linux-kernel - Re: Temporary KVM guest hangs connected to KSM and NUMA balancer

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:08:08 +0100
From: Friedrich Weber <f.weber@...xmox.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: Temporary KVM guest hangs connected to KSM and NUMA balancer

On 11/01/2024 17:00, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> This is a known issue.  It's mostly a KVM bug[1][2] (fix posted[3]), but I suspect
> that a bug in the dynamic preemption model logic[4] is also contributing to the
> behavior by causing KVM to yield on preempt models where it really shouldn't.

Thanks a lot for the pointers and the proposed fixes!

I still see the same temporary hangs with [3] applied on top of 6.7
(0dd3ee31). However, with [4] applied in addition, I have not seen any
temporary hangs yet.

As the v1 of [3] was reported to fix the reported bug [2] and looks very
similar to the v2 I tried, I wonder whether I might be seeing a slightly
different kind of hangs than the one reported in [2] -- also because the
reproducer relies heavily on KSM and AFAICT, KSM was entirely disabled
in [2]. I'll try to run a few more tests next week.

FWIW, the kernel config relevant to preemption:

CONFIG_PREEMPT_BUILD=y
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set
CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
# CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set
CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y
CONFIG_PREEMPTION=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y
CONFIG_HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y
CONFIG_HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS=y
CONFIG_DRM_I915_PREEMPT_TIMEOUT=640
CONFIG_DRM_I915_PREEMPT_TIMEOUT_COMPUTE=7500
# CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is not set
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER is not set
# CONFIG_PREEMPTIRQ_DELAY_TEST is not set

Thanks again!

Friedrich

> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZNnPF4W26ZbAyGto@yzhao56-desk.sh.intel.com
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/bug-218259-28872@https.bugzilla.kernel.org%2F
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240110012045.505046-1-seanjc@google.com
> [4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240110214723.695930-1-seanjc@google.com