Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] KVM: arm/arm64: Share common code in user_mem_abort()

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On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:47:42AM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/12/2018 08:56, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 01:37:37PM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> >>Hi Anshuman,
> >>
> >>On 03/12/2018 12:11, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On 10/31/2018 11:27 PM, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> >>>>The code for operations such as marking the pfn as dirty, and
> >>>>dcache/icache maintenance during stage 2 fault handling is duplicated
> >>>>between normal pages and PMD hugepages.
> >>>>
> >>>>Instead of creating another copy of the operations when we introduce
> >>>>PUD hugepages, let's share them across the different pagesizes.
> >>>>
> >>>>Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
> >>>>Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> >>>>Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxx>
> >>>>Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> >>>>---
> >>>>  virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> >>>>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>>diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> >>>>index 5eca48bdb1a6..59595207c5e1 100644
> >>>>--- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> >>>>+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> >>>>@@ -1475,7 +1475,7 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> >>>>  			  unsigned long fault_status)
> >>>>  {
> >>>>  	int ret;
> >>>>-	bool write_fault, exec_fault, writable, hugetlb = false, force_pte = false;
> >>>>+	bool write_fault, exec_fault, writable, force_pte = false;
> >>>>  	unsigned long mmu_seq;
> >>>>  	gfn_t gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> >>>>  	struct kvm *kvm = vcpu->kvm;
> >>>>@@ -1484,7 +1484,7 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> >>>>  	kvm_pfn_t pfn;
> >>>>  	pgprot_t mem_type = PAGE_S2;
> >>>>  	bool logging_active = memslot_is_logging(memslot);
> >>>>-	unsigned long flags = 0;
> >>>>+	unsigned long vma_pagesize, flags = 0;
> >>>
> >>>A small nit s/vma_pagesize/pagesize. Why call it VMA ? Its implicit.
> >>
> >>May be we could call it mapsize. pagesize is confusing.
> >>
> >
> >I'm ok with mapsize.  I see the vma_pagesize name coming from the fact
> >that this is initially set to the return value from vma_kernel_pagesize.
> >
> >I have not problems with either vma_pagesize or mapsize.
> >
> >>>
> >>>>  	write_fault = kvm_is_write_fault(vcpu);
> >>>>  	exec_fault = kvm_vcpu_trap_is_iabt(vcpu);
> >>>>@@ -1504,10 +1504,16 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> >>>>  		return -EFAULT;
> >>>>  	}
> >>>>-	if (vma_kernel_pagesize(vma) == PMD_SIZE && !logging_active) {
> >>>>-		hugetlb = true;
> >>>>+	vma_pagesize = vma_kernel_pagesize(vma);
> >>>>+	if (vma_pagesize == PMD_SIZE && !logging_active) {
> >>>>  		gfn = (fault_ipa & PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> >>>>  	} else {
> >>>>+		/*
> >>>>+		 * Fallback to PTE if it's not one of the Stage 2
> >>>>+		 * supported hugepage sizes
> >>>>+		 */
> >>>>+		vma_pagesize = PAGE_SIZE;
> >>>
> >>>This seems redundant and should be dropped. vma_kernel_pagesize() here either
> >>>calls hugetlb_vm_op_pagesize (via hugetlb_vm_ops->pagesize) or simply returns
> >>>PAGE_SIZE. The vm_ops path is taken if the QEMU VMA covering any given HVA is
> >>>backed either by HugeTLB pages or simply normal pages. vma_pagesize would
> >>>either has a value of PMD_SIZE (HugeTLB hstate based) or PAGE_SIZE. Hence if
> >>>its not PMD_SIZE it must be PAGE_SIZE which should not be assigned again.
> >>
> >>We may want to force using the PTE mappings when logging_active (e.g, migration
> >>?) to prevent keep tracking of huge pages. So the check is still valid.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Agreed, and let's not try additionally change the logic and flow with
> >this patch.
> >
> >>>
> >>>>+
> >>>>  		/*
> >>>>  		 * Pages belonging to memslots that don't have the same
> >>>>  		 * alignment for userspace and IPA cannot be mapped using
> >>>>@@ -1573,23 +1579,33 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> >>>>  	if (mmu_notifier_retry(kvm, mmu_seq))
> >>>>  		goto out_unlock;
> >>>>-	if (!hugetlb && !force_pte)
> >>>>-		hugetlb = transparent_hugepage_adjust(&pfn, &fault_ipa);
> >>>>+	if (vma_pagesize == PAGE_SIZE && !force_pte) {
> >>>>+		/*
> >>>>+		 * Only PMD_SIZE transparent hugepages(THP) are
> >>>>+		 * currently supported. This code will need to be
> >>>>+		 * updated to support other THP sizes.
> >>>>+		 */
> >>>
> >>>This comment belongs to transparent_hugepage_adjust() but not here.
> >>
> >>I think this is relevant here than in thp_adjust, unless we rename
> >>the function below to something generic, handle_hugepage_adjust().
> >>
> >
> >Agreed.
> >
> >>>>+		if (transparent_hugepage_adjust(&pfn, &fault_ipa))
> >>>>+			vma_pagesize = PMD_SIZE;
> >>>
> >>>IIUC transparent_hugepage_adjust() is only getting called here. Instead of
> >>>returning 'true' when it is able to detect a huge page backing and doing
> >>>an adjustment there after, it should rather return THP size (PMD_SIZE) to
> >>>accommodate probable multi size THP support in future .
> >>
> >>That makes sense.
> >>
> >
> >That's fine.
> >
> 
> Btw, after a further thought, since we don't have any THP support for anything
> other than PMD_SIZE, I am dropping the above suggestion. We need to make changes
> in our stage2 page table manipulation code anyway to support the new sizes. So
> this could be addressed when we get there, to keep the changes minimal and
> specific to the PUD huge page support.
> 
> 

Sounds good to me.

Thanks,

    Christoffer
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