Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] vfio/type1: Remove locked page accounting workqueue

Alex Williamson
2017-04-17T19:19:26Z

On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:35:06 +0530
Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com> wrote:

> On 4/17/2017 8:02 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:47:54 +0800
> > Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 07:42:27PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>> -static void vfio_lock_acct(struct task_struct *task, long npage)
> >>> +static int vfio_lock_acct(struct task_struct *task, long npage, bool lock_cap)
> >>> {
> >>> - struct vwork *vwork;
> >>> struct mm_struct *mm;
> >>> bool is_current;
> >>> + int ret;
> >>>
> >>> if (!npage)
> >>> - return;
> >>> + return 0;
> >>>
> >>> is_current = (task->mm == current->mm);
> >>>
> >>> mm = is_current ? task->mm : get_task_mm(task);
> >>> if (!mm)
> >>> - return; /* process exited */
> >>> + return -ESRCH; /* process exited */
> >>>
> >>> - if (down_write_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) {
> >>> - mm->locked_vm += npage;
> >>> - up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
> >>> - if (!is_current)
> >>> - mmput(mm);
> >>> - return;
> >>> - }
> >>> + ret = down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem);
> >>> + if (!ret) {
> >>> + if (npage < 0 || lock_cap) {
> >>
> >> Nit: maybe we can avoid passing in lock_cap in all the callers of
> >> vfio_lock_acct() and fetch it via has_capability() only if npage < 0?
> >> IMHO that'll keep the vfio_lock_acct() interface cleaner, and we won't
> >> need to pass in "false" any time when doing unpins.
> >
> > Unfortunately vfio_pin_pages_remote() needs to know about lock_cap
> > since it tests whether the user is exceeding their locked memory
> > limit. The other callers could certainly get away with
> > vfio_lock_acct() testing the capability itself but that would add a
> > redundant call for the most common user. I'm not a big fan of passing
> > a lock_cap bool either, but it seemed the best fix for now. The
> > cleanest alternative I can up with is this (untested):
> >
>
> In my opinion, passing 'bool lock_cap' looks much clean and simple.
>
> Reviewed-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>

Well shoot, I was just starting to warm up to the bool*. I like that
we're not presuming the polarity for the callers we expect to be
removing pages and I generally just dislike passing fixed bool
parameters to change the function behavior. I've cleaned it up a bit
further and was starting to do some testing on this which I'd propose
for v5. Does it change your opinion?

commit cd61c5f507d614ac14b75b0a548c8738deff88ea
Author: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Apr 13 14:10:15 2017 -0600

vfio/type1: Remove locked page accounting workqueue

If the mmap_sem is contented then the vfio type1 IOMMU backend will
defer locked page accounting updates to a workqueue task. This has a
few problems and depending on which side the user tries to play, they
might be over-penalized for unmaps that haven't yet been accounted or
race the workqueue to enter more mappings than they're allowed. The
original intent of this workqueue mechanism seems to be focused on
reducing latency through the ioctl, but we cannot do so at the cost
of correctness. Remove this workqueue mechanism and update the
callers to allow for failure. We can also now recheck the limit under
write lock to make sure we don't exceed it.

vfio_pin_pages_remote() also now necessarily includes an unwind path
which we can jump to directly if the consecutive page pinning finds
that we're exceeding the user's memory limits. This avoids the
current lazy approach which does accounting and mapping up to the
fault, only to return an error on the next iteration to unwind the
entire vfio_dma.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
index 32d2633092a3..a8a079ba9477 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
@@ -246,69 +246,46 @@ static int vfio_iova_put_vfio_pfn(struct vfio_dma *dma, struct vfio_pfn *vpfn)
return ret;
}

-struct vwork {
- struct mm_struct *mm;
- long npage;
- struct work_struct work;
-};
-
-/* delayed decrement/increment for locked_vm */
-static void vfio_lock_acct_bg(struct work_struct *work)
-{
- struct vwork *vwork = container_of(work, struct vwork, work);
- struct mm_struct *mm;
-
- mm = vwork->mm;
- down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
- mm->locked_vm += vwork->npage;
- up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
- mmput(mm);
- kfree(vwork);
-}
-
-static void vfio_lock_acct(struct task_struct *task, long npage)
+static int vfio_lock_acct(struct task_struct *task, long npage, bool *lock_cap)
{
- struct vwork *vwork;
struct mm_struct *mm;
bool is_current;
+ int ret;

if (!npage)
- return;
+ return 0;

is_current = (task->mm == current->mm);

mm = is_current ? task->mm : get_task_mm(task);
if (!mm)
- return; /* process exited */
+ return -ESRCH; /* process exited */

