linux-kernel - RE: [tip:x86/platform] x86/hyper-v: Use hypercall for remote TLB flush

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Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2017 18:59:13 +0000
From:   KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Simon Xiao <sixiao@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Jork Loeser <Jork.Loeser@...rosoft.com>,
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Subject: RE: [tip:x86/platform] x86/hyper-v: Use hypercall for remote TLB
 flush



> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [tip:x86/platform] x86/hyper-v: Use hypercall for remote TLB
> flush
> 
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 11:21:49AM -0700, tip-bot for Vitaly Kuznetsov
> wrote:
> > Commit-ID:  2ffd9e33ce4af4e8cfa3e17bf493defe8474e2eb
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> > Author:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
> > AuthorDate: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 18:09:19 +0200
> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> > CommitDate: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:16:44 +0200
> >
> > x86/hyper-v: Use hypercall for remote TLB flush
> >
> > Hyper-V host can suggest us to use hypercall for doing remote TLB flush,
> > this is supposed to work faster than IPIs.
> >
> > Implementation details: to do HvFlushVirtualAddress{Space,List} hypercalls
> > we need to put the input somewhere in memory and we don't really want
> to
> > have memory allocation on each call so we pre-allocate per cpu memory
> areas
> > on boot.
> >
> > pv_ops patching is happening very early so we need to separate
> > hyperv_setup_mmu_ops() and hyper_alloc_mmu().
> >
> > It is possible and easy to implement local TLB flushing too and there is
> > even a hint for that. However, I don't see a room for optimization on the
> > host side as both hypercall and native tlb flush will result in vmexit. The
> > hint is also not set on modern Hyper-V versions.
> 
> Hold on.. if we don't IPI for TLB invalidation. What serializes our
> software page table walkers like fast_gup() ?

Hypervisor may implement this functionality via an IPI.

K. Y