Override the shadow root level in the MMU context when configuring
NPT for shadowing nested NPT. The level is always tied to the TDP level
of the host, not whatever level the guest happens to be using.
Fixes: 096586fda5 ("KVM: nSVM: Correctly set the shadow NPT root level in its MMU role")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210305011101.3597423-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
WARN if KVM is about to dereference a NULL pae_root or lm_root when
loading an MMU, and convert the BUG() on a bad shadow_root_level into a
WARN (now that errors are handled cleanly). With nested NPT, botching
the level and sending KVM down the wrong path is all too easy, and the
on-demand allocation of pae_root and lm_root means bugs crash the host.
Obviously, KVM could unconditionally allocate the roots, but that's
arguably a worse failure mode as it would potentially corrupt the guest
instead of crashing it.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210305011101.3597423-18-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Unexport the MMU load and unload helpers now that they are no longer
used (incorrectly) in vendor code.
Opportunistically move the kvm_mmu_sync_roots() declaration into mmu.h,
it should not be exposed to vendor code.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210305011101.3597423-16-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Set the C-bit in SPTEs that are set outside of the normal MMU flows,
specifically the PDPDTRs and the handful of special cased "LM root"
entries, all of which are shadow paging only.
Note, the direct-mapped-root PDPTR handling is needed for the scenario
where paging is disabled in the guest, in which case KVM uses a direct
mapped MMU even though TDP is disabled.
Fixes: d0ec49d4de ("kvm/x86/svm: Support Secure Memory Encryption within KVM")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210305011101.3597423-11-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Exempt NULL PAE roots from the check to detect leaks, since
kvm_mmu_free_roots() doesn't set them back to INVALID_PAGE. Stop hiding
the WARNs to detect PAE root leaks behind MMU_WARN_ON, the hidden WARNs
obviously didn't do their job given the hilarious number of bugs that
could lead to PAE roots being leaked, not to mention the above false
positive.
Opportunistically delete a warning on root_hpa being valid, there's
nothing special about 4/5-level shadow pages that warrants a WARN.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210305011101.3597423-9-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Check the validity of the PDPTRs before allocating any of the PAE roots,
otherwise a bad PDPTR will cause KVM to leak any previously allocated
roots.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210305011101.3597423-8-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Hold the mmu_lock for write for the entire duration of allocating and
initializing an MMU's roots. This ensures there are MMU pages available
and thus prevents root allocations from failing. That in turn fixes a
bug where KVM would fail to free valid PAE roots if a one of the later
roots failed to allocate.
Add a comment to make_mmu_pages_available() to call out that the limit
is a soft limit, e.g. KVM will temporarily exceed the threshold if a
page fault allocates multiple shadow pages and there was only one page
"available".
Note, KVM _still_ leaks the PAE roots if the guest PDPTR checks fail.
This will be addressed in a future commit.
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210305011101.3597423-7-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Move the on-demand allocation of the pae_root and lm_root pages, used by
nested NPT for 32-bit L1s, into a separate helper. This will allow a
future patch to hold mmu_lock while allocating the non-special roots so
that make_mmu_pages_available() can be checked once at the start of root
allocation, and thus avoid having to deal with failure in the middle of
root allocation.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210305011101.3597423-6-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Allocate lm_root before the PAE roots so that the PAE roots aren't
leaked if the memory allocation for the lm_root happens to fail.
Note, KVM can still leak PAE roots if mmu_check_root() fails on a guest's
PDPTR, or if mmu_alloc_root() fails due to MMU pages not being available.
Those issues will be fixed in future commits.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210305011101.3597423-5-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Grab 'mmu' and do s/vcpu->arch.mmu/mmu to shorten line lengths and yield
smaller diffs when moving code around in future cleanup without forcing
the new code to use the same ugly pattern.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210305011101.3597423-4-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Allocate the so called pae_root page on-demand, along with the lm_root
page, when shadowing 32-bit NPT with 64-bit NPT, i.e. when running a
32-bit L1. KVM currently only allocates the page when NPT is disabled,
or when L0 is 32-bit (using PAE paging).
Note, there is an existing memory leak involving the MMU roots, as KVM
fails to free the PAE roots on failure. This will be addressed in a
future commit.
