Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Do not create SPTEs for GFNs that exceed host.MAXPHYADDR

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On Tue, 2022-05-03 at 12:12 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-05-02 at 16:51 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Mon, May 02, 2022, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2022-05-02 at 10:59 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > > > > Also I can reproduce it all the way to 5.14 kernel (last kernel I have installed in this VM).
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I tested kvm/queue as of today, sadly I still see the warning.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Due to a race, the above statements are out of order ;-)
> > > > 
> > > > So futher investigation shows that the trigger for this *is* cpu_pm=on :(
> > > > 
> > > > So this is enough to trigger the warning when run in the guest:
> > > > 
> > > > qemu-system-x86_64  -nodefaults  -vnc none -serial stdio -machine accel=kvm
> > > > -kernel x86/dummy.flat -machine kernel-irqchip=on -smp 8 -m 1g -cpu host
> > > > -overcommit cpu-pm=on
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > '-smp 8' is needed, and the more vCPUs the more often the warning appears.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Due to non atomic memslot update bug, I use patched qemu version, with an
> > > > attached hack, to pause/resume vcpus around the memslot update it does, but
> > > > even without this hack, you can just ctrl+c the test after it gets the KVM
> > > > internal error, and then tdp mmu memory leak warning shows up (not always
> > > > but very often).
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Oh, and if I run the above command on the bare metal, it  never terminates.
> > > > Must be due to preemption, qemu shows beeing stuck in kvm_vcpu_block. AVIC
> > > > disabled, kvm/queue.  Bugs, bugs, and features :)
> > > 
> > > All right, at least that was because I removed the '-device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4',
> > > which is apparently used by KVM unit tests to signal exit from the VM.
> > 
> > Can you provide your QEMU command line for running your L1 VM?  And your L0 and L1
> > Kconfigs too?  I've tried both the dummy and ipi_stress tests on a variety of hardware,
> > kernels, QEMUs, etc..., with no luck.
> > 
> 
> So now both L0 and L1 run almost pure kvm/queue)
> (commit 2764011106d0436cb44702cfb0981339d68c3509)
> 
> I have some local patches but they are not relevant to KVM at all, more
> like various tweaks to sensors, a sad hack for yet another regression
> in AMDGPU, etc.
> 
> The config and qemu command line attached.
> 
> AVIC disabled in L0, L0 qemu is from master upstream.
> Bug reproduces too well IMHO, almost always.
> 
> For reference the warning is printed in L1's dmesg.

Tested this without any preemption in L0 and L1 - bug still reproduces just fine.
(kvm/queue)

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 	Maxim Levitsky





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