Very high latency ping, this is still problematic and still applies cleanly.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> When zapping obsolete pages, update the running count of zapped pages
> regardless of whether or not the list has become unstable due to zapping
> a shadow page with its own child shadow pages. If the VM is backed by
> mostly 4kb pages, KVM can zap an absurd number of SPTEs without bumping
> the batch count and thus without yielding. In the worst case scenario,
> this can cause a soft lokcup.
>
> watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#12 stuck for 22s! [dirty_log_perf_:13020]
> RIP: 0010:workingset_activation+0x19/0x130
> mark_page_accessed+0x266/0x2e0
> kvm_set_pfn_accessed+0x31/0x40
> mmu_spte_clear_track_bits+0x136/0x1c0
> drop_spte+0x1a/0xc0
> mmu_page_zap_pte+0xef/0x120
> __kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page+0x205/0x5e0
> kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast+0xd7/0x190
> kvm_mmu_invalidate_zap_pages_in_memslot+0xe/0x10
> kvm_page_track_flush_slot+0x5c/0x80
> kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot+0xe/0x10
> kvm_set_memslot+0x1a8/0x5d0
> __kvm_set_memory_region+0x337/0x590
> kvm_vm_ioctl+0xb08/0x1040
>
> Fixes: fbb158cb88b6 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Revert "Revert "KVM: MMU: zap pages in batch""")
> Reported-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v2:
> - Rebase to kvm/master, commit 30d7c5d60a88 ("KVM: SEV: expose...")
> - Collect Ben's review, modulo bad splat.
> - Copy+paste the correct splat and symptom. [David].
>
> @David, I kept the unstable declaration out of the loop, mostly because I
> really don't like putting declarations in loops, but also because
> nr_zapped is declared out of the loop and I didn't want to change that
> unnecessarily or make the code inconsistent.
>
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index 0c839ee1282c..208c892136bf 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -5576,6 +5576,7 @@ static void kvm_zap_obsolete_pages(struct kvm *kvm)
> {
> struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, *node;
> int nr_zapped, batch = 0;
> + bool unstable;
>
> restart:
> list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(sp, node,
> @@ -5607,11 +5608,12 @@ static void kvm_zap_obsolete_pages(struct kvm *kvm)
> goto restart;
> }
>
> - if (__kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, sp,
> - &kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages, &nr_zapped)) {
> - batch += nr_zapped;
> + unstable = __kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, sp,
> + &kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages, &nr_zapped);
> + batch += nr_zapped;
> +
> + if (unstable)
> goto restart;
> - }
> }
>
> /*
> --
> 2.34.0.rc2.393.gf8c9666880-goog
