[PATCH 2/2] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: rework secure mem slot dropping

[Laurent Dufour]

Le 08/07/2020 à 13:25, Bharata B Rao a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 05:59:14PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>> When a secure memslot is dropped, all the pages backed in the secure device
>> (aka really backed by secure memory by the Ultravisor) should be paged out
>> to a normal page. Previously, this was achieved by triggering the page
>> fault mechanism which is calling kvmppc_svm_page_out() on each pages.
>>
>> This can't work when hot unplugging a memory slot because the memory slot
>> is flagged as invalid and gfn_to_pfn() is then not trying to access the
>> page, so the page fault mechanism is not triggered.
>>
>> Since the final goal is to make a call to kvmppc_svm_page_out() it seems
>> simpler to directly calling it instead of triggering such a mechanism. This
>> way kvmppc_uvmem_drop_pages() can be called even when hot unplugging a
>> memslot.
> 
> Yes, this appears much simpler.

Thanks Bharata for reviewing this.

> 
>>
>> Since kvmppc_uvmem_drop_pages() is already holding kvm->arch.uvmem_lock,
>> the call to __kvmppc_svm_page_out() is made.
>> As __kvmppc_svm_page_out needs the vma pointer to migrate the pages, the
>> VMA is fetched in a lazy way, to not trigger find_vma() all the time. In
>> addition, the mmap_sem is help in read mode during that time, not in write
>> mode since the virual memory layout is not impacted, and
>> kvm->arch.uvmem_lock prevents concurrent operation on the secure device.
>>
>> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata at linux.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
>>   1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
>> index 852cc9ae6a0b..479ddf16d18c 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
>> @@ -533,35 +533,55 @@ static inline int kvmppc_svm_page_out(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>>    * fault on them, do fault time migration to replace the device PTEs in
>>    * QEMU page table with normal PTEs from newly allocated pages.
>>    */
>> -void kvmppc_uvmem_drop_pages(const struct kvm_memory_slot *free,
>> +void kvmppc_uvmem_drop_pages(const struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
>>   			     struct kvm *kvm, bool skip_page_out)
>>   {
>>   	int i;
>>   	struct kvmppc_uvmem_page_pvt *pvt;
>> -	unsigned long pfn, uvmem_pfn;
>> -	unsigned long gfn = free->base_gfn;
>> +	struct page *uvmem_page;
>> +	struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL;
>> +	unsigned long uvmem_pfn, gfn;
>> +	unsigned long addr, end;
>> +
>> +	down_read(&kvm->mm->mmap_sem);
> 
> You should be using mmap_read_lock(kvm->mm) with recent kernels.

Absolutely, shame on me, I reviewed Michel's series about that!

Paul, Michael, could you fix that when pulling this patch or should I sent a 
whole new series?

> 
>> +
>> +	addr = slot->userspace_addr;
>> +	end = addr + (slot->npages * PAGE_SIZE);
>>   
>> -	for (i = free->npages; i; --i, ++gfn) {
>> -		struct page *uvmem_page;
>> +	gfn = slot->base_gfn;
>> +	for (i = slot->npages; i; --i, ++gfn, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
>> +
>> +		/* Fetch the VMA if addr is not in the latest fetched one */
>> +		if (!vma || (addr < vma->vm_start || addr >= vma->vm_end)) {
>> +			vma = find_vma_intersection(kvm->mm, addr, end);
>> +			if (!vma ||
>> +			    vma->vm_start > addr || vma->vm_end < end) {
>> +				pr_err("Can't find VMA for gfn:0x%lx\n", gfn);
>> +				break;
>> +			}
>> +		}
> 
> The first find_vma_intersection() was called for the range spanning the
> entire memslot, but you have code to check if vma remains valid for the
> new addr in each iteration. Guess you wanted to get vma for one page at
> a time and use it for subsequent pages until it covers the range?

That's the goal, fetch the VMA once and no more until we reach its end boundary.