Re: [PATCH v11 8/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Handle non-refcounted pages

[David Stevens]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 1:03 AM Dmitry Osipenko
<dmitry.osipenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> On 2/29/24 05:57, David Stevens wrote:
> > From: David Stevens <stevensd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Handle non-refcounted pages in __kvm_faultin_pfn. This allows the
> > host to map memory into the guest that is backed by non-refcounted
> > struct pages - for example, the tail pages of higher order non-compound
> > pages allocated by the amdgpu driver via ttm_pool_alloc_page.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Stevens <stevensd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch has a problem on v6.8 kernel. Pierre-Eric of AMD found that
> Qemu crashes with "kvm bad address" error when booting Ubuntu 23.10 ISO
> with a disabled virtio-gpu and I was able to reproduce it. Pierre-Eric
> said this problem didn't exist with v6.7 kernel and using v10 kvm
> patches. Could you please take a look at this issue?

This failure is due to a minor conflict with:

Fixes: d02c357e5bfa ("KVM: x86/mmu: Retry fault before acquiring
mmu_lock if mapping is changing")

My patch series makes __kvm_faultin_pfn no longer take a reference to
the page associated with the returned pfn. That conflicts with the
call to kvm_release_pfn_clean added to kvm_faultin_pfn, since there is
no longer a reference to release. Replacing that call with
kvm_set_page_accessed fixes the failure.

Sean, is there any path towards getting this series merged, or is it
blocked on cleaning up the issues in KVM code raised by Christoph? I'm
no longer working on the same projects I was when I first started
trying to upstream this code 3-ish years ago, so if there is a
significant amount of work left to upstream this, I need to pass
things on to someone else.

-David