Re: [PATCH v3 02/14] KVM: s390: pv: avoid stall notifications for some UVCs

Claudio Imbrenda
2021-08-06T09:35:00Z

On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 09:30:04 +0200
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 04.08.21 17:40, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> > Improve make_secure_pte to avoid stalls when the system is heavily
> > overcommitted. This was especially problematic in
> > kvm_s390_pv_unpack, because of the loop over all pages that needed
> > unpacking.
> >
> > Also fix kvm_s390_pv_init_vm to avoid stalls when the system is
> > heavily overcommitted.
>
> I suggest splitting this change into a separate patch and adding a
> bit more meat to the description why using the other variant is
> possible in the called context. I was kind of surprise to find that
> change buried in this patch.
>
> Then, you can give both patches a more descriptive patch subject.

fair enough, I'll split them

> >
> > Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
> > Fixes: 214d9bbcd3a672 ("s390/mm: provide memory management
> > functions for protected KVM guests") ---
> > arch/s390/kernel/uv.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > arch/s390/kvm/pv.c | 2 +-
> > 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/uv.c b/arch/s390/kernel/uv.c
> > index aeb0a15bcbb7..68a8fbafcb9c 100644
> > --- a/arch/s390/kernel/uv.c
> > +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/uv.c
> > @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static int make_secure_pte(pte_t *ptep,
> > unsigned long addr, {
> > pte_t entry = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
> > struct page *page;
> > - int expected, rc = 0;
> > + int expected, cc = 0;
> >
> > if (!pte_present(entry))
> > return -ENXIO;
> > @@ -196,12 +196,25 @@ static int make_secure_pte(pte_t *ptep,
> > unsigned long addr, if (!page_ref_freeze(page, expected))
> > return -EBUSY;
> > set_bit(PG_arch_1, &page->flags);
> > - rc = uv_call(0, (u64)uvcb);
> > + /*
> > + * If the UVC does not succeed or fail immediately, we
> > don't want to
> > + * loop for long, or we might get stall notifications.
> > + * On the other hand, this is a complex scenario and we
> > are holding a lot of
> > + * locks, so we can't easily sleep and reschedule. We try
> > only once,
> > + * and if the UVC returned busy or partial completion, we
> > return
> > + * -EAGAIN and we let the callers deal with it.
> > + */
> > + cc = __uv_call(0, (u64)uvcb);
> > page_ref_unfreeze(page, expected);
> > - /* Return -ENXIO if the page was not mapped, -EINVAL
> > otherwise */
> > - if (rc)
> > - rc = uvcb->rc == 0x10a ? -ENXIO : -EINVAL;
> > - return rc;
> > + /*
> > + * Return -ENXIO if the page was not mapped, -EINVAL for
> > other errors.
> > + * If busy or partially completed, return -EAGAIN.
> > + */
> > + if (cc == UVC_CC_OK)
> > + return 0;
> > + else if (cc == UVC_CC_BUSY || cc == UVC_CC_PARTIAL)
> > + return -EAGAIN;
> > + return uvcb->rc == 0x10a ? -ENXIO : -EINVAL;
> > }
>
> That looks conceptually like the right thing to me.
>