Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Limit stage2_apply_range() batch size to 1GB

[Ricardo Koller]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 06:36:29PM +0000, Oliver Upton wrote:
> Presently stage2_apply_range() works on a batch of memory addressed by a
> stage 2 root table entry for the VM. Depending on the IPA limit of the
> VM and PAGE_SIZE of the host, this could address a massive range of
> memory. Some examples:
> 
>   4 level, 4K paging -> 512 GB batch size
> 
>   3 level, 64K paging -> 4TB batch size
> 
> Unsurprisingly, working on such a large range of memory can lead to soft
> lockups. When running dirty_log_perf_test:
> 
>   ./dirty_log_perf_test -m -2 -s anonymous_thp -b 4G -v 48
> 
>   watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 45s! [dirty_log_perf_:16703]
>   Modules linked in: vfat fat cdc_ether usbnet mii xhci_pci xhci_hcd sha3_generic gq(O)
>   CPU: 0 PID: 16703 Comm: dirty_log_perf_ Tainted: G           O       6.0.0-smp-DEV #1
>   pstate: 80400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
>   pc : dcache_clean_inval_poc+0x24/0x38
>   lr : clean_dcache_guest_page+0x28/0x4c
>   sp : ffff800021763990
>   pmr_save: 000000e0
>   x29: ffff800021763990 x28: 0000000000000005 x27: 0000000000000de0
>   x26: 0000000000000001 x25: 00400830b13bc77f x24: ffffad4f91ead9c0
>   x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffff8000082ad9c8 x21: 0000fffafa7bc000
>   x20: ffffad4f9066ce50 x19: 0000000000000003 x18: ffffad4f92402000
>   x17: 000000000000011b x16: 000000000000011b x15: 0000000000000124
>   x14: ffff07ff8301d280 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 00000000ffffffff
>   x11: 0000000000010001 x10: fffffc0000000000 x9 : ffffad4f9069e580
>   x8 : 000000000000000c x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f
>   x5 : ffff07ffa2076980 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 000000000000003f
>   x2 : 0000000000000040 x1 : ffff0830313bd000 x0 : ffff0830313bcc40
>   Call trace:
>    dcache_clean_inval_poc+0x24/0x38
>    stage2_unmap_walker+0x138/0x1ec
>    __kvm_pgtable_walk+0x130/0x1d4
>    __kvm_pgtable_walk+0x170/0x1d4
>    __kvm_pgtable_walk+0x170/0x1d4
>    __kvm_pgtable_walk+0x170/0x1d4
>    kvm_pgtable_stage2_unmap+0xc4/0xf8
>    kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot+0xa4/0x10c
>    kvm_set_memslot+0xb8/0x454
>    __kvm_set_memory_region+0x194/0x244
>    kvm_vm_ioctl_set_memory_region+0x58/0x7c
>    kvm_vm_ioctl+0x49c/0x560
>    __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x9c/0xd4
>    invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x124
>    el0_svc_common+0xc8/0x194
>    do_el0_svc+0x38/0xc0
>    el0_svc+0x2c/0xa4
>    el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0
>    el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4
> 
> Given the various paging configurations used by KVM at stage 2 there
> isn't a sensible page table level to use as the batch size. Use 1GB as
> the batch size instead, as it is evenly divisible by all supported
> hugepage sizes across 4K, 16K, and 64K paging.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Applies to 6.0-rc3. Tested with 4K and 64K pages with the above
> dirty_log_perf_test command and noticed no more soft lockups. I don't
> have a 16K system to test with.
> 
> Marc, we spoke about this a while ago and agreed to go for some page
> table level based batching scheme. However, I decided against that
> because it doesn't really solve the problem for non-4K kernels.
> 
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h | 20 --------------------
>  arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c                    |  8 +++++++-
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h
> index fe341a6578c3..c8dca8ae359c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h
> @@ -10,13 +10,6 @@
>  
>  #include <linux/pgtable.h>
>  
> -/*
> - * PGDIR_SHIFT determines the size a top-level page table entry can map
> - * and depends on the number of levels in the page table. Compute the
> - * PGDIR_SHIFT for a given number of levels.
> - */
> -#define pt_levels_pgdir_shift(lvls)	ARM64_HW_PGTABLE_LEVEL_SHIFT(4 - (lvls))
> -
>  /*
>   * The hardware supports concatenation of up to 16 tables at stage2 entry
>   * level and we use the feature whenever possible, which means we resolve 4
> @@ -30,11 +23,6 @@
>  #define stage2_pgtable_levels(ipa)	ARM64_HW_PGTABLE_LEVELS((ipa) - 4)
>  #define kvm_stage2_levels(kvm)		VTCR_EL2_LVLS(kvm->arch.vtcr)
>  
> -/* stage2_pgdir_shift() is the size mapped by top-level stage2 entry for the VM */
> -#define stage2_pgdir_shift(kvm)		pt_levels_pgdir_shift(kvm_stage2_levels(kvm))
> -#define stage2_pgdir_size(kvm)		(1ULL << stage2_pgdir_shift(kvm))
> -#define stage2_pgdir_mask(kvm)		~(stage2_pgdir_size(kvm) - 1)
> -
>  /*
>   * kvm_mmmu_cache_min_pages() is the number of pages required to install
>   * a stage-2 translation. We pre-allocate the entry level page table at
> @@ -42,12 +30,4 @@
>   */
>  #define kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm)	(kvm_stage2_levels(kvm) - 1)
>  
> -static inline phys_addr_t
> -stage2_pgd_addr_end(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t addr, phys_addr_t end)
> -{
> -	phys_addr_t boundary = (addr + stage2_pgdir_size(kvm)) & stage2_pgdir_mask(kvm);
> -
> -	return (boundary - 1 < end - 1) ? boundary : end;
> -}
> -
>  #endif	/* __ARM64_S2_PGTABLE_H_ */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> index c9a13e487187..d64032b9fbb6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ static phys_addr_t hyp_idmap_vector;
>  
>  static unsigned long io_map_base;
>  
> +static inline phys_addr_t stage2_apply_range_next(phys_addr_t addr, phys_addr_t end)
> +{
> +	phys_addr_t boundary = addr + SZ_1G;

I think you want this to be aligned-down to 1G as well. At least
stage2_pgd_addr_end() was doing so, plus it reduces the number of
operations (e.g., when splitting a 1GB huge page when the address is
unaligned).

> +
> +	return (boundary - 1 < end - 1) ? boundary : end;
> +}
>  
>  /*
>   * Release kvm_mmu_lock periodically if the memory region is large. Otherwise,
> @@ -52,7 +58,7 @@ static int stage2_apply_range(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t addr,
>  		if (!pgt)
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  
> -		next = stage2_pgd_addr_end(kvm, addr, end);
> +		next = stage2_apply_range_next(addr, end);
>  		ret = fn(pgt, addr, next - addr);
>  		if (ret)
>  			break;
> 
> base-commit: b90cb1053190353cc30f0fef0ef1f378ccc063c5
> -- 
> 2.37.3.968.ga6b4b080e4-goog
> 
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