Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] mm: Add a bitmap into mmu_notifier_{clear,test}_young

[David Matlack]

On 2024-04-01 11:29 PM, James Houghton wrote:
> The bitmap is provided for secondary MMUs to use if they support it. For
> test_young(), after it returns, the bitmap represents the pages that
> were young in the interval [start, end). For clear_young, it represents
> the pages that we wish the secondary MMU to clear the accessed/young bit
> for.
> 
> If a bitmap is not provided, the mmu_notifier_{test,clear}_young() API
> should be unchanged except that if young PTEs are found and the
> architecture supports passing in a bitmap, instead of returning 1,
> MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_FAST is returned.
> 
> This allows MGLRU's look-around logic to work faster, resulting in a 4%
> improvement in real workloads[1]. Also introduce MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_FAST
> to indicate to main mm that doing look-around is likely to be
> beneficial.
> 
> If the secondary MMU doesn't support the bitmap, it must return
> an int that contains MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_BITMAP_UNRELIABLE.
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230609005935.42390-1-yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Suggested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/mmu_notifier.h | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  include/trace/events/kvm.h   | 13 +++--
>  mm/mmu_notifier.c            | 20 +++++---
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c          | 19 ++++++--
>  4 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
> index f349e08a9dfe..daaa9db625d3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
> @@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ enum mmu_notifier_event {
>  
>  #define MMU_NOTIFIER_RANGE_BLOCKABLE (1 << 0)
>  
> +#define MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG			(1 << 0)
> +#define MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_BITMAP_UNRELIABLE	(1 << 1)

MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_BITMAP_UNRELIABLE appears to be unused by all callers
of test/clear_young(). I would vote to remove it.

> +#define MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_FAST			(1 << 2)

Instead of MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_FAST, how about
MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_LOOK_AROUND? i.e. The secondary MMU is returning
saying it recommends doing a look-around and passing in a bitmap?

That would avoid the whole "what does FAST really mean" confusion.

> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index fb49c2a60200..ca4b1ef9dfc2 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -917,10 +917,15 @@ static int kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_flush_young(struct mmu_notifier *mn,
>  static int kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_young(struct mmu_notifier *mn,
>  					struct mm_struct *mm,
>  					unsigned long start,
> -					unsigned long end)
> +					unsigned long end,
> +					unsigned long *bitmap)
>  {
>  	trace_kvm_age_hva(start, end);
>  
> +	/* We don't support bitmaps. Don't test or clear anything. */
> +	if (bitmap)
> +		return MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_BITMAP_UNRELIABLE;

Wouldn't it be a bug to get a bitmap here? The main MM is only suppost
to pass in a bitmap if the secondary MMU returns
MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_FAST, which KVM does not do at this point.

Put another way, this check seems unneccessary.

> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Even though we do not flush TLB, this will still adversely
>  	 * affect performance on pre-Haswell Intel EPT, where there is
> @@ -939,11 +944,17 @@ static int kvm_mmu_notifier_clear_young(struct mmu_notifier *mn,
>  
>  static int kvm_mmu_notifier_test_young(struct mmu_notifier *mn,
>  				       struct mm_struct *mm,
> -				       unsigned long address)
> +				       unsigned long start,
> +				       unsigned long end,
> +				       unsigned long *bitmap)
>  {
> -	trace_kvm_test_age_hva(address);
> +	trace_kvm_test_age_hva(start, end);
> +
> +	/* We don't support bitmaps. Don't test or clear anything. */
> +	if (bitmap)
> +		return MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_BITMAP_UNRELIABLE;

Same thing here.