Re: Nested VMX - L1 hangs on running L2

Jan Kiszka
2011-07-20T07:58:53Z

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On 2011-07-18 20:26, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 02:40:53PM -0400, Bandan Das wrote:
>> I have already discussed this a bit with Nadav but hoping someone
>> else has any other ideas/clues/suggestions/comments. With recent versions of the
>> kernel (The last I tried is 3.0-rc5 with nVMX patches already merged), my L1 guest
>> always hangs when I start L2.
>>
>> My setup : The host, L1 and L2 all are FC15 with the host running 3.0-rc5. When L1 is up
>> and running, I start L2 from L1. Within a minute or two, both L1 and L2 hang. Although, if
>> if I run tracing on the host, I see :
>>
>> ...
>> qemu-kvm-19756 [013] 153774.856178: kvm_exit: reason APIC_ACCESS rip 0xffffffff81025098 info 1380 0
>> qemu-kvm-19756 [013] 153774.856189: kvm_exit: reason VMREAD rip 0xffffffffa00d5127 info 0 0
>> qemu-kvm-19756 [013] 153774.856191: kvm_exit: reason VMREAD rip 0xffffffffa00d5127 info 0 0
>> ...
>>
>> My point being that I only see kvm_exit messages but no kvm_entry. Does this mean that the VCPUs
>> are somehow stuck in L2 ?
>>
>> Anyway, since this setup was running fine for me on older kernels, and I couldn't
>> identify any significant changes in nVMX, I sifted through the other KVM changes and found this :
>>
>> --
>> commit 1aa8ceef0312a6aae7dd863a120a55f1637b361d
>> Author: Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz>
>> Date: Wed Mar 9 23:36:51 2011 +0100
>>
>> KVM: fix kvmclock regression due to missing clock update
>>
>> commit 387b9f97750444728962b236987fbe8ee8cc4f8c moved kvm_request_guest_time_update(vcpu),
>> breaking 32bit SMP guests using kvm-clock. Fix this by moving (new) clock update function
>> to proper place.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz>
>> Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
>>
>> index 01f08a6..f1e4025 100644 (file)
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>> @@ -2127,8 +2127,8 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
>> if (check_tsc_unstable()) {
>> kvm_x86_ops->adjust_tsc_offset(vcpu, -tsc_delta);
>> vcpu->arch.tsc_catchup = 1;
>> - kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_CLOCK_UPDATE, vcpu);
>> }
>> + kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_CLOCK_UPDATE, vcpu);
>> if (vcpu->cpu != cpu)
>> kvm_migrate_timers(vcpu);
>> vcpu->cpu = cpu;
>> --
>>
>> If I revert this change, my L1/L2 guests run fine. This ofcourse, just hides the bug
>> because on my machine, check_tsc_unstable() returns false.
>>
>> I found out from Nadav that when KVM decides to run L2, it will write
>> vmcs01->tsc_offset + vmcs12->tsc_offset to the active TSC_OFFSET which seems right.
>> But I verified that, if instead, I just write
>> vmcs01->tsc_offset to TSC_OFFSET in prepare_vmcs02(), I don't see the bug anymore.
>>
>> Not sure where to go from here. I would appreciate if any one has any ideas.
>>
>>
>> Bandan
>
> Using guests TSC value when performing TSC adjustments is wrong. Can
> you please try the following patch, which skips TSC adjustments if
> vcpu is in guest mode.
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 2b76ae3..44c90d1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -1096,6 +1096,9 @@ static int kvm_guest_time_update(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
> s64 kernel_ns, max_kernel_ns;
> u64 tsc_timestamp;
>
> + if (is_guest_mode(v))
> + return 0;
> +
> /* Keep irq disabled to prevent changes to the clock */
> local_irq_save(flags);
> kvm_get_msr(v, MSR_IA32_TSC, &tsc_timestamp);
> @@ -2214,6 +2217,9 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
> tsc_delta = !vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc ? 0 :
> tsc - vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc;
>
> + if (is_guest_mode(vcpu))
> + tsc_delta = 0;
> +
> if (tsc_delta < 0)
> mark_tsc_unstable("KVM discovered backwards TSC");
> if (check_tsc_unstable()) {
> @@ -2234,7 +2240,8 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> kvm_x86_ops->vcpu_put(vcpu);
> kvm_put_guest_fpu(vcpu);
> - kvm_get_msr(vcpu, MSR_IA32_TSC, &vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc);
> + if (!is_guest_mode(vcpu))
> + kvm_get_msr(vcpu, MSR_IA32_TSC, &vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc);
> }
>
> static int is_efer_nx(void)
> @@ -5717,7 +5724,8 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> if (hw_breakpoint_active())
> hw_breakpoint_restore();
>
> - kvm_get_msr(vcpu, MSR_IA32_TSC, &vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc);
> + if (!is_guest_mode(vcpu))
> + kvm_get_msr(vcpu, MSR_IA32_TSC, &vcpu->arch.last_guest_tsc);
>
> vcpu->mode = OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE;
> smp_wmb();

That unfortunately does not fix the L1 lockups I get here - unless I
confine L1 to a single CPU. It looks like (don't have all symbols for
the guest kernel ATM) that we are stuck in processing a timer IRQ.

Jan

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