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Commit 1b6043e8 authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86/mmu: Zap roots in two passes to avoid inducing RCU stalls



When zapping a TDP MMU root, perform the zap in two passes to avoid
zapping an entire top-level SPTE while holding RCU, which can induce RCU
stalls.  In the first pass, zap SPTEs at PG_LEVEL_1G, and then
zap top-level entries in the second pass.

With 4-level paging, zapping a PGD that is fully populated with 4kb leaf
SPTEs take up to ~7 or so seconds (time varies based on kernel config,
number of (v)CPUs, etc...).  With 5-level paging, that time can balloon
well into hundreds of seconds.

Before remote TLB flushes were omitted, the problem was even worse as
waiting for all active vCPUs to respond to the IPI introduced significant
overhead for VMs with large numbers of vCPUs.

By zapping 1gb SPTEs (both shadow pages and hugepages) in the first pass,
the amount of work that is done without dropping RCU protection is
strictly bounded, with the worst case latency for a single operation
being less than 100ms.

Zapping at 1gb in the first pass is not arbitrary.  First and foremost,
KVM relies on being able to zap 1gb shadow pages in a single shot when
when repacing a shadow page with a hugepage.  Zapping a 1gb shadow page
that is fully populated with 4kb dirty SPTEs also triggers the worst case
latency due writing back the struct page accessed/dirty bits for each 4kb
page, i.e. the two-pass approach is guaranteed to work so long as KVM can
cleany zap a 1gb shadow page.

  rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
  rcu:     52-....: (20999 ticks this GP) idle=7be/1/0x4000000000000000
                                          softirq=15759/15759 fqs=5058
   (t=21016 jiffies g=66453 q=238577)
  NMI backtrace for cpu 52
  Call Trace:
   ...
   mark_page_accessed+0x266/0x2f0
   kvm_set_pfn_accessed+0x31/0x40
   handle_removed_tdp_mmu_page+0x259/0x2e0
   __handle_changed_spte+0x223/0x2c0
   handle_removed_tdp_mmu_page+0x1c1/0x2e0
   __handle_changed_spte+0x223/0x2c0
   handle_removed_tdp_mmu_page+0x1c1/0x2e0
   __handle_changed_spte+0x223/0x2c0
   zap_gfn_range+0x141/0x3b0
   kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_invalidated_roots+0xc8/0x130
   kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast+0x121/0x190
   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+0x172/0x4e0
   __kvm_set_memory_region+0x337/0x590
   kvm_vm_ioctl+0x49c/0xf80

Reported-by: default avatarDavid Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Cc: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBen Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220226001546.360188-22-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 8351779c
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