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Message-ID: <62b7adca-1cf6-f0d8-ab25-4a112a526754@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 3 Jun 2019 14:45:41 -0400
From:   Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@...hat.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:     kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, lcapitulino@...hat.com,
        pagupta@...hat.com, wei.w.wang@...el.com,
        Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@...il.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, dodgen@...gle.com,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        dhildenb@...hat.com, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [QEMU PATCH] KVM: Support for page hinting


On 6/3/19 2:34 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 10:04 AM Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@...hat.com> wrote:
>> Enables QEMU to call madvise on the pages which are reported
>> by the guest kernel.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@...hat.com>
> What commit-id is this meant to apply on top of? I can't apply this to
> the latest development version of QEMU.
>
>> ---
>>  hw/virtio/trace-events                        |  1 +
>>  hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c                    | 85 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h            |  2 +-
>>  include/qemu/osdep.h                          |  7 ++
>>  .../standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h   |  1 +
>>  5 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/virtio/trace-events b/hw/virtio/trace-events
>> index 07bcbe9e85..015565785c 100644
>> --- a/hw/virtio/trace-events
>> +++ b/hw/virtio/trace-events
>> @@ -46,3 +46,4 @@ virtio_balloon_handle_output(const char *name, uint64_t gpa) "section name: %s g
>>  virtio_balloon_get_config(uint32_t num_pages, uint32_t actual) "num_pages: %d actual: %d"
>>  virtio_balloon_set_config(uint32_t actual, uint32_t oldactual) "actual: %d oldactual: %d"
>>  virtio_balloon_to_target(uint64_t target, uint32_t num_pages) "balloon target: 0x%"PRIx64" num_pages: %d"
>> +virtio_balloon_hinting_request(unsigned long pfn, unsigned int num_pages) "Guest page hinting request: %lu size: %d"
>> diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
>> index a12677d4d5..cbb630279c 100644
>> --- a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
>> +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
>> @@ -33,6 +33,13 @@
>>
>>  #define BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE  (1 << VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT)
>>
>> +struct guest_pages {
>> +       uint64_t phys_addr;
>> +       uint32_t len;
>> +};
>> +
> Any reason for matching up 64b addr w/ 32b size? The way I see it you
> would be be better off going with either 64b for both or 32b for both.
> I opted for the 32b approach in my case since there was already code
> in place for doing the PFN shift anyway in the standard virtio_balloon
> code path.
>
>> +void page_hinting_request(uint64_t addr, uint32_t len);
>> +
>>  static void balloon_page(void *addr, int deflate)
>>  {
>>      if (!qemu_balloon_is_inhibited()) {
>> @@ -207,6 +214,80 @@ static void balloon_stats_set_poll_interval(Object *obj, Visitor *v,
>>      balloon_stats_change_timer(s, 0);
>>  }
>>
>> +static void *gpa2hva(MemoryRegion **p_mr, hwaddr addr, Error **errp)
>> +{
>> +    MemoryRegionSection mrs = memory_region_find(get_system_memory(),
>> +                                                 addr, 1);
>> +
>> +    if (!mrs.mr) {
>> +        error_setg(errp, "No memory is mapped at address 0x%" HWADDR_PRIx, addr);
>> +        return NULL;
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    if (!memory_region_is_ram(mrs.mr) && !memory_region_is_romd(mrs.mr)) {
>> +        error_setg(errp, "Memory at address 0x%" HWADDR_PRIx "is not RAM", addr);
>> +        memory_region_unref(mrs.mr);
>> +        return NULL;
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    *p_mr = mrs.mr;
>> +    return qemu_map_ram_ptr(mrs.mr->ram_block, mrs.offset_within_region);
>> +}
>> +
>> +void page_hinting_request(uint64_t addr, uint32_t len)
>> +{
>> +    Error *local_err = NULL;
>> +    MemoryRegion *mr = NULL;
>> +    int ret = 0;
>> +    struct guest_pages *guest_obj;
>> +    int i = 0;
>> +    void *hvaddr_to_free;
>> +    uint64_t gpaddr_to_free;
>> +    void * temp_addr = gpa2hva(&mr, addr, &local_err);
>> +
>> +    if (local_err) {
>> +        error_report_err(local_err);
>> +        return;
>> +    }
>> +    guest_obj = temp_addr;
>> +    while (i < len) {
>> +       gpaddr_to_free = guest_obj[i].phys_addr;
>> +       trace_virtio_balloon_hinting_request(gpaddr_to_free,guest_obj[i].len);
>> +       hvaddr_to_free = gpa2hva(&mr, gpaddr_to_free, &local_err);
>> +       if (local_err) {
>> +               error_report_err(local_err);
>> +               return;
>> +       }
>> +       ret = qemu_madvise((void *)hvaddr_to_free, guest_obj[i].len, QEMU_MADV_FREE);
>> +       if (ret == -1)
>> +           printf("\n%d:%s Error: Madvise failed with error:%d\n", __LINE__, __func__, ret);
>> +       i++;
>> +    }
>> +}
>> +
> Have we made any determination yet on the MADV_FREE vs MADV_DONT_NEED?
One of the reason was mentioned by Andrea last time.
But I don't have any stats to prove one is better than the other.
It is in my todo list.
> My preference would be to have this code just reuse the existing
> balloon code as I did in my patch set. Then we can avoid the need to
> have multiple types in use. We could just have the balloon use the
> same as the hint.
