_pages_exact = kvm_host_zalloc_pages_exact,
> - .free_pages_exact = free_pages_exact,
> - .get_page = kvm_host_get_page,
> - .put_page = kvm_host_put_page,
> - .page_count = kvm_host_page_count,
> - .phys_to_virt = kvm_host_va,
> - .virt_to_phys = kvm_host_pa,
> + .zalloc_page = stage2_memcache_zalloc_page,
> + .zalloc_pages_exact = kvm_host_zalloc_pages_exact,
> + .free_pages_exact = free_pages_exact,
> + .get_page = kvm_host_get_page,
> + .put_page = kvm_host_put_page,
> + .page_count = kvm_host_page_count,
> + .phys_to_virt = kvm_host_va,
> + .virt_to_phys = kvm_host_pa,
> + .clean_invalidate_dcache = clean_dcache_guest_page,
> + .invalidate_icache = invalidate_icache_guest_page,
> };
>
> /**
> @@ -1012,15 +1014,8 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> if (writable)
> prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_W;
>
> - if (fault_status != FSC_PERM && !device)
> - clean_dcache_guest_page(page_address(pfn_to_page(pfn)),
> - vma_pagesize);
> -
> - if (exec_fault) {
> + if (exec_fault)
> prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_X;
> - invalidate_icache_guest_page(page_address(pfn_to_page(pfn)),
> - vma_pagesize);
> - }
>
> if (device)
> prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_DEVICE;
> @@ -1218,12 +1213,10 @@ bool kvm_set_spte_gfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_gfn_range *range)
> WARN_ON(range->end - range->start != 1);
>
> /*
> - * We've moved a page around, probably through CoW, so let's treat it
> - * just like a translation fault and clean the cache to the PoC.
> - */
> - clean_dcache_guest_page(page_address(pfn_to_page(pfn), PAGE_SIZE);
> -
> - /*
> + * We've moved a page around, probably through CoW, so let's treat
> + * it just like a translation fault and the map handler will clean
> + * the cache to the PoC.
> + *
> * The MMU notifiers will have unmapped a huge PMD before calling
> * ->change_pte() (which in turn calls kvm_set_spte_gfn()) and
> * therefore we never need to clear out a huge PMD through this

Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
/fuad

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