History log of /linux-master/virt/kvm/dirty_ring.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# eed52e43 27-Oct-2023 Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

KVM: Allow arch code to track number of memslot address spaces per VM

Let x86 track the number of address spaces on a per-VM basis so that KVM
can disallow SMM memslots for confidential VMs. Confidentials VMs are
fundamentally incompatible with emulating SMM, which as the name suggests
requires being able to read and write guest memory and register state.

Disallowing SMM will simplify support for guest private memory, as KVM
will not need to worry about tracking memory attributes for multiple
address spaces (SMM is the only "non-default" address space across all
architectures).

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Tested-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Message-Id: <20231027182217.3615211-23-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 86bdf3eb 10-Nov-2022 Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>

KVM: Support dirty ring in conjunction with bitmap

ARM64 needs to dirty memory outside of a VCPU context when VGIC/ITS is
enabled. It's conflicting with that ring-based dirty page tracking always
requires a running VCPU context.

Introduce a new flavor of dirty ring that requires the use of both VCPU
dirty rings and a dirty bitmap. The expectation is that for non-VCPU
sources of dirty memory (such as the VGIC/ITS on arm64), KVM writes to
the dirty bitmap. Userspace should scan the dirty bitmap before migrating
the VM to the target.

Use an additional capability to advertise this behavior. The newly added
capability (KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_WITH_BITMAP) can't be enabled before
KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL on ARM64. In this way, the newly added
capability is treated as an extension of KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL.

Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221110104914.31280-4-gshan@redhat.com


# cf87ac73 10-Nov-2022 Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>

KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_REQ_DIRTY_RING_SOFT_FULL

The VCPU isn't expected to be runnable when the dirty ring becomes soft
full, until the dirty pages are harvested and the dirty ring is reset
from userspace. So there is a check in each guest's entrace to see if
the dirty ring is soft full or not. The VCPU is stopped from running if
its dirty ring has been soft full. The similar check will be needed when
the feature is going to be supported on ARM64. As Marc Zyngier suggested,
a new event will avoid pointless overhead to check the size of the dirty
ring ('vcpu->kvm->dirty_ring_size') in each guest's entrance.

Add KVM_REQ_DIRTY_RING_SOFT_FULL. The event is raised when the dirty ring
becomes soft full in kvm_dirty_ring_push(). The event is only cleared in
the check, done in the newly added helper kvm_dirty_ring_check_request().
Since the VCPU is not runnable when the dirty ring becomes soft full, the
KVM_REQ_DIRTY_RING_SOFT_FULL event is always set to prevent the VCPU from
running until the dirty pages are harvested and the dirty ring is reset by
userspace.

kvm_dirty_ring_soft_full() becomes a private function with the newly added
helper kvm_dirty_ring_check_request(). The alignment for the various event
definitions in kvm_host.h is changed to tab character by the way. In order
to avoid using 'container_of()', the argument @ring is replaced by @vcpu
in kvm_dirty_ring_push().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvmarm/87lerkwtm5.wl-maz@kernel.org
Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221110104914.31280-2-gshan@redhat.com


# 8929bc96 26-Sep-2022 Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

KVM: Use acquire/release semantics when accessing dirty ring GFN state

The current implementation of the dirty ring has an implicit requirement
that stores to the dirty ring from userspace must be:

- be ordered with one another

- visible from another CPU executing a ring reset

While these implicit requirements work well for x86 (and any other
TSO-like architecture), they do not work for more relaxed architectures
such as arm64 where stores to different addresses can be freely
reordered, and loads from these addresses not observing writes from
another CPU unless the required barriers (or acquire/release semantics)
are used.

In order to start fixing this, upgrade the ring reset accesses:

- the kvm_dirty_gfn_harvested() helper now uses acquire semantics
so it is ordered after all previous writes, including that from
userspace

- the kvm_dirty_gfn_set_invalid() helper now uses release semantics
so that the next_slot and next_offset reads don't drift past
the entry invalidation

This is only a partial fix as the userspace side also need upgrading.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926145120.27974-2-maz@kernel.org


# a413a625 10-Apr-2022 Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>

KVM: SPDX style and spelling fixes

SPDX comments use use /* */ style comments in headers anad
// style comments in .c files. Also fix two spelling mistakes.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220410153840.55506-1-trix@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 982ed0de 10-Dec-2021 David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

KVM: Reinstate gfn_to_pfn_cache with invalidation support

This can be used in two modes. There is an atomic mode where the cached
mapping is accessed while holding the rwlock, and a mode where the
physical address is used by a vCPU in guest mode.

