Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86/mmu: Update number of zapped pages even if page list is stable

[David Matlack]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 11:52:33PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> When zapping obsolete pages, update the running count of zapped pages
> regardless of whether or not the list has become unstable due to zapping
> a shadow page with its own child shadow pages.  If the VM is backed by
> mostly 4kb pages, KVM can zap an absurd number of SPTEs without bumping
> the batch count and thus without yielding.  In the worst case scenario,
> this can cause a soft lokcup.
> 
>  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#12 stuck for 22s! [dirty_log_perf_:13020]
>    RIP: 0010:workingset_activation+0x19/0x130
>    mark_page_accessed+0x266/0x2e0
>    kvm_set_pfn_accessed+0x31/0x40
>    mmu_spte_clear_track_bits+0x136/0x1c0
>    drop_spte+0x1a/0xc0
>    mmu_page_zap_pte+0xef/0x120
>    __kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page+0x205/0x5e0
>    kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast+0xd7/0x190
>    kvm_mmu_invalidate_zap_pages_in_memslot+0xe/0x10
>    kvm_page_track_flush_slot+0x5c/0x80
>    kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot+0xe/0x10
>    kvm_set_memslot+0x1a8/0x5d0
>    __kvm_set_memory_region+0x337/0x590
>    kvm_vm_ioctl+0xb08/0x1040
> 
> Fixes: fbb158cb88b6 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Revert "Revert "KVM: MMU: zap pages in batch""")
> Reported-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> 
> v2:
>  - Rebase to kvm/master, commit 30d7c5d60a88 ("KVM: SEV: expose...")
>  - Collect Ben's review, modulo bad splat.
>  - Copy+paste the correct splat and symptom. [David].
> 
> @David, I kept the unstable declaration out of the loop, mostly because I
> really don't like putting declarations in loops, but also because
> nr_zapped is declared out of the loop and I didn't want to change that
> unnecessarily or make the code inconsistent.

Sounds good. For stable patches I definitely agree with not changing
variable declarations needlessly. And as a general rule, I get your
point on the other thread about shadowing variables and therefore
preferring to declare all variables at function scope.

I have some other ideas on this topic but it's out of scope for this
patch so I'll post it on the other thread.

> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index 0c839ee1282c..208c892136bf 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -5576,6 +5576,7 @@ static void kvm_zap_obsolete_pages(struct kvm *kvm)
>  {
>  	struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, *node;
>  	int nr_zapped, batch = 0;
> +	bool unstable;
>  
>  restart:
>  	list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(sp, node,
> @@ -5607,11 +5608,12 @@ static void kvm_zap_obsolete_pages(struct kvm *kvm)
>  			goto restart;
>  		}
>  
> -		if (__kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, sp,
> -				&kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages, &nr_zapped)) {
> -			batch += nr_zapped;
> +		unstable = __kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, sp,
> +				&kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages, &nr_zapped);
> +		batch += nr_zapped;
> +
> +		if (unstable)
>  			goto restart;
> -		}
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> -- 
> 2.34.0.rc2.393.gf8c9666880-goog
>