[PATCH v8 10/11] KVM: MMU: reclaim the zapped-obsolete page first

From: Xiao Guangrong
Date: Thu May 30 2013 - 20:38:32 EST


As Marcelo pointed out that
| "(retention of large number of pages while zapping)
| can be fatal, it can lead to OOM and host crash"

We introduce a list, kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages, to link all
the pages which are deleted from the mmu cache but not actually
freed. When page reclaiming is needed, we always zap this kind of
pages first.

[
Can we use this list to instead all of "invalid_list"? That may
be interesting and will cause big change. Will do it separately
if it is necessary.
]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 ++
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index bff7d46..1f98c1b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -536,6 +536,8 @@ struct kvm_arch {
* Hash table of struct kvm_mmu_page.
*/
struct list_head active_mmu_pages;
+ struct list_head zapped_obsolete_pages;
+
struct list_head assigned_dev_head;
struct iommu_domain *iommu_domain;
int iommu_flags;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 674c044..79af88a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -4211,7 +4211,6 @@ void kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(struct kvm *kvm, int slot)
static void kvm_zap_obsolete_pages(struct kvm *kvm)
{
struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, *node;
- LIST_HEAD(invalid_list);
int batch = 0;

restart:
@@ -4244,7 +4243,8 @@ restart:
goto restart;
}

- ret = kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, sp, &invalid_list);
+ ret = kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(kvm, sp,
+ &kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages);
batch += ret;

if (ret)
@@ -4255,7 +4255,7 @@ restart:
* Should flush tlb before free page tables since lockless-walking
* may use the pages.
*/
- kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(kvm, &invalid_list);
+ kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(kvm, &kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages);
}

/*
@@ -4306,6 +4306,11 @@ restart:
spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
}

+static bool kvm_has_zapped_obsolete_pages(struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+ return unlikely(!list_empty_careful(&kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages));
+}
+
static int mmu_shrink(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
{
struct kvm *kvm;
@@ -4334,15 +4339,23 @@ static int mmu_shrink(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
* want to shrink a VM that only started to populate its MMU
* anyway.
*/
- if (!kvm->arch.n_used_mmu_pages)
+ if (!kvm->arch.n_used_mmu_pages &&
+ !kvm_has_zapped_obsolete_pages(kvm))
continue;

idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->srcu);
spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);

+ if (kvm_has_zapped_obsolete_pages(kvm)) {
+ kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(kvm,
+ &kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages);
+ goto unlock;
+ }
+
prepare_zap_oldest_mmu_page(kvm, &invalid_list);
kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(kvm, &invalid_list);

+unlock:
spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu, idx);

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 15e10f7..6402951 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -6832,6 +6832,7 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
return -EINVAL;

INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.assigned_dev_head);

/* Reserve bit 0 of irq_sources_bitmap for userspace irq source */
--
1.7.7.6

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