For the latter case, an invalidation will wake the vCPU with the new
KVM_REQ_GPC_INVALIDATE, and the architecture will need to refresh any
caches it still needs to access before entering guest mode again.

Only one vCPU can be targeted by the wake requests; it's simple enough
to make it wake all vCPUs or even a mask but I don't see a use case for
that additional complexity right now.

Invalidation happens from the invalidate_range_start MMU notifier, which
needs to be able to sleep in order to wake the vCPU and wait for it.

This means that revalidation potentially needs to "wait" for the MMU
operation to complete and the invalidate_range_end notifier to be
invoked. Like the vCPU when it takes a page fault in that period, we
just spin — fixing that in a future patch by implementing an actual
*wait* may be another part of shaving this particularly hirsute yak.

As noted in the comments in the function itself, the only case where
the invalidate_range_start notifier is expected to be called *without*
being able to sleep is when the OOM reaper is killing the process. In
that case, we expect the vCPU threads already to have exited, and thus
there will be nothing to wake, and no reason to wait. So we clear the
KVM_REQUEST_WAIT bit and send the request anyway, then complain loudly
if there actually *was* anything to wake up.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <20211210163625.2886-3-dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 2efd61a6 10-Dec-2021 David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

KVM: Warn if mark_page_dirty() is called without an active vCPU

The various kvm_write_guest() and mark_page_dirty() functions must only
ever be called in the context of an active vCPU, because if dirty ring
tracking is enabled it may simply oops when kvm_get_running_vcpu()
returns NULL for the vcpu and then kvm_dirty_ring_get() dereferences it.

This oops was reported by "butt3rflyh4ck" <butterflyhuangxx@gmail.com> in
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/CAFcO6XOmoS7EacN_n6v4Txk7xL7iqRa2gABg3F7E3Naf5uG94g@mail.gmail.com/

That actual bug will be fixed under separate cover but this warning
should help to prevent new ones from being added.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <20211210163625.2886-2-dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 109bbba5 01-Sep-2021 Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

KVM: Drop unused kvm_dirty_gfn_invalid()

Drop the unused function as reported by test bot.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210901230904.15164-1-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 531810ca 02-Feb-2021 Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>

KVM: x86/mmu: Use an rwlock for the x86 MMU

Add a read / write lock to be used in place of the MMU spinlock on x86.
The rwlock will enable the TDP MMU to handle page faults, and other
operations in parallel in future commits.

Reviewed-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>

Message-Id: <20210202185734.1680553-19-bgardon@google.com>
[Introduce virt/kvm/mmu_lock.h - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# c910662c 24-Jan-2021 Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>

KVM: X86: use vzalloc() instead of vmalloc/memset

fixed the following warning:
/virt/kvm/dirty_ring.c:70:20-27: WARNING: vzalloc should be used for
ring -> dirty_gfns, instead of vmalloc/memset.

Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
Message-Id: <1611547045-13669-1-git-send-email-tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# fb04a1ed 30-Sep-2020 Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

KVM: X86: Implement ring-based dirty memory tracking

This patch is heavily based on previous work from Lei Cao
<lei.cao@stratus.com> and Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>. [1]

KVM currently uses large bitmaps to track dirty memory. These bitmaps
are copied to userspace when userspace queries KVM for its dirty page
information. The use of bitmaps is mostly sufficient for live
migration, as large parts of memory are be dirtied from one log-dirty
pass to another. However, in a checkpointing system, the number of
dirty pages is small and in fact it is often bounded---the VM is
paused when it has dirtied a pre-defined number of pages. Traversing a
large, sparsely populated bitmap to find set bits is time-consuming,
as is copying the bitmap to user-space.

A similar issue will be there for live migration when the guest memory
is huge while the page dirty procedure is trivial. In that case for
each dirty sync we need to pull the whole dirty bitmap to userspace
and analyse every bit even if it's mostly zeros.

The preferred data structure for above scenarios is a dense list of
guest frame numbers (GFN). This patch series stores the dirty list in
kernel memory that can be memory mapped into userspace to allow speedy
harvesting.

This patch enables dirty ring for X86 only. However it should be
easily extended to other archs as well.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10471409/

Signed-off-by: Lei Cao <lei.cao@stratus.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201001012222.5767-1-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>