linux-kernel - [PATCH 17/18] KVM: x86/mmu: Allow yielding during MMU notifier unmap/zap, if possible

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Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:19:56 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.qemu.devel@...il.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 17/18] KVM: x86/mmu: Allow yielding during MMU notifier
 unmap/zap, if possible

Let the TDP MMU yield when unmapping a range in response to a MMU
notification, if yielding is allowed by said notification.  There is no
reason to disallow yielding in this case, and in theory the range being
invalidated could be quite large.

Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
index f6a82230baa5..21bb8b68a553 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ bool kvm_tdp_mmu_unmap_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_gfn_range *range,
 
 	for_each_tdp_mmu_root(kvm, root, range->slot->as_id)
 		flush |= zap_gfn_range(kvm, root, range->start, range->end,
-				       false, flush);
+				       range->may_block, flush);
 
 	return flush;
 }
@@ -903,6 +903,10 @@ static __always_inline bool kvm_tdp_mmu_handle_gfn(struct kvm *kvm,
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 
+	/*
+	 * Don't support rescheduling, none of the MMU notifiers that funnel
+	 * into this helper allow blocking; it'd be dead, wasteful code.
+	 */
 	for_each_tdp_mmu_root(kvm, root, range->slot->as_id) {
 		tdp_root_for_each_leaf_pte(iter, root, range->start, range->end)
 			ret |= handler(kvm, &iter, range);
-- 
2.31.0.291.g576ba9dcdaf-goog