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Message-ID: <d7f8bff3-526a-6a84-2e81-677cfbac0111@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 14:28:06 +0200
From: Jürgen Groß <jgross@...e.com>
To: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@...cle.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Cc: peterz@...radead.org, hpa@...or.com, jpoimboe@...hat.com,
namit@...are.com, mhiramat@...nel.org, bp@...en8.de,
vkuznets@...hat.com, pbonzini@...hat.com,
boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, mihai.carabas@...cle.com,
kvm@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/26] Runtime paravirt patching
On 08.04.20 07:02, Ankur Arora wrote:
> A KVM host (or another hypervisor) might advertise paravirtualized
> features and optimization hints (ex KVM_HINTS_REALTIME) which might
> become stale over the lifetime of the guest. For instance, the
Then this hint is wrong if it can't be guaranteed.
> host might go from being undersubscribed to being oversubscribed
> (or the other way round) and it would make sense for the guest
> switch pv-ops based on that.
I think using pvops for such a feature change is just wrong.
What comes next? Using pvops for being able to migrate a guest from an
Intel to an AMD machine?
...
> There are four main sets of patches in this series:
>
> 1. PV-ops management (patches 1-10, 20): mostly infrastructure and
> refactoring pieces to make paravirt patching usable at runtime. For the
> most part scoped under CONFIG_PARAVIRT_RUNTIME.
>
> Patches 1-7, to persist part of parainstructions in memory:
> "x86/paravirt: Specify subsection in PVOP macros"
> "x86/paravirt: Allow paravirt patching post-init"
> "x86/paravirt: PVRTOP macros for PARAVIRT_RUNTIME"
> "x86/alternatives: Refactor alternatives_smp_module*
> "x86/alternatives: Rename alternatives_smp*, smp_alt_module
> "x86/alternatives: Remove stale symbols
> "x86/paravirt: Persist .parainstructions.runtime"
>
> Patches 8-10, develop the inerfaces to safely switch pv-ops:
> "x86/paravirt: Stash native pv-ops"
> "x86/paravirt: Add runtime_patch()"
> "x86/paravirt: Add primitives to stage pv-ops"
>
> Patch 20 enables switching of pv_lock_ops:
> "x86/paravirt: Enable pv-spinlocks in runtime_patch()"
>
> 2. Non-emulated text poking (patches 11-19)
>
> Patches 11-13 are mostly refactoring to split __text_poke() into map,
> unmap and poke/memcpy phases with the poke portion being re-entrant
> "x86/alternatives: Remove return value of text_poke*()"
> "x86/alternatives: Use __get_unlocked_pte() in text_poke()"
> "x86/alternatives: Split __text_poke()"
>
> Patches 15, 17 add the actual poking state-machine:
> "x86/alternatives: Non-emulated text poking"
> "x86/alternatives: Add patching logic in text_poke_site()"
>
> with patches 14 and 18 containing the pieces for BP handling:
> "x86/alternatives: Handle native insns in text_poke_loc*()"
> "x86/alternatives: Handle BP in non-emulated text poking"
>
> and patch 19 provides the ability to use the state-machine above in an
> NMI context (fixes some potential deadlocks when handling inter-
> dependent operations and multiple NMIs):
> "x86/alternatives: NMI safe runtime patching".
>
> Patch 16 provides the interface (paravirt_runtime_patch()) to use the
> poking mechanism developed above and patch 21 adds a selftest:
> "x86/alternatives: Add paravirt patching at runtime"
> "x86/alternatives: Paravirt runtime selftest"
>
> 3. KVM guest changes to be able to use this (patches 22-23,25-26):
> "kvm/paravirt: Encapsulate KVM pv switching logic"
> "x86/kvm: Add worker to trigger runtime patching"
> "x86/kvm: Guest support for dynamic hints"
> "x86/kvm: Add hint change notifier for KVM_HINT_REALTIME".
>
> 4. KVM host changes to notify the guest of a change (patch 24):
> "x86/kvm: Support dynamic CPUID hints"
>
> Testing:
> With paravirt patching, the code is mostly stable on Intel and AMD
> systems under kernbench and locktorture with paravirt toggling (with,
> without synthetic NMIs) in the background.
