linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 04/14] KVM: s390: pv: avoid stalls when making pages secure

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Date:   Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:24:52 +0200
From:   Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     cohuck@...hat.com, borntraeger@...ibm.com, frankja@...ux.ibm.com,
        thuth@...hat.com, pasic@...ux.ibm.com, david@...hat.com,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ulrich.Weigand@...ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH v5 04/14] KVM: s390: pv: avoid stalls when making pages secure

Improve make_secure_pte to avoid stalls when the system is heavily
overcommitted. This was especially problematic in kvm_s390_pv_unpack,
because of the loop over all pages that needed unpacking.

Due to the locks being held, it was not possible to simply replace
uv_call with uv_call_sched. A more complex approach was
needed, in which uv_call is replaced with __uv_call, which does not
loop. When the UVC needs to be executed again, -EAGAIN is returned, and
the caller (or its caller) will try again.

When -EAGAIN is returned, the path is the same as when the page is in
writeback (and the writeback check is also performed, which is
harmless).

Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 214d9bbcd3a672 ("s390/mm: provide memory management functions for protected KVM guests")
---
 arch/s390/kernel/uv.c     | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
 arch/s390/kvm/intercept.c |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/uv.c b/arch/s390/kernel/uv.c
index aeb0a15bcbb7..68a8fbafcb9c 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/uv.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/uv.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static int make_secure_pte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr,
 {
 	pte_t entry = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
 	struct page *page;
-	int expected, rc = 0;
+	int expected, cc = 0;
 
 	if (!pte_present(entry))
 		return -ENXIO;
@@ -196,12 +196,25 @@ static int make_secure_pte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr,
 	if (!page_ref_freeze(page, expected))
 		return -EBUSY;
 	set_bit(PG_arch_1, &page->flags);
-	rc = uv_call(0, (u64)uvcb);
+	/*
+	 * If the UVC does not succeed or fail immediately, we don't want to
+	 * loop for long, or we might get stall notifications.
+	 * On the other hand, this is a complex scenario and we are holding a lot of
+	 * locks, so we can't easily sleep and reschedule. We try only once,
+	 * and if the UVC returned busy or partial completion, we return
+	 * -EAGAIN and we let the callers deal with it.
+	 */
+	cc = __uv_call(0, (u64)uvcb);
 	page_ref_unfreeze(page, expected);
-	/* Return -ENXIO if the page was not mapped, -EINVAL otherwise */
-	if (rc)
-		rc = uvcb->rc == 0x10a ? -ENXIO : -EINVAL;
-	return rc;
+	/*
+	 * Return -ENXIO if the page was not mapped, -EINVAL for other errors.
+	 * If busy or partially completed, return -EAGAIN.
+	 */
+	if (cc == UVC_CC_OK)
+		return 0;
+	else if (cc == UVC_CC_BUSY || cc == UVC_CC_PARTIAL)
+		return -EAGAIN;
+	return uvcb->rc == 0x10a ? -ENXIO : -EINVAL;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -254,6 +267,10 @@ int gmap_make_secure(struct gmap *gmap, unsigned long gaddr, void *uvcb)
 	mmap_read_unlock(gmap->mm);
 
 	if (rc == -EAGAIN) {
+		/*
+		 * If we are here because the UVC returned busy or partial
+		 * completion, this is just a useless check, but it is safe.
+		 */
 		wait_on_page_writeback(page);
 	} else if (rc == -EBUSY) {
 		/*
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/intercept.c b/arch/s390/kvm/intercept.c
index 72b25b7cc6ae..47833ade4da5 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/intercept.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/intercept.c
@@ -516,6 +516,11 @@ static int handle_pv_uvc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	 */
 	if (rc == -EINVAL)
 		return 0;
+	/*
+	 * If we got -EAGAIN here, we simply return it. It will eventually
+	 * get propagated all the way to userspace, which should then try
+	 * again.
+	 */
 	return rc;
 }
 
-- 
2.31.1