Re: [PATCH v2 09/15] KVM: MMU: introduce pte-list lockless walker

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On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 06:29:12PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> The basic idea is from nulls list which uses a nulls to indicate
> whether the desc is moved to different pte-list
> 
> Note, we should do bottom-up walk in the desc since we always move
> the bottom entry to the deleted position. A desc only has 3 entries
> in the current code so it is not a problem now, but the issue will
> be triggered if we expend the size of desc in the further development
> 
> Thanks to SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, the desc can be quickly reused
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index c5f1b27..3e1432f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -975,6 +975,10 @@ static int count_spte_number(struct pte_list_desc *desc)
>  	return first_free + desc_num * PTE_LIST_EXT;
>  }
>  
> +#define rcu_assign_pte_list(pte_list_p, value)				\
> +	rcu_assign_pointer(*(unsigned long __rcu **)(pte_list_p),	\
> +			(unsigned long *)(value))
> +
>  /*
>   * Pte mapping structures:
>   *
> @@ -994,7 +998,7 @@ static int pte_list_add(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *spte,
>  
>  	if (!*pte_list) {
>  		rmap_printk("pte_list_add: %p %llx 0->1\n", spte, *spte);
> -		*pte_list = (unsigned long)spte;
> +		rcu_assign_pte_list(pte_list, spte);
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -1004,7 +1008,7 @@ static int pte_list_add(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *spte,
>  		desc->sptes[0] = (u64 *)*pte_list;
>  		desc->sptes[1] = spte;
>  		desc_mark_nulls(pte_list, desc);
> -		*pte_list = (unsigned long)desc | 1;
> +		rcu_assign_pte_list(pte_list, (unsigned long)desc | 1);
>  		return 1;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -1017,7 +1021,7 @@ static int pte_list_add(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *spte,
>  		new_desc = mmu_alloc_pte_list_desc(vcpu);
>  		new_desc->more = desc;
>  		desc = new_desc;
> -		*pte_list = (unsigned long)desc | 1;
> +		rcu_assign_pte_list(pte_list, (unsigned long)desc | 1);
>  	}
>  
>  	free_pos = find_first_free(desc);
> @@ -1125,6 +1129,51 @@ static void pte_list_walk(unsigned long *pte_list, pte_list_walk_fn fn)
>  	WARN_ON(desc_get_nulls_value(desc) != pte_list);
>  }
>  
> +/* The caller should hold rcu lock. */
> +static void pte_list_walk_lockless(unsigned long *pte_list,
> +				   pte_list_walk_fn fn)
> +{
> +	struct pte_list_desc *desc;
> +	unsigned long pte_list_value;
> +	int i;
> +
> +restart:
> +	/*
> +	 * Force the pte_list to be reloaded.
> +	 *
> +	 * See the comments in hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu().
> +	 */
> +	barrier();
> +	pte_list_value = *rcu_dereference(pte_list);
> +	if (!pte_list_value)
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (!(pte_list_value & 1))
> +		return fn((u64 *)pte_list_value);
> +
> +	desc = (struct pte_list_desc *)(pte_list_value & ~1ul);
> +	while (!desc_is_a_nulls(desc)) {
> +		/*
> +		 * We should do top-down walk since we always use the higher
> +		 * indices to replace the deleted entry if only one desc is
> +		 * used in the rmap when a spte is removed. Otherwise the
> +		 * moved entry will be missed.
> +		 */
> +		for (i = PTE_LIST_EXT - 1; i >= 0; i--)
> +			if (desc->sptes[i])
> +				fn(desc->sptes[i]);
> +
> +		desc = rcu_dereference(desc->more);
> +
> +		/* It is being initialized. */
> +		if (unlikely(!desc))
> +			goto restart;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (unlikely(desc_get_nulls_value(desc) != pte_list))
> +		goto restart;
> +}
> +
>  static unsigned long *__gfn_to_rmap(gfn_t gfn, int level,
>  				    struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
>  {
> @@ -4651,7 +4700,7 @@ int kvm_mmu_module_init(void)
>  {
>  	pte_list_desc_cache = kmem_cache_create("pte_list_desc",
>  					    sizeof(struct pte_list_desc),
> -					    0, 0, NULL);
> +					    0, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, NULL);
Haven't we agreed that constructor is needed for the cache?

>  	if (!pte_list_desc_cache)
>  		goto nomem;
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.1.4

--
			Gleb.
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