On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 08:17:48PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> The current kvm_mmu_zap_all is really slow - it is holding mmu-lock to
> walk and zap all shadow pages one by one, also it need to zap all guest
> page's rmap and all shadow page's parent spte list. Particularly, things
> become worse if guest uses more memory or vcpus. It is not good for
> scalability
>
> In this patch, we introduce a faster way to invalidate all shadow pages.
> KVM maintains a global mmu invalid generation-number which is stored in
> kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen and every shadow page stores the current global
> generation-number into sp->mmu_valid_gen when it is created
>
> When KVM need zap all shadow pages sptes, it just simply increase the
> global generation-number then reload root shadow pages on all vcpus.
> Vcpu will create a new shadow page table according to current kvm's
> generation-number. It ensures the old pages are not used any more.
> Then the invalid-gen pages (sp->mmu_valid_gen != kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen)
> are zapped by using lock-break technique
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h | 2 +
> 3 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 3741c65..bff7d46 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ struct kvm_mmu_page {
> int root_count; /* Currently serving as active root */
> unsigned int unsync_children;
> unsigned long parent_ptes; /* Reverse mapping for parent_pte */
> + unsigned long mmu_valid_gen;
> DECLARE_BITMAP(unsync_child_bitmap, 512);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> @@ -529,6 +530,7 @@ struct kvm_arch {
> unsigned int n_requested_mmu_pages;
> unsigned int n_max_mmu_pages;
> unsigned int indirect_shadow_pages;
> + unsigned long mmu_valid_gen;
> struct hlist_head mmu_page_hash[KVM_NUM_MMU_PAGES];
> /*
> * Hash table of struct kvm_mmu_page.
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 682ecb4..d9343fe 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -1839,6 +1839,11 @@ static void clear_sp_write_flooding_count(u64 *spte)
> __clear_sp_write_flooding_count(sp);
> }
>
> +static bool is_obsolete_sp(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
> +{
> + return unlikely(sp->mmu_valid_gen != kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen);
> +}
> +
> static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> gfn_t gfn,
> gva_t gaddr,
> @@ -1865,6 +1870,9 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> role.quadrant = quadrant;
> }
> for_each_gfn_sp(vcpu->kvm, sp, gfn) {
> + if (is_obsolete_sp(vcpu->kvm, sp))
> + continue;
> +
> if (!need_sync && sp->unsync)
> need_sync = true;
>
> @@ -1901,6 +1909,7 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>
> account_shadowed(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
> }
> + sp->mmu_valid_gen = vcpu->kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen;
> init_shadow_page_table(sp);
> trace_kvm_mmu_get_page(sp, true);
> return sp;
> @@ -2071,8 +2080,10 @@ static int kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp,
> ret = mmu_zap_unsync_children(kvm, sp, invalid_list);
> kvm_mmu_page_unlink_children(kvm, sp);
> kvm_mmu_unlink_parents(kvm, sp);
> +
> if (!sp->role.invalid && !sp->role.direct)
> unaccount_shadowed(kvm, sp->gfn);
> +
> if (sp->unsync)
> kvm_unlink_unsync_page(kvm, sp);
>
> @@ -4196,6 +4207,93 @@ restart:
> spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> }
>
> +static void zap_invalid_pages(struct kvm *kvm)
> +{
> + struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, *node;
> + LIST_HEAD(invalid_list);
> +
> +restart:
> + list_for_each_entry_safe(sp, node, &kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages, link) {
> + if (!is_obsolete_sp(kvm, sp))
> + continue;
> +
> + /*
> + * Do not repeatedly zap a root page to avoid unnecessary
> + * KVM_REQ_MMU_RELOAD, otherwise we may not be able to
> + * progress:
> + * vcpu 0 vcpu 1
> + * call vcpu_enter_guest():
> + * 1): handle KVM_REQ_MMU_RELOAD
> + * and require mmu-lock to
> + * load mmu
> + * repeat:
> + * 1): zap root page and
> + * send KVM_REQ_MMU_RELOAD
> + *
> + * 2): if (cond_resched_lock(mmu-lock))
> + *
> + * 2): hold mmu-lock and load mmu
> + *
> + * 3): see KVM_REQ_MMU_RELOAD bit
> + * on vcpu->requests is set
> + * then return 1 to call
> + * vcpu_enter_guest() again.
> + * goto repeat;
> + *
> + */
> + if (sp->role.invalid)
> + continue;
> + /*
> + * Need not flush tlb since we only zap the sp with invalid
> + * generation number.
> + */
> + if (cond_resched_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock))
> + goto restart;
> +
> + if (kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, sp, &invalid_list))
> + goto restart;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * Should flush tlb before free page tables since lockless-walking
> + * may use the pages.
> + */
> + kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(kvm, &invalid_list);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Fast invalidate all shadow pages belong to @slot.
> + *
> + * @slot != NULL means the invalidation is caused the memslot specified
> + * by @slot is being deleted, in this case, we should ensure that rmap
> + * and lpage-info of the @slot can not be used after calling the function.
> + *
> + * @slot == NULL means the invalidation due to other reasons, we need
> + * not care rmap and lpage-info since they are still valid after calling
> + * the function.
> + */
> +void kvm_mmu_invalidate_memslot_pages(struct kvm *kvm,
> + struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
Why pass "slot" here? If we want the function to sometimes wait for purge
and sometimes not the more straightforward way is to have a "bool wait"
parameter instead.
> +{
> + spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> + kvm->arch.mmu_valid_gen++;
> +
> + /*
> + * Notify all vcpus to reload its shadow page table
> + * and flush TLB. Then all vcpus will switch to new
> + * shadow page table with the new mmu_valid_gen.
> + *
> + * Note: we should do this under the protection of
> + * mmu-lock, otherwise, vcpu would purge shadow page
> + * but miss tlb flush.
> + */
> + kvm_reload_remote_mmus(kvm);
> +
> + if (slot)
> + zap_invalid_pages(kvm);
> + spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> +}
> +
> void kvm_mmu_zap_mmio_sptes(struct kvm *kvm)
> {
> struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, *node;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
> index 2adcbc2..bd57466 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
> @@ -97,4 +97,6 @@ static inline bool permission_fault(struct kvm_mmu *mmu, unsigned pte_access,
> return (mmu->permissions[pfec >> 1] >> pte_access) & 1;
> }
>
> +void kvm_mmu_invalidate_memslot_pages(struct kvm *kvm,
> + struct kvm_memory_slot *slot);
> #endif
> --
> 1.7.7.6
--
Gleb.
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