>
>> +static void virtio_balloon_page_hinting(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
>> +{
>> +    VirtQueueElement *elem = NULL;
>> +    uint64_t temp_addr;
>> +    uint32_t temp_len;
>> +    size_t size, t_size = 0;
>> +
>> +    elem = virtqueue_pop(vq, sizeof(VirtQueueElement));
>> +    if (!elem) {
>> +       printf("\npop error\n");
>> +       return;
>> +    }
>> +    size = iov_to_buf(elem->out_sg, elem->out_num, 0, &temp_addr, sizeof(temp_addr));
>> +    t_size += size;
>> +    size = iov_to_buf(elem->out_sg, elem->out_num, 8, &temp_len, sizeof(temp_len));
>> +    t_size += size;
>> +    if (!qemu_balloon_is_inhibited())
>> +           page_hinting_request(temp_addr, temp_len);
>> +    virtqueue_push(vq, elem, t_size);
>> +    virtio_notify(vdev, vq);
>> +    g_free(elem);
>> +}
>> +
> If you are doing a u64 addr, and a u32 len, does that mean you are
> having to use a packed array between the guest and the host? This
> would be another good reason to have both settle on either u64 or u32.
I will take a look at this, thanks.
>
>>  static void virtio_balloon_handle_output(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
>>  {
>>      VirtIOBalloon *s = VIRTIO_BALLOON(vdev);
>> @@ -376,6 +457,7 @@ static uint64_t virtio_balloon_get_features(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint64_t f,
>>      VirtIOBalloon *dev = VIRTIO_BALLOON(vdev);
>>      f |= dev->host_features;
>>      virtio_add_feature(&f, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ);
>> +    virtio_add_feature(&f, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_HINTING);
>>      return f;
>>  }
>>
>> @@ -445,6 +527,7 @@ static void virtio_balloon_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>>      s->ivq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 128, virtio_balloon_handle_output);
>>      s->dvq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 128, virtio_balloon_handle_output);
>>      s->svq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 128, virtio_balloon_receive_stats);
>> +    s->hvq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 128, virtio_balloon_page_hinting);
>>
>>      reset_stats(s);
>>  }
>> @@ -488,6 +571,8 @@ static void virtio_balloon_instance_init(Object *obj)
>>
>>      object_property_add(obj, "guest-stats", "guest statistics",
>>                          balloon_stats_get_all, NULL, NULL, s, NULL);
>> +    object_property_add(obj, "guest-page-hinting", "guest page hinting",
>> +                        NULL, NULL, NULL, s, NULL);
>>
>>      object_property_add(obj, "guest-stats-polling-interval", "int",
>>                          balloon_stats_get_poll_interval,
>> diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h
>> index e0df3528c8..774498a6ca 100644
>> --- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h
>> +++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.h
>> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ typedef struct virtio_balloon_stat_modern {
>>
>>  typedef struct VirtIOBalloon {
>>      VirtIODevice parent_obj;
>> -    VirtQueue *ivq, *dvq, *svq;
>> +    VirtQueue *ivq, *dvq, *svq, *hvq;
>>      uint32_t num_pages;
>>      uint32_t actual;
>>      uint64_t stats[VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_NR];
>> diff --git a/include/qemu/osdep.h b/include/qemu/osdep.h
>> index 840af09cb0..4d632933a9 100644
>> --- a/include/qemu/osdep.h
>> +++ b/include/qemu/osdep.h
>> @@ -360,6 +360,11 @@ void qemu_anon_ram_free(void *ptr, size_t size);
>>  #else
>>  #define QEMU_MADV_REMOVE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
>>  #endif
>> +#ifdef MADV_FREE
>> +#define QEMU_MADV_FREE MADV_FREE
>> +#else
>> +#define QEMU_MADV_FREE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
>> +#endif
>>
>>  #elif defined(CONFIG_POSIX_MADVISE)
>>
>> @@ -373,6 +378,7 @@ void qemu_anon_ram_free(void *ptr, size_t size);
>>  #define QEMU_MADV_HUGEPAGE  QEMU_MADV_INVALID
>>  #define QEMU_MADV_NOHUGEPAGE  QEMU_MADV_INVALID
>>  #define QEMU_MADV_REMOVE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
>> +#define QEMU_MADV_FREE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
>>
>>  #else /* no-op */
>>
>> @@ -386,6 +392,7 @@ void qemu_anon_ram_free(void *ptr, size_t size);
>>  #define QEMU_MADV_HUGEPAGE  QEMU_MADV_INVALID
>>  #define QEMU_MADV_NOHUGEPAGE  QEMU_MADV_INVALID
>>  #define QEMU_MADV_REMOVE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
>> +#define QEMU_MADV_FREE QEMU_MADV_INVALID
>>
>>  #endif
>>
>> diff --git a/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h b/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h
>> index 4dbb7dc6c0..f50c0d95ea 100644
>> --- a/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h
>> +++ b/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_balloon.h
>> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
>>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST        0 /* Tell before reclaiming pages */
>>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_STATS_VQ      1 /* Memory Stats virtqueue */
>>  #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM        2 /* Deflate balloon on OOM */
>> +#define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_HINTING       5 /* Page hinting virtqueue */
> So this is obviously built against an old version of QEMU, the latest
> values for this include:
> #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT 3 /* VQ to report free pages */
> #define VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON    4 /* Guest is using page poisoning */
>
> I wonder if we shouldn't look for a term other than "HINT" 
We may have to come up with a different/better naming convention to
avoid any confusion.
> since there
> is already the code around providing hints to migration.
I will re-base to the top next time around.
-- 
Regards
Nitesh



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