Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] KVM: x86: Dirty quota-based throttling of vcpus

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On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 10:25:31AM +0530, Shivam Kumar wrote:
> 
> 
> On 15/11/22 5:46 am, Yunhong Jiang wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 05:05:08PM +0000, Shivam Kumar wrote:
> > > Exit to userspace whenever the dirty quota is exhausted (i.e. dirty count
> > > equals/exceeds dirty quota) to request more dirty quota.
> > > 
> > > Suggested-by: Shaju Abraham <shaju.abraham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Suggested-by: Manish Mishra <manish.mishra@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Co-developed-by: Anurag Madnawat <anurag.madnawat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Anurag Madnawat <anurag.madnawat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Shivam Kumar <shivam.kumar1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >   arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c |  4 ++--
> > >   arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c  |  3 +++
> > >   arch/x86/kvm/x86.c      | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >   3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c
> > > index 2e08b2a45361..c0ed35abbf2d 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c
> > > @@ -228,9 +228,9 @@ bool make_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp,
> > >   		  "spte = 0x%llx, level = %d, rsvd bits = 0x%llx", spte, level,
> > >   		  get_rsvd_bits(&vcpu->arch.mmu->shadow_zero_check, spte, level));
> > > -	if ((spte & PT_WRITABLE_MASK) && kvm_slot_dirty_track_enabled(slot)) {
> > > +	if (spte & PT_WRITABLE_MASK) {
> > >   		/* Enforced by kvm_mmu_hugepage_adjust. */
> > > -		WARN_ON(level > PG_LEVEL_4K);
> > > +		WARN_ON(level > PG_LEVEL_4K && kvm_slot_dirty_track_enabled(slot));
> > >   		mark_page_dirty_in_slot(vcpu->kvm, slot, gfn);
> > >   	}
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> > > index 63247c57c72c..cc130999eddf 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> > > @@ -5745,6 +5745,9 @@ static int handle_invalid_guest_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > >   		 */
> > >   		if (__xfer_to_guest_mode_work_pending())
> > >   			return 1;
> > > +
> > > +		if (kvm_test_request(KVM_REQ_DIRTY_QUOTA_EXIT, vcpu))
> > > +			return 1;
> > Any reason for this check? Is this quota related to the invalid
> > guest state? Sorry if I missed anything here.
> Quoting Sean:
> "And thinking more about silly edge cases, VMX's big emulation loop for
> invalid
> guest state when unrestricted guest is disabled should probably explicitly
> check
> the dirty quota.  Again, I doubt it matters to anyone's use case, but it is
> treated
> as a full run loop for things like pending signals, it'd be good to be
> consistent."
> 
> Please see v4 for details. Thanks.
Thank you for the sharing.
> > 
> > >   	}
> > >   	return 1;
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > > index ecea83f0da49..1a960fbb51f4 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > > @@ -10494,6 +10494,30 @@ void __kvm_request_immediate_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > >   }
> > >   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__kvm_request_immediate_exit);
> > > +static inline bool kvm_check_dirty_quota_request(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > > +{
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_QUOTA
> > > +	struct kvm_run *run;
> > > +
> > > +	if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_DIRTY_QUOTA_EXIT, vcpu)) {
> > > +		run = vcpu->run;
> > > +		run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_DIRTY_QUOTA_EXHAUSTED;
> > > +		run->dirty_quota_exit.count = vcpu->stat.generic.pages_dirtied;
> > > +		run->dirty_quota_exit.quota = READ_ONCE(run->dirty_quota);
> > > +
> > > +		/*
> > > +		 * Re-check the quota and exit if and only if the vCPU still
> > > +		 * exceeds its quota.  If userspace increases (or disables
> > > +		 * entirely) the quota, then no exit is required as KVM is
> > > +		 * still honoring its ABI, e.g. userspace won't even be aware
> > > +		 * that KVM temporarily detected an exhausted quota.
> > > +		 */
> > > +		return run->dirty_quota_exit.count >= run->dirty_quota_exit.quota;
> > Would it be better to check before updating the vcpu->run?
> The reason for checking it at the last moment is to avoid invalid exits to
> userspace as much as possible.

So if the userspace increases the quota, then the above vcpu->run change just
leaves some garbage information on vcpu->run and the exit_reason is
misleading. Possibly it's ok since this information will not be used anymore.

Not sure how critical is the time spent on the vcpu->run update.



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