>
> Queued spinlock performance for locktorture is also on expected lines:
> [ 1533.221563] Writes: Total: 1048759000 Max/Min: 0/0 Fail: 0
> # toggle PV spinlocks
>
> [ 1594.713699] Writes: Total: 1111660545 Max/Min: 0/0 Fail: 0
> # PV spinlocks (in ~60 seconds) = 62,901,545
>
> # toggle native spinlocks
> [ 1656.117175] Writes: Total: 1113888840 Max/Min: 0/0 Fail: 0
> # native spinlocks (in ~60 seconds) = 2,228,295
>
> The alternatives testing is more limited with it being used to rewrite
> mostly harmless X86_FEATUREs with load in the background.
>
> Patches also at:
>
> ssh://git@...hub.com/terminus/linux.git alternatives-rfc-upstream-v1
>
> Please review.
>
> Thanks
> Ankur
>
> [1] The precise change in memory footprint depends on config options
> but the following example inlines queued_spin_unlock() (which forms
> the bulk of the added state). The added footprint is the size of the
> .parainstructions.runtime section:
>
> $ objdump -h vmlinux|grep .parainstructions
> Idx Name Size VMA
> LMA File-off Algn
> 27 .parainstructions 0001013c ffffffff82895000
> 0000000002895000 01c95000 2**3
> 28 .parainstructions.runtime 0000cd2c ffffffff828a5140
> 00000000028a5140 01ca5140 2**3
>
> $ size vmlinux
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 13726196 12302814 14094336 40123346 2643bd2 vmlinux
>
> Ankur Arora (26):
> x86/paravirt: Specify subsection in PVOP macros
> x86/paravirt: Allow paravirt patching post-init
> x86/paravirt: PVRTOP macros for PARAVIRT_RUNTIME
> x86/alternatives: Refactor alternatives_smp_module*
> x86/alternatives: Rename alternatives_smp*, smp_alt_module
> x86/alternatives: Remove stale symbols
> x86/paravirt: Persist .parainstructions.runtime
> x86/paravirt: Stash native pv-ops
> x86/paravirt: Add runtime_patch()
> x86/paravirt: Add primitives to stage pv-ops
> x86/alternatives: Remove return value of text_poke*()
> x86/alternatives: Use __get_unlocked_pte() in text_poke()
> x86/alternatives: Split __text_poke()
> x86/alternatives: Handle native insns in text_poke_loc*()
> x86/alternatives: Non-emulated text poking
> x86/alternatives: Add paravirt patching at runtime
> x86/alternatives: Add patching logic in text_poke_site()
> x86/alternatives: Handle BP in non-emulated text poking
> x86/alternatives: NMI safe runtime patching
> x86/paravirt: Enable pv-spinlocks in runtime_patch()
> x86/alternatives: Paravirt runtime selftest
> kvm/paravirt: Encapsulate KVM pv switching logic
> x86/kvm: Add worker to trigger runtime patching
> x86/kvm: Support dynamic CPUID hints
> x86/kvm: Guest support for dynamic hints
> x86/kvm: Add hint change notifier for KVM_HINT_REALTIME
>
> Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 17 +
> Documentation/virt/kvm/cpuid.rst | 9 +-
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 14 +
> arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 13 +
> arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 5 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h | 20 +-
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 6 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 17 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h | 10 +-
> arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 230 ++++--
> arch/x86/include/asm/text-patching.h | 18 +-
> arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h | 2 +
> arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 987 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
> arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 191 ++++-
> arch/x86/kernel/module.c | 42 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 16 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch.c | 61 ++
> arch/x86/kernel/pv_selftest.c | 264 +++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/pv_selftest.h | 15 +
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 2 +
> arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 16 +
> arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 3 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 39 +
> include/asm-generic/kvm_para.h | 12 +
> include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 8 +
> include/linux/kvm_para.h | 5 +
> include/linux/mm.h | 16 +-
> include/linux/preempt.h | 17 +
> include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 4 +
> kernel/locking/lock_events.c | 2 +-
> mm/memory.c | 9 +-
> 32 files changed, 1850 insertions(+), 221 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/pv_selftest.c
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/pv_selftest.h
>
Quite a lot of code churn and hacks for a problem which should not
occur on a well administrated machine.
Especially the NMI dependencies make me not wanting to Ack this series.
Juergen
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