Fixes: ee6268ba3a ("KVM: x86: Skip pae_root shadow allocation if tdp enabled")
Fixes: b6b80c78af ("KVM: x86/mmu: Allocate PAE root array when using SVM's 32-bit NPT")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210305011101.3597423-3-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Track the range being invalidated by mmu_notifier and skip page fault
retries if the fault address is not affected by the in-progress
invalidation. Handle concurrent invalidations by finding the minimal
range which includes all ranges being invalidated. Although the combined
range may include unrelated addresses and cannot be shrunk as individual
invalidation operations complete, it is unlikely the marginal gains of
proper range tracking are worth the additional complexity.
The primary benefit of this change is the reduction in the likelihood of
extreme latency when handing a page fault due to another thread having
been preempted while modifying host virtual addresses.
Signed-off-by: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org>
Message-Id: <20210222024522.1751719-3-stevensd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Don't retry a page fault due to an mmu_notifier invalidation when
handling a page fault for a GPA that did not resolve to a memslot, i.e.
an MMIO page fault. Invalidations from the mmu_notifier signal a change
in a host virtual address (HVA) mapping; without a memslot, there is no
HVA and thus no possibility that the invalidation is relevant to the
page fault being handled.
Note, the MMIO vs. memslot generation checks handle the case where a
pending memslot will create a memslot overlapping the faulting GPA. The
mmu_notifier checks are orthogonal to memslot updates.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210222024522.1751719-2-stevensd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Drop kvm_mmu_slot_largepage_remove_write_access() and refactor its sole
caller to use kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(). Remove the now-unused
slot_handle_large_level() and slot_handle_all_level() helpers.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210213005015.1651772-14-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Stop setting dirty bits for MMU pages when dirty logging is disabled for
a memslot, as PML is now completely disabled when there are no memslots
with dirty logging enabled.
This means that spurious PML entries will be created for memslots with
dirty logging disabled if at least one other memslot has dirty logging
enabled. However, spurious PML entries are already possible since
dirty bits are set only when a dirty logging is turned off, i.e. memslots
that are never dirty logged will have dirty bits cleared.
In the end, it's faster overall to eat a few spurious PML entries in the
window where dirty logging is being disabled across all memslots.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210213005015.1651772-13-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Drop the facade of KVM's PML logic being vendor specific and move the
bits that aren't truly VMX specific into common x86 code. The MMU logic
for dealing with PML is tightly coupled to the feature and to VMX's
implementation, bouncing through kvm_x86_ops obfuscates the code without
providing any meaningful separation of concerns or encapsulation.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210213005015.1651772-10-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Store the vendor-specific dirty log size in a variable, there's no need
to wrap it in a function since the value is constant after
hardware_setup() runs.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210213005015.1651772-9-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When zapping SPTEs in order to rebuild them as huge pages, use the new
helper that computes the max mapping level to detect whether or not a
SPTE should be zapped. Doing so avoids zapping SPTEs that can't
possibly be rebuilt as huge pages, e.g. due to hardware constraints,
memslot alignment, etc...
This also avoids zapping SPTEs that are still large, e.g. if migration
was canceled before write-protected huge pages were shattered to enable
dirty logging. Note, such pages are still write-protected at this time,
i.e. a page fault VM-Exit will still occur. This will hopefully be
addressed in a future patch.
Sadly, TDP MMU loses its const on the memslot, but that's a pervasive
problem that's been around for quite some time.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210213005015.1651772-6-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Pass the memslot to the rmap callbacks, it will be used when zapping
collapsible SPTEs to verify the memslot is compatible with hugepages
before zapping its SPTEs.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210213005015.1651772-5-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Factor out the logic for determining the maximum mapping level given a
memslot and a gpa. The helper will be used when zapping collapsible
SPTEs when disabling dirty logging, e.g. to avoid zapping SPTEs that
can't possibly be rebuilt as hugepages.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210213005015.1651772-4-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When retpolines are enabled they have high overhead in the inner loop
inside kvm_handle_hva_range() that iterates over the provided memory area.
Let's mark this function and its TDP MMU equivalent __always_inline so
compiler will be able to change the call to the actual handler function
inside each of them into a direct one.
This significantly improves performance on the unmap test on the existing
kernel memslot code (tested on a Xeon 8167M machine):
30 slots in use:
Test Before After Improvement
Unmap 0.0353s 0.0334s 5%
Unmap 2M 0.00104s 0.000407s 61%
509 slots in use:
Test Before After Improvement
Unmap 0.0742s 0.0740s None
Unmap 2M 0.00221s 0.00159s 28%
Looks like having an indirect call in these functions (and, so, a
retpoline) might have interfered with unrolling of the whole loop in the
CPU.
Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <732d3fe9eb68aa08402a638ab0309199fa89ae56.1612810129.git.maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The TDP MMU assumes that it can do atomic accesses to 64-bit PTEs.
Rather than just disabling it, compile it out completely so that it
is possible to use for example 64-bit xchg.
To limit the number of stubs, wrap all accesses to tdp_mmu_enabled
or tdp_mmu_page with a function. Calls to all other functions in
tdp_mmu.c are eliminated and do not even reach the linker.
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use reserved_gpa_bits, which accounts for exceptions to the maxphyaddr
rule, e.g. SEV's C-bit, for the page {table,directory,etc...} entry (PxE)
reserved bits checks. For SEV, the C-bit is ignored by hardware when
walking pages tables, e.g. the APM states:
Note that while the guest may choose to set the C-bit explicitly on
instruction pages and page table addresses, the value of this bit is a
don't-care in such situations as hardware always performs these as
private accesses.
Such behavior is expected to hold true for other features that repurpose
GPA bits, e.g. KVM could theoretically emulate SME or MKTME, which both
allow non-zero repurposed bits in the page tables. Conceptually, KVM
should apply reserved GPA checks universally, and any features that do
not adhere to the basic rule should be explicitly handled, i.e. if a GPA
bit is repurposed but not allowed in page tables for whatever reason.
Refactor __reset_rsvds_bits_mask() to take the pre-generated reserved
bits mask, and opportunistically clean up its code, e.g. to align lines
and comments.
Practically speaking, this is change is a likely a glorified nop given
the current KVM code base. SEV's C-bit is the only repurposed GPA bit,
and KVM doesn't support shadowing encrypted page tables (which is
theoretically possible via SEV debug APIs).
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210204000117.3303214-9-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Add a read / write lock to be used in place of the MMU spinlock on x86.
The rwlock will enable the TDP MMU to handle page faults, and other
operations in parallel in future commits.
Reviewed-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210202185734.1680553-19-bgardon@google.com>
[Introduce virt/kvm/mmu_lock.h - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Convert kvm_x86_ops to use static calls. Note that all kvm_x86_ops are
covered here except for 'pmu_ops and 'nested ops'.
Here are some numbers running cpuid in a loop of 1 million calls averaged
over 5 runs, measured in the vm (lower is better).
Intel Xeon 3000MHz:
|default |mitigations=off
-------------------------------------
vanilla |.671s |.486s
static call|.573s(-15%)|.458s(-6%)
AMD EPYC 2500MHz:
|default |mitigations=off
-------------------------------------
vanilla |.710s |.609s
static call|.664s(-6%) |.609s(0%)
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Message-Id: <e057bf1b8a7ad15652df6eeba3f907ae758d3399.1610680941.git.jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Remove the update_pte() shadow paging logic, which was obsoleted by
commit 4731d4c7a0 ("KVM: MMU: out of sync shadow core"), but never
removed. As pointed out by Yu, KVM never write protects leaf page
tables for the purposes of shadow paging, and instead marks their
associated shadow page as unsync so that the guest can write PTEs at
will.
The update_pte() path, which predates the unsync logic, optimizes COW
scenarios by refreshing leaf SPTEs when they are written, as opposed to
zapping the SPTE, restarting the guest, and installing the new SPTE on
the subsequent fault. Since KVM no longer write-protects leaf page
tables, update_pte() is unreachable and can be dropped.
Reported-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210115004051.4099250-1-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Walk the list of MMU pages in reverse in kvm_mmu_zap_oldest_mmu_pages().
The list is FIFO, meaning new pages are inserted at the head and thus
the oldest pages are at the tail. Using a "forward" iterator causes KVM
to zap MMU pages that were just added, which obliterates guest
performance once the max number of shadow MMU pages is reached.
Fixes: 6b82ef2c9c ("KVM: x86/mmu: Batch zap MMU pages when recycling oldest pages")
Reported-by: Zdenek Kaspar <zkaspar82@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210113205030.3481307-1-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Check only the terminal leaf for a "!PRESENT || MMIO" SPTE when looking
for reserved bits on valid, non-MMIO SPTEs. The get_walk() helpers
terminate their walks if a not-present or MMIO SPTE is encountered, i.e.
the non-terminal SPTEs have already been verified to be regular SPTEs.
