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Date:	Wed, 6 Jul 2011 15:08:59 -0300
From:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
To:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 16/19] KVM: MMU: lockless walking shadow page table

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:26:31PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Use rcu to protect shadow pages table to be freed, so we can safely walk it,
> it should run fastly and is needed by mmio page fault
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |    8 +++
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c              |  132 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 42e577d..87a868e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -233,6 +233,12 @@ struct kvm_mmu_page {
>  	unsigned int unsync_children;
>  	unsigned long parent_ptes;	/* Reverse mapping for parent_pte */
>  	DECLARE_BITMAP(unsync_child_bitmap, 512);
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> +	int clear_spte_count;
> +#endif
> +
> +	struct rcu_head rcu;
>  };
>  
>  struct kvm_pv_mmu_op_buffer {
> @@ -477,6 +483,8 @@ struct kvm_arch {
>  	u64 hv_guest_os_id;
>  	u64 hv_hypercall;
>  
> +	atomic_t reader_counter;
> +
>  	#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_MMU_AUDIT
>  	int audit_point;
>  	#endif
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 06c3a4a..cf02f0e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -182,6 +182,12 @@ struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator {
>  	     shadow_walk_okay(&(_walker));			\
>  	     shadow_walk_next(&(_walker)))
>  
> +#define for_each_shadow_entry_lockless(_vcpu, _addr, _walker, spte)	\
> +	for (shadow_walk_init(&(_walker), _vcpu, _addr);		\
> +	     shadow_walk_okay(&(_walker)) &&				\
> +		({ spte = mmu_spte_get_lockless(_walker.sptep); 1; });	\
> +	     __shadow_walk_next(&(_walker), spte))
> +
>  static struct kmem_cache *pte_list_desc_cache;
>  static struct kmem_cache *mmu_page_header_cache;
>  static struct percpu_counter kvm_total_used_mmu_pages;
> @@ -274,6 +280,11 @@ static u64 __update_clear_spte_slow(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
>  {
>  	return xchg(sptep, spte);
>  }
> +
> +static u64 __get_spte_lockless(u64 *sptep)
> +{
> +	return ACCESS_ONCE(*sptep);
> +}
>  #else
>  union split_spte {
>  	struct {
> @@ -283,6 +294,18 @@ union split_spte {
>  	u64 spte;
>  };
>  
> +static void count_spte_clear(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
> +{
> +	struct kvm_mmu_page *sp =  page_header(__pa(sptep));
> +
> +	if (is_shadow_present_pte(spte))
> +		return;
> +
> +	/* Ensure the spte is completely set before we increase the count */
> +	smp_wmb();
> +	sp->clear_spte_count++;
> +}
> +
>  static void __set_spte(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
>  {
>  	union split_spte *ssptep, sspte;
> @@ -318,6 +341,7 @@ static void __update_clear_spte_fast(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
>  	smp_wmb();
>  
>  	ssptep->spte_high = sspte.spte_high;
> +	count_spte_clear(sptep, spte);
>  }
>  
>  static u64 __update_clear_spte_slow(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
> @@ -330,9 +354,40 @@ static u64 __update_clear_spte_slow(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
>  	/* xchg acts as a barrier before the setting of the high bits */
>  	orig.spte_low = xchg(&ssptep->spte_low, sspte.spte_low);
>  	orig.spte_high = ssptep->spte_high = sspte.spte_high;
> +	count_spte_clear(sptep, spte);
>  
>  	return orig.spte;
>  }
> +
> +/*
> + * The idea using the light way get the spte on x86_32 guest is from
> + * gup_get_pte(arch/x86/mm/gup.c).
> + * The difference is we can not catch the spte tlb flush if we leave
> + * guest mode, so we emulate it by increase clear_spte_count when spte
> + * is cleared.
> + */
> +static u64 __get_spte_lockless(u64 *sptep)
> +{
> +	struct kvm_mmu_page *sp =  page_header(__pa(sptep));
> +	union split_spte spte, *orig = (union split_spte *)sptep;
> +	int count;
> +
> +retry:
> +	count = sp->clear_spte_count;
> +	smp_rmb();
> +
> +	spte.spte_low = orig->spte_low;
> +	smp_rmb();
> +
> +	spte.spte_high = orig->spte_high;
> +	smp_rmb();
> +
> +	if (unlikely(spte.spte_low != orig->spte_low ||
> +	      count != sp->clear_spte_count))
> +		goto retry;
> +
> +	return spte.spte;
> +}
>  #endif
>  
>  static bool spte_is_bit_cleared(u64 old_spte, u64 new_spte, u64 bit_mask)
> @@ -438,6 +493,28 @@ static void mmu_spte_clear_no_track(u64 *sptep)
>  	__update_clear_spte_fast(sptep, 0ull);
>  }
>  
> +static u64 mmu_spte_get_lockless(u64 *sptep)
> +{
> +	return __get_spte_lockless(sptep);
> +}
> +
> +static void walk_shadow_page_lockless_begin(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	atomic_inc(&vcpu->kvm->arch.reader_counter);
> +
> +	/* Increase the counter before walking shadow page table */
> +	smp_mb__after_atomic_inc();
> +}
> +
> +static void walk_shadow_page_lockless_end(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> +	/* Decrease the counter after walking shadow page table finished */
> +	smp_mb__before_atomic_dec();
> +	atomic_dec(&vcpu->kvm->arch.reader_counter);
> +	rcu_read_unlock();
> +}
> +
>  static int mmu_topup_memory_cache(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache,
>  				  struct kmem_cache *base_cache, int min)
>  {
> @@ -1600,17 +1677,23 @@ static bool shadow_walk_okay(struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator *iterator)
>  	return true;
>  }
>  
> -static void shadow_walk_next(struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator *iterator)
> +static void __shadow_walk_next(struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator *iterator,
> +			       u64 spte)
>  {
> -	if (is_last_spte(*iterator->sptep, iterator->level)) {
> +	if (is_last_spte(spte, iterator->level)) {
>  		iterator->level = 0;
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	iterator->shadow_addr = *iterator->sptep & PT64_BASE_ADDR_MASK;
> +	iterator->shadow_addr = spte & PT64_BASE_ADDR_MASK;
>  	--iterator->level;
>  }
>  
> +static void shadow_walk_next(struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator *iterator)
> +{
> +	return __shadow_walk_next(iterator, *iterator->sptep);
> +}
> +
>  static void link_shadow_page(u64 *sptep, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
>  {
>  	u64 spte;
> @@ -1757,6 +1840,30 @@ static int kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp,
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +static void kvm_mmu_isolate_pages(struct list_head *invalid_list)
> +{
> +	struct kvm_mmu_page *sp;
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry(sp, invalid_list, link)
> +		kvm_mmu_isolate_page(sp);
> +}
> +
> +static void free_pages_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
> +{
> +	struct kvm_mmu_page *next, *sp;
> +
> +	sp = container_of(head, struct kvm_mmu_page, rcu);
> +	while (sp) {
> +		if (!list_empty(&sp->link))
> +			next = list_first_entry(&sp->link,
> +				      struct kvm_mmu_page, link);
> +		else
> +			next = NULL;
> +		kvm_mmu_free_page(sp);
> +		sp = next;
> +	}
> +}

There is no need for this while loop.

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