[PATCH kernel v4 09/10] KVM: PPC: Use preregistered memory API to access TCE list

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 06:17:10PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> VFIO on sPAPR already implements guest memory pre-registration
> when the entire guest RAM gets pinned. This can be used to translate
> the physical address of a guest page containing the TCE list
> from H_PUT_TCE_INDIRECT.
> 
> This makes use of the pre-registrered memory API to access TCE list
> pages in order to avoid unnecessary locking on the KVM memory
> reverse map as we know that all of guest memory is pinned and
> we have a flat array mapping GPA to HPA which makes it simpler and
> quicker to index into that array (even with looking up the
> kernel page tables in vmalloc_to_phys) than it is to find the memslot,
> lock the rmap entry, look up the user page tables, and unlock the rmap
> entry. Note that the rmap pointer is initialized to NULL
> where declared (not in this patch).
> 
> If a requested chunk of memory has not been preregistered, this will
> fall back to non-preregistered case and lock rmap.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

> ---
> Changes:
> v4:
> * removed oneline inlines
> * now falls back to locking rmap if TCE list is not in preregistered memory
> 
> v2:
> * updated the commit log with David's comment
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio_hv.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio_hv.c
> index f8a54b7c788e..dc1c66fda941 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio_hv.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio_hv.c
> @@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ long kvmppc_rm_h_put_tce_indirect(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  	long i, ret = H_SUCCESS;
>  	unsigned long tces, entry, tce, ua = 0;
>  	unsigned long *rmap = NULL;
> +	bool prereg = false;
>  
>  	stt = kvmppc_find_table(vcpu->kvm, liobn);
>  	if (!stt)
> @@ -259,23 +260,47 @@ long kvmppc_rm_h_put_tce_indirect(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  	if (ret != H_SUCCESS)
>  		return ret;
>  
> -	if (kvmppc_gpa_to_ua(vcpu->kvm, tce_list, &ua, &rmap))
> -		return H_TOO_HARD;
> +	if (mm_iommu_preregistered(vcpu->kvm->mm)) {
> +		/*
> +		 * We get here if guest memory was pre-registered which
> +		 * is normally VFIO case and gpa->hpa translation does not
> +		 * depend on hpt.
> +		 */
> +		struct mm_iommu_table_group_mem_t *mem;
>  
> -	rmap = (void *) vmalloc_to_phys(rmap);
> +		if (kvmppc_gpa_to_ua(vcpu->kvm, tce_list, &ua, NULL))
> +			return H_TOO_HARD;
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Synchronize with the MMU notifier callbacks in
> -	 * book3s_64_mmu_hv.c (kvm_unmap_hva_hv etc.).
> -	 * While we have the rmap lock, code running on other CPUs
> -	 * cannot finish unmapping the host real page that backs
> -	 * this guest real page, so we are OK to access the host
> -	 * real page.
> -	 */
> -	lock_rmap(rmap);
> -	if (kvmppc_rm_ua_to_hpa(vcpu, ua, &tces)) {
> -		ret = H_TOO_HARD;
> -		goto unlock_exit;
> +		mem = mm_iommu_lookup_rm(vcpu->kvm->mm, ua, IOMMU_PAGE_SIZE_4K);
> +		if (mem)
> +			prereg = mm_iommu_ua_to_hpa_rm(mem, ua, &tces) == 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!prereg) {
> +		/*
> +		 * This is usually a case of a guest with emulated devices only
> +		 * when TCE list is not in preregistered memory.
> +		 * We do not require memory to be preregistered in this case
> +		 * so lock rmap and do __find_linux_pte_or_hugepte().
> +		 */
> +		if (kvmppc_gpa_to_ua(vcpu->kvm, tce_list, &ua, &rmap))
> +			return H_TOO_HARD;
> +
> +		rmap = (void *) vmalloc_to_phys(rmap);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Synchronize with the MMU notifier callbacks in
> +		 * book3s_64_mmu_hv.c (kvm_unmap_hva_hv etc.).
> +		 * While we have the rmap lock, code running on other CPUs
> +		 * cannot finish unmapping the host real page that backs
> +		 * this guest real page, so we are OK to access the host
> +		 * real page.
> +		 */
> +		lock_rmap(rmap);
> +		if (kvmppc_rm_ua_to_hpa(vcpu, ua, &tces)) {
> +			ret = H_TOO_HARD;
> +			goto unlock_exit;
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < npages; ++i) {
> @@ -293,7 +318,8 @@ long kvmppc_rm_h_put_tce_indirect(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  	}
>  
>  unlock_exit:
> -	unlock_rmap(rmap);
> +	if (rmap)
> +		unlock_rmap(rmap);
>  
>  	return ret;
>  }

-- 
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				| _way_ _around_!
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