This eliminates an extra check-and-branch in a relatively hot loop.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201218003139.2167891-5-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Bump the size of the sptes array by one and use the raw level of the
SPTE to index into the sptes array. Using the SPTE level directly
improves readability by eliminating the need to reason out why the level
is being adjusted when indexing the array. The array is on the stack
and is not explicitly initialized; bumping its size is nothing more than
a superficial adjustment to the stack frame.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201218003139.2167891-4-seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Get the so called "root" level from the low level shadow page table
walkers instead of manually attempting to calculate it higher up the
stack, e.g. in get_mmio_spte(). When KVM is using PAE shadow paging,
the starting level of the walk, from the callers perspective, is not
the CR3 root but rather the PDPTR "root". Checking for reserved bits
from the CR3 root causes get_mmio_spte() to consume uninitialized stack
data due to indexing into sptes[] for a level that was not filled by
get_walk(). This can result in false positives and/or negatives
depending on what garbage happens to be on the stack.
Opportunistically nuke a few extra newlines.
Fixes: 95fb5b0258 ("kvm: x86/mmu: Support MMIO in the TDP MMU")
Reported-by: Richard Herbert <rherbert@sympatico.ca>
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201218003139.2167891-3-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Return -1 from the get_walk() helpers if the shadow walk doesn't fill at
least one spte, which can theoretically happen if the walk hits a
not-present PDPTR. Returning the root level in such a case will cause
get_mmio_spte() to return garbage (uninitialized stack data). In
practice, such a scenario should be impossible as KVM shouldn't get a
reserved-bit page fault with a not-present PDPTR.
Note, using mmu->root_level in get_walk() is wrong for other reasons,
too, but that's now a moot point.
Fixes: 95fb5b0258 ("kvm: x86/mmu: Support MMIO in the TDP MMU")
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201218003139.2167891-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Commit 95fb5b0258 ("kvm: x86/mmu: Support MMIO in the TDP MMU") caused
the following WARNING on an Intel Ice Lake CPU:
get_mmio_spte: detect reserved bits on spte, addr 0xb80a0, dump hierarchy:
------ spte 0xb80a0 level 5.
------ spte 0xfcd210107 level 4.
------ spte 0x1004c40107 level 3.
------ spte 0x1004c41107 level 2.
------ spte 0x1db00000000b83b6 level 1.
WARNING: CPU: 109 PID: 10254 at arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:3569 kvm_mmu_page_fault.cold.150+0x54/0x22f [kvm]
...
Call Trace:
? kvm_io_bus_get_first_dev+0x55/0x110 [kvm]
vcpu_enter_guest+0xaa1/0x16a0 [kvm]
? vmx_get_cs_db_l_bits+0x17/0x30 [kvm_intel]
? skip_emulated_instruction+0xaa/0x150 [kvm_intel]
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xca/0x520 [kvm]
The guest triggering this crashes. Note, this happens with the traditional
MMU and EPT enabled, not with the newly introduced TDP MMU. Turns out,
there was a subtle change in the above mentioned commit. Previously,
walk_shadow_page_get_mmio_spte() was setting 'root' to 'iterator.level'
which is returned by shadow_walk_init() and this equals to
'vcpu->arch.mmu->shadow_root_level'. Now, get_mmio_spte() sets it to
'int root = vcpu->arch.mmu->root_level'.
The difference between 'root_level' and 'shadow_root_level' on CPUs
supporting 5-level page tables is that in some case we don't want to
use 5-level, in particular when 'cpuid_maxphyaddr(vcpu) <= 48'
kvm_mmu_get_tdp_level() returns '4'. In case upper layer is not used,
the corresponding SPTE will fail '__is_rsvd_bits_set()' check.
Revert to using 'shadow_root_level'.
Fixes: 95fb5b0258 ("kvm: x86/mmu: Support MMIO in the TDP MMU")
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201126110206.2118959-1-vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Because kvm dirty rings and kvm dirty log is used in an exclusive way,
Let's avoid creating the dirty_bitmap when kvm dirty ring is enabled.
At the meantime, since the dirty_bitmap will be conditionally created
now, we can't use it as a sign of "whether this memory slot enabled
dirty tracking". Change users like that to check against the kvm
memory slot flags.
Note that there still can be chances where the kvm memory slot got its
dirty_bitmap allocated, _if_ the memory slots are created before
enabling of the dirty rings and at the same time with the dirty
tracking capability enabled, they'll still with the dirty_bitmap.
However it should not hurt much (e.g., the bitmaps will always be
freed if they are there), and the real users normally won't trigger
this because dirty bit tracking flag should in most cases only be
applied to kvm slots only before migration starts, that should be far
latter than kvm initializes (VM starts).
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201001012226.5868-1-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch is heavily based on previous work from Lei Cao
<lei.cao@stratus.com> and Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>. [1]
KVM currently uses large bitmaps to track dirty memory. These bitmaps
are copied to userspace when userspace queries KVM for its dirty page
information. The use of bitmaps is mostly sufficient for live
migration, as large parts of memory are be dirtied from one log-dirty
pass to another. However, in a checkpointing system, the number of
dirty pages is small and in fact it is often bounded---the VM is
paused when it has dirtied a pre-defined number of pages. Traversing a
large, sparsely populated bitmap to find set bits is time-consuming,
as is copying the bitmap to user-space.
A similar issue will be there for live migration when the guest memory
is huge while the page dirty procedure is trivial. In that case for
each dirty sync we need to pull the whole dirty bitmap to userspace
and analyse every bit even if it's mostly zeros.
The preferred data structure for above scenarios is a dense list of
guest frame numbers (GFN). This patch series stores the dirty list in
kernel memory that can be memory mapped into userspace to allow speedy
harvesting.
This patch enables dirty ring for X86 only. However it should be
easily extended to other archs as well.
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10471409/
Signed-off-by: Lei Cao <lei.cao@stratus.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201001012222.5767-1-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Even though the compiler is able to replace static const variables with
their value, it will warn about them being unused when Linux is built with W=1.
Use good old macros instead, this is not C++.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
When KVM maps a largepage backed region at a lower level in order to
make it executable (i.e. NX large page shattering), it reduces the TLB
performance of that region. In order to avoid making this degradation
permanent, KVM must periodically reclaim shattered NX largepages by
zapping them and allowing them to be rebuilt in the page fault handler.
With this patch, the TDP MMU does not respect KVM's rate limiting on
reclaim. It traverses the entire TDP structure every time. This will be
addressed in a future patch.
Tested by running kvm-unit-tests and KVM selftests on an Intel Haswell
machine. This series introduced no new failures.
This series can be viewed in Gerrit at:
https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/virt/kvm/kvm/+/2538
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201014182700.2888246-21-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Direct roots don't have a write flooding count because the guest can't
affect that paging structure. Thus there's no need to clear the write
flooding count on a fast CR3 switch for direct roots.
Tested by running kvm-unit-tests and KVM selftests on an Intel Haswell
machine. This series introduced no new failures.
This series can be viewed in Gerrit at:
https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/virt/kvm/kvm/+/2538
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201014182700.2888246-20-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
In order to support MMIO, KVM must be able to walk the TDP paging
structures to find mappings for a given GFN. Support this walk for
the TDP MMU.
Tested by running kvm-unit-tests and KVM selftests on an Intel Haswell
machine. This series introduced no new failures.
This series can be viewed in Gerrit at:
https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/virt/kvm/kvm/+/2538
v2: Thanks to Dan Carpenter and kernel test robot for finding that root
was used uninitialized in get_mmio_spte.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <20201014182700.2888246-19-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To support nested virtualization, KVM will sometimes need to write
protect pages which are part of a shadowed paging structure or are not
writable in the shadowed paging structure. Add a function to write
protect GFN mappings for this purpose.
Tested by running kvm-unit-tests and KVM selftests on an Intel Haswell
machine. This series introduced no new failures.
This series can be viewed in Gerrit at:
https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/virt/kvm/kvm/+/2538
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201014182700.2888246-18-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Dirty logging ultimately breaks down MMU mappings to 4k granularity.
When dirty logging is no longer needed, these granaular mappings
represent a useless performance penalty. When dirty logging is disabled,
search the paging structure for mappings that could be re-constituted
into a large page mapping. Zap those mappings so that they can be
faulted in again at a higher mapping level.
Tested by running kvm-unit-tests and KVM selftests on an Intel Haswell
machine. This series introduced no new failures.
This series can be viewed in Gerrit at:
https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/virt/kvm/kvm/+/2538
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201014182700.2888246-17-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
In order to interoperate correctly with the rest of KVM and other Linux
subsystems, the TDP MMU must correctly handle various MMU notifiers. Add
a hook and handle the change_pte MMU notifier.
Tested by running kvm-unit-tests and KVM selftests on an Intel Haswell
machine. This series introduced no new failures.
This series can be viewed in Gerrit at:
https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/virt/kvm/kvm/+/2538
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20201014182700.2888246-15-bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
