Re: [PATCH v7 4/9] KVM: Support dirty ring in conjunction with bitmap

[Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 08:36:16AM +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
> ARM64 needs to dirty memory outside of a VCPU context when VGIC/ITS is
> enabled. It's conflicting with that ring-based dirty page tracking always
> requires a running VCPU context.
> 
> Introduce a new flavor of dirty ring that requires the use of both VCPU
> dirty rings and a dirty bitmap. The expectation is that for non-VCPU
> sources of dirty memory (such as the VGIC/ITS on arm64), KVM writes to
> the dirty bitmap. Userspace should scan the dirty bitmap before migrating
> the VM to the target.
> 
> Use an additional capability to advertise this behavior. The newly added
> capability (KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_WITH_BITMAP) can't be enabled before
> KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL on ARM64. In this way, the newly added
> capability is treated as an extension of KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL.

Whatever ordering requirements we settle on between these capabilities
needs to be documented as well.

[...]

> @@ -4588,6 +4594,13 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_enable_cap_generic(struct kvm *kvm,
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  
>  		return kvm_vm_ioctl_enable_dirty_log_ring(kvm, cap->args[0]);
> +	case KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_WITH_BITMAP:
> +		if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING_WITH_BITMAP) ||
> +		    !kvm->dirty_ring_size)

I believe this ordering requirement is problematic, as it piles on top
of an existing problem w.r.t. KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING v. memslot
creation.

Example:
 - Enable KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING
 - Create some memslots w/ dirty logging enabled (note that the bitmap
   is _not_ allocated)
 - Enable KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_WITH_BITMAP
 - Save ITS tables and get a NULL dereference in
   mark_page_dirty_in_slot():

                if (vcpu && kvm->dirty_ring_size)
                        kvm_dirty_ring_push(&vcpu->dirty_ring,
                                            slot, rel_gfn);
                else
------->		set_bit_le(rel_gfn, memslot->dirty_bitmap);

Similarly, KVM may unnecessarily allocate bitmaps if dirty logging is
enabled on memslots before KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING is enabled.

You could paper over this issue by disallowing DIRTY_RING_WITH_BITMAP if
DIRTY_LOG_RING has already been enabled, but the better approach would
be to explicitly check kvm_memslots_empty() such that the real
dependency is obvious. Peter, hadn't you mentioned something about
checking against memslots in an earlier revision?

--
Thanks,
Oliver
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