[Devel] [PATCH RHEL7 COMMIT] kvm/x86: skip async_pf when in guest mode

Konstantin Khorenko khorenko at virtuozzo.com
Fri Dec 2 06:35:41 PST 2016


The commit is pushed to "branch-rh7-3.10.0-327.36.1.vz7.20.x-ovz" and will appear at https://src.openvz.org/scm/ovz/vzkernel.git
after rh7-3.10.0-327.36.1.vz7.20.9
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commit 5173f45a28cdf3d5808e236eab882273a760a363
Author: Roman Kagan <rkagan at virtuozzo.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 2 18:35:41 2016 +0400

    kvm/x86: skip async_pf when in guest mode
    
    Async pagefault machinery assumes communication with L1 guests only: all
    the state -- MSRs, apf area addresses, etc, -- are for L1.  However, it
    currently doesn't check if the vCPU is running L1 or L2, and may inject
    
    To reproduce the problem, use a host with swap enabled, run a VM on it,
    run a nested VM on top, and set RSS limit for L1 on the host via
    /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/machine.slice/machine-*.scope/memory.limit_in_bytes
    to swap it out (you may need to tighten and release it once or twice, or
    create some memory load inside L1).  Very quickly L2 guest starts
    receiving pagefaults with bogus %cr2 (apf tokens from the host
    actually), and L1 guest starts accumulating tasks stuck in D state in
    kvm_async_pf_task_wait.
    
    To avoid that, only do async_pf stuff when executing L1 guest.
    
    Note: this patch only fixes x86; other async_pf-capable arches may also
    need something similar.
    
    Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan at virtuozzo.com>
    Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar at redhat.com>
    (cherry picked from commit 80e2a7bb8d7050d2ea6d8961c526a65d30d5eb08)
    
    https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-54491
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 17973ed..c82bf5f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -3481,7 +3481,7 @@ static bool try_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool prefault, gfn_t gfn,
 	if (!async)
 		return false; /* *pfn has correct page already */
 
-	if (!prefault && can_do_async_pf(vcpu)) {
+	if (!prefault && !is_guest_mode(vcpu) && can_do_async_pf(vcpu)) {
 		trace_kvm_try_async_get_page(gva, gfn);
 		if (kvm_find_async_pf_gfn(vcpu, gfn)) {
 			trace_kvm_async_pf_doublefault(gva, gfn);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 78ea28c..4edeb8a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -6780,7 +6780,8 @@ static int __vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 			++vcpu->stat.request_irq_exits;
 		}
 
-		kvm_check_async_pf_completion(vcpu);
+		if (!is_guest_mode(vcpu))
+			kvm_check_async_pf_completion(vcpu);
 
 		if (signal_pending(current)) {
 			r = -EINTR;


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