linux.git/virt/kvm/async_pf.c, branch v4.5

KVM: async_pf: do not warn on page allocation failures

2016-02-24T13:47:46+00:00

In async_pf we try to allocate with NOWAIT to get an element quickly
or fail. This code also handle failures gracefully. Lets silence
potential page allocation failures under load.

qemu-system-s39: page allocation failure: order:0,mode:0x2200000
[...]
Call Trace:
([<00000000001146b8>] show_trace+0xf8/0x148)
[<000000000011476a>] show_stack+0x62/0xe8
[<00000000004a36b8>] dump_stack+0x70/0x98
[<0000000000272c3a>] warn_alloc_failed+0xd2/0x148
[<000000000027709e>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x94e/0xb38
[<00000000002cd36a>] new_slab+0x382/0x400
[<00000000002cf7ac>] ___slab_alloc.constprop.30+0x2dc/0x378
[<00000000002d03d0>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x160/0x1d0
[<0000000000133db4>] kvm_setup_async_pf+0x6c/0x198
[<000000000013dee8>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xd48/0xd58
[<000000000012fcaa>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x372/0x690
[<00000000002f66f6>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3be/0x510
[<00000000002f68ec>] SyS_ioctl+0xa4/0xb8
[<0000000000781c5e>] system_call+0xd6/0x264
[<000003ffa24fa06a>] 0x3ffa24fa06a

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Reviewed-by: Dominik Dingel 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM-async_pf: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kmem_cache_destroy"

2015-11-25T16:24:23+00:00

The kmem_cache_destroy() function tests whether its argument is NULL
and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

kvm: fix waitqueue_active without memory barrier in virt/kvm/async_pf.c

2015-10-14T14:41:08+00:00

async_pf_execute() seems to be missing a memory barrier which might
cause the waker to not notice the waiter and miss sending a wake_up as
in the following figure.

        async_pf_execute                    kvm_vcpu_block
------------------------------------------------------------------------
spin_lock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
if (waitqueue_active(&vcpu->wq))
/* The CPU might reorder the test for
   the waitqueue up here, before
   prior writes complete */
                                    prepare_to_wait(&vcpu->wq, &wait,
                                      TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
                                    /*if (kvm_vcpu_check_block(vcpu) < 0) */
                                     /*if (kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable(vcpu)) { */
                                      ...
                                      return (vcpu->arch.mp_state == KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE &&
                                        !vcpu->arch.apf.halted)
                                        || !list_empty_careful(&vcpu->async_pf.done)
                                     ...
                                     return 0;
list_add_tail(&apf->link,
  &vcpu->async_pf.done);
spin_unlock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
                                    waited = true;
                                    schedule();
------------------------------------------------------------------------

The attached patch adds the missing memory barrier.

I found this issue when I was looking through the linux source code
for places calling waitqueue_active() before wake_up*(), but without
preceding memory barriers, after sending a patch to fix a similar
issue in drivers/tty/n_tty.c  (Details about the original issue can be
found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/28/849).

Signed-off-by: Kosuke Tatsukawa 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

mm: gup: kvm use get_user_pages_unlocked

2015-02-12T01:06:05+00:00

Use the more generic get_user_pages_unlocked which has the additional
benefit of passing FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY at the very first page fault
(which allows the first page fault in an unmapped area to be always able
to block indefinitely by being allowed to release the mmap_sem).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla 
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Peter Feiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kvm: Faults which trigger IO release the mmap_sem

2014-09-24T12:07:54+00:00

When KVM handles a tdp fault it uses FOLL_NOWAIT. If the guest memory
has been swapped out or is behind a filemap, this will trigger async
readahead and return immediately. The rationale is that KVM will kick
back the guest with an "async page fault" and allow for some other
guest process to take over.

If async PFs are enabled the fault is retried asap from an async
workqueue. If not, it's retried immediately in the same code path. In
either case the retry will not relinquish the mmap semaphore and will
block on the IO. This is a bad thing, as other mmap semaphore users
now stall as a function of swap or filemap latency.

This patch ensures both the regular and async PF path re-enter the
fault allowing for the mmap semaphore to be relinquished in the case
of IO wait.

Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář 
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla 
Acked-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm into next

2014-06-04T15:47:12+00:00

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "At over 200 commits, covering almost all supported architectures, this
  was a pretty active cycle for KVM.  Changes include:

   - a lot of s390 changes: optimizations, support for migration, GDB
     support and more

   - ARM changes are pretty small: support for the PSCI 0.2 hypercall
     interface on both the guest and the host (the latter acked by
     Catalin)

   - initial POWER8 and little-endian host support

   - support for running u-boot on embedded POWER targets

   - pretty large changes to MIPS too, completing the userspace
     interface and improving the handling of virtualized timer hardware

   - for x86, a larger set of changes is scheduled for 3.17.  Still, we
     have a few emulator bugfixes and support for running nested
     fully-virtualized Xen guests (para-virtualized Xen guests have
     always worked).  And some optimizations too.

  The only missing architecture here is ia64.  It's not a coincidence
  that support for KVM on ia64 is scheduled for removal in 3.17"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (203 commits)
  KVM: add missing cleanup_srcu_struct
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Rework SLB switching code
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Use SLB entry 0
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix machine check delivery to guest
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around POWER8 performance monitor bugs
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make sure we don't miss dirty pages
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix dirty map for hugepages
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Put huge-page HPTEs in rmap chain for base address
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix check for running inside guest in global_invalidates()
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Move KVM_REG_PPC_WORT to an unused register number
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add ONE_REG register names that were missed
  KVM: PPC: Add CAP to indicate hcall fixes
  KVM: PPC: MPIC: Reset IRQ source private members
  KVM: PPC: Graciously fail broken LE hypercalls
  PPC: ePAPR: Fix hypercall on LE guest
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: Remove open coded make_dsisr in alignment handler
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: Always use the saved DAR value
  PPC: KVM: Make NX bit available with magic page
  KVM: PPC: Disable NX for old magic page using guests
  KVM: PPC: BOOK3S: HV: Add mixed page-size support for guest
  ...

KVM: async_pf: change async_pf_execute() to use get_user_pages(tsk => NULL)

2014-04-28T15:24:55+00:00

async_pf_execute() passes tsk == current to gup(), this is doesn't
hurt but unnecessary and misleading. "tsk" is only used to account
the number of faults and current is the random workqueue thread.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: async_pf: kill the unnecessary use_mm/unuse_mm async_pf_execute()

2014-04-28T15:24:25+00:00

async_pf_execute() has no reasons to adopt apf->mm, gup(current, mm)
should work just fine even if current has another or NULL ->mm.

Recently kvm_async_page_present_sync() was added insedie the "use_mm"
section, but it seems that it doesn't need current->mm too.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: async_pf: mm->mm_users can not pin apf->mm

2014-04-28T11:04:46+00:00

get_user_pages(mm) is simply wrong if mm->mm_users == 0 and exit_mmap/etc
was already called (or is in progress), mm->mm_count can only pin mm->pgd
and mm_struct itself.

Change kvm_setup_async_pf/async_pf_execute to inc/dec mm->mm_users.

kvm_create_vm/kvm_destroy_vm play with ->mm_count too but this case looks
fine at first glance, it seems that this ->mm is only used to verify that
current->mm == kvm->mm.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

KVM: async_pf: Add missing call for async page present

2014-02-04T03:24:05+00:00

Commit KVM: async_pf: Provide additional direct page notification
missed the call from kvm_check_async_pf_completion to the new introduced function.

Reported-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini