KVM: x86/mmu: Reintroduce fast invalidate/zap for flushing memslot

James Harvey reported a livelock that was introduced by commit
d012a06ab1 ("Revert "KVM: x86/mmu: Zap only the relevant pages when
removing a memslot"").

The livelock occurs because kvm_mmu_zap_all() as it exists today will
voluntarily reschedule and drop KVM's mmu_lock, which allows other vCPUs
to add shadow pages.  With enough vCPUs, kvm_mmu_zap_all() can get stuck
in an infinite loop as it can never zap all pages before observing lock
contention or the need to reschedule.  The equivalent of kvm_mmu_zap_all()
that was in use at the time of the reverted commit (4e103134b8, "KVM:
x86/mmu: Zap only the relevant pages when removing a memslot") employed
a fast invalidate mechanism and was not susceptible to the above livelock.

There are three ways to fix the livelock:

- Reverting the revert (commit d012a06ab1) is not a viable option as
  the revert is needed to fix a regression that occurs when the guest has
  one or more assigned devices.  It's unlikely we'll root cause the device
  assignment regression soon enough to fix the regression timely.

- Remove the conditional reschedule from kvm_mmu_zap_all().  However, although
  removing the reschedule would be a smaller code change, it's less safe
  in the sense that the resulting kvm_mmu_zap_all() hasn't been used in
  the wild for flushing memslots since the fast invalidate mechanism was
  introduced by commit 6ca18b6950 ("KVM: x86: use the fast way to
  invalidate all pages"), back in 2013.

- Reintroduce the fast invalidate mechanism and use it when zapping shadow
  pages in response to a memslot being deleted/moved, which is what this
  patch does.

For all intents and purposes, this is a revert of commit ea145aacf4
("Revert "KVM: MMU: fast invalidate all pages"") and a partial revert of
commit 7390de1e99 ("Revert "KVM: x86: use the fast way to invalidate
all pages""), i.e. restores the behavior of commit 5304b8d37c ("KVM:
MMU: fast invalidate all pages") and commit 6ca18b6950 ("KVM: x86:
use the fast way to invalidate all pages") respectively.

Fixes: d012a06ab1 ("Revert "KVM: x86/mmu: Zap only the relevant pages when removing a memslot"")
Reported-by: James Harvey <jamespharvey20@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Willamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Sean Christopherson
2019-09-12 19:46:02 -07:00
committed by Paolo Bonzini
parent 541ab2aeb2
commit 002c5f73c5
2 changed files with 101 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -335,6 +335,7 @@ struct kvm_mmu_page {
int root_count; /* Currently serving as active root */
unsigned int unsync_children;
struct kvm_rmap_head parent_ptes; /* rmap pointers to parent sptes */
unsigned long mmu_valid_gen;
DECLARE_BITMAP(unsync_child_bitmap, 512);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
@@ -856,6 +857,7 @@ struct kvm_arch {
unsigned long n_requested_mmu_pages;
unsigned long n_max_mmu_pages;
unsigned int indirect_shadow_pages;
unsigned long mmu_valid_gen;
struct hlist_head mmu_page_hash[KVM_NUM_MMU_PAGES];
/*
* Hash table of struct kvm_mmu_page.