Re: [PATCH v3] xen: speed up grant-table reclaim

[Juergen Gross]

On 24.06.23 22:56, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> When a grant entry is still in use by the remote domain, Linux must put
> it on a deferred list.  Normally, this list is very short, because
> the PV network and block protocols expect the backend to unmap the grant
> first.  However, Qubes OS's GUI protocol is subject to the constraints
> of the X Window System, and as such winds up with the frontend unmapping
> the window first.  As a result, the list can grow very large, resulting
> in a massive memory leak and eventual VM freeze.
>
> To partially solve this problem, make the number of entries that the VM
> will attempt to free at each iteration tunable.  The default is still
> 10, but it can be overridden at compile-time (via Kconfig), boot-time
> (via a kernel command-line option), or runtime (via sysfs).

Using Kconfig has been dropped.

> This is Cc: stable because (when combined with appropriate userspace
> changes) it fixes a severe performance and stability problem for Qubes
> OS users.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>   2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> index e1ec725c2819d4d5dede063eb00d86a6d52944c0..fa666aa6abc3e786dddc94f895641505ec0b23d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
> @@ -498,14 +498,20 @@ static LIST_HEAD(deferred_list);
>   static void gnttab_handle_deferred(struct timer_list *);
>   static DEFINE_TIMER(deferred_timer, gnttab_handle_deferred);
>   
> +static atomic64_t deferred_count;
> +static atomic64_t leaked_count;
> +static unsigned int free_per_iteration = 10;
> +
>   static void gnttab_handle_deferred(struct timer_list *unused)
>   {
> -	unsigned int nr = 10;
> +	unsigned int nr = READ_ONCE(free_per_iteration);
> +	const bool ignore_limit = nr == 0;
>   	struct deferred_entry *first = NULL;
>   	unsigned long flags;
> +	size_t freed = 0;
>   
>   	spin_lock_irqsave(&gnttab_list_lock, flags);
> -	while (nr--) {
> +	while ((ignore_limit || nr--) && !list_empty(&deferred_list)) {
>   		struct deferred_entry *entry
>   			= list_first_entry(&deferred_list,
>   					   struct deferred_entry, list);
> @@ -515,10 +521,13 @@ static void gnttab_handle_deferred(struct timer_list *unused)
>   		list_del(&entry->list);
>   		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gnttab_list_lock, flags);
>   		if (_gnttab_end_foreign_access_ref(entry->ref)) {
> +			uint64_t ret = atomic64_sub_return(1, &deferred_count);

Use atomic64_dec_return()?

Please add an empty line here.

>   			put_free_entry(entry->ref);
> -			pr_debug("freeing g.e. %#x (pfn %#lx)\n",
> -				 entry->ref, page_to_pfn(entry->page));
> +			pr_debug("freeing g.e. %#x (pfn %#lx), %llu remaining\n",
> +				 entry->ref, page_to_pfn(entry->page),
> +				 (unsigned long long)ret);
>   			put_page(entry->page);
> +			freed++;
>   			kfree(entry);
>   			entry = NULL;
>   		} else {
> @@ -530,21 +539,22 @@ static void gnttab_handle_deferred(struct timer_list *unused)
>   		spin_lock_irqsave(&gnttab_list_lock, flags);
>   		if (entry)
>   			list_add_tail(&entry->list, &deferred_list);
> -		else if (list_empty(&deferred_list))
> -			break;
>   	}
> -	if (!list_empty(&deferred_list) && !timer_pending(&deferred_timer)) {
> +	if (list_empty(&deferred_list))
> +		WARN_ON(atomic64_read(&deferred_count));
> +	else if (!timer_pending(&deferred_timer)) {
>   		deferred_timer.expires = jiffies + HZ;
>   		add_timer(&deferred_timer);
>   	}
>   	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gnttab_list_lock, flags);
> +	pr_debug("Freed %zu references", freed);
>   }
>   
>   static void gnttab_add_deferred(grant_ref_t ref, struct page *page)
>   {
>   	struct deferred_entry *entry;
>   	gfp_t gfp = (in_atomic() || irqs_disabled()) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
> -	const char *what = KERN_WARNING "leaking";
> +	uint64_t leaked, deferred;
>   
>   	entry = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), gfp);
>   	if (!page) {
> @@ -567,12 +577,20 @@ static void gnttab_add_deferred(grant_ref_t ref, struct page *page)
>   			add_timer(&deferred_timer);
>   		}
>   		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gnttab_list_lock, flags);
> -		what = KERN_DEBUG "deferring";
> +		deferred = atomic64_add_return(1, &deferred_count);

Use atomic64_inc_return() (same below)?

> +		leaked = atomic64_read(&leaked_count);
> +		pr_debug("deferring g.e. %#x (pfn %#lx) (total deferred %llu, total leaked %llu)\n",
> +			 ref, page ? page_to_pfn(page) : -1, deferred, leaked);
> +	} else {
> +		deferred = atomic64_read(&deferred_count);
> +		leaked = atomic64_add_return(1, &leaked_count);
> +		pr_warn("leaking g.e. %#x (pfn %#lx) (total deferred %llu, total leaked %llu)\n",
> +			ref, page ? page_to_pfn(page) : -1, deferred, leaked);
>   	}
> -	printk("%s g.e. %#x (pfn %#lx)\n",
> -	       what, ref, page ? page_to_pfn(page) : -1);
>   }
>   
> +module_param(free_per_iteration, uint, 0600);
> +

As said for v2 already: please move this closer to the related variable
definition.

>   int gnttab_try_end_foreign_access(grant_ref_t ref)
>   {
>   	int ret = _gnttab_end_foreign_access_ref(ref);


Juergen

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