From: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@google.com>
To: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra Rao Anata <rananta@google.com>,
Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: arm64: Reschedule as needed when destroying the stage-2 page-tables
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:24:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251113052452.975081-4-rananta@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251113052452.975081-1-rananta@google.com>
When a large VM, specifically one that holds a significant number of PTEs,
gets abruptly destroyed, the following warning is seen during the
page-table walk:
sched: CPU 0 need_resched set for > 100018840 ns (100 ticks) without schedule
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9617 Comm: kvm_page_table_ Tainted: G O 6.16.0-smp-DEV #3 NONE
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE
Call trace:
show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0x3c/0xb8
dump_stack+0x18/0x30
resched_latency_warn+0x7c/0x88
sched_tick+0x1c4/0x268
update_process_times+0xa8/0xd8
tick_nohz_handler+0xc8/0x168
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x11c/0x338
hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x308
arch_timer_handler_phys+0x40/0x58
handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x8c/0x1b0
generic_handle_domain_irq+0x48/0x78
gic_handle_irq+0x1b8/0x408
call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x30
do_interrupt_handler+0x54/0x78
el1_interrupt+0x44/0x88
el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x28
el1h_64_irq+0x84/0x88
stage2_free_walker+0x30/0xa0 (P)
__kvm_pgtable_walk+0x11c/0x258
__kvm_pgtable_walk+0x180/0x258
__kvm_pgtable_walk+0x180/0x258
__kvm_pgtable_walk+0x180/0x258
kvm_pgtable_walk+0xc4/0x140
kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy+0x5c/0xf0
kvm_free_stage2_pgd+0x6c/0xe8
kvm_uninit_stage2_mmu+0x24/0x48
kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all+0x80/0xa0
kvm_mmu_notifier_release+0x38/0x78
__mmu_notifier_release+0x15c/0x250
exit_mmap+0x68/0x400
__mmput+0x38/0x1c8
mmput+0x30/0x68
exit_mm+0xd4/0x198
do_exit+0x1a4/0xb00
do_group_exit+0x8c/0x120
get_signal+0x6d4/0x778
do_signal+0x90/0x718
do_notify_resume+0x70/0x170
el0_svc+0x74/0xd8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x60/0xc8
el0t_64_sync+0x1b0/0x1b8
The warning is seen majorly on the host kernels that are configured
not to force-preempt, such as CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y. To avoid this,
instead of walking the entire page-table in one go, split it into
smaller ranges, by checking for cond_resched() between each range.
Since the path is executed during VM destruction, after the
page-table structure is unlinked from the KVM MMU, relying on
cond_resched_rwlock_write() isn't necessary.
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@google.com>
Suggested-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250820162242.2624752-3-rananta@google.com
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index c2bc1eba032cd..f86d17ad50a7f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -904,11 +904,35 @@ static int kvm_init_ipa_range(struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu, unsigned long type)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * Assume that @pgt is valid and unlinked from the KVM MMU to free the
+ * page-table without taking the kvm_mmu_lock and without performing any
+ * TLB invalidations.
+ *
+ * Also, the range of addresses can be large enough to cause need_resched
+ * warnings, for instance on CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE kernels. Hence, invoke
+ * cond_resched() periodically to prevent hogging the CPU for a long time
+ * and schedule something else, if required.
+ */
+static void stage2_destroy_range(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, phys_addr_t addr,
+ phys_addr_t end)
+{
+ u64 next;
+
+ do {
+ next = stage2_range_addr_end(addr, end);
+ KVM_PGT_FN(kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range)(pgt, addr,
+ next - addr);
+ if (next != end)
+ cond_resched();
+ } while (addr = next, addr != end);
+}
+
static void kvm_stage2_destroy(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt)
{
unsigned int ia_bits = VTCR_EL2_IPA(pgt->mmu->vtcr);
- KVM_PGT_FN(kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range)(pgt, 0, BIT(ia_bits));
+ stage2_destroy_range(pgt, 0, BIT(ia_bits));
KVM_PGT_FN(kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_pgd)(pgt);
}
--
2.51.2.1041.gc1ab5b90ca-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-13 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-13 5:24 [PATCH 0/3] KVM: arm64: Reschedule as needed when destroying the stage-2 page-tables Raghavendra Rao Ananta
2025-11-13 5:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: arm64: Only drop references on empty tables in stage2_free_walker Raghavendra Rao Ananta
2025-11-13 5:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: arm64: Split kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy() Raghavendra Rao Ananta
2025-11-13 5:24 ` Raghavendra Rao Ananta [this message]
2025-11-19 22:35 ` [PATCH 0/3] KVM: arm64: Reschedule as needed when destroying the stage-2 page-tables Oliver Upton
2026-01-28 16:47 ` Marc Zyngier
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