[PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: rework secure mem slot dropping

Bharata B Rao bharata at linux.ibm.com
Thu Jul 23 13:36:00 AEST 2020


On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:42:02PM +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.
> 
> 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 5a4b02d3f651..ba5c7c77cc3a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c
> @@ -624,35 +624,55 @@ 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;
> +
> +	mmap_read_lock(kvm->mm);
> +
> +	addr = slot->userspace_addr;

We typically use gfn_to_hva() for that, but that won't work for a
memslot that is already marked INVALID which is the case here.
I think it is ok to access slot->userspace_addr here of an INVALID
memslot, but just thought of explictly bringing this up.

> +	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;
> +			}
> +		}

In Ram's series, kvmppc_memslot_page_merge() also walks the VMAs spanning
the memslot, but it uses a different logic for the same. Why can't these
two cases use the same method to walk the VMAs? Is there anything subtly
different between the two cases?

Regards,
Bharata.


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