Re: [PATCH 2/3] KVM: MMU: don not retry #PF for nonpaging guest

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Tue Nov 09 2010 - 03:04:09 EST


On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 01:39:18PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 11/04/2010 06:35 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 06:32:42PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >> nonpaing guest's 'direct_map' is also true, retry #PF for those
> >> guests is useless, so use 'tdp_enabled' instead
> >>
> > nonpaging guest will not attempt async pf.
>
> Ah, my mistake, but why we can not attempt async pf for nonpaging guest?
>
> > And by checking tdp_enabled
> > here instead of direct_map we will screw nested ntp.
> >
>
> It looks like something broken: apfs can generated in L2 guest (nested ntp guest)
> and be retried in L1 guest.
>
OK now when Xiao explained me the problem privately I can review this.

> Below patch fix it and let nonpaging guest support async pf. I'll post it properly
> if you like. :-)
>
Apf for nonpaging guest should be separate patch of course.

> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 7f20f2c..606978e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -600,6 +600,7 @@ struct kvm_x86_ops {
> struct kvm_arch_async_pf {
> u32 token;
> gfn_t gfn;
> + bool softmmu;
> };
>
> extern struct kvm_x86_ops *kvm_x86_ops;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index f3fad4f..48ca312 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> static int kvm_arch_setup_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t gva, gfn_t gfn)
> @@ -2602,6 +2607,7 @@ static int kvm_arch_setup_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t gva, gfn_t gfn)
> struct kvm_arch_async_pf arch;
> arch.token = (vcpu->arch.apf.id++ << 12) | vcpu->vcpu_id;
> arch.gfn = gfn;
> + arch.softmmu = mmu_is_softmmu(vcpu);
>
We can do:
if (mmu_is_nested(vcpu))
gva = vcpu->mmu.gva_to_gpa(gva);
And this should fix everything no?

> return kvm_setup_async_pf(vcpu, gva, gfn, &arch);
> }
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 2044302..d826d78 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -6172,9 +6172,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_set_rflags);
>
> void kvm_arch_async_page_ready(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_async_pf *work)
> {
> + bool softmmu = mmu_is_softmmu(vcpu);
> int r;
>
> - if (!vcpu->arch.mmu.direct_map || is_error_page(work->page))
> + if (softmmu || work->arch.softmmu || is_error_page(work->page))
> return;
>
> r = kvm_mmu_reload(vcpu);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
> index 2cea414..48796c7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
> @@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ static inline bool mmu_is_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> return vcpu->arch.walk_mmu == &vcpu->arch.nested_mmu;
> }
>
> +static inline bool mmu_is_softmmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> + return !tdp_enabled || mmu_is_nested(vcpu);
> +}
> +
Isn't this the same as checking vcpu->arch.mmu.direct_map? The only
difference that this will be true for nonpaging mode too but this is
even better since we can prefault in nonpaging mode.

--
Gleb.
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