- if (down_write_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) {
- mm->locked_vm += npage;
- up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
- if (!is_current)
- mmput(mm);
- return;
- }
+ ret = down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ if (!ret) {
+ if (npage > 0) {
+ if (lock_cap ? !*lock_cap :
+ !has_capability(task, CAP_IPC_LOCK)) {
+ unsigned long limit;
+
+ limit = task_rlimit(task,
+ RLIMIT_MEMLOCK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ if (mm->locked_vm + npage > limit)
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (!ret)
+ mm->locked_vm += npage;

- if (is_current) {
- mm = get_task_mm(task);
- if (!mm)
- return;
+ up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
}

- /*
- * Couldn't get mmap_sem lock, so must setup to update
- * mm->locked_vm later. If locked_vm were atomic, we
- * wouldn't need this silliness
- */
- vwork = kmalloc(sizeof(struct vwork), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (WARN_ON(!vwork)) {
+ if (!is_current)
mmput(mm);
- return;
- }
- INIT_WORK(&vwork->work, vfio_lock_acct_bg);
- vwork->mm = mm;
- vwork->npage = npage;
- schedule_work(&vwork->work);
+
+ return ret;
}

/*
@@ -405,7 +382,7 @@ static int vaddr_get_pfn(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr,
static long vfio_pin_pages_remote(struct vfio_dma *dma, unsigned long vaddr,
long npage, unsigned long *pfn_base)
{
- unsigned long limit = rlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ unsigned long pfn = 0, limit = rlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
bool lock_cap = capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK);
long ret, pinned = 0, lock_acct = 0;
bool rsvd;
@@ -442,8 +419,6 @@ static long vfio_pin_pages_remote(struct vfio_dma *dma, unsigned long vaddr,
/* Lock all the consecutive pages from pfn_base */
for (vaddr += PAGE_SIZE, iova += PAGE_SIZE; pinned < npage;
pinned++, vaddr += PAGE_SIZE, iova += PAGE_SIZE) {
- unsigned long pfn = 0;
-
ret = vaddr_get_pfn(current->mm, vaddr, dma->prot, &pfn);
if (ret)
break;
@@ -460,14 +435,25 @@ static long vfio_pin_pages_remote(struct vfio_dma *dma, unsigned long vaddr,
put_pfn(pfn, dma->prot);
pr_warn("%s: RLIMIT_MEMLOCK (%ld) exceeded\n",
__func__, limit << PAGE_SHIFT);
- break;
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto unpin_out;
}
lock_acct++;
}
}

out:
- vfio_lock_acct(current, lock_acct);
+ ret = vfio_lock_acct(current, lock_acct, &lock_cap);
+
+unpin_out:
+ if (ret) {
+ if (!rsvd) {
+ for (pfn = *pfn_base ; pinned ; pfn++, pinned--)
+ put_pfn(pfn, dma->prot);
+ }
+
+ return ret;
+ }

return pinned;
}
@@ -488,7 +474,7 @@ static long vfio_unpin_pages_remote(struct vfio_dma *dma, dma_addr_t iova,
}

if (do_accounting)
- vfio_lock_acct(dma->task, locked - unlocked);
+ vfio_lock_acct(dma->task, locked - unlocked, NULL);

return unlocked;
}
@@ -522,8 +508,14 @@ static int vfio_pin_page_external(struct vfio_dma *dma, unsigned long vaddr,
goto pin_page_exit;
}

- if (!rsvd && do_accounting)
- vfio_lock_acct(dma->task, 1);
+ if (!rsvd && do_accounting) {
+ ret = vfio_lock_acct(dma->task, 1, &lock_cap);
+ if (ret) {
+ put_pfn(*pfn_base, dma->prot);
+ goto pin_page_exit;
+ }
+ }
+
ret = 1;

pin_page_exit:
@@ -543,7 +535,7 @@ static int vfio_unpin_page_external(struct vfio_dma *dma, dma_addr_t iova,
unlocked = vfio_iova_put_vfio_pfn(dma, vpfn);

if (do_accounting)
- vfio_lock_acct(dma->task, -unlocked);
+ vfio_lock_acct(dma->task, -unlocked, NULL);

return unlocked;
}
@@ -740,7 +732,7 @@ static long vfio_unmap_unpin(struct vfio_iommu *iommu, struct vfio_dma *dma,

dma->iommu_mapped = false;
if (do_accounting) {
- vfio_lock_acct(dma->task, -unlocked);
+ vfio_lock_acct(dma->task, -unlocked, NULL);
return 0;
}
return unlocked;
@@ -1382,7 +1374,7 @@ static void vfio_iommu_unmap_unpin_reaccount(struct vfio_iommu *iommu)
if (!is_invalid_reserved_pfn(vpfn->pfn))
locked++;
}
- vfio_lock_acct(dma->task, locked - unlocked);
+ vfio_lock_acct(dma->task, locked - unlocked, NULL);
}
}

Patch 2/2 would clearly change the &lock_cap in
vfio_pin_page_external() to a NULL, so only _remote passes a pointer
there. Thanks,

Alex