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Commit 8351779c authored by Paolo Bonzini's avatar Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86/mmu: Allow yielding when zapping GFNs for defunct TDP MMU root



Allow yielding when zapping SPTEs after the last reference to a valid
root is put.  Because KVM must drop all SPTEs in response to relevant
mmu_notifier events, mark defunct roots invalid and reset their refcount
prior to zapping the root.  Keeping the refcount elevated while the zap
is in-progress ensures the root is reachable via mmu_notifier until the
zap completes and the last reference to the invalid, defunct root is put.

Allowing kvm_tdp_mmu_put_root() to yield fixes soft lockup issues if the
root in being put has a massive paging structure, e.g. zapping a root
that is backed entirely by 4kb pages for a guest with 32tb of memory can
take hundreds of seconds to complete.

  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#49 stuck for 485s! [max_guest_memor:52368]
  RIP: 0010:kvm_set_pfn_dirty+0x30/0x50 [kvm]
   __handle_changed_spte+0x1b2/0x2f0 [kvm]
   handle_removed_tdp_mmu_page+0x1a7/0x2b8 [kvm]
   __handle_changed_spte+0x1f4/0x2f0 [kvm]
   handle_removed_tdp_mmu_page+0x1a7/0x2b8 [kvm]
   __handle_changed_spte+0x1f4/0x2f0 [kvm]
   tdp_mmu_zap_root+0x307/0x4d0 [kvm]
   kvm_tdp_mmu_put_root+0x7c/0xc0 [kvm]
   kvm_mmu_free_roots+0x22d/0x350 [kvm]
   kvm_mmu_reset_context+0x20/0x60 [kvm]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_sregs+0x5a/0xc0 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x5bd/0x710 [kvm]
   __se_sys_ioctl+0x77/0xc0
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1d/0x20
   do_syscall_64+0x44/0xa0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

KVM currently doesn't put a root from a non-preemptible context, so other
than the mmu_notifier wrinkle, yielding when putting a root is safe.

Yield-unfriendly iteration uses for_each_tdp_mmu_root(), which doesn't
take a reference to each root (it requires mmu_lock be held for the
entire duration of the walk).

tdp_mmu_next_root() is used only by the yield-friendly iterator.

tdp_mmu_zap_root_work() is explicitly yield friendly.

kvm_mmu_free_roots() => mmu_free_root_page() is a much bigger fan-out,
but is still yield-friendly in all call sites, as all callers can be
traced back to some combination of vcpu_run(), kvm_destroy_vm(), and/or
kvm_create_vm().

Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220226001546.360188-21-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 22b94c4b
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